Podcast #65 – Rilo the Bear Mix
10 09 2007
Jenny Lewis, lead singer of Rilo Kiley, stares down at you from her throne of indie rock princess… but will she stay there? There are tons of new albums from some of the best indie (and other) artists this week! A lot of new albums have bands taking different directions like Rilo Kiley’s Under the Blacklight, an album that shows Jenny Smith and the crew are no longer the awkward artsy misfits that we had them pegged for (and fallen in love with). VHS or Beta shies away from their 80s style vocals but keeps the driving guitar riffs – not sure if I’m quite down with that. Federico Aubele shines on his new album Panamericana – one of my favorite downtempo albums in a long time. San Diego’s Pinback also comes out strong with ‘Autumn of the Seraphs’ staying true to their melodic guitar backings and the unmistakable vocals from frontman Rob Crow.
They’re all in the podcast this week so check it out… Click on podcast and follow the directions for some aural pleasure.
Categories : Music



You remember the first time that you heard Kanye West and you thought, woh, this is dope. I haven’t heard productions like this in a while. Where Chicago’s Kanye took old school samples and re-worked them to create his sound, D.C.’s Wale takes the latest and greatest producers/beats and flows over them on his latest mixtape, 100 miles and running. Enlisting one of the moment’s hottest producers/remixers, Nick Catchdubs, to mix the tracks, Wale rhymes over Justice’s DANCE, Gorillaz’ Dirty Harry, Camp Lo’s Luchini (my ringtone) and works with producers like Mark Ronson, Judah, and Best Kept Secret.
So as I am embroiled in a battle with my employer and the IRS concerning taxes (
The oil companies consistently battle alternative sources of energy (while highly
brothers and sisters are slipping through the cracks. Due to the heavily weighted system we’ve put in place for Healthcare Insurance providers, normal people get screwed with ridiculously priced services ($80 for a 10 minute consult at my family doctor). It’s known to most people that doctors make a good amount of money, especially if they have their own practice, but what you may not realize is that the doctors are paying ludicrous sums of money to insurance companies to cover them. And what are insurance companies saying, “We [their clients] are using health care services more and more. Not only is medical technology improving, but people are visiting more specialists, more often.” (
Back to my original point about taxes – think about the number of people employed as tax accountants and IRS officials – now imagine what would happen if the United States had a flat tax or a stratified flat tax on net income. poof! Hundreds of thousands of jobs would disappear. Definitely not something the IRS or H&R Block want to hear, but is it right for a country to burden its citizens with this? Why doesn’t the government make it as easy and straightforward to pay our taxes as possible – this would make it much easier for them to collect and monitor the entire process and yet I feel like we’re still in the New Deal here, making up jobs so that people have work regardless of its cost to the taxpayer. AHHHHHhhhh!!! I will be filing my 1040, 1040SE, 2106, and 1040C-EZ sometime soon, or some variation there-in.




