David Byrne AND Brian Eno????!!!

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From ESQUIRE.COM


WBGO, Jazz 88: The Best Jazz Station on Planet Earth
November 23, 2009 at 4:20PM by Tim Heffernan

It's a gray day in New York, and seasonal stereotypes are blowing in with the bad weather. At Rockefeller Center, the Christmas tree is up (read to the end: now that's a tree that's fulfilled its Gothamite destiny). Preparations are underway for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. (The night before, you can watch the balloons being inflated on Central Park West, or you can go for immediate satisfaction and observe the NYPD stack barricades along the parade route over the coming days.) And, as happens whenever the geese fly south, the dollar is tanking against the euro, filling our registers with much-needed cash and our sidewalks with slow-moving window gazers.

Yeah, the stereotype of the disgruntled New Yorker has arrived as well. What's it to ya, pal? But there is one stereotype I can get behind, and have been a lot lately: the tradition of setting this great city against a background of jazz. We are lucky here to be close to Newark, which is (among other things) the home of WBGO, the best jazz station in the galaxy. All day, every day for thirty years, the station has broadcast the famous, the obscure, the established and the up-and-coming in jazz and blues — the original American musical art forms. They do it out of love (WBGO is public radio) and they do it without any of the pretension that makes jazz snobs so damn annoying to the rest of us.

It doesn't have to be gray outside to listen to WBGO. You don't even have to be in the area — every show is Webcast live. But the mood in New York adds a certain something. Tourist hordes, holiday excesses, rush-hour subways delayed by rain: it's all made a little more tolerable, even kind of romantic, by a good horn solo and a solid downbeat. (About the image: Fifty-seven jazz greats lined up for Art Kane's legendary 1958 photograph for Esquire.)


Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/endorsement/radio-jazz-112309?click=main_sr#ixzz0YSDh6F4X

5tep

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mo music

Mystery Jets- A band that hopefully is not judged by their outerwear...if so they should pack up shop and leave.



Wombats- I could have posted this before...

L&R

excellent track off of an equally good album!
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Movin to NY

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Casablancas

Thanks to a friend on Fakebook, found out that the frontman to the Strokes (Julian Casablancas) won't be outdone by his rhythm guitarist and his solo stuff.


Apparently his 8 song album comes out in the US in FOUR DAYS. Even better, $4.99 on iTunes!

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Kids

In a Michael Jackson meets KISS video, MGMT (who collaborated with KiD Cudi on "Pursuit of Happiness) present "Kids".



and the Kooks' acoustic cover:


Ronny- you know Logan's obsessed with the original...
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The Funeral

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Scotch Mist

Posted "Reckoner" and "Weird Fish/Arpeggi" before...
here's the WHOLE thing:



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DB Joke

I made a post about Glenn Bloody Beck and Muse earlier, more unfolding at the New Musical Express, one of the best music publications around.

Glenn Beck admits lying over Muse retraction plea
Fox News presenter says the band didn't contact him asking to stop praising them
October 6, 2009
"Fox News presenter Glenn Beck's declaration that Muse had asked him to stop praising the band was entirely false, it has been revealed.

As previously reported, Beck had praised the band on Twitter and during his radio programme in September, before telling listeners that the band's representatives had been in touch with him asking if he would "retract my endorsement".

Beck, who is known for his strong conservative views, is still under fire after he called President Obama "a racist" in July.

Speaking about the presenter's comments about Muse, Christopher Balfe, the president and COO of Beck's company Mercury Radio Arts, admitted that the whole thing had been a ruse, reports MTV.

"After raving about Muse for four minutes, Glenn made a joke about their representatives emailing him to stop," Balfe said. "While it is entirely possible that Muse does not like having Glenn as a fan, he was making a joke and their representatives never reached out to him."

Despite Beck suggesting on several occasions that he believes Muse share his strong libertarian views on western power, the band's spokesperson said they would be making no comment about the issue."

Hilarious joke, douchebag. Making a good effort at usurping Bill "Pinhead" O'Reilly as biggest media DB.

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Muse Hates Glenn Beck. Me Too.

From NME.com

Muse ask Fox News presenter Glenn Beck to retract his support for the band

Beck called President Obama 'racist' in July

Muse have reportedly asked under-fire Fox TV presenter Glenn Beck to retract his public endorsement of the band after he praised them on his radio show.



Beck, who is known for his conservative stance on politics, is currently embroiled in a scandal over remarks he made in July when he called President Obama "a racist". The Press Association today (October 5) reports that Waitrose has pulled its advertisements on Fox News over the incident.

Speaking on 'The Glenn Beck Program' on September 16, the presenter hailed Muse's latest album 'The Resistance' as "fantastic", before stating that the band themselves are known to share his libertarian views concerning how the western world is governed.

"These guys are brilliant, they know the time that we live in. They are libertarians from England," he said. "All of the lyrics are just dead on, on what's coming our way."

Beck also endorsed the band on his Twitter page the same day, again alluding that they are libertarians.

"New Muse CD. Amazing. These guys are right on the money. Lyrics on target, talent off the charts. They 'get it'. Libertarian!" he Tweeted.

However, speaking later on his radio show, Beck revealed he had been asked to retract his praise for the band after being emailed by a Muse representative while on air.

"I just got an email from representation of Muse," he said. "They would like me to retract my endorsement. My apologies to Muse for saying that I like them. I didn't mean to destroy all their credibility and all their coolness.

"Let me just set the record straight. Muse – I hate them. It's an awful album and you should never go out and buy it."

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Per'aps F*ck Off Might Be Too Kind

Perfect for driving to work on Abercorn/Gauntlet from Hell-Full of Idiots Road
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More London Rock

More Rifles



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Scotch Mist

I remember "buying" this album when I was studying in London....it was a pay-what-you-want download....and this, "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi", along with "Reckoner", are the standout tracks on In Rainbows.



Excellent live version. And this is the winner for the RH music video contest...for the song "Reckoner"...

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10 of the Best

What I'm Listening to These Days:

KiD CuDi- Dat New New

Kings of Leon- Use Somebody

The Weeks- Buttons

Asher Roth- Lark on My Go Kart

Arctic Monkeys- Old Yellow Bricks

David Sides- Crazy (Gnarls Barkley Cover)

KiD CuDi- T.G.I.F. ft. Chip the Ripper

Gnarls Barkley- Reckoner (Radiohead Cover)

Arctic Monkeys- Crying Lightning

David Sides- Dead and Gone (T.I./Justin Timberlake Cover)

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From Jon

Saw a post from this website over at Jon's blog, SaveUsLebron, and thought it was hilarious!
Here's one example of Rap illustrated mathematically (a logical connection, I know.)

See them all (along with YouTube links to the songs in question) at JamPhat.

Also, only 3 days until the public premier of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell! Can't wait for the self-righteous protesters to tear their hair out. And then look like girls who like girls. In the non-hot way. "Ew, gross!"

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No no no no, YEAH....YEAH

This album is incredible! (It just came out on Tuesday) A genre all to itself, Cudi's music is brilliant. Sometimes he sings, sometimes he raps, sometimes he does both. A really good flowing collection, Man on the Moon: The End of Day is the soundtrack to Cudi's dreams at night. Some tracks are labeled Nightmares, others are Themes. If this is hip-hop, then the genre's been saved. And not by all the self-proclaimed "kings" of rap, the gangsters, but by a Cleveland-born skinny jeans-wearing artist.

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Petrucciani

Brilliant song by the late, French jazz pianist, Michel Petrucciani. The original is on Last.fm (complete with robust bass line), but the Japanese band covered it so well on YouTube, I had to give em a play.

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AM

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