The first thing... so I had to bring just the card
because luckily, happily they're sold out.
My brother has a record store in Canada and he's always introduced me to great music.
And he introduced me to The Coup, which are a hip hop band out of Oakland
that are now getting all this attention because of 'Sorry To Bother You'
which is an amazing film that came out just very recently.
Ok, I have Carole King, 'Tapestry.'
I started watching that documentary by eras, by decades.
And the 70s one is really pretty dark
when it comes to violence and murder and Manson and all these other things.
But if you get to the very end of the series
they start talking about the musical reality of that time.
What's interesting about Carole King is that she wrote for all these people
and then finally took the stage herself.
Ok, so John Hopkins, 'Singularity.'
Everything John Hopkins sounds amazing in nature
and in fact his imagery as...
I mean, I feel like I've seen sunrises and sunsets and stargazing like this album cover.
This is a very special album to me because it's...
even though it's electronic music, it feels very connected to the natural world.
Ok, what do we got, oh yeah, Jorge Ben.
I found out from my brother, who's really into him, a crazy story
which is that Rod Stewart's 'Do Ya Think I'm Sexy'
is lifted, like lifted from a Jorge Ben tune.
But you hear it and you're like, ok wow, that's 100% the song.
So I think the connection must have been football, like soccer.
Because like the Brits are so into that and like the whole Brazil...
he's huge, huge in his homeland and beyond
but amazing legendary guitar player.
And originator of 'Do Ya Think I'm Sexy,' a really pretty gross song.
Oh, ok so, Sharon Van Etten.
I'm kind of embarrassed that I'm really late to the game here with her.
A friend of mine played this for me, actually up north, over the holidays
and I felt a total kinship with her, in the way that she writes, to my own writing.
She just sounds like someone who's actually experiencing things
and then actually writing about them
without the comfort of separation or, like, intellectualism.
And she combines themes like sex with just experience and life and work and general challenges.
It's not like a love song is in one category and songs about other stuff are in another.
So I love it, and I really love the sound.
I just felt kind of like I had a sister out there. So I kind of really want to meet her.
I probably should have picked up one of her earlier records
but this one I'm kind of addicted to.
So it's a great album and a great cover.
Alright, so last but not least, Parquet Courts.
Y'know, the Brooklyn brotherhood.
I really like these guys. It's kind of picking up from the Modern Lovers or something.
And I'm really glad they exist and it gives me hope for rock n roll.
That's it.
That's a good way to end it.
Right?