Audio Addictions & Sidebars

As I continue to swoon over “Bright Eyes,” I have also fallen head over heels in love with Annie, and specifically with a song called “Me Plus One” which I just happened to get ahold of through a serendipitous online find. The album ( “Anniemal”) hasn't been released in the U.S. yet, but it's described here as “electro, synth pop.” If you'd like to hear it, check out the website where you can hear it streamed just by loading the page (I assume that's the magic of Flash?). For a super strange, um, musical experience, try listening the “Annie FM” stream; it seems to be a very eclectic mix of music, possibly handpicked by Annie herself (she seems to be DJing, since she introduces some of the tracks and comments from time to time). I'm obviously a sucker for breathy vocals over relatively spare pop foundations. I am not a complicated connoisseur, to say the least. Plus, well, Annie is apparently Norwegian, so you just know it's gotta be good. I am also a big fat sucker for The Arcade Fire. As my very own most magical musical friend indicated when she told me about this group, The Arcade Fire is best played very very loudly, possibly in a place where you can jump around a lot. Especially “Rebellion (Lies).” Oh, and if you'd like to see what music is spinning the ambivalent head at any given time, you need only glance at “ambivalent musics,” one of the new sidebars here on the imbroglio. (It's way down on the right—scroll scroll scroll past all those links and you'll run into it.) The tracks are what I've played most recently in iTunes and they appear here via an RSS feed generated by Audioscrobbler, thanks to the magic of the MT RSSfeed plugin. The “musics” sidebar is joined by the new “voices” sidebar, which should always show the most recent podcasts I've created via Slapcast.com. That list may never change, depending on whether I figure out exactly what I want to do w/podcasts, but, well, it's there for now, just in case.

Posted February 20, 2005 09:00 AM | ai music