{"id":101,"date":"2001-03-16T19:13:12","date_gmt":"2001-03-17T03:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=101"},"modified":"2019-11-21T13:53:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T21:53:33","slug":"good-tunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/03\/16\/good-tunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Good tunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16983,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B000056BP4\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260314172242\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B000056BP4\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B000056BP4\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 04:12:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 05:33:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 01:29:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 08:46:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 12:24:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 22:39:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 09:15:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 00:32:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 00:32:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>While I grew up listening to an incredibly wide range of music thanks to my parents, I&#8217;ve never really been much into country. My tastes always ran to the alternative, industrial, and for the past few years I&#8217;ve focused mainly on electronica, from deep trance and house to dance remixes of more poppy stuff, as long as it&#8217;s fun to dance to and well constructed.<\/p>\n<p>However, over the past few years, I&#8217;ve been spending much of my time around women who listened to a fair amount of country&#8230;and I suppose that can only last so long before it really starts to sink in. It helps that much of what I grew up with was the music that today&#8217;s country grew out of &#8212; rock and roll, blues, r&amp;b (back when r&amp;b actually meant rhythm and blues) &#8212; all that good old stuff. So, more and more lately, I find myself keeping the car radio more on 104.1 and 107.5, the two country stations in town. Thanks to them, I&#8217;ve just stumbled upon an absolutely incredible band &#8212; Trick Pony.<\/p>\n<p>Trick Pony&#8217;s currently got a single called &#8216;Pour Me&#8217; that, in my mind, at least, absolutely <em>demands<\/em> to be cranked up to the threshold of pain every time it comes on the radio. Well, their album just hit the stores this week, I&#8217;m listening to it now &#8212; and for the first time in my life, I <em>really<\/em> wish this band was coming to Anchorage soon so I could see their show. Just a great album, pretty much solidly upbeat all the way through so far, and from what I&#8217;ve read on the &#8216;net, these three put on an absolutely incredible live show.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re into country at all, or even just into really damn good music, pick this one up. Well worth it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m heading out tonight (hence why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000056BP4\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Ben-Hur\">Ben-Hur<\/a> isn&#8217;t going in the DVD player right now). The reason my residency at Studio 99 doesn&#8217;t officially kick in until next week is because they already had tonight rented out &#8212; but it sounds like it should be a fun deal to go to, so I&#8217;m going to stop by that for a while.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Polar Productions in association with Dance Nation (Tuesdays on KRUA 88.1FM from 10pm-1am) presents an all-ages dance event: <strong>R E V E R B<\/strong>. DJ Panda, Michael Kalman, DJ Jasper, Planet Lush, Scott Lappi and a special guest DJ will be spinning at Studio 99 from 8pm-3am tonight. $10 at the door, $8 with a canned food donation &#8212; all cans to benefit the Food Bank of Alaska.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years, I&#8217;ve been spending much of my time around women who listened to a fair amount of country&#8230;and I suppose that can only last so long before it really starts to sink in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2035,2043],"tags":[13,80,1888],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-personal","tag-life","tag-music","tag-trick-pony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}