Music Weekly podcast: Kurt Vile, Awesome Tapes from Africa

A mixed bag for you in this week's programme. Ben Beaumont-Thomas speaks to singer-songwriter Kurt Vile about his recent album Smoke Ring for My Halo, the recurrent themes in his music and where his name comes from.Brian Shimkovitz of the Awesome Tapes of Africa blog explains what led him to start collecting cassette tapes from the continent and then publish them on a blog. It's resulted in Brian setting up a label to release of some of the music from his site, and he discusses some of his favo...

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