Monthly Archives: February 2009

Go Hail a Black Cab….

We stumbled onto one of the coolest live performance concepts we’ve seen in a long time; shove a musician into a cab, make them play one song all the way through, and video tape it from the front seat. There is just something charmingly intimate about these videos. The claustrophobic acoustics and stupid simplicity makes [...]

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Can you feel the love?

Lately we have been getting some great coverage all over the web…we just wanted to share some of the fantastic blogs & sites that have taken the time to check us out, link us up, and shout us out. Here are some of the highlights… Rekkerd.org is a really rad digital audio site run by [...]

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New Listen – Bon Iver, Blood Bank EP

Familiar imagery of cold weather and private conversations, but this time – Bon Iver (the project of singer-songwriter Justin Vernon) journeys further out of the bitter isolation of For Emma, Forever Ago and moves into different, more defined soundscapes. The title track from the EP, makes donating blood seem like the perfect setting for romantic [...]

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51st Grammy Awards – Greatest Hits

Sunday was the big show for the music business. The televised clustering of popular artists, random CBS-sponsored presenters (ahem, Gary Sinese, WTF?), and awkward bravado of the industry is often just a basic intrusion to personal preference – littered with opulent lip-syncing. The actually awarding aside, this year the Grammys had a couple notable performances. [...]

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