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VIDEO: John Carpenter – All That Glitters Is Gold

Posted by Rudy Carrera on Friday, August 27th 2010     

John Carpenter is originally from New Jersey, but has become a breath of fresh air to the sometimes stagnant Los Angeles indie music scene. He performs frequently, and has been seen at Spaceland and The Las Vegas Shakedown Festival in (where else?) Las Vegas, Nevada. His music is a combination of Scott Walker, The Velvet [...]

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VIDEO: The Equals – Police On My Back

Posted by Rudy Carrera on Thursday, July 29th 2010     

    It’s true that the 1960s was the richest decade for music. A dear friend of mine, Kathy, gave me a rather stunning reminder of this when posting this video by The Equals, a mixed-race group who managed to pull together roots music, R&B and reggae into one mighty delicious soup. This track is [...]

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VIDEO: The Ganelin Trio – Conversation II [Live at the Lithuanian National Philharmony Vilinius 2005]

Posted by Rudy Carrera on Thursday, July 8th 2010     

The pioneers of Russian avant-garde jazz and improvisational music are captured in fine form performing at a festival in Lithuania from 2005. Cross-posted at A Miscellany of Tasteful Music.

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Sydney Opera House holds concert for canines

Posted by Rudy Carrera on Sunday, June 6th 2010     

A wonderful sign that Western Culture is inundated with too much free time on their hands. At least the dogs looked like they were having fun! From the BBC article: Organisers say the event, the work of American musician and artist Laurie Anderson, is the first of its kind. Ms Anderson called it “an inter-species [...]

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Review: Kyle Bobby Dunn – A Young Person’s Guide to Kyle Bobby Dunn

Posted by Rudy Carrera on Wednesday, May 19th 2010     

Kyle Dunn’s music seems to be less about music as commonly understood and more about how one can color a mood with sound. There is certainly a method to Dunn’s style, as though it may well be improvised, it flows in beautiful order much in the manner of spilled honey rather than a river. A [...]

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Bo Hansson RIP

Posted by Rudy Carrera on Wednesday, May 19th 2010     

Swedish prog-rock legend Bo Hansson passed away April 24th. He was found dead in a hotel room in Stockholm, Sweden. Hansson had a stellar career in Sweden, teaming up with Janne Karlsson to form Hansson & Karlsson, releasing albums that spread out to an international audience, even catching the attention of Jimi Hendrix, who would [...]

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Review: Bi Kyo Ran – Go-Un

Posted by Rudy Carrera on Wednesday, May 19th 2010     

The Japanese may not put out a lot of bands making original music (noise is a huge exception, though it barely qualifies as music), but once they latch on to a concept, they can get maximum value out of it. One of the better examples of this concept is Bi Kyo Ran. During the first [...]

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Legendary singer Lena Horne dies

Posted by Rudy Carrera on Monday, May 10th 2010     

The Los Angeles Times reports that the sultry voice of Lena Horne has been forever silenced. RIP.

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VIDEO: Dadamah – High Time

Posted by Rudy Carrera on Friday, May 7th 2010     

My brother and I had the good fortune to have an excellent college radio station near us when we were in our early twenties in the Inland Empire. KSPC 88.7 FM was known for playing some pretty far out music, but this particular track blew me out of the water. I had just begun hearing [...]

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Zarah Leander – Bei mir bist du schön (1938)

Posted by Rudy Carrera on Friday, May 7th 2010     

The Yiddish language, that amalgam of ancient Hebrew spicing a Teutonic soup, is not the first choice I’d have for a smouldering, sexy, romantic tongue to pleasure a love interest with. My opinion has, admittedly, been colored by watching cartoons where some Yiddish songs have been featured, as well as checking out the occasional vaudeville [...]

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