Hooray for Covers! Scott Bradlee and Friends, “Imagine”
I found an unlabeled MP3 of this song in my “to be sorted” folder and found myself intrigued by the slightly whimsical cover, and the strength of the singer’s voice. Â It took a little Googling, but I eventually found the source. (Note to artists: label your MP3s accurately! Â It makes it easier for me to […]
Hooray For Covers! Emmett and the Black Mountain Scorpion Bluegrass Experience Gang, “Get Low”
You know, I’ve wanted to post this for a couple of weeks, and I spent all this time trying to do mental gymnastics explaining why it’s cool for me to like this despite the rampant objectification and the buckets of profanity. But this week is spring break for yours truly, I’ve spent it inside with […]
Damien Jurado, “Maraqopa”
Damien Jurado teams up once again with producer Richard Swift for his seventh album on Secretly Canadian. Â Maraqopa is a vast, sprawling record, with the tracks veering wildly through different sounds and styles. Â Normally, this wouldn’t work, but Jurado and Swift still manage to make Maraqopa sound like a cohesive album, even if it does […]
Wow, That’s A Good Song: Mbira DzeNhaira, “Toputika Neshungu”
Here’s your gorgeous for the day. The professor in the music class I’m taking this semester started off this morning with this video, and I’m considering skipping the rest of the day to watch it over and over. Mbira DzeNhaira is a mbira orchestra from Zimbabwe, and they have an album available on iTunes. Check […]
A Tribe Called Red, “A Tribe Called Red”
By Mel on March 31, 2012
This week we lost Earl Scruggs, Adrienne Rich, and Harry Crews. I’ve been feeling pretty low. But the best thing to happen to me this week was seeing this post over at Native Appropriations about A Tribe Called Red, a DJ collective out of Ottawa. Here’s how they describe themselves: In 2008, DJ’s NDN and […]
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