Back when I was an intern for All Songs Considered, I did a short blip on Lawrence band Ghosty and its song “Big Surrender” for the feature Open Mic. Thing is, I kinda know a few of the members of this band.
I almost pitched Ghosty’s song “Dumbo Wins Again” off their new album Answers for a Song of the Day essay. I sorta let it slide however because I thought it might be mild conflict of interest since I’ve known drummer Josh Adams and pianist David Wetzel since high school and college (what with journalistic integrity and all). The song did end up getting selected for Second Stage (formerly called Open Mic) which is sort of a place on NPR Music to showcase emerging and unsigned artists. Turns out however, the write up did fall into my lap due to the crunch of Friday deadlines before the upcoming three day weekend.
Needless to say I was happy to pick it up and feature a few of my old friends and show of a band that is getting better and better. To listen to the song and read a bit about them go here.
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