Morning Becomes Eclectic is a music radio show on the mighty KCRW. Check it out if you have the time- there are archives of multiple shows on there. I recommend Metropolis for late night coding sessions.
Sounds Eclectic is an online, 2 hour compilation “best of” of the Morning Becomes Eclectic shows. Realplayer is required, but even the Linux version works quite nicely the days.
This weeks’s show features Wilco playing in-studio, along with all the other interesting music for which MBE is famous. A really classy bonus is that all the songs and artists that get played are listed on the webpage for that particular show.
If you are in a Wilco mood, surf over to Wilco World, interesting Presidential Inauguration pic on the front page today.
edit (1/21/05): if you missed it, you missed it- Wilco World is back to its standard front page.
I’m happy to say I saw the pic on Wilco World and enjoyed it. I’ve also been enjoying that Sounds Eclectic site. I listened to a Wilco, a Luna and a Franz Fedinand so far. (The latter because that band kept popping up under the “others who bought this album also bought…” section at amazon so I figured I might like it. From what I heard, it was ok, but nothing I’m going to be rushing out to buy.)
I am pretty much unimpressed with Franz Ferdinand. My guess is that is it is a band of the moment for the demographic who immerse themselves in alternative music. I just haven’t heard that much to recommend them to anyone else.