Happy to announce that the debut full-length album from The Medium, Get It While It's Hot, is available today (via yk Records) naturally). We pressed it on Coke Bottle Clear vinyl that you can pick up here or you can stream the whole thing on your preferred streaming service.
In short, the album is fun. It's steeped in 60's Pop and Psychedelia and there's clearly a big Beatles influence going on with the harmonies and lyrical content. These are all very very good things as far as I'm concerned.
I first heard "Good ol' Days" and "The Groove" when I stumbled across the band, so I'll suggest you start there but having listened to the album countless times in the past few months leading up to the release, I can safely say there's not a moment where it lulls. It's great from top to bottom. Hope you agree!
It is a beautiful video. I understand I am completely biased in this regard but it turned out extremely well. The song is a bit slow paced and meditative; which requires a bit of patience from a viewer but, ultimately, the whole piece is a bit haunting, a bit creepy and absolutely spellbinding.
Ben is one of the most giving (and humble) folks when it comes to doling out ‘his story’! He’s let me trot him out to the masses & I’m forever grateful. Also, @alexsteed is DOIN’ WORK (& a nice person). Earnest! @AuntB! That stuntman! Subscribe to this podcast. https://t.co/O1QL8o0Dkk
looking forward to their next innovation, "scheduled program breaks that inform viewers of a wide variety of goods and services they might like to purchase." https://t.co/TxGtEsSxWd
Hey, I interviewed Ben Swank of @thirdmanrecords. We talked music and Nashville and all that, but I also asked him a number of questions about what he's learned after 10 years in business. And get this! He answered those questions. https://t.co/CeN3Ojc6IV
@chrissyteigen As someone who has to do this stuff for a living, it delights me to imagine the entire social media team at an enterprise storage/collaboration platform having an emergency meeting in a big conference room to figure out how to respond to this tweet.
We're taking this campaign mobile! Be on the lookout for CHRIS GAINES: THE PODCAST delivery trucks rolling around downtown. Be sure to vote Best Podcast in the @NashvilleScene #BestofNashville2019 Reader's Poll. Thx!
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every month there's some show I've never heard of whose third season has just started and somehow everyone I know is obsessed with it. the title is always like Depending or The Arrangement and some guy is in it
The Chris Gaines podcast continues! This week, Ashley Spurgeon and I dive into the critical reception of the Chris Gaines project. Spoiler alert: it didn't go well.
Regardless of your opinion on the music of the Gaines undertaking, it's also important to look at the project from a journalism standpoint. Most of the articles & reviews about the whole thing talk much more about what it is rather than how good or bad it is. There's definitely some brutal takedowns in there but, on the whole, people were just confused.
It's also important to remember that journalism in 1999 was led by large, legacy, print publications. Pitchfork wasn't the powerhouse it would become and blogs weren't really in the zeitgeist. Additionally, the Gaines album kept harping on that it was a "Rock" album but the majority of the songs are R&B based or ballads; hardly a good comparison to the Pearl Jam's and Days of the New hitting the charts at the time.
