Category: music
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The Giving Tree Band on Audiotree Live
Great session from Giving Tree Band on Audiotree Live – http://www.audiotreemusic.com/music/sessions/atl_thegivingtreeband/video.html
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Using Yahoo! Pipes to get Podcast Feed from Official.fm
(This post is a bit more geeky, in the coding sense, than the usual goatless fare – but it is about music in the end). One of my long time favorite podcasts is The Waiting Room, by One Half of Drunk Country and The Woman of the House. They were on WOXY.com, they were on…
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New (to me) podcast (rathole radio) and music (8in8)
I’ve long been a subscriber to Floss Weekly, a video/audio podcast in the TWiT network focused on Free/Libre/Open Source Software. One of the occasional co-hosts of that show, Dan Lynch, also does an audio podcast (weekly) called Rathole Radio. I’ve just started listening but so far I’m loving it: he mixes genres (french instrumental hip-hop,…
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Other Lives
So I’m sometimes convinced I should just turn this blog into an auto-re-posting feed of everything that comes into my podcast client: between KEXP‘s Music That Matters, Live Performances, and Video of the Week; KCRW‘s Morning Becomes Eclectic; and NPR Music‘s All Songs Considered, Tiny Desk Concerts, and Live in Concert, I’m never going to…
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The Civil Wars – Barton Hollow
Discovered this wonderful new duo via Morning Becomes Eclectic. Imagine The Swell Season if Glen Hansard was from Alabama rather than Ireland, Marketa Irglova from LA rather than the Czech Republic, and they’d met in Nashville rather than in Dublin. (They even have a song called “Falling” which reminded me a bit of the Swell…
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Tiny Desk Concert – The Decemberists
Great quick video from the Decemberists’ Tiny Desk Concert at NPR: “I was sort of always under the impression that these things were done while everybody was just trying to work,” The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy says a little ways into this Tiny Desk Concert in the NPR Music offices. “I kind of like the romance…
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Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three
Loving Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three, who I discovered via this Tiny Desk Concert from NPR (above).
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Mary Gauthier and Tania Elizabeth at Me & Thee Coffeehouse
Friday Jo and I had the chance to see one of our favorite songwriters, Mary Gauthier, at the Me & Thee Coffeehouse in Marblehead (blurry iPhone foto above). The Me & Thee has been holding shows in the Unitarian Universalist Church on Mugford Street for 41 years, and is really a wonderful venue for seeing…
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Songs for living
From the always masterful Ze Frank, a TED talk highlighting a number of his recent projects, starting with Ray (I’m about to whip somebody’s ass) and culminating in the Chillout Song. Somewhere between “I’m about to whip somebody’s ass” and “Hey, You’re Ok” is my new personal theme song. If I were a multi-millionaire I’d…
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Cee Lo Green’s F&#* You in French Sign Language
(via Stereogum and other places) comes this French Sign Language reading of Cee Lo Green’s recent hit. Love the enthusiasm and attitude throughout.
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Strange Powers
(via NPR Music) Stephin Merritt of the Magentic Fields is the subject and star of a new documentary: Strange Powers. Apparently it was released on 10/27/10 and screened in Boston last April – but it won’t be available for the Netflix queue for a while.
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God is a Concept – Tweedy Channels Lennon
(via Sterogum, via TwentyFourBit) comes this video of Jeff Tweedy fronting Autumn Defense (with John Stirratt and Pat Sansone also of Wilco) in a rendion of the classic Plastic Ono Band song “God”: “I Just Believe in Me . . . Wilco and me.” Nicely done, on 12/8/10.
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Whole Lotta War Pigs Love
(via Laughing Squid) comes this mashup of Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” and Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” – masterfully mixed by Wax Audio.
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Well Rounded Radio
Just discovered this local music interview podcast to help folks discover new music. Very eclectic set of artists, genres, and other interviewees: everything from Amanda Palmer to Larry Lessig to Yoko K. (Ok, just realized the Amanda Palmer interview goes all the way back to 2008 – guess I haven’t been paying enough attention!). Subscribe…
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Nirvana BBC Sessions
(via Muzzle of Bees) Although we lived in Seattle from 1992 to 1999, I have to admit I came to appreciate Nirvana late. I had no real sense of the grunge scene or the importance of SubPop other than what you might get from a careful watching of Singles. Since then, though, I’ve really come…
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Animated Painting: Avett Brothers
(via ze frank) Beautiful video for the Avett Brothers’ song “Head Full of Doubt / Road Full of Promises” – an animation by Jason Mitcham. There’s also a “making of” video, but watch the real one first.
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Wisco
Via Muzzle of Bees comes Wisco: A Tribute to Wilco’s Summerteeth album by Wisconsin based artists. You can download individual tracks or the whole thing, and if you enjoy it, make a donation: This is our gift to you, please enjoy it and share it with your friends. We would love for you to show…
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Save Paste Magazine
I’m a great fan of Paste Magazine, and subscribe as a Paste Digital VIP. I’d thought of Paste as one of the success stories of publishing online – as they made the transition to download for samplers rather than the physical CD – and as they started to offer a premium model (VIP) online, sell…