Radio Dick – Back to the Hotel Edition
Either I’m not doing a good job of scheduling my summer or I’m just entirely too busy. For this week’s Radio Dick, you once again find me far away from where I really want to be. James is currently sitting at Lolla watching band after band throw down amazing sets. From what I hear, the rainy Friday night has now subsided and things are back on track for the annual Chicago festival. His incoherent texts that Kings of Leon put on a good set were slightly laughable, but nonetheless, I know he’s out there having a good time. Last we spoke, his plans were to snag some good seats and send out plenty of coverage of the event throughout this week.
My weekend has been rewarding, but not for musical reasons. My little sister just got her doctorate this weekend at Florida State University and I flew down here to see her get hooded. It’s really quite amazing to see all of those grads lining up to receive their honors. The PhD is obviously the pinnacle of success in the academic world and seeing her get this has been amazing. The selfish part of me, however, wants to be up in Chicago rain or shine catching the festival. On the plus side, I got to see my family which is all too rare these days. It’s always good to play some tunes for my old man and have him actually like it. He’s completely into Vetiver and I’m pretty excited to ship that CD up to him this week.
Tallahassee is an interesting town, comprised of only two types of buildings. Every structure seems to be either a state office or a Florida State campus building. Mossy oaks line every street, and even though I could do without the 95% humidity down here, it’s really quite beautiful. Since it’s graduation weekend, finding a place to score some food last night was a little more than frustrating. Two hour wait times at nearly every restaurant forced us to go to a little bar and grill called “Cabos” way off of campus. The interesting menu comprised of one-half seafood and one-half mexican burrito house was initially unappealing but left us all pretty good and stuffed. If you ever make it into Tallhassee, try the Cabos burritos. I sneakily suspect that even the students at FSU may not be up to speed on how good these things are.
All digressing and rambling aside, I mention all of this just to point out that I’m sitting in a hotel writing this week’s Radio Dick post. I’ve got a pretty killer and fresh list here along with a couple of tracks we’ve been spinning for awhile and have neglected to get out into the ether for you. Fool’s Gold’s killer track “Surprise Hotel” was just remixed by Micachu & the Shapes, Taken By Trees just leaked an awesome track, and a song from Castanets has also leaked. Most of these songs are from albums that have yet released, so stay tuned for more in-depth reviews on them as they begin to drop. So as I sit here with a terrible wi-fi signal, it should be good for our readers to know it took me around three hours to get all these tracks uploaded and onto the site. That’s the kind of dedication we have for you. I’ll accept all forms of payment, including pats on the back. Ultimately, these kind of weekends are the most difficult. All of us are scattered around the country so it’s probably a good time to sign off and keep this brief. Have a good work week and enjoy this week’s mix. We’ve got some live show and album reviews hitting the site starting tomorrow.
Fool’s Gold – Suprise Hotel (Micachu & The Shapes Remix)
Throw Me the Statue – Hi-Fi Goon
Amanda Blank – Might Like You Better (Rusko Remix)
Castanets – Worn from the Fight (With Fireworks)
Taken by Trees – Watch the Waves
Brown Recluse – Contour and Context
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