ipods are great but ...

LA has its share of bad things: traffic, no place to walk, Lohan-wannabes. But radio here is the best. Some of Chicago's hip-hop stations are good (but definitely not B... whatever that station is), but most of the songs blend together with the same pop feel, whatever genre they fall into. And San Francisco -- don't even get me started. Trance is so 1999, yet thump-thump-thump fills the streets. Some of this has to do with the Castro population, but that's no excuse. Even when DJ Sammy isn't playing, the playlists are still a few years behind their time. I mean, do you really think it's appropriate to still be playing Nelly and Tim McGraw??

Down here in SoCal, though, I get to listen to great little ditties to make my morning commutes much more enjoyable. AND I get to listen to Kevin & Bean, who (I've realized) represent my inappropriate, insensitive, smartass id. I LOVE them. Even KIIS-FM with annoying Ryan Seacrest in the morning plays some good new songs.

Anyway, there's a reason why I wanted to sing praise to LA radio this morning. There's a great reggae song that KROQ's been playing lately, and I wanted to buy the album as my November CD (a personal rationing system that I'll explain at another time). I looked up the group, and it turns out that the band is Hasidic Jew. It's a freakin' Hasidic Jew reggae band. Their name is Matisyahu, and their current single is "King of the Crown." Check it out.