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Wow, That’s A Good Song: Mbira DzeNhaira, “Toputika Neshungu”
Here’s your gorgeous for the day. The professor in the music class I’m taking this semester started off this morning with this video, and I’m considering skipping the rest of the day to watch it over and over. Mbira DzeNhaira is a mbira orchestra from Zimbabwe, and they have an album available on iTunes. Check […]
Earl Scruggs Is A Funny Man
High on the list of things I never thought I’d see: Earl Scruggs in a Funny or Die video. Bluegrass Diva with Steve Martin, Ed Helms and Noam Pikelny from Steve Martin And yet I am surprised and delighted. Also present: Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, Bela Fleck, Gabe Witcher, Ed Helms, Steve Martin, and Noam […]
Recommended Reading/(Not Really An) Album Review: NY Mag on Wilco’s The Whole Love
So. New Wilco album. I didn’t get it the day it came out — there aren’t any record stores in Oxford, so I waited until I could make it to Criminal Records in Atlanta. (They’re having money problems; I’d rather buy it from them than online. Sling some business their way if you can.) For […]
How I Spent My Blogging Vacation
August 5, I quit my job. August 9 and August 10, I saw Andrew Bird in Colorado with friends. On August 11, I picked up my father from the Denver airport. By then my apartment was 90% packed. Since he’d had a long flight and I had additional packing to do, I introduced him to […]
Concert Review: Andrew Bird, Colorado Chautauqua (Boulder), 8/10/11
We’re having fun guessing where Andrew Bird’s sock monkey ran off to, because there was no monkey in front of the Janus horn tonight, either. Current frontrunner theories: a holiday in Mallorca, getting another bespoke monkey suit made, off seeing Rise of the Planet of the Apes. But I think I can manage to put […]
My 2012 Music Resolution
By Mel on January 6, 2012
One of my favorite moments in music in 2011 was the performance by Mumford and Sons, the Avett Brothers, and Bob Dylan at the Grammys last February. Mumford and Sons performs “The Cave,” the Avett Brothers perform “Head Full Of Doubt / Road Full Of Promise,” and Bob Dylan fronts the combined bands as they […]
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