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Counting Crows live on WXPN – Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings

Thank god for WXPN – as usual they’ve brought the goods with NPR’s latest World Cafe show, featuring Counting Crows live, previewing eight (yes, I said eight) songs from their forthcoming album, Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings. (Counting Crows previewed Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings on WXPN World Cafe) We’ve already previewed some of the […]

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The Format break up. Sadness ensues.

So the music blogosphere is abuzz with the latest sad news: The Format, indie-pop darlings, have called it quits. A post made on their myspace blog reads: “We have just put out word that we will not be making a new Format album. Please understand this was a tough decision and we’re both upset about […]

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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”:

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Radiohead – House of Cards (Live)

As promised, Radiohead’s performance of “House of Cards” live on “Later… With Jools Holland”:

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Later with Jools Holland celebrates in style…

One of my favourite music shows, “Later… with Jools Holland“, has just reached a milestone this month, broadcasting it’s 200th episode. Times Online has a great article about the night in question, and also a bit of background information on the show: The cake has been sitting all day in the middle of Studio 1 […]

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The Damnwells… A new release, and some old love.

The Damnwells (2006) Photo by Heather Conley Those who have read this blog for a while might have noticed subtle hints of my slight obsession with the band, “The Damnwells“. And when lead singer Alex Dezen dropped a new song on their myspace page, it became clear to me that yet another post was needed. […]

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Rivo Drei – She Amazed Me (The Dilbert Sessions)

(Aside: 3 posts in 1 day? I know, it’s a regular explosion over here!) Ah. Scott Adams. The dude is simply amazing. For those out of the loop, Scott Adams is the creator of the famous “Dilbert” cartoon strips. But unless you subscribe to his blog, you probably aren’t aware of just how damn hip […]

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Ray Lamontagne – Crazy (Cover)

So, following on from yesterday’s post, there are two more quasi-hip-hop songs that I think you should hear. The first of those was here, and now the second (pushing the bounds of the term “quasi-hip-hop songs”), is: Ray Lamontage – Crazy (Gnarls Barkley Cover) Ok ok… it may not be a strictly hip-hop song, but […]