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Saturday, April 25, 2009
With a name like In Flagrante, you can't blame these guys for occasionally being brash and vulgar... which is maybe why Alex Glo..
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
Mariza is singing at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Saturday night, alongside the Oregon Symphony, bringing her particular ta..
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
I've blogged an mp3 from Dengue Fever before, but now the 60s-Cambodian-pop-meets-psychedelic-rock band (formed in LA, of course..
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
File under: Whatever happened to... In this case it's British production duo Rae & Christian, who were mainstays of the electron..
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Sunday, April 19, 2009
I like to end the week and start the weekend with dance music -- and if this doesn't make you move at least a little, well, I mi..
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Another Senegalese musician (or half -- his mother is from Niger) on Sheer Sound week, where I'm focusing on the South African l..
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Record Store Day, in its second year, is a worldwide celebration of local independent retailers...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
I'm again posting some liner notes to go along with today's random mp3; I feel like this band's circumstances can underscore how..
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
When I kicked off Sheer Sound week yesterday, I noted that the South African label had a wide catalogue. To illustrate: Today's ..
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Periodically I declare themed weeks in the random mp3s because, well, I can. Sometimes it's been a style, as with cumbia week, b..
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Friday, April 10, 2009
It's Friday, so I'm posting an electronic track (though not as uptempo as my usual Friday fare). John Brown's Body was, unsurpri..
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Friday, April 10, 2009
Economy getting you down? Feeling a bit battered by bad news? Fast forward to about 1:26 for some of the most fun, most puzzling..
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
A couple tracks off the De Dakar a Cuba on Danse La Rumba album, which aims to draw explicit connections between African and Lat..
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
I tend to find liner notes self-serving and hyperbolic, so I rarely post them. In this case, though, Franco's story is genuinely..
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Monday, April 6, 2009
I find a lot of Latin pop hilarious. The faux-sincerity of the genre always sounds that much funnier to me in Spanish or Portugu..
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