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Dec20

Florence & The Machine, Live at SPIN Party (Video)

I wasn’t sure I’d make it, but I’m damn glad I made this show…here’s some lovely live music, plus a turgid trip down memory lane, and a few corny year-end reflections. ‘Tis the season, reading optional.

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Dec15

DL: Kevin Saunderson Detroit Live Radio Mixdown (MP3)

‘Fastest email I’ve opened in a while. No reason for me to type — ‘usually the case — so you can just DL this mix. There’s also a link to the trailer for the upcoming four-deck worldwide DJ battle-slash-tour Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson will embark on in 2011…that is all. …MORE

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Dec10

Spider-Man & Tempest Director Julie Taymor, On Selecting Beth Gibbons to Sing Closing Track for The Tempest (Video)

Here’s a quick clip of director Julie Taymor explaining how, after cutting the final speech from The Tempest, she decided to put it back via the song in the end-credits, which she felt had to be performed by Beth Gibbons, best known as the willowy, wounded — and occasionally wrathful — voice of Portishead.

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Dec09

NYC: Michael Listening Event 12/13, Free RSVP

Maybe it’s the hater in me that cues up the Smiths’ “Paint a Vulgar Picture” whenever anything goes down around a tragically deceased artist’s body of music, but for the fans in NYC who got to be there, I respect you fully — maybe you’ll levitate the building as you send a collective message to the dearly departed. RSVP info enclosed. …MORE

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Dec09

Annual WESC Sample Sale in L.A. + Lauryn Hill + Ron Isley Duet! (Video)

Simply put, everybody loves a sample sale; it’s like buying new at vintage prices, though, actually, the prices on vintage have really gotten out of hand over the last decade. Suffice to say, if you’re in L.A. WESC’s sample sale starts today…PLUS: an amazing bit of music from a vintage Soul Train episode, as well as a LAURYN HILL / RON ISLEY duet!!!

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