I just learned that the band Flake is playing near me soon… I stumbled across their stuff when a particular instagram reel went viral a while back and love their sound. Very excited to go to that show, and I am hoping I can convince some friends to come with me since it’s definitely way WAY mellower than my usual stuff lol.

Also in other news I might be going to a goth/darkwave club next month so that will be interesting.

I haven't been listening to much new, lately, just throwing the mp3 player on shuffle...

I DID get a new (to me) pair of headphones, though, which has been fun. I had always wanted to try Grado headphones, but ended up with several other pairs over the years (currently a Beyerdynamic DT990 open-back are my main pair for home listening)... Well, I found a like-new pair of Grado SR60i at SAVERS of all places, for $6 in one of those little baggies in the electronics section. Great score! They do indeed sound as interesting as people say. Paired with the recent acquisition of a music player that can play FLAC, music has been sounding really good. I particularly enjoyed listening to Thank You Scientist with the SR60's. Their music has so many tiny little details that get lost sometimes. The tight, detailed high's from the Grado's are great for all the brass and violin. A song came up on shuffle and I ended up just playing through 2 whole albums.

I haven't actually listened to much music this last week, I was super busy, out and about for most of the week. I had recently dropped Spotify, and bought an MP3 player with Bluetooth to connect to my car to listen to music while driving, but for whatever reason I can't get the damn thing to connect. It connects fine to my bluetooth speaker and headphones... So my commutes have been eerily quiet this week. Also I had a 3 hour drive Friday and yesterday, which was also sorely silent.

I did a bunch of driving with my dad up in the mountains this weekend in his truck (we went camping), and he still listens to the same classic rock radio station he did when I was a kid, and they are still somehow playing all the same music on repeat, so I got a little bit of "insanely popular classic rock" nostalgia that I don't normally hear.