Mixed Meters

You will make more sense of this post if you first refer back to In Which David Listens to Two Radio Stations Alternately . Pay special atte...

I have two confessions . One -- I used to play the bass clarinet. Two -- I occasionally ego surf (er, I search the web for my own name.) ...

(This is Mixed Meters' 250th post. But who's counting?) Sunday is the last day I could play a game I've invented to amuse mysel...

Pop music all sounds like crap to me. But when I learned that AOL Radio has a station with the 111 worst songs ever , I couldn't resist....

I've never liked reading poetry - although I've occasionally enjoyed poets reading out loud as long as they were upbeat and funny. ...

Pandora is a website that creates online radio stations according to your input. You suggest an artist or a song and starting from there Pa...

Here are two very different Internet Radio stations I've rediscovered lately - and neither has commercials or announcers. I have a soft...

Consider Man On The Street interviews. Often used as filler in TV news. Fake ones are staples of misleading commercials. (My favorite lin...

A few days ago Leslie and I were driving home. The radio came on to the opening flute solo of Ravel's Bolero . I intoned (in my best WFM...

I've talked about how I listen to NPR (with a Tango radio playing simultaneously). I heard a 2-minute novelty song on WFMU today which ...

A few months ago this billboard appeared in Pasadena. " I'm a Liberal ," I thought, " Let's find out ." They we...

No, not food. Hamhocks and Cornbread is a set of 4 compact discs published by JSP Records with 118 R&B tracks from the late forties thr...

Tango music . Yep, I listen to two audio tracks simultaneously. The emotional tango music makes a great background soundtrack for the "...