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Hey. This is where I post photos from city rambles, and the songs I can't get out of my head. Chinatown, NYC. Want mixes? I got 'em... '82/'83: Italo disco, boogie, synthpop and funk: dance-ready jams from the golden era of the 80s. LAS CHINAS: música en español. (e uma canção em português.) Download Watching the Wind at my Window, a wintry mix of meditative music. A Night at Pappy & Harriet's, the soundtrack for windy nights in the Mojave desert. Mulholland Driving, driving music inspired by a dark night navigating the Hollywood Hills. Music for promotional purposes only. If you are the copyright holder of a particular song and wish to see it removed, I'm happy to do so. Just let me know. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-12626841-2']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();

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Frankie Reyes -- Alma, Corazon y Vida 

from Boleros, Valses y Mas (2016)

Lovely album. Akin to the feeling of being serenaded by a lone pianist in a barroom. A little more background, via Stones Throw:

Frankie Reyes is the alias of Gabriel Reyes-Whittaker who also records as GB (Gifted & Blessed). Boleros Valses y Mas, his Stones Throw debut, is an album comprised of popular Latin standards, reworked by Reyes with an Oberheim synthesizer. The inspiration for Boleros Valses y Mas formed when Los Angeles radio collective Dublab invited Gabriel to participate in an event themed specifically around Latin American modernism. 

A reminder that all good things come from Dublab. 

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Virna Lindt--Underwater Boy from Shiver (1983) Forgot all about Virna Lindt till she came up in my Discover Weekly the other day. A Swedish model and singer who tracked two wonderful and weird albums in the mid 80s. Definitely worth listening to the whole album, there's a ton of variety. Good for eclectic ears. Also see echoes of this tonal palette and singing style in Mr Twin Sister, another band I hold dear.

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Been waiting a long time for it, and last night's Cornelius show at the Orpheum didn't disappoint--one of the best shows I've ever seen, musically and visually. The band and the visual effects crew are so well rehearsed, you'll be doing yourself a favor if you check out one of the few remaining dates: 08-08 Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theater 08-10 Denver, CO - Gothic Theater 08-12 Eau Claire, WI - Eaux Claires Festival 08-13 Chicago, IL - Park West Bonus seeing the LA show was an onstage cameo by Beck, since Cornelius was once hailed as "the Japanese Beck." A meeting of Becks!

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The legendary Chris Foreman at The Green Mill in Chicago

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Noveller at the Cloisters NYC Guitar Festival

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Little Richard--I Don't Know What You've Got (But It's Got Me) (1964/5) Been listening to a lot of old rock and R&B lately, and a buddy just sent me this track from the Vee Jay recording sessions that produced the Little Richard is Back album, though this tune didn't make the original release. Beautiful gospel-worthy guitar work by Jimi Hendrix. And soft mournful vocal work from Little Richard. Just gorgeous.

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Williamsburgh Savings Bank, Broadway

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Dwight Twilley -- Chance To Get Away (1977) 

Saw Dwight Twilley tonight - what a fucking legend. No one wrote power pop like him... except Phil Seymour of course. 

He told a lot of wonderful stories. Like how he and Phil couldn’t afford to shop their demo tape around NYC or LA (plane fare was too expensive). So they drove to Memphis and cruised up and down the avenue looking for a record label. *Looking for a record label.* Who does that? They ended up in Sun Studio, and before long they had a deal on their hands. 

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Monika @ Baby's All Right

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This photo of the Cocteau Twins is everything. 

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Bert Jansch -- Avocet

from Avocet (1979, reissued 2016)

Very nice reissue of Bert Jansch’s instrumental 1979 album Avocet, by London’s Earth Recordings. The centerpiece is the title track, Avocet, heard here. Clocking in at 18 minutes, it’s a wonderful meditation of guitar, violin and upright bass, shifting and weaving through splendid compositional passages and others that sound more like the rollicking boys down at the pub. 

Worth checking out the other reissues at Earth, which include other British, American and Australian folk acts like the esteemed Jackson C. Frank.

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Midtown fog

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Invader NYC residency. Orchard St and Ludlow St.

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Very Low Prices!! Sunnyside, Queens

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Drift away upon cloudy puffs of dream pop and shoegaze haze on Winter’s All The Things You Do. The Los Angeles based band recently unleashed a music video for the sweetly twinging single. If Phantogram went mega lo-fi nebulous and then fused with some Beach House, the result might sound something like this languid song, whose video is fittingly blurry and bleary. Winter is currently on a nationwide tour opening for Allison Weiss with Mal Blum and Kid In The Attic. All The Things You Do is out now on Burger Records and available on iTunes.

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Pale Saints Kinky Love vibes. V. nice.

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Bo Diddley -- Roadrunner / Mona Live at the London Rock'n'Roll Festival, 1972 Worth it: dandy guys doing the splits to Bo Diddley.