Bringing the Lit Rock

It’s been a long crappy week.  I know.  Let’s listen to some music!

Check out this podcast on NPR’s World Cafe featuring two songs by The Airborne Toxic Event.  The band take their name from a chapter in Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise.  Cool.  Lead singer guy is a journalist turned novelist turned song writer.   (It’s worth listening to just to hear the intro: “Support for NPR podcasts comes from Pabst Brewing…”)

Here’s a third song: Sometime Around Midnight:

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More songs at the band’s MySpace.

In Atlanta September 30 – The Loft @ Center Stage

Here’s a video, too.  What the hell?  Let’s go nuts.