Hindustan Times
Sometimes there comes along a week that you wish you could rewind and do it again in a better way. Last week was one of those. Stress, tension, unhappiness, frustration all rolled into one big bad week. It’s over now, thankfully but I’m still reeling from the collateral damage it wrought: for the greater part of last week I couldn’t find time to listen to music. Of course, there was enough stuff coming my direction—via RSS feeds, my online music store accounts and a host of mp3 blogs—but I just couldn’t get down to exploring them. Up until the very end of the week when my mood was suddenly and very pleasantly lifted by a donkey’s jawbone. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, August 14, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged 100 Days, 100 Nights, American folk music, argus48, Ben Sollee, Carpenter Bird, Daniel Martin Moore, Dear Companion, donkey’s jawbone, Download Central, Edward Sharpe, Glen Hansard, Jim James, Joan Baez, John Prine, Marketa Irglova, Mavis Staples, Mexican folk music, Monsters of Folk, My Morning Jacket, Newport Folk Festival, NPR, Pete Seeger, Pokey Lafarge, quijada, Sanjoy Narayan, Sharon Jones, Sharon Jones and the Dap Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Tao, The Avett Brothers, The David Wax Museum, The Magnetic Zeros, The Persimmon Tree, The South City Three, The Swell Season, Twitter, Wax
It’s ironical that barely a week after the 40th anniversary of Woodstock ’69, I’m writing about a band that has a dozen long-haired members, lives mostly together communally, and travels for gigs from venue to venue in a converted school-bus with the band’s name written across the sides. Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters redux? Flower-powered hippies straight out of Haight Ashbury of the nineteen-sixties and seventies? Or did Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros remind me of something from those heady decades but more sinister?
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(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged 1974, Download Central, Edward Sharpe, The Magnetic Zeros, Woodstock ’69
