I went to the nearest Archambault to see if they had guitar strings, but they didn’t and instead directed me to their other Archambault which was a good twenty-minute walk away. I’ll swing over there eventually, maybe tomorrow, ’cause the strings on my guitar now are seriously dead. They sound like crap.<\/p>\n
I did take the opportunity to browse, though, and spent a lot of time in front of various listening stands checking out artists I’d never heard of before. I keep meaning to get a subscription to Spin. One of the artists I enjoyed (and consequently am listening to right now), was Kate Nash, an up-and-comer from the British pop market. She’s got a nice voice with a brit accent, which is all well and good, but I’m more attracted to the lyrics themselves, which are story-telly and dryly humorous, and to the complicated beats that go on behind the songs. One of the more amusing songs begins (and often refrains):<\/p>\n
Why you being a dickhead for? I find this endlessly amusing.<\/p>\n If you know who Nellie McKay is, and you like her, you’d probably like Kate Nash. She’s got a little Lisa Loeb in her too, and maybe some Feist. All in all it’s not the best album I’ve ever heard, but I certainly do like a few of the songs on it, and recommend it to anyone looking for a new, poppy female music artist with some funky beats behind her.<\/p>\n Listen to Kate Nash – Foundations<\/em> I went to the nearest Archambault to see if they had guitar strings, but they didn’t and instead directed me to their other Archambault which was a good twenty-minute walk away. I’ll swing over there eventually, maybe tomorrow, ’cause the strings on my guitar now are seriously dead. They sound like crap. I did take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nStop being a dickhead.
\nWhy you being a dickhead for?
\nYou’re just fuckin’ up situations.<\/em><\/p>\n
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