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Music - My Bloody Valentine, Reunited, Rediscovers the Love - Review - NYTimes.com
Mr. Shields, 45, who leads My Bloody Valentine, is soft-spoken and shy, and he rarely gives interviews. But he spent much of the festival amid the audience, eager to hear the music he had booked. Occasionally he was recognized by respectful [...]

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Did Ex-Alabama Governor Get A Raw Deal?, 60 Minutes Reports On Bribery Conviction Of Don Siegelman In A Case Criticized by Democrats And Republicans - CBS News
Is Don Siegelman in prison because he’s a criminal or because he belonged to the wrong political party in Alabama? Siegelman is the former governor of Alabama, and he [...]

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The Enveloping Mist, originally uploaded by that.turtle.

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Old-school Bluegrass godfather Dr. Ralph Stanley cuts radio ad for Barack Obama - Boing Boing
The Barack Obama endorsement ad here [direct mp3 link, and alternate link] featuring Dr. Ralph Stanley is currently running on radio stations in Southwest Virginia.
How great is this ad. Thanks to @xenijardin.

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Triptych Myth - Robinia Pseudoacacia
Yusef Lateef - Purple Flower
Mauger - Meddle Music
Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut Quintet - Allemansratten: Picking Wild Flowers
Ornette Coleman - The Legend of Bebop
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - I’m Not So Sure
Arthur Blythe - Odessa
Muhal Richard Abrams - Quartet to Quartet
Greg Osby - Humility
Marilyn Crispell - Stilleweg

The mix can be downloaded [...]

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Walk on By, originally uploaded by that.turtle.

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Ed Askew - Red Woman-Letter to England
Eliza Carthy - Simple Things
Blitzen Trapper - Fire & Fast Bullets
Yeasayer - Worms
Grizzly Bear - Little Brother
The Beach Boys - That’s Not Me
Sandy Denny - Solo
Rale - Moondance
Fred Frith - Jigsaw
Machinefabriek - Porselein
Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet - A Fond Farewell
Corey Dragel/Margaret Lancaster - Robin Redbreast [Eve Beglarian/Stanley Kunitz]

The mix [...]

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Trip Inside This House: 10 Questions
I have the honor to present you… Barbara Manning!
Another must-read edition of “10 Questions,” this time with the wonderful Barbara Manning. Now Barbara, enough with this interview stuff, get with the recording of “Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy” already, huh?

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