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(b.frahm/flickr)Raising the Ice Cream Bar
Move over, "Pop Goes the Weasel." A local musician wants to replace the tinny songs we hear blasting from ice-cream trucks all summer long. Today on the show, we’ll find out if cool-treat vendors are giving him a warm welcome. Plus, the New Orleans indie-rock band Rotary Downs performs live in our studio.
Songs for Ice Cream Trucks
Like it or not, ice-cream trucks provide the soundtrack to summer for city dwellers. Unfortunately, most trucks seem to play a single song over and over again. We talk to Brooklyn-based musician Michael Hearst about his plight to convince vendors to use songs from his new album Songs for Ice Cream Trucks. We also speak to an artist who's holding a competition for new riffs on an old tune.
"Songs for Ice Cream Trucks" web site
Ice Cream Headache Song Competition
Michael Hearst's ice cream cart video
Rotary Downs
Indie rockers Rotary Downs may not sound like they're from New Orleans, but the seven-year-old group stuck by their local music scene during tough times after Hurricane Katrina. Fresh from a performance at New Orleans' Jazzfest, the band talks about their latest album, Chained to the Chariot, and performs live in our studio.
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Throughout May, Soundcheck presents “Sound Off” a Friday series on the many aspects of noise in music and our lives. The series -- which coincides with “Better Hearing and Speech Month” -- looks at issues like New York’s noisiest neighborhoods, the latest research on iPods and hearing loss, and what happens when noise becomes a musical ingredient.
