{"id":529,"date":"2012-01-23T18:09:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T18:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=529"},"modified":"2013-10-21T20:51:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T20:51:23","slug":"the-rock-inbox-new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"The Rock Inbox: New Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Rock Genre Directors at WEFT 90.1 FM, once a month we would set about opening our mail, criticizing the type treatment used by the mostly micro-label CDs we received, and digging for buried musical treasure. All on the air, with envelopes ripping and bubble wrap popping. And lots of playing songs that were new to us, even if they might be stale to others.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Send your CD to Rock Geek Enterprises, P.O.Box 91, Urbana IL 61803.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20090228NEWMUSIC.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">28 February 2009<\/a>: Vampire Weekend, Davis Schneiderman, Robyn Hitchcock, &amp;c.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20090620new.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">20 June 2009<\/a>: Martin Newell, The Bird and the Bee, Robyn Hitchcock, &amp;c.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20090801newmusic.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">1 August 2009<\/a>: Common Loon, Paul Kotheimer, &amp;c.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20090919newmusic.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">19 September 2009<\/a>: Phoenix, Electric Tickle Machine, Apples in Stereo, Vivian Girls, &amp;c.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/2010115inbox.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">15 January 2010<\/a>: Surprises both fresh and rancid.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20100412newmusic.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">12 April 2010<\/a>: Broken Bells, Gorillaz, MC Frontalot, &amp;c.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20100614inbox.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">14 June 2010<\/a>: Dead Weather, Seth Augustus, Karen Elson, &amp;c.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20100719inbox.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">19 July 2010<\/a>: Wolf Parade, Hot Hot Heat, Black Keys, Sadies, Dark Night of the Soul, &amp;c.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20100816inbox.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">16 August 2010<\/a>: An attempt to work through the entire alphabet: new releases by bands starting with letters A\u2014Z&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20100830inbox.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">30 August 2010<\/a>: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Wavves, Aloe Blacc, &amp;c.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20100920inbox.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">20 September 2010<\/a>: Of Montreal, Philip Selway, &amp;c.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20101018inbox.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">18 October 2010<\/a>: Janelle Monae! (Followed by <a title=\"Live, local, raw.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20101018community%20college%20live.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">a live performance by Community College on the WEFT Sessions<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20101115inbox.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">15 November 2010<\/a>: Decemberists, and what else do you need, really?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20101213inbox.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">13 December 2010<\/a>: John Steinbacher joins William while Cristy takes a holiday<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20110117inboxwithTodd.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">17 January 2011<\/a>: with Todd Hunter<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20131019autumn_off%20air.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">7 March 2011<\/a>: Chain and the Gang, Bare Wires, &amp;c. Wow.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20110418inbox.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">18 April 2011<\/a>: Dopestylevsky, Mammals of Zod, Paul Kotheimer, Gary Heidt, Shipbuilding Company, Deerhoof, &amp;c.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20110606inbox.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">6 June 2011<\/a>: Raphael Saadiq, Chad VanGaalen, &amp;c.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Awkward Pauses\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=486\">20 June 2011<\/a>: Fist of Kindness, Five-Eight, Wombats, the Head, Hammer No More the Fingers, &amp;c.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20110718inbox.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">18 July 2011<\/a>: Bloc Party, Mike Watt, &amp;c.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20110822inbox.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">22 August 2o11<\/a>: <em>Rome<\/em>, Material Issue, &amp;c.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20111212inbox.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">12 December 2011<\/a>: We were late and called in to ask a baby boomer to start our show, with predictable results. Thanks, Mick.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rock Inbox\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20120123inbox.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a023 January 2012<\/a>: They Might Be Giants, The Asteroid Galaxy Tour, &amp;c.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-388\" alt=\"inbox3\" src=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/inbox3.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/inbox3.jpg 400w, http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/inbox3-300x123.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Rock Genre Directors at WEFT 90.1 FM, once a month we would set about opening our mail, criticizing the type treatment used by the mostly micro-label CDs we received, and digging for buried musical treasure. All on the air, with envelopes ripping and bubble wrap popping. And lots of playing songs that were new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[332,328,324,327,323,320,326,331,130,330,227,325,81,16,176,113,329,291,299,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andy-partridge","category-apples-in-stereo","category-asteroid-galaxy-tour","category-common-loon","category-dangermouse","category-decemberists","category-fist-of-kindness","category-gary-heidt","category-john-steinbacher","category-mammals-of-zod","category-material-issue","category-mike-watt","category-paul-kotheimer","category-robyn-hitchcock","category-the-rock-inbox","category-rolling-stones","category-seth-augustus","category-stiff-little-fingers","category-they-might-be-giants","category-tony-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}