JoshCast #13 - So Many Nights

Lucky number 13...

When I moved into my current apartment, the previous tenant apparently had a subscription to Paste Magazine, which specializes in indie music (among many other things). On three occasions, I was lucky enough to open my mailbox and find a free issue of Paste peering back at me, even if the intended destination was the coffee table of some guy named Chris Long.

Once they stopped magically appearing, though, I got my own subscription (Only $15 for 11 issues). The best part is that each issue comes with a free CD, containing about 20 songs each. So, each month, I copied them into my iTunes library, and sometimes those tracks would fall through the cracks. That's not a bad thing, though, because when you randomly find it again 8 months later, you've got something new. Like finding a $10 bill in your coat pocket.

Such was the case tonight, when I found "So Many Nights" by a group called The Cat Empire. Kinda upbeat, poppy, and oddly appealing, with a little 80s keyboard and some trumpet forcing its way in from time to time as well:

(JOSHCAST UNAVAILABLE due to imeem's going under. Check back later.)

P.S. Paste has been one of the few indie music magazines to survive the recession, as subscribers were forced to tighten their finances. Numerous other magazines haven't been so lucky. I'm grateful, of course, for its survival, made possible by its avid readership, who contributed over a quarter of a million dollars in donations as part of the "Save Paste" campaign. If you're looking for something to skim at your local coffeehouse, might I recommend Paste.