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New Music: Ra Ra Riot

Ra Ra Riot “Keep It Quiet” (Preview) from Barsuk Records on Vimeo
We got our hands on this sweet EP by Ra Ra Riot. After a Bon Iver-style hiatus, surrounded by a peach orchard, this upstate NY band released the teaser for their forthcoming full length “The Orchard” (get it!) come October 2010. This video for [...]

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A Little Sumthin’

Justin Vermon covered Son House’s “Death Letter”… badass departure. Let’s all raise our hands for a Bon Iver blues rock album, right?! Peep the performance below and enjoy:

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Now Playing: Dark Was The Night

The Red Hot 2-disc Compilation of ‘Dark Was the Night’ has thirty-one tracks. Thirty-one. That’s a typical classroom population, more than a few handfuls, and pushing usual audio overdose. And yet, somehow, all thirty-one songs are good; some of them great, and even more importantly, they all correspond atmospherically with one another. ‘Dark Was the [...]

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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 intermissions, [...]

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Bon Iver is Genius
(AKA Check Out “Now Playing”)

Dearest TuneUpians,
To be clear, we are entrenched in music here. We have a Sonos digital jukebox with a Rhapsody subscription set up here in the office that gives all of us access to almost any song ever made. Perfect environment for us to share our favs with one another real-time. I’ll post later on the [...]

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