Popmatic Podcast February 2012: Grammy Awards
On this month’s show, we tackle the increasingly perplexing Grammy Awards. Amanda explains confusing categories. The rest of us wonder “who are these people?” We close with some books that are tickling our fancy.
Things we talk about:
Grammy nominees
Doo-Wops & Hooligans by Bruno Mars
Barton Hollow by The Civil Wars
The Harrow & the Harvest by Gillian Welch
Zonoscope by Cut/Copy
The Lady Killer by Cee-Lo Green
Rolling Papers by Wiz Khalifia featuring the song “Black and Yellow”
Doctor Atomic by John Adams (The symphonic version will be performed by the Nashville Symphony February 9th, 10th, & 11th.)
Books
Ghost Wave by Chris Dixon (Also check out Amanda’s longer review of this book.)
The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathan Lethem
Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
The question Bryan forgot to ask, that Karen probably knows the answer to, is what is the term for the texture of paper. Bryan vaguely remembers a specific word used for paper texture within the artisan book world. Do you know?
Until next time!
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Themocracy
No mention of TV on the Radio when talking about Tinariwen? They are Berber nomads from Mali and they go hard!!! Think Jr. Kimbrough’s trance blues.
Cheri at the Main branch said the texture of paper may be called “rag content” and it was also suggested the word I was thinking of was the “tooth” of the paper.