Alvvays for EC Comics

 I was just listening to an old "best of 2014" mix I made for friends back then while reading Qiana Whitted's excellent Eisner-award winning book, EC Comics: Race, Shock, & Social Protest and this old song by Alvvays came on, and I noticed this verse:"And when the wheels come off / I'll be an astronaut/ But I won't be lost in space / I will be skipping rocks"

Bridging the distances between 2020, 2014 and 1953 when EC did the original comic "Judgment Day!"  in Weird Fantasy, I'll call this a good reading/listening moment. 

Reading and Listening on Fall Break

Reading Annalee Newitz, The Future of Another Timeline and listening to Mise en Scene "Dance My Life Away" 'cause I needed to use some emusic credits. They're a good match even if their "About Love" which doesn't seem to be on Youtube had a more close match on the lytics. The sound of Mise en Scene reminds me a bit of the Muffs: melodic, poppy, sort of retro of 1960s "girl groups" mixed with grunge. And since thisn novel is about time-travel and features a lot of nostalgic representations of the riot grrl scene of the 1990s, I'd say contemporary bands with a retro feel make sense. And Mise en Scene are kind of double retro. 

Of course Newitz helped create a band named after the fictional band that she created, Grape Ape, so here's a video of them singing the song "What I Like to See" featured multiple times in the 1992-1993 sections of the book. It's nice to see Charlie Jane Anders behind the bar in this video too.