Deadsplinter up! All night: News to Me

29/3/20 Elliecoo 23

Did I find this band because of DUAN, or was it a Spotify rabbit hole? No clue. But I really like them. They almost sound like they could play in a bar in a Stars Wars spin-off.

According to Wikipedia, Mica Levi formed a band called Micachu and the Shapes in 2009, which included Raisa Khan on keyboards and Marc Pell on drums. They signed to Accidental Records. With the Shapes, Levi’s focus has been on experimental pop music. Most of this music prominently features an acoustic half-guitar with various non-standard tunings, extensive distortion, and use of noise and found-object elements, as well as occasionally unusual time signatures. Despite these experimental leanings, the artist categorizes her output with the Shapes as pop music.

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  2. If you spend enough time wandering around DC or Baltimore, eventually you’ll run into a guy playing bucket drums, and he’ll usually be hitting a go-go beat:

    If you’re not familiar with go-go, then you probably haven’t spent enough time in DC or Baltimore. Here are some DC legends, Back Yard Band. You may recognize founding member Anwan Glover, who played Slim Charles on “The Wire.”

    And one from the Godfather:

    • Damn.

      Joe was a good singer, and had some really great, fun songs.

      Leroy the Redneck Reindeer, Pickup Man, John Deere Green, Good Brown Gravy, Third Rock From the Sun, Bigger than the Beatles, Junior’s in Love… he sang SO many songs that were both silly & fun, *and* danceable.

      And and he had some really good ballad-y ones, too.

      This one, in particular, was always one of my favorite cuts (for me, off his greatest hits album–https://g.co/kgs/jJcC4F ):

      I hope someone props him up (at least metaphorically!)💖💔💞💓💗

      • I’m really bummed about this. In college my friend was a DJ at the local country radio station and since that was the early/mid 90s we listened to a lot of county in those days.

        • “I’m really bummed about this.”
          Same💖
          Pretty much my whole grade switched over to country (and metal😉), between our junior & senior years (’92-93, and ’93-94), because the local “pop music” stations kept running the same handfuls of songs into the ground (I STILL haaaaate “Waterfalls,” Prince’s “Cream,” and almost every Ace of Base song,because they were ALL so overplayed🙄).

          The country station was the only one playing a *variety* of good, new, music–AND it was the golden era of modern country,so there were lots of great artists just hitting their stride (including LOTS of women!🤨🤨🤨)

          So many of Joe’s songs were just plain ‘ol fun, and like I mentioned before, SO danceable–whether as a “shake it in the dance floor” song, or a great slow dance song.

          He was right up there with Garth, Brooks & Dunn, Tracy Lawrence, Travis Tritt, George Strait, Alan Jackson, and those “new young guys”–Toby Keith & Tim McGraw, in popularity.

          He was a good dude, and a good singer.

          Plus, along with Alan Jackson’s, and Tracy Lawrence’s, Joe’s mullet was EPIC!😉😁🤣

  7. I have MADD (Music Attention Deficit Disorder) so get sick of music quickly and am always searching for something new. One of my obsessions for awhile has been Columbian Cumbia Electronica and I recently discovered these guys: Colectro – Mamo Gallo

  10. I couldn’t find any ‘Jovi songs that would fit under “news”–unless you’d counting the album “Bounce,” because it–especially the track Unbroken was written from feelings about 9-11 (much like Springsteen’s “The Rising”). I had to resort to my friend Google, and couldn’t find a damn one on any of the albums I know, either😉

    But there are a couple songs that fit *perfectly* for “shape”;

    Diamond Ring (*two* shapes!😉😁);

    And some Good/Sad/Happy/Bad (aka Emotions😉):

    Happy Now,from the album Circle;

    Fear, from Keep The Faith;

  11. They WERE epic!!!

    Reba was… AMAZING, with songs like Fancy (the WHOLE song version is the best version–*NOT* the shorter, “radio play” version that leaves out that important last verse):

    Trisha (Because I grew up around 45 minutes & about 55 miles from there😉):

    Martina:

    Shania:

    Lorrie Morgan:

    And that new girl-Faith,before she started dating… ‘ol Tim-something-or-other😉;

  13. …guess I missed the memo earlier…or to put it another (more news-adjacent) way…didn’t get the communique

    …but here I find myself all the same…better late than never?

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