My Bad Attitude
Radio Tune When The Radio's Blue
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This week’s topics:
My Bad Attitude
Horsegirl - “Well I Know You’re Shy”
My Bad Attitude
I keep rewriting this.
Which is bad.
First thought, best thought.
Or maybe second thought.
Taxes done last weekend. This week, the deep freeze. Hibernating. A little more light in the morning. I’d like to go for a walk outside soon. It’ll be in the 50s next week. I’m sure somebody will complain about that. Not me.
I’ve been working promotional things for my music.
This week, I sent out an email to 271 college radio stations in the US, Australia, and part of Canada.
Marketing is always difficult.
Every radio station I researched welcomes music submissions, and any station I contacted plays my genres, or vaguely within the realm of where I operate.
No bounce backs. No unsubscribes. Probably nobody answering. And that’s fine.
I’ll send another out about the first of March. Different track. Maybe by then I’ll be over 300 stations on the list.
I’ve been pitching music libraries, too. I’m used to that now. I’ll get used to pitching radio very soon.
Horsegirl - Well I Know You’re Shy
Last week, Horsegirl’s new album showed up in my Qobuz recommended new releases. I knew nothing about them.
I immediately liked the album, Phonetics On and On. Track after track.
They’re like a cross between The Velvet Underground, Stereolab minus the Vox organs, a hint of Joy Division, The Marine Girls, and maybe Young Marble Giants in spirit. And don’t forget the Girlysound-era Liz Phair. They’re on Matador Records, of course.
The production is excellent. Everything sounds close-miked. Each instrument is distinct. The singing is perfectly “not perfect”.