Tag: new music
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Music Monday: Tennis anyone?
I’m on a serious retro kick right now, but more like retro contemporary in that I’m really digging shows (hello, Mad Men) and music that hark back to an earlier, more innocent time. It isn’t nostalgia either since I wasn’t born then and it isn’t just watching oldies just for the sake of it. What…
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Music Monday: Pentatonix covers Gotye
Just when you think you are so over that Gotye song, you hear an a cappella version and somehow it sounds new again. Hope you enjoy this as much as I do. About the group Pentatonix. Pentatonix are a 5 person vocal band from Arlington, Texas. They won on the a cappella vocal competition on…
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Music Monday: Tapioca and The Flea
New music excites me. New music performed live excites me even more. Unfortunately, my forays into live concert venues are few and far between so that I have to content myself to the usual online sources – blip.fm, myspace, bandcamp, soundcloud, npr music, kcrw, college radio, sirius xmu. Last month though I was lucky enough…
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Music Monday: Oberhofer
How can you not love a band that name checks French composer Camille Saint-Saens in an interview and actually mentions Tchaikovsky and Mozart in song? Meet Oberhofer, one of my new favorite bands in the indie pop-rock music scene. Oberhofer is basically 21-year old musician Brad Oberhofer’s four piece band. The music and words are…