I have returned from Atomic City, USA to the radio factory. Lots of emails, radio theory, and music to catch up on.
Vegas is a fun town, but not a music town. I have heard these tales of Vegas being the EDM capital of THE WORLD! And it might be, but I’d never know because I just can’t pay $50 cover charge and $20 (or more) for booze listening to house music.
The rest of the time, Vegas is just never ending loop tape of classic hits and basic top 40 club-DJery. I heard Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop” a lot.
There are always wonderful exceptions. I was wandering the Flamingo and some classic punk was blaring. I was drinking at The Griffin and they had Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs” jamming.
I packed some music with me… I meant to dive into Majical Cloudz, but his sad piano & vocal music was more suited to the rain days of Vancouver Island.
But plucking around my iPhone I saw that at some point I had dropped Braid‘s 1998 record Frame and Canvas on there.
One of the first bands I ever interviewed (Headstones were first) for the radio. I went to see them during their 1999 West Coast Tour when they played for 20-or-30-some-odd folks at The Starfish Room. I might have been the only “media” there, so the boys were exceptionally kind to 19-year-old snot-nosed me.
During some down time, in my room on the 16th Floor overlooking Caesar’s Palace on The Strip I buried my head and hit play.
A weirdly fitting tune for Vegas… Nathan Detroit was a character from Guys & Dolls that ran an illegal gambling operation. Neat.
Go with yourself.
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