Please help Dirty Excuse, three amazing, rocking Brooklyn ladies and one lad, to become the 101.9 RXP House Band by winning the radio station’s “your…
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Pavement – In A Berlin Minute (Week 3)
So the night finally arrived: Pavement played in Berlin! I had bought the tickets for the show long before I booked my flight to Berlin…
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MusicMonday: Retro cover art edition: Sharon Jones & MGMT
Awesome retro album covers! I simply cannot get enough of the fantastic Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings album “I Learned The Hard Way” – especially…
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MusicMonday: The National – “High Violet”
And I wasn’t going to write about The National again (and again). I swear, I wasn’t – especially not after already tweeting about their show…
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I’d like to kick myself in the shin that I didn’t jump at the opportunity to download “One Life Stand”, the latest album by the…
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Tomorrow I’m getting on a flight to Berlin, where Scott and I want to make a home for a while. The song that keeps coming…
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(A personal) MusicMonday: “There’s XXXX (Within My Heart)” – You Say Party! We Say Die!
Scott Miller on his wedding day A few days ago one of my dearest friends, Debbie, lost her husband Scott, whom I unfortunately only met…
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Because of all that’s been going on with finishing All’s Well and Fair, I haven’t had much time to blog or do a lot of…
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MusicMonday: Favorite Songs of 1st 1/4 of 2010
That’s a first: I’m actually a little bit early posting my favorite songs of the first quarter of 2010. There really is no explanation for…
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MusicMonday: Mumford & Sons + Laura Marling (+ Noah & The Whale)
“Little Lion Man” by British band Mumford & Sons originally came out in 2008 on the EP “Love Your Ground”, then was included on their…
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My pick for this Monday is the Sophie Muller-directed video for “The High Road” by the much hyped Broken Bells (James Mercer, singer of The…
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The Fabulous “… Fabulous Stains” (1982)
“We are The Stains and we don’t put out!” Dianne Lane as Corinne in Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains How did I miss this…
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New music videos – to be viral or not… OK Go and Ich + Ich
More music? I guess it’s just a music video kind of a week. But if people keep making great videos, I’ll keep pushing them on…
View More New music videos – to be viral or not… OK Go and Ich + IchMusicMonday: Shout Out Louds and “Work”
A clever way to introduce “Work”, the new album by the Swedish band Shout Out Louds: a creative video (directed by bass player Ted Malmros)…
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Right before I left Germany for New York again, my dad gave me his copy of the new record by “legendary godfather of rap” Gil…
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Eternal Moonwalk – A Tribute To Michael Jackson
Yet again: old to some, new to others, still interesting, I think… Michael Jackson was never my thing (rather on the contrary) nor did I…
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