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Music Mondays: Playing for Change
Playing for Change is a multimedia music project created to bring together musicians from all over the world to “inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music.” It began with a mobile...
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Music Mondays: Beirut
Beirut was originally the solo music project of New Mexico native Zach Condon. Only 19 at the time, Condon recorded much of the first Beirut album, Gulag Orkestar, alone in his bedroom, playing all the...
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Music Monday: The Brew
The Brew are a quartet from Amesbury, Massachusetts that cull their inspiration and influence from a variety of genres. Flowing from rock to funk to reggae to jazz, sometimes in a single song, these...
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Music for Action: Take Action on Climate Change, Download Bonnaroo Music
photo by Gilbert R., via Flickr In June, the House of Representatives passed legislation to cut global warming pollution, build a clean energy economy and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Now it...
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Music Monday: Artistry Beyond the Tunes, Part 1
This week, we thought we would show you another side of musical acts: awesome videos and hilariously terrible album covers! First up, what happens when things go awry. Stay tuned for awesome music...
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Music Monday: Artistry Beyond the Tunes, Part 2
Here are some of the coolest music videos out there (we think so, anyway)! Sugarcube by Yo La Tengo [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDgpQBaziy0&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Also, Let Forever Be...
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Music Monday: Easy Star All-Stars
The EasyStar All-Stars are a reggae collective with a rotating cast of singers and musicians from New York’s reggae, ska, jazz, and dub scene. Using their musical skills and reggae roots, they...
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Music Monday: Hot Day at the Zoo
photo via hotdayatthezoo.com A high-energy quartet from Lowell, Massachusetts, Hot Day at the Zoo mixes ragtime, folk, blues and jazz with rocking bluegrass for a listening and concert experience that...
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Music Monday: Best Free Ways to Discover Music Online
Whether you’re tired of the music you always listen to or want to add some variety to your next mixtape, discovering a new band that you really dig is always an awesome feeling! The internet is a...
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Music Monday: Ukulele Yeehaw!
photo via americansongwriter.com If you aren’t familiar with this cool little music-maker, the ukulele is a small guitar-like instrument with four strings. They are fun to play, supremely portable,...
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Music Monday: Recycled Instruments
This pipe organ, or “beergan”, has been made with beer bottles instead of pipes! Made by Peterson Tuners, click here to hear it play Eleanor Rigby. To make music, you don’t really need separate...
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Music Monday: Andrew Bird
photo via JimNewberry.com Andrew Bird is a Chicago singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who plays primarily violin and guitar. Trained in the Suzuki method from the age of four, Bird steps up...
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Music Monday: The Black Keys
photo via last.fm Formed in 2001 in Akron, Ohio, The Black Keys are the blues-rock musical duo of guitarist/vocalist Dan Auerbach and producer/drummer Patrick Carney. Their songs are often rough and...
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Music Monday: Grizzly Bear
The music of Grizzly Bear is filled with surprising turns of melody and unique, lovely harmonies that sweep you up like waves. The songs that start to feel too epic and prog-rock-ish always swing back...
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Music Monday: She & Him
She & Him is a indie-folk duo who plays cheerful retro pop that sounds like a Summer afternoon. Zooey Deschanel writes songs, sings and plays piano, while M. Ward plays guitar, produces, and sings...
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Music Monday: Gorillaz
picture by dwinch via photobucket Gorillaz is a music project created by Blur frontman Damon Albarn and cartoonist Jamie Hewlett, co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl. Gorillaz are known as a...
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Music Monday: What to Bring to a Festival
all your bohemian friends and a hippie bus! Those of us Mexicali folk who are going to the Nateva Festival this weekend can think of hardly anything else! To benefit those who might be heading up that...
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Music Monday: Thievery Corporation & Ween
Nobody can resist dancing at the Pier Review! photo via pizza comedy Good times are fast approaching, as we count down the days to the 2010 Pier Review at the Maine State Pier in Portland’s Old Port....
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Music Monday: LCD Soundsystem
The music of LCD Soundsystem could be catagorized as something like dance-punk-electronic-pop-indie-rocktastic. Led by the clever and often self-effacing James Murphy, this is music with a...
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Music Monday: Ghostland Observatory
Many of us who were at the first Nateva festival this past 4th of July had our minds melted a little bit by the electrifying performance of this musical duo. A combination of electronica and straight...
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