This is one of the best interviews with Tom Waits we’ve ever heard.
Filed under: Get Myself Connected,I Turn My Camera On,Open Your Ears
Posted by: Sean
We love this song from Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland’s Whitehorse project.
Tom Waits‘ first album of all-new material in 7 years, Bad As Me, hits retail next week, and terrific press is beginning to roll in. The Jon Pareles feature in the New York Times is thoughtful and wonderful.
| The New York Times is hosting an exclusive full album stream of Nick Lowe‘s The Old Magic, out next week on Yep Rec. It’s one of a select few albums to premiere on the Times‘ site to date. Listen here. Larry Rohter will also do a feature on Lowe in the paper next week. Lowe’s tastes run deep, as evidenced by a recent guest DJ appearance with Bob Boilen on NPR Music. |
Filed under: Americana,Open Your Ears,Song of the Week,Where's the Outrage?
Posted by: Sean
Ry Cooder is near the top of our all-time-faves list and we are so excited to share this new tune from his forthcoming Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down which hits the street on August 30.
We dig the Bay Area band The Heavenly States and their clever, melodic wordplay. Check out “Berlin Wall” with Spoon’s Britt Daniel on vox!
The great Drive-By Truckers played Letterman this week and David liked their soulful rendition of Eddie Hinton’s “Everybody Needs Love” so much that he asked them for a reprieve to close out the show. Great stuff!
Largehearted Boy has culled an impressive number of audio streams, performance videos, and downloads from Bonnaroo. If you’re curious about the sets from Arcade Fire, My Morning Jacket, Buffalo Springfield, the Black Keys, etc., this is the place to find them.

It was great to see so many of you at the Non-Commvention in Wilmington. Here is a list of the songs we played in the Music Meeting on Saturday:
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Blind Pilot | “We Are the Tide” |
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The Jayhawks | “She Walks in So Many Ways” |
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Motopony | “King of Diamonds” |
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Bon Iver | “Calgary” |
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The Bewitched Hands | “Happy With You” |
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Gillian Welch | “Scarlet Town” |
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Gary Clark Jr. | “Bright Lights” |
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Vetiver | “Wonder Why” |
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Theophilus London | “Wine and Chocolates” |
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The Heavenly States | “Berlin Wall” |
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Dionne Bromfield | “Yeah Right” |
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. | “Simple Girl” |
Filed under: Get Myself Connected,Open Your Ears
Posted by: Melanie
Check out this wonderful short essay from NPR Music‘s Ann Powers about the blurring of racial and cultural lines in indie rock, and the benefits reaped from those blurred lines as evidenced at SXSW.

TV on the Radio at SXSW 2011


