Category: music
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Bring it on Down to Veganville
Nice to see Justin Timberlake in a Tofu suit on SNL in which the vegan isn’t the butt of the joke! (Via too many sources to count)
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Live from Newport Folk: Free Music from Paste
Via Noisetrade and Paste, an album of live tracks from the Newport Folk Festival: They’ve also got a set of videos from Newport at the Paste site.
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New Year’s Day U2
Got a promotional email from Wolgang’s Vault pointing to U2’s September 18, 1987 show at the Boston Garden, from the Joshua Tree tour. Thanks to a well placed note in the comments, found the same show over at U2Start.com: 1987-09-18 – Boston, Massachusetts. You can register at U2start.com free, and then download the show –…
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Tom Waits Covers (Drunk Covers VII)
The fine folks at The Waiting Room recently resurrected Drunk Covers VII. The original Drunk Covers series was one of my favorite parts of The Waiting Room, and it was great to have an encore performance of “The Waitsing Room II: Cruel Variations,” which was originally aired back in July 2008. (Which, so far as…
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis in Tiny Desk Concert
This has got to be my favorite Tiny Desk Concert of the year. Macklemore has so much energy and enthusiasm – but still manages to pull off the performance without knocking over anyone’s desk. They do “Same Love,” their pro-gay-marriage (really anti-discrimination) anthem, but also “Thrift Shop” and “Can’t Hold Us” (with Ray Dalton).
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Reignwolf live on KEXP
Wow. That’s really about all one can say about Reignwolf. Kind of a one man White Stripes meets the child of Page and Hendrix on the spot where Robert Johnson sold his soul. Play this somewhere you can play it really loud: headphones, your garage, your office when no one else is at work. Worth…
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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.