Fusion 45

Laura Marling

The folks at Amazon will be happy to know their “others who bought” gizmo, which I’ve dutifully ignored since its invention, actually sold a record. I think I was looking up Terra Naomi when I discovered Laura Marling. I had no idea, until I got an inbound link from Cardboard X Sea, that Marling is something like 15 years old. That makes the way she sings “bullshit” on this cut all that more charming. I’ll be digging the full album in a future post but, for the meantime, this tune is exquisite. I wish I was this witty and charming when I was 15; as I recall, I was just stupid and horny.

Laura Marling - The Captain And Hourglass

BTW: If I’m reading Cardboard X Sea’s blog correctly, she is both a fan of Fusion 45 and a lesbian. I’m in favor of both of these things and am totally revved by the fact that F45 might just be hip with the young gay crowd. Seriously, how cool is that?

WNEW

My 30-day long career with WNEW is humming along beautifully. This week, I’ve posted reviews of some young guns I saw at the Waterfront Blues Festival in Portland, including Chris Ardoin and Nu Step and the seriously amazing Ruthie Foster. They also posted a nice profile of F45 under their Best Music Blogs category. Cool!

Hype Machine

Major league props to Zoya and the crew at Hype Machine for adding me to their list. No small thanks to Chris at Local Vertical for helping navigate that process. Unlike Cardboard X Sea, he’s not a hip young lesbian; rather, he’s a rocket scientist. Together, they will make for interesting table conversation at the First Annual Fusion 45 Music Dig and Tofu Festival, scheduled for summer of 2015.

Others Who Serve

Bruce who doesn’t have a website but sends me scoops on cool music just the same.

The brilliant IB, whose new site SibLINGSHOT ON THE BLEACHERS is at once beautiful, artistic, insightful and completely confusing. That’s how I know he’s brilliant.

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