August 2011
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July 2011
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Gogol Bordello: Tiny Desk Concert →
If you watch this video and don’t get to the part where Eugene Hütz is dancing on the desks, then you’ve missed the most rollicking and insane Tiny Desk Concert of all time.
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Why can't I find any information about traditional...
or, Internet, why have you failed me?
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“I think I was hugely influenced -— I don’t know to what extent it comes across...”
– Joanna Newsom (via parksandwreck)
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In a perfect world: Musical collaborations I'd...
Sean Paul/Marina Diamandis
This pairing is natural in my mind because both artists have what I like to call a “spite-sop sensibility”. In spite of his Dancehall/reggaetón aspirations, Sean Paul’s sound is unmistakably pop-influenced, with catchy, accesible beats in songs like “Press It Up” edging out the rough, unkempt conventions of the Jamaican scene. In spite of...
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#1 This song is almost perfect. Jolie gets a...
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Watch#2 She amazes me. There are so many disparate influences evident in Jolie’s music, yet she somehow manages to blend them convincingly. As far as I know, it’s inspired by Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita, and yet it has this unmistakably Americana vibe. Love it!
girltofemme:
Amen by Jolie Holland
Lovely listening for an easy summer Sunday afternoon.
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Top 6 Reasons to Love Jolie Holland →
#6 She’s metropolitan!
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Jolie Holland has a new album out and OMG how did... →
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Sick of all these hapa stereotypes
I don’t know about you, but I am sick and tired of all the stereotypes about hapa haole people that I hear bandied about on the radio, in films, broadcasted through the groupmind, etc.
Stereotypes such as:
All hapa people think in haiku
Hapa people have only one kidney; it is shaped like Michigan
All hapa people are radical Anti-Dühringists
The music of Elvis causes hapa people to vomit...
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Things That Happened During My Summer Vacation
I was accused of witchcraft while swimming in the Pacific Ocean.
I read Sarah Vowell’s new book, Unfamiliar Fishes, and now have the urge to write a musical about the Paʻū of Princess Nahienaena.
I saw a pelican.
This.
I got an angry look from an airport security employee while discussing the possibility of the passage of plural marriage in the United States.
I watched a theater...
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