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The Very Best Post2 comments

benmeza wrote 10 months ago: …so sometime early last year Gorilla vs Bear started pushing this new discovery of an album in … more →

Tags: General, Indie, World music, Architecture in Helsinki, Esau Mwamwaya, Gorilla vs. Bear, Mia, Radioclit, The Doors

The Authors pick their top albums of 2008

benmeza wrote 10 months ago: …posted this in a few places but didn’t even think to put it on this blog.  Anyway, the … more →

Tags: BEST OF, Dance, Electro, Electronic music, folk, Garage & Freakbeat, General, Hip-Hop / Rap, Indie

Cuban Doo Wop

benmeza wrote 11 months ago: It’s news to me too.  I present Los Zafiros.  As it turns out there was a documentary released … more →

Tags: 50's music, 60s music, cuban, doo-wop, Latin, World music, cuba, los zafiros, npr

Stuff white people like - the music video edition2 comments

benmeza wrote 11 months ago: …someone mentioned the #11 thing that white people like (Asian girls) and it reminded me of th … more →

Tags: 80's music, Oddities, World music, barnes and barnes, dr demento, Souxsie and the Banshees, stuff white people like, The Vapors

the reluctant female folk musicians3 comments

benmeza wrote 11 months ago: For this post I want to focus on a couple of very talented musicians who choose to walk away from pr … more →

Tags: 60s music, 70s music, folk, Animal Collective, Bob Dylan, Devendra Banhart, Donovan, Fred Neil, joanna newsom

Art Rock guys who play Latin Music

benmeza wrote 11 months ago: …because there may not be another blog showing the many sides of guys like Arto Lindsay and Ma … more →

Tags: 80's music, Art, film, jazz, late 70s/early 80s, Latin, World music, arsenio rodriguez, Arto Lindsay

The Kuti-Ra dance party

benmeza wrote 11 months ago: It never happened but I think it should have. Can you imagine if Fela Kuti and Sun Ra had a dance pa … more →

Tags: 70s music, jazz, World music, cream, Fela Kuti, Ginger Baker, Sun Ra, The Sun Ra Arkestra

James Brown in 1971 but not in 2008

benmeza wrote 11 months ago: Give it up Turn it Loose/Sex Machine/Sunny by James Brown with the JBs – by the way, that … more →

Tags: Indie, instruments, Hip-Hop / Rap, Electro, Electronic music, 80's music, Lo-Fi, P Diddy, James Brown

Why do I feel awkward posting about Little Joy?4 comments

benmeza wrote 1 year ago: …look, Little Joy just put out a fantastic album but I can’t help but feel a little weir … more →

Tags: Indie, folk, Lo-Fi, arcade fire, Rough Trade, little joy, Fab Morreti, vashti bunyan, Jollie Holland

Women2 comments

benmeza wrote 1 year ago: …so I love women but now I also love the band Women.  Not a lot out there in the way of videos … more →

Tags: Indie, Garage & Freakbeat, Psychadelic, noise, Lo-Fi, koop, Chad VanGaalen, Chad Van Gaalen, Women

Yellow Fever & The Carrots2 comments

benmeza wrote 1 year ago: Sometimes it’s hard to get your head around all the great local music around town night in and … more →

Tags: R&B, Indie, Local, Garage & Freakbeat, soul, Lo-Fi, voxtrot, Yellow Fever, Fart Face

TV on the Radio's Golden Age - Buy It!

benmeza wrote 1 year ago: …hate to keep telling you to “buy it” but there happens to be a bunch of really go … more →

Tags: R&B, Indie, Icons, 80's music, Vivien Girls, hercules and love affair, TV on the Radio, Radiohead, MICHAEL JACKSON

For those of us who like to get stoned and listen to spacey songs with lots of reverb...

benmeza wrote 1 year ago: …so continuing with my family’s unhealthy fascination with K records artists(my daughter … more →

Tags: Indie, Psychadelic, noise, Velvet Underground, jeremy jay, K Records, Desolation Wilderness, kimya dawson, the radio dept.

Dear Pixeltan...

benmeza wrote 1 year ago: Dear, Pixeltan.  Play more music – preferably live in Austin but playing in front of microphon … more →

Tags: Indie, Dance, noise, Pixeltan, Lightning Bolt, brian chippendale

Alabama Song3 comments

benmeza wrote 1 year ago: Alabama Song by Kurt Weil – MUCH better than Jim Morrison’s typical drunken version. … more →

Tags: World music, jazz, 60s music, Kurt Weil, Jim Morrison, The Doors

CSN&Y

benmeza wrote 1 year ago: When I was growing up I remember hearing quite a bit of of Crosby, Stills, and Nash and Crosby, Stil … more →

Tags: 60s music, Neil Young, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, David Crosby, crosby stills and nash

a recommended buy2 comments

benmeza wrote 1 year ago: …I’m a huge Walkmen fan.  Have been since the first album.  Nice to see them return to f … more →

Tags: jazz, Indie, 50's music, 60s music, The Walkmen, chico hamilton, Erid Dolphy, Sal Salvador, Fred Katz

One man Jazz band1 comment

benmeza wrote 1 year ago: …you don’t see clips like this too often. Pedal up by Rhassan Roland Kirk(horns), McCoy … more →

Tags: jazz, 50's music, 60s music, Rhassan Roland Kirk, Stevie Wonder, Chick Corea, Mccoy Tyner, Stanley Clark, Lenny White

Under appreciated women of jazz

benmeza wrote 1 year ago: …you don’t hear near enough about the following gals and that’s a real shame so op … more →

Tags: General, jazz, Billie Dee Williams, Diahann Carroll, Carmen McRae, Pearl Bailey, Eartha Kitt


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