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Cee-Lo Green – Radioactive (Kings of Leon Cover)

You know, I’m probably not the biggest fan of the Kings of Leon “Radioactive” single. But this cover from Cee-Lo Green has me rethinking all that. Add some understated piano and muted riffing to Cee-Lo’s unmistakable croon, as I’m seriously in love. Cee-Lo recently performed the tune – along with others – on a BBC […]

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Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, in the BBC Studios

So this past Saturday, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals appeared on BBC Radio 2’s Dermot O’Leary show… and man, what a treat we were in for. It was a short and sweet slot, with only 2 interview segments, and two songs, but those two songs were pure magic. The first was the always-stunning “Fix It” […]

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Burgo’s Blog – A Retrospective Mixtape

So, I realised the other day that this blog has now been live for over 6 months on this domain (not including the few months I was on a WordPress hosted domain), and I thought now was as good a time as any to take a step back, and look at some of the tunes […]

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Live Music Friday – Howie Day live at The House of Blues. (Or, I’m in mourning. I missed the Howie Day gig.)

I’m in serious mourning here. Somehow, the fact that Howie Day was in Brisbane – or even Australia, for that matter – opening for Whitley completely flew under my radar, and I only found out after it was too late. To put this into perspective, Howie Day is one of my ultimate “hope and pray […]

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Live Music Friday – Bob Schneider at Antone’s, 2002

Time for another Live Music Friday! Following on from our Alex & Angela Dezen post here, and The National Black Sessions post here, today we’ll be following up with a Bob Schneider show from 2002. Bob Schneider, live at Antones, 2002 Bob Schneider… always an electrifying live show… Bob Schneider is, quite possibly, one of […]

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Billy Bragg – Live on Fair Game

Billy Bragg recently performed a live set on PRI’s “Fair Game” Billy Bragg, the “working class hero”, recently performed a set on one of my favourite shows, PRI’s “Fair Game“. And it was stunning. I truly feel that Bragg has been responsible for some of the best protest songs that we’ve heard in the last […]

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Thursday Music Round-up – Matthew Ryan, Josh Ritter, New Atlantic & The Kooks

After almost a week off from the blogosphere, there are a few songs that I haven’t told you about… so we’ll just jump right in… Matthew Ryan – American Dirt & Gone For Good Matthew Ryan… don’t call it a comeback! Matthew Ryan has – for the most part – flown under the mainstream radar, […]

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Cat Power – Silver Stallion (Live)

As promised, here is the video clip of Cat Power performing “Silver Stallion” live on “Later… with Jools Holland”: