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Different birthday agenda, same birthday shirt #Mayth #tbt

Epic style: Christopher Cross 1980 edition #sailing #midnightspecial

First time through the new National record. Loving it. (at Japantown)

Raspberry Pi (a sweet, cheap computer) with Atari 2600 case as created by RAM's own Aaron Levin. His Etsy is about to be blowing up.

#raspberry pi #video games #atari #diy #life hacks

Found a spot for this dude. #octopuspaintings #DeepSeaArt (at Little Russia)

#octopuspaintings #deepseaart

Mixing RAM tracks at Tuk Labs. #nonstop #madharmonies #boosh

#madharmonies #boosh #nonstop

Tuesday morning science (at Flywheel Coffee)

Making records in the woods of Grass Valley

Moon over Delaware. #hellathankful

#hellathankful

Peeled a lot of bananas in my day, but this is a first

Major life goal achieved

For me?

Taken with Instagram

I'm having a bit of a musical renaissance right now. I find myself finally back into listening to music after a couple odd years of NPR and podcasts and audiobooks only. And hats off to Spotify for making it not only possible but remarkably simple. If you don't use this service you're really missing something amazing that they'll probably yank or change or "disappear" from all our memories because it's really too good to be true.

So it's perfect timing. Hammering away every week at new arrangements and putting together this new record has all our brains spinning, I'm sure, but for me in particular I'm trying to immerse myself in some new records and thus to absorb some new ideas. I've historically been an old and safe listeners who has a hard time making any new room on my stone classics shelf, but then sometimes I even surprise myself. Like that time at the russian bathhouse. Also I should say that the recommendations from my bandmates are really a boon, and I personally vouch for all the following.

-Rob

Check out what RAM recommends this week:

(clockwise from the top left)

We Are The Champions by Jeff The Brotherhood

Aaron says:

"The Ramones decide to get in touch with their inner Cheap Trick and write some tunes with more than just 3 chords. Classic 50s songwriting with the warm underbelly of 70s heavy rock fuzz. Finally the classic rockers and the power pop punks can hang out at the same show."

J.D. McPherson - Signs and Signifiers

Tom says:

"...gets me in the mindset of old muscle cars and roadhouses, slicked down hair and women with dresses made for dancing."

Beach House - Bloom

Rob says:

"Feels like sleepwalking through Candyland, or in a slowmotion music video filled with pillows and soft lighting and twice my dose of soma. Modern hypnotic and quietly epic."

Standout track: "Lazuli"

Speed, Glue, & Shinki by Speed, Glue & Shinki

Eric says:

"70s psychedelic guitar rock from Japan. The kind of band that would make your parents worry about you huffing paint if you were a teenager and they saw the tracklist. Makes me want to float in a deprivation tank where I can feel what a square wave sounds like, you dig?"

Standout track: "Search For Love"

First time seeing a picture of BOC and it makes the cowbell sketch even more hilarious. #walken #ferrell #fever (Taken with Instagram)

#fever #walken #ferrell

AKA the practice space. #tuesdaynight (Taken with Instagram)

#tuesdaynight

What's RAM listening to?

Repeat After Me is full of men who love music. It's sort of all we talk about.

As we prep ourselves for recording our 2nd album this coming winter, we're letting you know just what's been playing on our stereos and Spotify accounts. Here's what the men of RAM are listening to this week:

Frank Ocean - Channel Orange (only $4.99 on Amazon!)

Aaron says: "Rawness of early Prince meets Ariel Pink with 'real' songwriting"

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The Roots - Come Alive

Tom says, "Awesome album and I like that they make a point of releasing a live album from Zurich just to show that they are world-traveling ballers who get a crowd of Swiss people to chant along with their music"

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Ty Segall - Slaughterhouse

Eric says, "Dark garage psych rock. Iggy Pop plus Black Sabbath. Super reverb, future primitive vibe"

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Alabama Shakes - Boys and Girls

Rob says, "Al Green slow blues steady burn with a CCR aftertaste. Some unexpected angles on the same old 4/4"

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