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Opening Soon in Allston: Root
(Photo from Root on Facebook) According to Eater Boston, a new plant-based restaurant called Root is due to open in Allston in the next few weeks, in the space formerly occupied by one of my favorites Peace O’ Pie: Root could open in the second week of July in Allston’s Union Square, bringing another plant-based…
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Night of the Furies – New Album from the Rosebuds
The Rosebuds, who earlier put out a free album of Sade covers titled Love Deluxe, have a new album out now on Bandcamp – Night of the Furies Night Of The Furies by The Rosebuds
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David Byrne & St. Vincent – Free EP
In support of promotion for the “Love this Giant” tour 2013, David Byrne and St. Vincent have posted a tour video and a free EP. The EP has one song that didn’t make it on the record (a waltz featuring some lovely glass harmonica), a couple of energized remixes of some of the album tunes…
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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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History of Man in 3:30
Great animation from Steve Cutts. MAN from Steve Cutts on Vimeo. Animation created in Flash and After Effects looking at mans relationship with the natural world. facebook.com/SteveCuttsArt twitter.com/#!/Steve_Cutts www.stevecutts.com
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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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Vegan Black Metal Chef at ROFLCON
This weekend I was lucky to attend ROFLCON III, the third (and reportedly final) version of the internet culture conference at MIT. One of my favorite sessions was “Drunk Vegan Black Metal Scanwiches,” featuring Hannah Hart of My Drunk Kitchen, Brian Manowitz from Vegan Black Metal Chef, and Jon Chonko from Scanwiches in a live…
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Forget Angry Birds, Get Spaceward Ho!
Spaceward Ho! was one of my all-time favorite games on the Mac in the 1990s – and now it has been released for the iPad!
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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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Veggie Galaxy – Vegetarian Diner and Vegan Bakery
This weekend during PodCamp Boston I took a trip down the red line to Central square and checked out Veggie Galaxy, the new Vegetarian Diner and Vegan Bakery from the folks who run Veggie Planet. The place looks fantastic – hip, modern but retro, clean, and inviting: I love seeing vegan restaurants get the ambiance…
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Veganism and Attention Science: Seeing the Gorilla
Cathy N. Davidson’s new book, Now You See it: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform thw Way We Live, Work, and Learn (see my review on Open Parenthesis), takes one of its core inspirations from an experiment by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, which you may have seen.
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Vegan Montreal
Spent last weekend in Montreal – had a great time at DrupalCamp, and visited a number of great restaurants. The Green Panther / La Panther Verte (Yelp) The Green Panther was just down the street from my hotel, near Concordia, at 2153 Mackay Street. I got there close to closing, so they were already starting…
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