I heard a track from Peter Gabriel’s
Up on Radio IO tonight. I have to confess, I saw Gabriel performing a song on the Today show a few weeks back, and was more captivated by the changes in his appearance (round, bald, old) than the music.
Anyway, the song was absolutely riveting, spare and crisp and practically hypnotic. It’s the first music in a long time that’s made me go straight to Amazon.com, buy the CD, and then sit by the mailbox waiting for it to get here.
While I was at Amazon, I picked up
Satellite Rides by the Old 97’s, also based on having heard a track on RadioIO.
If you haven’t tried RadioIO, give it a listen. The music is refreshingly eclectic and invariably turns me on to tunes I would never have heard anywhere else. No commercials, and a cool little pop-up window that lists the last 10 songs played, so you can answer the question, “Who was THAT?”
Check it out.
Ed Bott 