Posts Tagged ‘music’
Ari Shine, Rotoscope, The Distillers, and More! Rock Mix RfL 2.0 Episode 410
RfL 2.0 is back in your ears. It just felt like time to drop another episode. We have a great rock mix today along with a bit of freeform jabber.
We are going to hear from Ari Shine, Rotoscope, The Substitutes, The Genders, and The Distillers. That is some great music.
Music on the Show


Rotoscope-All That’s Left and Drive

The Substitutes-Taken a Lifetime
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The Genders-When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Stoner

The ‘TRAP’ of Trying To Be Indie
I have found myself in the same argument over and over again through the years. The argument is that there is no indie movement, or alternative, or anything of the type. The second something becomes a movement, it no longer really exists, at least not as it started. I was reminded of this argument again yesterday when I was followed by two guys that were the white boy hip-hop version of the ‘Night at the Roxbury’ guys. It would have been funny if it was not so sad. They were so indie with their cred………..NOT!
Take hippies for example. They were counterculture, they were broke, they were pretty smelly, but at first they were genuine. Then the marketing guys and retail outlets latched on. If you were buying your bell bottoms at Montgomery Wards or Sears, and ordering your ‘paint your wagon’ patches from magazines, you missed the hippie movement. Sorry to say it, but you did.
Let’s look at the ‘alternative’ music scene. If you were listening to Radio Free Europe in the 80’s, you were part of the ‘college scene’ or alternative scene as it would start to be known. If you liked Husker Du, you may have been alternative. If the Replacements were in your tape deck, you still had cred. If you listened to any of these bands after seeing Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ or were turned on to REM with ‘Losing My Religion’, then no, you were not really part of the scene. Grunge? Give me a break.
Quickjabs Artist Spotlight on Ruby Bullet: Reaching for Lucidity 2.0 Ep. #408, The Juggernaut for Friday the 13th
Enjoy this Friday the 13th Juggernaut Quickjabs Spotlight on the band Ruby Bullet













