Category: music
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iron and wine’s “boy with a coin” video
Sam Beam of Iron and Wine has recently released the first video from his latest album, The Shepherd’s Dog. The video is for one of the many great songs from the album, Boy with a Coin. Enjoy. Related… Matt writes about this video over at rednoW.com.
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bon iver, “flume”
Earlier this week I listened to one of the All Songs Considered concerts from South by Southwest. This one featured Bon Iver, the stage name for Justin Vernon. I have hardly listened to anything else this week. Vernon’s album, For Emma, Forever Ago, was recorded in a remote cabin in northern Wisconsin. Here is Flume,…
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signs of (spring) life
Despite today’s weather, spring has finally arrived. And not just in the official spring equinox kind of way either. I know this because yesterday… Maggie and I ate half a container of strawberries for breakfast. So wonderful. I drove around with the car windows cracked. I bought the Bon Iver album. First great new music…
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arcade fire, keep the car running
The best concert I went to in 2007 was Arcade Fire at the Chicago Theater. It’s been almost a year since the show, and I’ve recently had their two albums on heavy rotation. Here’s a glimpse at the unbelievable energy that one experiences at an Arcade Fire show. Enjoy.
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wilco’s “sky blue sky”
I hadn’t listened to Wilco for a few years before a friend gave Maggie and I their new album a couple months ago. Contrary to my expectations, I’ve come to really like Sky Blue Sky. On this record the Chicago band seems to come back to some of their earlier material. Here’s the title track.
David W. Swanson 