Ohhh man, LOVE. Montreal's The Luyas will be performing at Queen Elizabeth Theater in Toronto on December 12th and have a new album in the works.I've already played this 4x in a row, and may or may not have cooked up a few new Martha Graham dance moves to go along with it:The Luyas: Spherical Mattress.mp3
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A fairly recent interview via 2DopeBoyz, with an older, less blinged Diamond D, who says that he still likes to get his hands dirty diggin' in the crates, IRL. No word on what's happening with his followup to the Hugh Hefner Chronicles. He's been busy producing Atlanta's The FiVe.(Whose song May-Ham featuring Fort Knox almost sounds like heavy metal.)Diamond D: D.I.A.M.O.N.D. (promo).mp3
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++Was reading this article over the weekend about Napster partnering with Best Buy in their continually thwarted, Pinky and the Brain-ian attempts to conquer the industry. Poor Napster, the company that once ruled the world and lost it. (The first few paragraphs of the article, which is generally about gaming, television and Internet all being connected, remind me of my favorite commercial du...
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++Travis Barker's at it again.++Amy Winehouse gets taken down. By cold medicine?++Via Prefix Mag, Jane's Addiction's Perry Farrell joined Eddie Vedder and crew for a duet of sorts at Austin City Limits to perform Mountain Song. Much like The Police's Stuart Copeland, guy's still pretty wired... and wiry.Jane's Addiction: Mountain Song.mp3
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From the inbox: Apparently everyone on the Internet knows and has formed opinions about Hed Kandi of both "The Mix" and the "Serve Chilled" variety.Hed Kandi is a record label. Well, it started out as a label, then at some point it started to take on human characteristics apparently, and opened a bar on the Egyptian coast of Hurghada City. Sounds like a James Cameron plot in the making.Eat Mor...
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Gypsy and the Cat, pictured above, sound a great deal like their Auzzie brothers Empire of the Sun, but they have just a bit more depth...like their synth has been aged in a dark cellar longer or something. This might be from having been influenced by ELO and Bill Conti. Hmm, the song below, Jona Vark seems to have been out since July but the Neon Gold blog says that the duo have yet to come ou...
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You have to some kind of presence to pull off the kind of video above where the camera is fixed on you and nothing else, and your only real job is to rotate and emote. I wonder if this requires some kind of degree, with like, a specialty in feather headresses.Icelandic Julia Ormond lookalike Emiliana Torrini's latest song Me and Armini off her third album of the same name is less Boots Are Made...
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Linkin Park-er Mike Shinoda had some worries about attending last month's 140 (Twitter) Conference. This page explains (in more than 140 characters, I might note!) how the get-togethers explore the effects of real time Internet on business. The next LA meetup deets can be found HERE.By the way, has anyone heard from Mike Shinoda since then? DUN DUN DUN!
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It comes as no surprise that my mang Paul Carrack would like the work of Canadian singer Brendan Croskerry. This song starts off like a typical Easy FM kind of track but listen closely and the lyrics get subtly Carrack-ian clever/thoughtful (at about 40 seconds in) and hold up, wha? political?? Enough with the beer,I put on a kettle,Enough with the war, CNN is the devil,Finding it hard that t.
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Let's just go ahead and make it girl week: South Korea's Brown Eyed girls re-released their single Sign on October 29th. Miryo, the rapper (who kind of sounds like Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes used to), has broken off temporarily, to join her fellow labelmates Flying Girls. (Ha ha once again, no idea.)Kidding aside, the song above is actually pretty good if you're in a pop mood..it's always interestin...
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One of my new favorites, Gentleman Reg does the old countdown thang for Spinner, including Cyndi Lauper's cover of Prince's When U Were Mine, above. It's admittedly got Cyndi's spin on it, but the guy harmonizing in the back sounds like Brad Garrett. The line I've always found funny about this song is "didn't have the decency to change the sheets" which sets off visions of Prince with a purple ...
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Here's a lil playlist from the inbox. These airy and flirty songs all came together in a bunch and for some reason they sound like they could be part of a soundtrack from a foreign film: ++Two offerings from the Buffetlibre boys, the first is off of Dragonette's new album Fixin' To Thrill and the second is by Denmark's beautifully produced Cartridge, who recently made their debut on BBC-TV.Dra..
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I Did Not Know That: One time silvery Jew and bargain bookbuyer caught on film David Berman is the son of Washington lobbyist Richard Berman who just happens to be caught in Rachel Maddow's crosshairs these days. Apart from his work as a musician Berman the son is also a part-time poet who recently wrote this poem My Father, My Attack Dog to his Dad. Dude, family relationships can be complicat...
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"Or should I be a lady, oh maybe, cuz I wanna have his babies."++This Melanie Fiona video puts a new spin on the ol' woman done wrong lament. Drama! I wanna feel bad for this girl but seriously how bad can her personal predicament be when the hair is flawless? At least be sportin' some split ends, stray roots, a mustache, or something. Fiona's album, in which she samples The Zombies and Martha ...
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The inbox calls....:++Exciting news for us Olds: George "One Thin Dime" Benson will be making an appearance on Jimmy Fallon tonight backed by The Roots. Now if they can just get Bill Withers out of hibernation. (There is a documentary coming out, though.)++Who's up for some yodeling? Hawksley Workman's (pictured above) album For Him and The Girls is out November 17th and his sound is appealin.
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The inbox calls....:++Exciting news for us Olds: George "One Thin Dime" Benson will be making an appearance on Jimmy Fallon tonight backed by The Roots. Now if they can just get Bill Withers out of hibernation. (There is a documentary coming out, though.)++Who's up for some yodeling? Hawksley Workman's (pictured above) album For Him and The Girls is out November 17th and his sound is appealingl...
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The inbox calls....:++Exciting news for us Olds: George "One Thin Dime" Benson will be making an appearance on Jimmy Fallon tonight backed by The Roots. Now if they can just get Bill Withers out of hibernation. (There is a documentary coming out, though.)++Who's up for some yodeling? Hawksley Workman's (pictured above) album For Him and The Girls is out November 17th and his sound is appealin...
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World traveling DJ and master networker Paul Oakenfold (Dang, who *wasn't* at Studio 54? It's just like Woodstock. That place must have been the size of a colosseum) has been spending a lot of time at Palms in Las Vegas as of late. He's done a new song called Firefly with British "singing sensation" Matt Goss, who penned the main song for Fox's So You Think You Can Dance. (I'll have to take G...
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This fresh faced fellow is Will Stratton, friend of Sufjan, direct descendent of the Earl of Stratton. No just made that last part up. What is true is that Stratton's song below is one of the prettiest I've heard in recent memory. Luxurious is the word that comes to mind, like an old Beth Orton song. The Yolo County singer-songwriter took three years to finish his second album, No Wonder, whil...
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++There was a great interview with Emergency author NeilStrauss on the Carson Daly Dark and Intimate Chatshow the other night. Strauss talked about howhe will be releasing an anthology of the work he did for Rolling Stone magazine,and the time he spent with Snoop Dogg many years ago. It was shortly after Snoop had left Death Row records. Strauss said that Snoop tried toget Strauss to record ..
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