Jenny Toomey, formerly of Simple Machines/Tsunami and now of the Future of Music Coallition was on Bob McChesney’s Media Matters this past week, talking all sorts of smart stuff about music in the digital age. She had some particularly exciting things to say about indie lable distro via digital files at the end of the show (perhaps the final chapter to SMR’s Mechianic’s Guide…). It looks like the show’s not listed in the archive yet, but if you subscribe to the podcast, you’ll get it.
Anyway, hearing her talk got me all excited about the 1998 Simple Machines goodbye party, which a huge crew of folks from Greensboro went up to DC for. This was about the time I got my first digital camera, and I was taking pictures like crazy, but none from the shows have made it to our flickr. Here’s one of Trei and Ceri from that weekend, though. I’ll track the others down when I get home tonight. Late 90s nostalgia, here I come again.
Tsunami’s last album, A Brilliant Mistake, is one of those albums that no one really talks about, but that I have listened to 100s of times, and never went on a long drive without.
In other public radio news, David Byrne is on Soundcheck this afternoon, hopefully that will be the segment they podcast. It’s available here.