Minipost: Hello Saferide

In another podcast-delivered bit of musical awesome, I recently remembered a song I had heard by the band Hello Saferide. The song was called "Anna", and is fantastic - a little downbeat, in a twee way. Granted, the people on the podcast spent most of the show calling them "Hello Saf-er-di" because they assumed it was Swedish, but the song stuck with me.


I listened to a couple other songs on the Hype Machine, one of which ("San Francisco") I really liked. It was a little more upbeat than the rest of their songs, but I expect that I didn't get a great sample. They were all good, though! Check them out.


Note: The same band also released two albums entirely in Swedish under the name Säkert! with a lot of success. So if you want good music check them out too, but if you want to understand the lyrics make sure you check first.

Playlist.com

For a while I tried to get into Last.FM, but I never really stuck with it. I use Hype Machine for some songs, but the main way I stream music that I don't own is off of Playlist.com. The site might be covered in ads, but it works really well and the playlist creation and management tools are pretty good. Hype Machine has the better interface, but it's better used for finding new music or listening to a single artist's new stuff.

I've used Playlist.com for a couple years now, off and on, and I just started putting together playlists again. You can find my profile here, and listen to a few of them. The "New Wave" and "Party Time" lists are my favorites - also the newest, so that makes sense.

United State of Electronica

U.S.E. has been around for quite a while, and I've seen them in concert a few times - mostly by accident - but I'm still on a plodding path when it comes to actually getting their music. It's not that I don't like them or that it takes a while to get into them, because neither of those things are true. They're really upbeat, all of their songs and remixes that I've heard are great, and I would love to grab an album or two. However, I can say that about so many bands right now that it loses its meaning, so all I can do is add them to some playlists on Hype Machine and Playlist.com, and write about them here. Emerald City and It's On are the best songs I've heard from them, but that's no indication, so go listen to them yourself!