--- - |- Over the Weekend, Chris Martin, the front man for Coldplay, announced that in December, they would be releasing a 5-track EP entitled Prospects March . There's no word on an exact date. There was some word about this a while ago, when the band mentioned that they had another track, titled Luna , which featured Kiley Minogue, and that they had a lot more material. No surprise, gi...
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--- - |- It seems like the Postal Service are the people to cover. There's a lot out there, and a number of well known and excellent musicians have gone and covered what is arguably their best known song, Such Great Heights . Iron & Wine's fantastic cover, which was featured on the Garden State Soundtrack, is, in my opinion, the best version, one that surpasses the original (but not by m...
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The next stop around the world is Chad. The Republic of Chad is located in Africa, bordered by Libya, Sudan, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Nigeria and Niger. Largely desert, the nation has been inhabited for thousands of years, with a long history. The country has been in French hands since 1920, and as a result, French, along with Arabic, are the official languages. Currently, t...
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The Post-apocalyptic, quasi-folk indie-folk duo We'll Write have added another installment to their serial album Songs for the End of the World , this one titled Demon . I've written about these guys before, and it's always a pleasure to hear some fun songs that fall squarely within the geek realm. This is the third song to be released from these guys after Bleached Bone Fields and Meas...
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I just finished Charles Stross 's last book, Halting State , which proved to be a facinating, and ultimately a very different read than I had been expecting.The book is set nearly twenty years from now, and technology has progressed much as it could be expected. Mobile phones, wireless devices, and the internet have taken on a far more ingrained role in society than it is today. The premise o...
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Today marks the 45th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's famous speech, I Have A Dream, which stands as one of the major defining moments of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. The speech came from the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom to a crowd of over 200,000 supporters. It is one of the most important documents to have been written in United S...
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World music is one thing that I am always on the lookout for. When I was offered a copy of Many Lessons, I jumped at the chance to listen to something really different - Islamic hip-hop from West Africa.Many Lessons is a compilation album with a selection of music from the region, highlighting the growing trend of hip-hop among Islamic believers in the region. The back cover of the album states...
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This guy came across my desk the other day - Johnny Flynn. He's recently released his first EP and LP, Hong-Kong Cemetery and A Larum, which came out in late July.Flynn is a delight to listen to. Hailing from England, he and his band brings forth a fun and exciting sound that sounds like it comes from all over there place - there's some bluegrass and folk here. Lyrically, he's fun - there's a h...
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I'm working to catch up on some back reviews that I've been meaning to get to in the past month. First up is Jakob Dylan's first solo album, entitled Seeing Things. Dylan has a big shadow to get out from under, that of his father's, the legendary Bob Dylan. He's been with his own group, the Wallflowers, since 1989, of which I had a lot of fond memories of from High School. This new album...
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It's been a while since I've done this, so getting back into the swing of things, I present Tcheka, representing the nation of Cape Verde. This small island country is off the coast of Africa, and was discovered by the Portugese in 1460, where it remained a way point for ships passing up and down the African coast. Our artist here is Techeka, who's an afro-beat artist. Born in 1973, he's b...
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I posted up something last week about this concert, with my regrets about not being able to attend. Fortunately, the great tapers who post up at Archive.org have posted up the entire concert. Before you do, here's a bit of news. Once again, the band will be doing a three night stand at Higher Ground Music for New Years - December 28th, the 29th and the 31st. You can get tickets for the ni...
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This is an interesting song to look at because it's also an evolution of a song here. Over this weekend, I was talking to my Dad about Weird Al, and how he played the song Amish Paradise during the concert that I was part of. This led to a discussion of covers vs. originals, and he mentioned that Coolio wasn't the original artist for this song - it was Stevie Wonder.Doing a bit of research, I f...
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This is an interesting song to look at because it's also an evolution of a song here. Over this weekend, I was talking to my Dad about Weird Al, and how he played the song Amish Paradise during the concert that I was part of. This led to a discussion of covers vs. originals, and he mentioned that Coolio wasn't the original artist for this song - it was Stevie Wonder. Doing a bit of research...
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Jentri Colello came through my e-mail box last night, and I was intrigued from the first couple of notes. Hailing from Madison Wisconsin, she's the lead singer of a four-person group that has a great, laid-back indie-rock sound. While the information that I received compares her to Neil Young, Spoon and the National, I think she has more in common with the likes of Rilo Kiley, without as...
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--- - |- Jentri Colello came through my e-mail box last night, and I was intrigued from the first couple of notes. Hailing from Madison Wisconsin, she's the lead singer of a four-person group that has a great, laid-back indie-rock sound. While the information that I received compares her to Neil Young, Spoon and the National, I think she has more in common with the likes of Rilo Kiley, ...
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Unfortunately, it's not a new album (that's been promised for 2009 sometime), but the Decemberists will be releasing new material this year in the form of a 'singles series', entitled Always the Bridesmaid . This release will be in 12" Vinyl and digitally, and features music that they liked, but felt wouldn't fit on their upcoming album. Here's the release schedule: October 14: "Valerie P...
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Unfortunately, it's not a new album (that's been promised for 2009 sometime), but the Decemberists will be releasing new material this year in the form of a 'singles series', entitled Always the Bridesmaid . This release will be in 12" Vinyl and digitally, and features music that they liked, but felt wouldn't fit on their upcoming album. Here's the release schedule: October 14: "Valerie P...
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Vermont has some good music, and this morning, I came across a really facinating story about just how far back pop rock goes here. This past year, a band called Mike and the Ravens returned to the studio to record a new record. The cool thing? These guys were getting back together for the first time in 46 years. In an era that pre-dates the Beatles, and coming out of the Buddy Holly years, t...
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Ray LaMontagne is coming out with a new album in October, Gossip in the Grain , which is due out on the 19th. One song has already leaked, Let It Be Me, and earlier this week, the first song, You Are The Best Thing, was released as a single. This is easily one of my most anticipated songs of the year already, and I know that a lot of people are looking forwards to this one. LaMontagne h...
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