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Get Out

Love Nickel Creek but prefer them solo?  This is your weekend as you can see Sara Watkins with Fiction Family featuring Sean Watkins from Nickel Creek on  May 9 at The Bootleg Theater or Friday, May 10 at McCabes Guitar Shop.  You can also see former Nickel Creeker and Mandolin Virtuoso Chris Thile at Largo on Saturday. Love My [...]

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New Music Tuesday (Black Friday edition)

Record Store Day has expanded to nobody’s favorite day to shop.  This Black Friday you can pick up some fun discs to collect and/or sell on eBay. Here are a few of my favorites:           Live From The Newport Folk Festival – Tribute to The Band/Levon Helm with Bethany Howard from [...]

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Innovators/Imitators

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame came out with its list of nominees: If it were up to me (which sadly, it is not) I would give it to the innovators not the imitators (thanks to My Morning Jacket’s “Wordless Chorus” for always keeping that lyric in my mind).  Here is the list and [...]

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Muppet Music

There’s only one record to worth your attention this week.   OK  Go does the theme song and the video debuts today.  The Fray does “Mahna, Mahna”, My Morning Jacket, Weezer and Andrew Bird also put their fingerprints on other Muppet classics. I anticipate awesomness.  The movie comes out in November and  I’m hoping the movie is [...]

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Magnifier

Google has started their own music blog called Magnifier and it looks to be a great source to sample some new music and videos.   Currently they are showcasing a live track from My Morning Jacket as well a typically trippy interview with frontman Jim James.  Getting the music is simple you just click on [...]

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Freebird

Every band wants to create that epic rock song yet few are able to accomplish this feat.  It’s the song that identifies you, the one every one wants to hear last before you scream “Good Night!”  I think fans ironically scream “Free Bird“at shows because the band they are watching does not have that IT [...]

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Turntable

I don’t know about you but I’ve always thought of the discovery of music as a solo venture.  I heard music on the radio or read about it or took a chance on something just because the cover looked cool when I was at the record store.  It was only at school or concerts that [...]

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The Record Album

While the music industry saw CDs as their savior in the 80′s as everyone rushed to upgrade their collections, their friend the CD eventually turned to the dark side.  Artists suddenly felt that they had  to put 70 minutes of music on each disc.  Every note of music suddenly had to be heard forgetting that [...]

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