After having moved from my old place to Sara’s last spring I shut down Radio Go Go Go Ya! for fear of sucking too much bandwidth between it and Vonage and two computers. However, it seems as if Comcast has widened the band enough now so that I can rebroadcast without hiccups. It’ll continue to [...]

… “The Bridegroom” by Anonymous 4 from their album “Darkness into Light: Tavener’s The Bridegroom and other works.” I’d post it but it’s 17 minutes and 40 seconds long and I don’t have the time to convert and post a song that long at the moment — I have a wedding to get ready for. [...]

I had been hearing too much about The Decemberists (on NPR, in the context of Stephen Colbert hilarious guitar challenge to them after he claimed they ripped off his blue screen challenge on one of their music videos) not to download their latest album, The Crane Wife. The fact that Colbert faux-derisively labeled them “hyper-literate [...]

I heard this hip-pop Japanese-Canadian tune by Monkey Majik on NPR’s “Song of the Day” and liked its smooth transitions from Japanese to English. For those of you unfamiliar such such fusions, here you go with “Thank You” from the album “Thank You”:
Thank You:

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In a torrent of iTune downloads a couple weeks ago Sera Cahoone somehow got caught in the maelström. She’s pretty much a straight-up folk-based “singer songwriter,” the type that try to break in here in Nashville. She’s from Seattle, however. I imagine she’d be well-received in Music City, USA. Here are three from her eponymous [...]

Emiliana Torrini (pictured here in concert in Heidelberg, Germany) is another female crooner found via iTunes mini store. She was born in Iceland (how cool is that?) Comparisons have been made between her voice and Björk’s. This is most notable, I think, in the first of these three tunes from her album, Fisherman’s Wife:
Nothing Brings [...]

That it is Muhammad Ali’s 65th birthday today gives me the opportunity to acknowledge him as one person whom, despite his profession, I have to admire (and once ran into in a hole-in-the-wall Middle Eastern restaurant in Hyde Park, Chicago) and to post Freakwater’s song about him, entitled after one of his nicknames (after, of [...]

(photo from www.thereasonwhy.org)
I think I heard a piece on NPR a while back about this new female phenom vocalist in the torch singer tradition, Rachael Yamagata. Wikipedia describes her as having a “dark, raspy alto.” Yum. Her myspace site is here. These are perhaps her three least torchy more poppy (but still raspy) songs from [...]