NAME: Alexander Mark Collins
AGE: 29 1/4
HOMETOWN: Yale, Michigan
JOB: Artist Relations Music Manager
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FIRST RECORD: Cassette: The “Waterfalls” single by TLC | Compact Disc: August and Everything After by The Counting Crows
LAST RECORD: Bastille’s Bad Blood
NEXT RECORD: Surfer Blood’s Pythons
FIRST CONCERT: I’d rather not say, but it was Newsboys.
LAST CONCERT: Phosphorescent at the Casbah in San Diego, CA
NEXT CONCERT: Charli XCX/Marina and the Diamonds at the House of Blues in San Diego, CA
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TOP THREE SONGS (NOW):
02. “Ride On/Right On” – Phosphorescent
03. “Part 4” – Denai Moore [thanks ANH]
TOP THREE SONGS (EVER):
01. “Devil Knows You’re Dead” – Delta Spirit
02. “Hallelujah” – as performed by Jeff Buckley [sorry Leonard Cohen]
03. “Teach Your Children” – Crosby, Still, Nash, and Young
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SONGWRITER CRUSH: The sisters that make up Lily & Madeline
SONG TO [slow] DANCE TO: “Make You Feel My Love” – as performed by Bob Dylan
SONG TO CRY TO: “I Can’t Make You Love Me/Nick of Time” – as performed by Bon Iver
SONG YOU HATE TO LOVE: “Locked Out of Heaven” – Bruno Mars
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LIFE SOUNDTRACK:
Delta Spirit: Ode to Sunshine
In the first two months of 2009, part of the IC Music crew jumped on the road with Delta Spirit, Dawes, and Other Lives. It was a tour that would span over 10,000 miles in a 12-passenger van with a very failing transmission. We were all fighting some form/forms of influenza the entire time… likely due to the fact that we slept IN the van during some of the coldest parts of the country at the coldest points in the year. Who’s to say really. I’m not going to say that we didn’t resort to chopping wood to burn during one of the shows in Idaho, but I’m not going to say we did either. It was an adventure. And I loved every second. Ode to Sunshine was the record being performed nightly by the headliner Delta Spirit, and every day while we prepared to drive an average of seven hours overnight, we still decided that we should listen to Ode to Sunshine, even after seeing it live for probably the 30th time.
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