I Heart Sirius

I've discovered Backspin, the old-school rap station. Kurtis Blow hosts one of the shows and I'm pretty much ready to rock the shell-toes every time I flip through stations and land here.

Also found: they've been playing a lot of the new Brendan Benson single (new album next week, yay!) and "Sunny Road" by Emiliana Torrini, which I completely fell in love with the first time I heard it. She sang "Gollum's Song" on the Lord of the Rings soundtrack, but don't let that scare you off.

Quiet is the New Loud

I like the Kings of Convenience on record just fine, but they never blew me away until I heard Versus, their remix album. It's just like me to need excessive production to appreciate the minimalism, but after that I was hooked. Erik and I saw them play a lovely show at Angel Orensanz Foundation many moons ago, so I had to see them when they rolled into the Bottleneck a few nights ago. Firstly, who knew the Norwegian duo had so many Kansan fans? I love it when that happens. Sometimes you think you're the only one who's heard of someone out here, and indeed, sometimes you are, but it's nice when you're not. Please, if you haven't already, check out the video for "I'd Rather Dance With You," over at the Astralwerks site. It rules!

The real radness of the evening belongs to Feist, whose set just blew me away. On Let It Die she covers a Bee Gees song! There's nothing else I need to be content!