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Video: Brad Bar Demos His Tacklebox Guitar and String Bow Technique

Love this: Very cool and innovative. Their new album is really solid too. It’s a mix of beautiful acoustic gems (like the one I flagged here recently) along with a couple bluesy romps and some African-influenced world grooves reminiscent of Tinariwen.

Song of the Day: “Born Alone” by Wilco

I’m loving this new one from the band’s upcoming album, The Whole Love… It’s called “Born Alone.” I also highly recommend checking out the album in its entirety over on NPR Music. Really solid all around. I especially love that last track. Wilco starts a two-night stand at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park tonight.

Song(s) of the Day: Sunday Bluegrass Edition – Jerry Douglas, Greensky Bluegrass and the Infamous Stringdusters

It’s a beautiful Sunday morning here in NYC and it just feels like a bluegrass kind of day today. I recently downloaded some new (to me) bluegrass, including The Infamous Stringdusters, Greensky Bluegrass, and some older Jerry Douglas. Here are a few favorite video selections to celebrate a sunny spring day: One of my favorite [...]

Video: Groovy Cats

via youtube.com love this. Posted via email from whitperson’s posterous

Summer Concert Video Dump: Broken Social Scene, Panda Bear, Toubab Krewe, Benevento-Russo Duo, Flaming Lips

It has been a pretty damn good summer for concerts, so I thought I’d post a few video highlights … Broken Social Scene in Central Park “Superconnected” (don’t miss the guitar/sax solo duel)

testing out youtube’s playlist feature with Marco Benevento

Although YouTube has offered the ability to create playlists for quite some time, I’ve never actually bothered to create one…until now. I needed to test out the playlist feature for a new marketing initiative at work, so I thought I’d drop a quick post with a few examples…

The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody

This rocks! The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody [YouTube] That said, I think I am still partial to classical Beeker: Ode To Joy [YouTube]