Talk of the Town

Before heading down to the Death Cab For Cutie show this past Saturday, I had a chance to listen in on The Constantines live session on KEXP.(Listen to the session in the 14-day streaming archive - date:Oct 15, 2005, time 3 pm PST) The occasion brought up a certain criticism I have towards interviewers. The interview with The Constantines reflected that the interviewer did little research prior to the interview. I'm not particular fond of such interviews. The interviewer asked The Constantines standard questions along the lines of "Growing up in Ontario, did you ever dream of being on Sub Pop?" and "How does the new album compare to your first two albums?" Of course, some of the information might be new to American listeners but I still think a more creative spin could have been applied to the questions. The Constantines performed several songs live, the first of which was "Young Lions", and after the conclusion of the song, the interviewer had the audacity to ask what the song was called. Was he evening listening while the session took place? I still find it surprising that with the interviewer being a DJ on a forward-minded radio station like KEXP, he had never heard of Three Gut Records. I understand the confines of a five to ten minute radio interview might restrict the type of questions one might ask, but then I can look to other examples such as The New Music(actually, a television program) who within a similar time length interview can conduct quite an insightful interview.
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For more interesting blog discourse, check out a couple of Vancouver music blogs including My Indie World who discusses how the pop scene takes cues from the indie scene while From Blown Speakers reflects on this Tiny Mix Tapes article and expresses that "it's dangerous to connect with someone who loves the same music as you... because you lose ownership over it."

Lastly, thanks to Just Keep Bloggin' for pointing the way towards a video version of Feist's "Mushaboom" that I hadn't seen. Does anyone see the similarties to Bjork's video for "It's Oh So Quiet" and U2's video for "The Sweetest Thing"?