Really nice performances from Bat for Lashes on KCRW. Happy Friday.
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Louis and Danny Tear it Up
This is very funny—and it is an absolutely brilliant bit of musical improvisation from Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye. I think my favorite moment is when Louis says “but don’t forget Fats Waller” to rhyme off of Danny’s Gustav Mahler, and without missing abeat Danny replies “I wouldn’t do that” in what to my ear [...]
90
Pete Seeger turned 90 yesterday. I posted a slew of YouTube favorites on my tumblr last night in tribute to him. I capped them all off with this one. I hope you had a great party, Pete. Sure looks like you did. (More photos.)
The Torture Memos Waterboarding Song
You might have seen the Jonathan Mann Paul Krugman song. Well Mann is back with a musical reading of the first of the recently released OLC memos (written by John Yoo and signed by Jay Bybee, aka the Techniques Memo) providing retroactive legal justifications for the US torture program.
Hungry Blues
My google alerts on “Hungry Blues” sometimes turn up interesting things. Steven Taylor of the Fugs has written a song that is also called Hungry Blues. It’s very much in the spirit of the original song that my blog is named after. It’s not quite as good, but it’s a tall order to be asked [...]
Remembering Blossom Dearie
The great singer and pianist Blossom Dearie died on Saturday. I first discovered Blossom Dearie’s music in 2001, when I heard her song Manhattan in one of the musical interludes for a Fresh Air episode in the first weeks after 9/11. I had never heard Blossom Dearie and I was completely floored—by the lyrics, by [...]
Y-Love
I recently discovered Jewish African-America hiphop artist Y-Love. I started taking to him on twitter, and he pointed me towards this awesome “Nat’l Jewish Population Survey-inspired hiphop.” If you’ve been catching some of the buzz around Songs in the Key of Chanukah, then you’ve seen Y-Love before, over here: I also recommend checking out Y-Love’s [...]
Muxtape #2
If you missed my frist muxtape, this was the lineup: Blossom Dearie – Manhattan Shuggie Otis – Aht Uh Mi Hed John Lennon – Everybody Had a Hard Year Pete Seeger – Little Birdie Mavis Staples – Down In Mississippi James P. Johnson – The Dream Mark Mulcahy – Cookie Jar Louis Armstrong – Star [...]
Muxtape
Muxtapes are all the rage on twitter right now, so I thought I’d make one, too. Muxtape brings the old art of making a mixtape onto the web in an interface that is so simple it might seem confusing at first. You can get yours at muxtape.com.
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