It is officially autumn, yet the seasons are in limbo: some days are sticky and muggy, while others sharply wake you up when the damp, cold air hits you on the first step out the door in the morning. I'm ready for "summall" to be over and I welcome fall in its entirety with open arms. I'm ready for layers. I'm ready for fallen leaves. I'm ready for a change.Just like the sea...
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"I think that singing is as close as I get to praying..." Mirah recently told Stereogum. Indeed, it looks like the hard economic times has inspired her to get as close as praying as she can get, cause Mirah's coming out with a new album, (a)spera, in March, and it includes tracks entitled "The World is Falling Apart," "While We Have the Sun," and "Country of the Future." I hope it's as political
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So um, how did I never hear about this double album of Mirah remixes? Luckily now that I know about it I also found out the girl who got me into Mirah has it! So tomorrow I told her I'd trade her a date for a copy of it. Mirah has one of the best voices. Listening to "Lucky Little Shark" makes me want to make love to her. Ahhhhhhh...too much good stuff man, I tell ya!Oh and I got The Knife fina...
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(a)spera , Mirah's forth solo album, is her first since 2004's excellent C'mon Miracle . It's solo, yes, but she's not alone: Longtime collaborator Phil Elverum contributed to three tracks and she collaborated with fellow Portlanders Tucker Martine and Adam Selzer along with Chris Funk, Tara Jane O'Neil and Lori Goldston. The collection's out 3/12 via K , but we have the lovely "Gone Are The Da...
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Before you left to go awayI wrote down what i couldn't sayI bet you read it on the roadWith foggy lights and fingers coolNow you drove so far but now you knowHow rough it is to let me goAnd let me recommend that you think twiceAnd i always give the best adviceNow come on back to where you know i'll beLets' go sit under the apple treeYou can floor that thing, let the engine roarThe wheels they'l...
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Just a little something that popped into my ears and made them prick up attentively. Hope you enjoy:
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I don't know how this happened to the song embedded in "happy friday" post... it got all sped up somehow, so this is what it's supposed to sound like:
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Okay, okay, so I don't recommend songs of my own accord very often, but...I am now! I dj an internet radio show and was intrigued when I actually got a call-in for a song I not only didn't have, but had never heard of. So, of course, the very next day (which was today) I looked it up--and fell in love.I went about searching it on youtube and found only one video. Now, at first I was annoyed by ...
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Mirah "Don't Die In Me" from C'Mon Miracle. Saw her once in Sacramento at a teeny tiny coffee shop with Crystal in 2003.
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So, Mirah recently released her fourth album (a)spera and while I'm a fan of her I'm dissapointed by this release. There's all the signature Mirah elements here, the harp and the bare backing to Mirah's great vocals but I feel like I've heard this all before on her two prior releases C'mon Miracle and Advissory Committee. Which is sad because I enjoyed those albums so much and now after a four ...
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it's true that when i saw her last week, the only song i wanted to hear was recommendation. it's my favorite and it was the first song of hers that i heard and it would have been appropriate i think. with all the drama of that day of actually getting to the show, i am willing to be the bigger person and look past the fact that she didn't play it. i forgive her. i've now become strangely obs...
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For the past week i've been music deprived and slightly unhappy with my collection. So today I finally sat down and scanned my music, but ended up disapointed. After almost 15 minutes of pressing the next button and listening to tid-bits of unsatisfing songs I nearly gave up. But I hit next one more time.At that moment a long neglected song started to play, and I got that lovely feeling that i'...
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I'm not sure I still understand the full concept of mogging. Or perhaps, Mogging? Does the word 'mog' need a capital M?Of course, I could use my intuition and guess that the word is a combination of music and blog, but I could be wrong and or the answer may have been obvious.Let's just finish this off, shall we?
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I am quite frankly in love with Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn. I think she's the single best songwriter to emerge from this decade, and she's criminally underrated and overlooked. You can bat around as much as you want about her "cute" voice and dreamy melodies, but those words will cut your face if you aren't paying attention. In a critical pantheon of Lucinda Williamses, Joanna Newsoms, and Woods-...
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