Top Ten Spins for Week of August 25th, 2008

Bug – Album: London Zoo Keri Hilson – “Energy” Tapes N’ Tapes – “Hang Them All” Bon Iver – Album: For Emma, Forever Ago Phoenix – “Run, Run, Run” – Album: Alphabetical Television Room – ““Coffee Houses” Thelonious Monk – “Functional” – Album: Thelonious Himself Them, Roaring Twenties – “Harry Caray Frontier Hawkeye” The Tiger Lillies – “bad” – Album: Bad […] […]

Top Ten Spins for the Week of June 16th, 2008

Anhai – “don’t be afraid” – Album: Live Performance Someone Loves You still, Boris Yeltsin – “Modern Mystery” Snow Patrol – “how to be dead” – Album: Final Straw Dennis Wilson – Album: Pacific Ocean Blue [Reissue] Fleet Foxes – Album: Sun Giant [EP] Cut Copy – Album: in Ghost Colours Devil Doll – Album: Queen of Pain Emmylou Harris […] […]

Top Ten Spins for Week of May 19th, 2008

Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s – Album: The Dust of Retreat Mudcrutch – “Orphan of the Storm” – Album: Mudcrutch Hercules And Love Affair – Album: Hercules And Love Affair Erykah Badu – Album: New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War) HEALTH – Album: DISCO Crystal Stilts – ““Crippled Croon”” – Album: Crystal Stilts Cheveu – Album: […] […]

Artist Profile: Mamadou and Vanessa

(Music Zeitgeist) Who? Master kamale ngoni player, Mamadou Sidibe is from the Wassoulou Region of Mali, West Africa. Twenty-five years ago Mamadou played a groundbreaking role in transforming the music of this region from its origins in hunters’ sacred melodies; played on six string donso ngoni (hunter’s harps) to a music of philosophical observations, politics and […] […]