Intentional | Audio Identity Blog

Let’s skip the brandspeak and business chitchat for the morning and cut straight to the music. A few of this week’s musical-radar tidbits:

BoingBoingTV has a good interview with Big Peter of New Orleans’ Hot 8 Brass Band, one of a handful of smokin’ second-line bands in the city today…including the beloved Rebirth, the Dirty Dozen and my personal fave the Treme Brass Band. Watch:

Meanwhile, the kids can’t seem to get enough Man Man — especially the Ballad of Butterbeans. This Philly-based band is like Tom Waits with an espresso and a trampoline. This is the music your sedatives warned you about.

And finally, Birds & Batteries‘ Ocarina has quickly become my earworm of the week. Beatrix and I drove around town running errands all day yesterday, but it wasn’t a total waste because I had Ocarina on repeat-repeat-repeat. The song’s a scintillating throwback to 70’s-80’s keyboard album rock — which I’m not normally a huge fan of — and the simple, transformative lyrics make this a left-brain+right-brain treat.

Happy listening.

– Noel Franus