In 2003, I moved to Los Angeles mere months before the 2004 Coachella Festival. As the line-up was announced—Radiohead, Pixies, Kraftwerk, the excitement was palpable. Then one day a few weeks before the show, a package arrived at URB HQ. In the envelope was a a bunch of CDs labeled John Beaver Coachella DJ mix. Those CDs took me all the way out to Indio for the first time, and every year since, I wait for the Beaver mix (now Beaver and Radman) to carry me out to the desert. Download this double disc set and let it carry you as well.
With the Olympics in the air, ’tis the season for celebration and triumph, and K’naan’s “Wavin’ Flag (The Celebration Mix)” anthem for the World Cup couldn’t come at a better time.
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K’naan “Wavin’ Flag (The Celebration Mix)”
Fans of K’naan will recognize the track from his album Troubadour, and the remix is the highlight of the campaign with World Cup sponsor Coca-Cola. He is working the single throughout Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa and other countries as part of the FIFA World Cup™ Trophy Tour. By the end of the tour, K’naan and the glorious trophy will have visited a combined 89 cities, 86 countries, every country in Africa and clocked in 134,017 kilometer journey in nine-months.
While the games are a ways off, K’naan has a handful of US tourdates >>
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