June 2010
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WatchCan’t get enough of this song. Yours Truly does a predictably great job of capturing the Dazed & Confused looking Australians playing “Solitude is Bliss” at a spot called Camp Nowhere. I suppose that is appropriate.
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WatchMore sweet, goodness from Big Boi. July 6th is rapidly approaching.
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WatchThe video for “Arkansas” is a bit generic, but I am in love with this song and the rest of St. Bartlett. Apparently it is Damien Jurado’s 9th studio album! It seems to me that the collective of folksy musicians living in the pacific northwest are some of the most prolific artists out there (see Karl Blau as another example). Head over to Damien’s Myspace to hear a few more...
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WatchThis brings a tear to my music loving inside-the-beltway eye. Who can resist a “Hey Jude” sing-along? Nobody, that’s who. Politicians…they are just like us!
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Mumford & Sons
(I wrote this in January and just found it while cleaning out some folders; I gave it a once over and said, “Sure, good enough, to the blog it goes.” You know what they say: Timeliness is next to godliness, or something.)
Slate’s Jody Rosen pointedly coined an acronym about the types of African-American music that NPR covers: DORF (for dead, old, retro or foreign). And for...