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-H8E_BFFYyg I’ve seen PJ Harvey play twice, once in Boston and once in Washington D.C. The single best live music experience I’ve had was her performance of "50-Foot Queenie" in Boston, 1996. Any chance I might ever have to see her perform, I will immediately jump on it. Videos and recordings don’t quite capture the …
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Cover art meme: "Enemy Change His Mind" by Dog Whistle, originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey. I love album cover art. Not-too-secretly, I desire to design things for fun and profit, and I adore the art that surrounds music. So obviously I love this meme: The CD Cover Meme group has only three rules: (1) The first …
Visit www.oldtombrady.com to hear the song. Beware: It is a serious earworm of a song. We’ve found that this commercial effectively replaces the song in your brain. (Link via Coudal.)
Today I was in the mood for a little Tom Jones: specifically, for his 1968 hit "Delilah." cn3SP44pMKY So great. But then Peterb suggested I check out The Sensational Alex Harvey Band‘s cover. And sure enough, it’s fab! ALetUlERBYI Tom’s version is still my favorite, I think, but I’m excited to add The Sensational Alex …
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Suzanne Ortner and Tom Roberts, incredible stride piano and klezmer clarinet Friday, January 25th at James Simon’s Sculpture Studio/Loft 305 Gist Street, Uptown, a few blocks from Birmingham Bridge off Forbes/Fifth Avenues, Tel: 412.434.5629 (Location & directions) Doors open at 7pm Music at 8pm Donation suggested: $10 Good food and drinks provided–bring more if you’d …
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Fantastic video for Mike Doughty’s "27 Jennifers" — the new version of a song he recorded a few years back. This version will be on his new album, Golden Delicious, to be released February 19. 1nN_5kkYR6k
1IK7dr2nk5o "Wonderful Night" by Fatboy Slim is my favorite going-out song. The video quality on YouTube is trash though, so you’ll do better to watch this higher-quality version (Quicktime I think). The video also kind of puts me in mind of a certain movie, actually, one I haven’t seen in years. Movie night, anyone? ARK8eei1gOY
Happy birthday, Tom Waits. (Thanks to T&A Anthony for the reminder, and for posting a great video from my favorite Waits album, Mule Variations.)
My knowledge of the rap music genre is not extensive, so the web page "Rap Represented in Mathematical Charts and Graphs" doesn’t have its full impact on me. But in the hope that my readers are better versed, I share it here with you. There’s more where that came from.