I’m very pleased to present music from The Atomica Project’s new album, Grayscale. Longtime listeners know I’ve spun plenty of tunes from the Atomica Project’s debut release, Metropolitan — back when they were still known just as Atomica — and this Chicago-based band has put together yet another strong offering of heartbroken trip hop. It’s not an upbeat album by any stretch, but it’s still great music that absolutely deserves your time.
I’ve always tended to think of Dave’s Lounge as a show primarily for electronic music, as trip hop has always been mostly electronic in nature. This week’s show, however, happens to contain a fairly heavy dose of acoustic and electric guitars. I don’t know if that would be considered a change of pace, but it does make for a nice theme — acoustic meets electronic and all that…
This week’s music is a mix of artist submissions and listener suggestions, with one coming from another podcast: Warren Ellis’ The 4 am, which is simply a semi-regular compendium of artist submissions to the popular British writer. Here’s the feed, if you’d like to add that one to your podcast catcher.
As of this evening, if you visit the iTunes page for this podcast, it will appear as if there are no episodes available. However, if you subscribe to the podcast, you’ll actually get the latest episode and a full list of everything currently available in the RSS feed. It’s an odd software quirk brought on by my recent upgrade to Wordpress 2.5.1, and hopefully, it will be fixed soon. If you’re a longtime subscriber in iTunes, though, hopefully you won’t notice a thing. (Thanks for bringing it to my attention, Bob. I might not have noticed the RSS feed was broken without your email.)
In the meantime, I’m fighting off a really bothersome cough this week, so you won’t hear much of my voice, but you will hear some great tunes from the new Sine Music compilation Cosmic Chill Lounge, Vol. 2, which is available in DRM-free formats from both iTunes and Amazon MP3. (It’s not on eMusic yet, but hopefully they’ll add it there soon.) Thanks to the folks at Sine Music for hooking me up with this compilation.
It seems my recent upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 has completely erased my RSS feed in Feedburner. I am looking into this issue and hope to have it fixed very soon. In the meantime, if you would like to download back episodes of Dave’s Lounge, go here.
UPDATE: I think the Feedburner RSS feed is fixed now, and all the missing files should get repopulated in iTunes before the day is over. Hopefully.
I will be attending the New Media Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada, on August 14-16. If you live in Las Vegas, or if you’re a podcaster who is attending this event, and you’d like to meet up at some point during this weekend, send me an email, and we’ll figure it all out.
This will be my first trip ever to the city of Las Vegas, so if you have any advice or any recommendations for things I absolutely must see or do while I’m there, feel free to post a comment here. Thanks.
I’m very pleased to present music from The Atomica Project’s new album, Grayscale. Longtime listeners know I’ve spun plenty of tunes from the Atomica Project’s debut release, Metropolitan — back when they were still known just as Atomica — and this Chicago-based band has put together yet another strong offering of heartbroken trip hop. It’s not an upbeat album by any stretch, but it’s still great music that absolutely deserves your time. 
As of this evening, if you visit 
