February 12, 2013


“I once went down to Neil’s ranch and he rowed me out into the middle of the lake—putting my life in his hands once again. He waved at someone invisible and music started to play, in the countryside. I realized Neil had his house wired as the left speaker, and his barn wired as the right speaker. And Elliot Mazer, his engineer, said ‘How is it?’ And Neil shouted back … ‘More Barn!’” —Graham Nash, talking about how Neil Young first played him Harvest.

11:08am
Filed under: neil young music more barn 
January 17, 2013
Listening to NPR Music Radio streams is making my very boring workload almost enjoyable. Psychedelic cumbia anyone? Oregonians with excellent beards and fierce banjo skills?
Heavy Rotation - NPR’s songs of 2012 played back to back is a winner. 

Listening to NPR Music Radio streams is making my very boring workload almost enjoyable. Psychedelic cumbia anyone? Oregonians with excellent beards and fierce banjo skills?

Heavy Rotation - NPR’s songs of 2012 played back to back is a winner. 

1:00pm
Filed under: music npr playlist 
November 28, 2012

11:14am
Filed under: martha wainwright npr music 
May 25, 2012
nprfreshair:

Meet Randall Poster. He’s the guy who picks out the music in all of Wes Anderson’s films, including his latest Moonrise Kingdom (pictured above.) This is how Poster’s job works.
(via How Wes Anderson Soundtracks His Movies : NPR)

nprfreshair:

Meet Randall Poster. He’s the guy who picks out the music in all of Wes Anderson’s films, including his latest Moonrise Kingdom (pictured above.) This is how Poster’s job works.

(via How Wes Anderson Soundtracks His Movies : NPR)

(via npr)

March 20, 2012

Happy Birthday Black Cab Sessions. 

(Source: blackcabsessions.com)

March 12, 2012

anaesthesia4aesthetes:

M.I.A. | Bad Girls

Completely addicted to M.I.A.’s latest. Currently watching this at least once a day. 

6:51pm
Filed under: m.i.a. bad girls music 
January 24, 2012

mmmmmm… Django Django

favourites from the radio box with a very pleasing stop motion video. 

January 23, 2012
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
Exclusive album stream on The Guardian website. Click on Leonard to listen. 
The voice just gets better with age and the instrumentation is more interesting to my ear than some previous albums (though glad to see he hasn’t done away with his unapologetically eighties backing singers). Sounding very Dylan on some songs (see ‘Darkness’)… sounding gruffer, wiser and funnier on everything. 
Photo: Alex Sturrock

Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas

Exclusive album stream on The Guardian website. Click on Leonard to listen. 

The voice just gets better with age and the instrumentation is more interesting to my ear than some previous albums (though glad to see he hasn’t done away with his unapologetically eighties backing singers). Sounding very Dylan on some songs (see ‘Darkness’)… sounding gruffer, wiser and funnier on everything. 

Photo: Alex Sturrock

6:29pm
Filed under: leonard cohen music 
December 21, 2011

Beautiful short from Danish filmmaker Christian Bonke with music from lovely London friends, the very talented Klak Tik 

11:34am
Filed under: klak tik denmark film music 
October 27, 2011

Brilliantly English video for the Metronomy song I can’t stop singing thanks to the 6Music playlist this week…

12:30pm
Filed under: metronomy english music 
October 6, 2011

R.I.P. Bert Jansch

10:47am
Filed under: bert jansch october song music 
September 13, 2011
Click to listen to Laura Marling’s new album as a stream from the Guardian website. Towering talent. 

Click to listen to Laura Marling’s new album as a stream from the Guardian website. Towering talent. 

12:30pm
Filed under: laura marling guardian music 
April 28, 2011

Soul in a bike shop? It must be SXSW…

Listen to the full session on KEXP: http://www.npr.org/2011/04/26/135734875/charles-bradley-hip-jerking-heartfelt-soul?ps=mh_frimg2

10:00am
Filed under: SXSW soul charles bradley music gig 
April 27, 2011
Listen to Fleet Foxes’ new album in its entirety on the NPR website. 

Listen to Fleet Foxes’ new album in its entirety on the NPR website

8:00pm
Filed under: NPR fleet foxes folk music album