Just yesterday I was strolling along whistling along to "Once in a Lifetime" by Talking Heads (definitely in my top 10 tracks of all time) and this morning I discovered that David Byrne has launched his own internet radio station:
A friend who relocated to California from NY said she missed hearing all the odd variety of music that was played around the office here. "I miss hearing what you all are listening to," she wrote. This "radio" is my response. It will stream for a few hours and then it will recycle. Maybe it will run longer in the future. The artists played here are respectful of one another and gunplay is forbidden.
There's an interview with La Byrne on the ever-superlative Boing Boing, where he talks a little bit about how he feels about p2p downloaders ("I don't see much money from record sales anway, so I don't really care how people are getting it") but also what we can expect to hear on his station:
Basically, whatever I'm listening to. I'll update it every couple of weeks. People sometimes ask me what I'm listening to, and I'll reel off a list of records. About halfway through the list, their eyes usually glaze over, and it's apparent they've never heard of the artists. So I thought -- well, let's make this easy. If people have any curiosity, let's make that stuff available, let people see for themselves what they think.
