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New Bon Iver Track – Blood Bank

Ok, so I’m a few days late (read: over a week) in getting this up, but unfortunately the whole “Festive Season” rush got in the way of regular posting. Anyway, Burgo’s Music Blog favourite, Bon Iver, is releasing their four song EP, Blood Bank, in January, via Jagjaguwar. And we’ve got a first listen below. […]

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State Radio, “Right Me Up” live at the Bank of America Pavilion

It’s obviously a week for talking about my favourite bands. Today, I’m going to post about another favourite band of mine, State Radio. For more about how much this band means to me, you can check out my past posts on State Radio here. If not, suffice to say that this band has been instrumental […]

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The Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 Trailer

Yes… Archives Vol.1 finally seems tangible. If it’s at all possible, I’m now even more excited for the Neil Young gig I’m going to next month. Enjoy. [youtube]Q8rHh8baT2Y[/youtube]

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Playing For Change – Stand by Me

You dig music. You must do, if you’re here. And I like to think that most of my regular readers here on Burgo’s Music Blog are a humanitarian bunch. So if you’re into helping change the world, and using music to do so… well, then you might find that the Playing For Change website is […]

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Ryan Adams, Holiday Home Jams

So over the last four days, Ryan Adams has been busy on Youtube (see the Cards’ ‘Tube profile here), uploading “home jams” of some of his past songs. Given that he uploaded yet another one, “Cobwebs”, only 8 hours ago, I started thinking… well, how many more of these does he plan to do? So, […]

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Kelly Jones, “Maybe Tomorrow” from BBC’s “Later… with Jools Holland”

Included here for no other reason than: It’s Kelly Jones… I mean, c’mon. “Maybe Tomorrow” was always one of my favourite Stereophonics songs. And, perhaps most importantly… It’s been one of those days, and I’m hoping that… well, maybe tomorrow, you know? Anyway, watch it below. Taken from the BBC’s “Later… with Jools Holland” show. […]

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Burgo’s “Best of 2008” list. Yes, I have one too.

Late December Update: Unfortunately, after months of fighting with the RIAA amongst others, Mixwit, the site that I used to embed the below playlist, has had to close down. This means that the below playlist is no longer operating, but you can still read about the bands and follow the links to their individual posts […]

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Howie Day, live at the Troubadour in Brisbane

(Side Note: Apologies for the weird formatting issues in the below post. I’m posting this from the road, and my laptop seems to be acting up a bit. When I’m back at my regular computer next week, I’ll try and fix it up. For now, I hope you can put up with the changing fonts […]