The past few days have been incredibly fast-paced around here — moving from one event to another, trying to catch a breath along the way. I could probably use a little down time myself right about now. Good thing I’ve got just the show for that…
Sorry, folks. I’ve gotten way behind on my correspondence and music submissions and such, and I’m not going to be able to get a show out this week. I swear it has nothing to do with EURO 2008… okay, maybe a little, but that will be over next Sunday, and this show will keep right on going. Once I get caught back up, anyway.
Dave’s Lounge will return on July 1. Talk to you then.
This week’s playlist includes a few new artists, a few return artists, and one song that you won’t hear anywhere else but here — for the time being, anyway.
Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #119:
Shaheen Sheik, "Wildflower World (Soul Avenue Remix)"
So I was planning on saving this encore of Dave’s Lounge #25 for next week, when I will probably be sleeping off my weekend excursion to Virginia Beach, but the 100-degree heat here in North Carolina has slowed me down considerably, and not wanting to leave y’all without music this week, I figured now was as good a time as any to revisit this hour-long milestone episode.
A few notes about this show:
“By Candlelight,” the theme song to Dave’s Lounge, is now available exclusively from Amie Street.
When episode #25 was first released, Musetta was still known as Pan.
Natalie Walker left Daughter Darling to pursue a solo career just weeks after episode #25 came out.
About one-third of the podcasters included in that bumper halfway through the show are either no longer podcasting or have moved on to new online projects.
Gasoline in America was about a dollar per gallon cheaper than it is now. Heady days, huh?
By the way, I know I mention this in the show notes every week, but any past episode you don’t see on the iTunes feed is available on the Dave’s Lounge direct download page. You can also stream every episode of Dave’s Lounge right here on this web site.
It’s summer time here in the northern hemisphere, so hopefully this week’s music will get you in the mood for summer. Plus, new music from both Natalie Walker and MinusBlue! Huzzah!
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.
This week marks the third anniversary of Dave’s Lounge. Whenever I think about why I’ve kept this show going as long as I have, I think back to this scene from the indie film Groove:
Thank you all for your nods for the last three years. I don’t think I could have gotten this far without you.
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