{"id":560,"date":"2007-07-23T20:29:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T01:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/07\/23\/currently-in-the-iriver-72007\/"},"modified":"2007-07-23T21:58:24","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T02:58:24","slug":"currently-in-the-iriver-72007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/07\/23\/currently-in-the-iriver-72007","title":{"rendered":"Currently in the iRiver (7\/2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, I update my sidebar to reflect the current contents of my iRiver. Most people read this blog through the RSS feed, however, and never see the sidebar. So I thought I&#8217;d provide occasional snapshots here. Lately:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fred Frith<\/strong>: <em>Cheap at Half the Price<\/em> and <em>Rivers and Tides { Working With Time<br \/>\n<\/em>Two very different genre-evading albums (file under &#8212; alternative?). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0307385\/\">Rivers and Tides<\/a> (the film) left an indelible mark on me, but the soundtrack stands alone. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cheap_at_Half_the_Price\"><em>Cheap at the Half the Price<\/em><\/a> is a good example of why we can probably get by for another few centuries just on music that&#8217;s already been made.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Petra Haden<\/strong>: <em>The Who Sell Out<br \/>\n<\/em>Occasionally too cute, but mostly brilliant one-woman-voice-only remake of The Who album.<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Petra_Haden_Sings:_The_Who_Sell_Out\"> This one also gets its own Wikipedia article.<\/a> I&#8217;m also a big fan of her album with Bill Frisell. (File under &#8212; jazz?)<\/li>\n<li><strong>G. Love<\/strong>: <em>Lemonade<br \/>\n<\/em>Who would have guessed the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garrett_Dutton\">G. stands for &#8220;Good&#8221;<\/a>? I recently went back and listened G. Love and Special Sauce. This one is much better. I&#8217;ll post two short clips when I have a minute.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong>: <em>McCartney<\/em> and <em>Memory Almost Full<br \/>\n<\/em>McCartney has been a solo artist for longer than I&#8217;ve been around. His first album includes at least two tracks that rival anything from the Beatles (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/That_Would_Be_Something\">one of which even has its own Wikipedia entry<\/a>). His newest album is not quite as good, but really, it&#8217;s hard for McCartney to really go wrong. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2007\/06\/04\/070604fa_fact_colapinto\">Typically engrossing New Yorker profile<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The White Stripes<\/strong>: <em>Get Behind Me Satan<\/em><br \/>\nThanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/laniels.org\">Steve<\/a> for reminding me what a great song <em>My Doorbell<\/em> is.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><hints id=\"hah_hints\"><\/hints><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, I update my sidebar to reflect the current contents of my iRiver. Most people read this blog through the RSS feed, however, and never see the sidebar. So I thought I&#8217;d provide occasional snapshots here. Lately: Fred Frith: Cheap at Half the Price and Rivers and Tides { Working With Time Two very different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}