My Great Aunt Margo taught me as a child to make my own luck. We’d check hotspots, like beneath the Burger King Drive Thru window, for dropped pennies (just got a phone call at 11:09 p.m. to let me know she found two quarters, four dimes, and twelve pennies today- $1.02 worth of luck!).  She secretly planted four leaf clover patches in my front yard. Most importantly, she always called the last night of each month to remind us to say “Rabbit Rabbit” in the morning. “If you said it January first, that’s luck for the whole year,” she told me on the phone tonight. “But it doesn’t hurt to say it again!”

So, in honor of the first of the month AND the Chinese year of the rabbit, I’m here to spread the luck with the Rotation’s first (and probably last) rabbit themed playlist. Click through to listen!

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The Cincinnati-based art pop band Pomegranates will change the way you think about fruit.  The November release of One of Us marks the band’s third album in three years.  Just under forty-five minutes, these thirteen tracks create a psychedelic dreamlike state sans substance abuse.  Oh, behold: the power and beauty of music. Read More »

Whipping your hair back and forth is totally in these days.  Whether you are the ten-year-old daughter of the French Prince in long braids slinging paint across the lunchroom or the singer in an electro-pop duet with a vintage bob, hair whipping seems to be the way artists are captivating audiences in 2010. Just ask Phantogram.

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The secret is out- the Secret Sisters are here.  Backed by Grammy-winning producer behind the “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” soundtrack, T. Bone Burnett (side note: probably the coolest name ever), their self-titled debut album hits the shelves on October 12.  If you are looking for another Taylor Swift, don’t look here.  The singing sisters’ pure duets evoke old school Appalachian hits more than Nashville number ones.

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