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Bruno Mars - “Grenade” (Live Snippet, Bowery Ballroom, NYC)
on wednesday night, Bruno Mars blessed a packed Bowery Ballroom with a sneak preview of some of the goodness that he and atlantic records will be dropping on october 5th, and i was fortunate enough to be there. seeing him live only confirmed his talent and my belief that this guy is about to be a big deal. he produces, he...
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25 songs i can't live without
several months ago, i was tagged in a facebook note titled “25 songs I can’t live without.” since then (28 feb 2010) i’ve thought about what my list would look like every single day. at first, i thought of it in superlative terms, but immediately realized it would be impossible to pick only 25 favorite songs. so the memo titled “25” on my phone became an...
July 2010
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Is Lauryn Hill coming back?
the mere thought of another lauryn hill album gives me the goosebumps. which is probably why i got lightweight emotional while reading her recent interview with NPR. if you haven’t yet, read it.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128149135
June 2010
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Ryan Leslie smashed the Bowery Ballroom in NYC last Tuesday (6/22/2010). The musical highlight of the evening was probably this - “How It Was Supposed To Be” is one of those songs that is infinitely more energetic and moving live - enough to make me cop a ticket whenever possible. The wildest part of the evening, however, was me stepping aside to make way for Denzel Washington to walk...
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Waka Waka in context.
I might be late on this, but today I stumbled upon the context of Shakira and Freshlyground’s World Cup Anthem Waka Waka while trying to translate the chorus. The words come from a 1986 makossa hit by Cameroonian group Golden Sounds called “Tsamina” who’s chorus (in the Cameroonian language called Fang) goes like this:
Tsa mina mina eh eh (Come) Waka waka eh eh (Do it) Tsa...
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Nike + FADER: Pitch Perfect →
football and music: two essential ingredients for life. once upon a time, music without borders was going to put something like this together - a musical guide to the World Cup, if you will. for many reasons that never happened, but fortunately, Nike + FADER were onto something similar. listen, download and read more after the jump.
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