Here and now (but not really here)
I don't only trawl through my archives, or the dusty corners of my brain, searching for music from decades past; I also keep half an ear open for music that's happening right now. Once in a very long while something new will pin my "Oh yeah!" meter; yesterday it was discovering Italian band Morkobot (or, as they write it, MoRkObOt) on the Anthem of the Space blog (not one that I explicitly monitor, but they send updates to Totally Fuzzy, which I do). MoRkObOt operate at the intersection of prog rock, noise, and electronica, which is a combination I don't recall hearing for several years, at least. I also discovered the video embedding feature of last.fm, which allows me to present the following MoRkObOt clip:
While I'm playing with last.fm, I might as well drop another video onto the blog. Here's a band I actually first heard on broadcast radio! Remember that? Of course it wasn't a commercial station, it was WICB, the Ithaca College radio station. The band is the Klaxons, the song I heard on the radio was "Gravity's Rainbow," the CD was a family favorite for a few weeks, and the video is for "Atlantis to Interzone":
On an unrelated note, I was particularly pleased with today's necktie.
