Comments on: What music do you listen to?

by: Arizona Coffee » Best of 2007

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:48:54 +0000

[…] What music do you listen to? — It’s interesting to see how music and coffee mix. […]

by: Ann from Cabin Coffee

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:55:25 +0000

It depends a lot on the time of day, the weather, the overall vibe I’m getting that day, I guess. We use XM satellite radio now, but before when we had a CD player I would play a variety of music; from Elliott Smith to The Unicorns to Portishead to The Beatles to the Amelie soundtrack. We had probably close to 100 different CD’s at the shop.

by: TOMAS

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:26:31 +0000

The site is currently experiencing a bunch of traffic and loading times are slow, but here’s what I listen to: http://www.last.fm/user/since76/

by: Shanea

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:24:59 +0000

I just learned about a company called In Stone Music that actually provides independent music to coffee shops. They only represent independent artists/labels. The shops can play and sell great new music. Their world section seems a little lacking, but they have a great selection with artists like Amy Speace and Gwen Hughes.

by: Michael T

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:46:23 +0000

Well, Seattle playlists tend to be eclectic, progressive and retro stuff that the staff picks out. Literati in Santa Monica played some French stuff, Rat Pack stuff, and some other variety off an iPod.

I personally like the idea of buying and playing mostly local music. But that means finding good local music, which could be no small task.

by: Jason Haeger

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:56:23 +0000

I dig the instrumentalists. I used to play a lot of Kaki King in the store.

by: Austin

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:59:28 +0000

We have mostly indie stuff. Some stuff that people would recognize like nirvana, and some more popular indie like Shins or decemberists. I had an old lady come in the other day saying that she had the Regina Spektor Cd that we were playing which threw me for a loop. Oh and every once in a while you will get Jennifer Knapp

by: Eddie

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:01:20 +0000

Sirius is great! The CoffeeHouse station is perfect for in store use.

by: Chris Tingom

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:27:00 +0000

Here’s something most people probably don’t know about the Apple Airport. You can get several of them and iTunes can play to multiple separate speakers and keep the music synchronized. So you could theoretically have 4 of them all hooked up to different speakers and play music to all of them. Pretty cool stuff.

http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/

by: Jason Haeger

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:05:22 +0000

Independent artists, mostly. You wouldn’t hear a single Top 40 song on my playlist.

by: Thomas Reynolds

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:57:36 +0000

My favorite thing about Gold Bar Espresso in Tempe is the absence of music