Reaffirming my hipster bona fides

[mr_bad_example]

I've been listening to The Current for a solid week. It's good. There are still a few kinks to be worked out with the format--I heard the same Tegan and Sara song twice in one day--but on the whole, it's sounding very good indeed. The format reminds me very much of the evening programming on KUNI (the night music that's on before "World Cafe." "World Cafe," by the way and near as I can tell, consists entirely of Peter Gabriel), which turned me on to an amazing amount of stuff. So, any station that plays anything besides the same three tracks from REM and U2 and that plays more local bands than just THE REPLACEMENTS UNTIL THERE'S NO FUCKING END is fine by me. I notice that nobody's yet been able to restrain Mark Wheat's self-important blathering, but I guess you can't have everything.

The whole Rev 105 thing was well over by the time I moved up here. It was the station I listened to on my trips up here and I liked it fine, but from what I gather, there were people in this town who were absolutely livin' it. I've heard The Current being favorably compared to Rev (and apparently their airstaff is basically The Old Rev Jocks' Class Reunion), so hey, it's a chance for me to catch up on the whole mid-90s hipster thing. Gimme an OK Cola and call Richard Linklater.

Comments

[sxoidmal.livejournal.com]

Funny, it's Mary Lucia's misguided self-confidence that bugs the crap out of me: "There, two solid days of Postal System, and now I'm sure I've made them your favorite band." And her extra "The" in front of Pixies (mind you, I'm desperately grateful to hear Pixies on the radio at all).

[gismonda.livejournal.com]

Mahk Weet!

They are playing the heck out of certain tracks; there's that Spanish-sounding cover of Rebel Rebel, for example. On the other hand, yesterday I heard Belly (one of my favorites) and a PJ Harvey track that I've not heard before.

I wonder what's going on around here. The First Avenue situation seems to have stabilized, and now we get a cool radio station?

[archangelsk.livejournal.com]

Is that version of "Rebel Rebel" by Seu Jorge? If so, it's Portuguese and comes from the soundtrack to The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. There are four such covers on the album ("Starman," "Rebel Rebel," "Life on Mars?" and "Rock and Roll Suicide"), and a couple more in the movie ("Space Oddity," "Queen Bitch"). David Bowie songs remade as Brazilian sambas are the most oddly perfect flourish in a movie full of similar touches.

[archangelsk.livejournal.com]

Whoops, make that five on the disc: I forgot "Five Years" toward the end.

[gismonda.livejournal.com]

Yes! That's exactly what it is! It's kind of haunting, actually. It's just weird to hear it SO MUCH.

I'll have to pick up that soundtrack, though. I think I've already missed the movie. :/

[karyn.livejournal.com]

oh god. i remember the demise of the rev. there were websites and chatboards and people getting together over their sadness.

[idlewarnings.livejournal.com]

They've been playing the hell out of the Arcade Fire as well. The only thing that's starting to bother me about 89.3 is that when I listen for more than an hour or so at a time, it all starts to blend into mid-tempo blandness. Overall, good stuff, but it would be nice to hear some screaming, some abused guitar, or some cavernous beats every once in a while.