The Blakes
While driving to Bellevue co-lo facility to fix a broken web server, (the very server serving this page), stuck in morning rush hour traffic, desperately tuning around the dial trying to find something other than morning drive time commercials and brain dead banter, I happened to stop on KEXP, the University of Washington student station that was formerly KCMU before Paul Allen dumped a bunch of money into it.
And just as I tuned in a song started up that just sounded good, got me as close to happy as I am capable of being anymore. The song is by a local Seattle group called "The Blakes" and the name of the song was "Modern Man".
I've never heard this group before in spite of it being a local band and I am impressed. They sound good. Where do I get this?
When I got home I first went to the KEXP website where they have the play list on-line. By every single piece of music they have a "Buy" button that takes you somewhere that you can purchase a CD or whatever, except for this song where they have "Album - Live at KEXP", "Label - KEXP", damn, it was an excellent recording.
More digging turned up a Blakes page on CD Baby, and a Blakes MySpace page. Both locations have samples of their work online that you can listen to. However, the CD Baby page has extremely low quality encoding, 32 Kb/s 22 Khz sample mp3, and only the first two minutes of each song, and the Blakes MySpace page has three of their songs online but it's choppy and cuts out.
I'm broke right now, but you can bet that when and if I ever do have disposable income again, that CD is going to be at the top of my music purchases list.
And just as I tuned in a song started up that just sounded good, got me as close to happy as I am capable of being anymore. The song is by a local Seattle group called "The Blakes" and the name of the song was "Modern Man".
I've never heard this group before in spite of it being a local band and I am impressed. They sound good. Where do I get this?
When I got home I first went to the KEXP website where they have the play list on-line. By every single piece of music they have a "Buy" button that takes you somewhere that you can purchase a CD or whatever, except for this song where they have "Album - Live at KEXP", "Label - KEXP", damn, it was an excellent recording.
More digging turned up a Blakes page on CD Baby, and a Blakes MySpace page. Both locations have samples of their work online that you can listen to. However, the CD Baby page has extremely low quality encoding, 32 Kb/s 22 Khz sample mp3, and only the first two minutes of each song, and the Blakes MySpace page has three of their songs online but it's choppy and cuts out.
I'm broke right now, but you can bet that when and if I ever do have disposable income again, that CD is going to be at the top of my music purchases list.
posted by Nanook at 1:29 PM
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