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Hey, what's that sound: Musical saw

5431 days ago
Guardian MusicThe sharpest tool in the box can also cut it as an instrument of spectral, shivering beautyWhat is it? Those big metal things with teeth you use to carve up wood? Add a violin bow and an ear for pitch and you can make farm tools sing.Who uses it? The... more info

Readers recommend: Songs about concerts

5449 days ago
Guardian MusicLast week, it was music set in ale houses. This time we want your favourite songs about people performing songs. Merchandise will be available afterwardsThe statistics are clear, the pub is in decline. Faced with fierce competition from supermarkets ... more info

Readers recommend songs about pubs and bars: the results

5449 days ago
Guardian MusicIn the songs chosen this week, the pub is a place in which one finds both freedom and captivity, solidarity and loneliness, oblivion and remembranceThe bar, as it features in song, must contain a specific set of components: one bar (for leaning again... more info

friday morning updates

5455 days ago
Totally Fuzzyroy rocket said... Hiya Fuzzies! A very groovy set recorded in 2004 for the BBC by: The Jacques Loussier Trio Excellent sound quality @320. Mainly Bach interpretations, but a bit of Debussy and Satie as well. A very pleasant way to spend an hour. Rea... more info

My Brother, The Band (riyl Elliott Smith)

5457 days ago
SwedespleaseHere’s the newest video from My Brother, The Band – a Gothenburg based singer/songwriter who makes acoustic music in the pattern of Elliott Smith and Nick Drake. His original songs are as sad as that description implies. Check out his MySpace p... more info

Shorties (The Black Keys, Cory Doctorow, and more)

5459 days ago
LargeHeartedBoyNPR is streaming the new Black Keys album, Brothers (out May 18th), in its entirety. PopMatters interviews author Cory Doctorow. Spinner reports that a Dutch theater company will stage a production of Shakespeare's Henry III featuring music by Tom Wa... more info

Tom Waits Does Shakespeare

5462 days ago
PitchforkThis fall, Dutch theater group Orkater will stage a new music theater performance of Shakespeare's Richard III featuring songs from the catalog of Tom Waits and his wife/writing partner Kathleen Brennan. (Via Anti-.) Fittingly, the group playing the ... more info

New band of the day – No 781: Future Islands

5462 days ago
Guardian MusicThis Baltimore trio fuse the synth melancholy of New Order with the gruff melodrama of Tom Waits. Swordfishtechnique, anyone?Hometown: Baltimore.The lineup: J Gerrit Welmers (synthesisers, programming), William Cashion (bass), Samuel T Herring (vocal... more info

the first thursday batch of updates

5464 days ago
Totally Fuzzyspacedsaviour said... shampoo - we are shampoo shampoo - girl power http://spaced3saviour.blogspot.com 405lines said... Teenage Fanclub - Howdy! Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway http://405lines.blogspot.com mp3hugger said... indie mp3s you can h... more info

Scarlett Johansson: 'I Would Love To Do Another Album'

5464 days ago
StarpulseScarlett Johansson is enthusiastic to release more music - the actress wants to record her third album. The Lost in Translation star released a disc of Tom Waits covers, Anywhere I Lay My Head, in ... more info

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