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AOTM March 2011 – Lelia Broussard
First concert: Paul Simon. Age 3 the Cajun Dome in Lafayette Louisiana. Cool Cajun Dome again, age 6, I sang Patsy Cline’s “Crazy” in front of 15,000 people, they cheered, that was cooler Sang incessantly all through childhood, annoyed the crap out of my mother Recorded my first record in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Moved to New…
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SnC 265 – Live music to love
Live music is such a thing to celebrate. Suffolk ‘n’ Cool was at a remarkable performance during the week. In an unpredictable world it’s good to know that your loyal guard cat is paying full attention to the door. Warwick enjoys a bit of afternoon sun on his back. Jo – Eclectek / Stouffi…
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SnC 264 – Hans and Lottie find love
As quirky a selection of fine new tunes as you could ever wish to hear in Suffolk’n’Cool this week with artists from Denmark, New York, Nederland, France, Canada and São Paulo, Brasil. Spring has sprung big-time in the pond next to the Suffolk’n’Cool barn. This week the ground and pond is a-quiver with frogs, singly,…
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SnC 263 – Magpies, Marley and Myths
Lots of interesting music and the Adnams Artist of the Month in this week’s show. I went over to Southwold to record the AOTM interview yesterday. I bleak, murky and cold day but very atmospheric over the marshes at Blythburgh. I’m sure that it is the absence of clutter that makes the landscape of east…
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SnC 262 – Festival season is go
Suffolk’n’Cool 262 features previews from a few of the bands that will be playing Canadian Music Week in Toronto from today (9−13 March) and SXSW Music in Austin, Texas (March 15−20). www.cmw.com http://sxsw.com/music Sadly I’m not at either festival this year but I did get down to the dock in Ipswich last night (the local…
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SnC 261 – that’s another fine catch
The music this week is trawled from London Los Angeles, Chicago, Brooklyn, Nashville and Copenhagen and a fine catch it is too. There was a strange light this afternoon which is admittedly, slightly enhanced in this week’s pic, taken just outside the barn. Oh, and one bit of late news the Tawny Owls are getting…
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AOTM February 2011 – I Am Not Lefthanded
Fiercely independent, mostly-Irish but currently London-based, I Am Not Lefthanded are known for their homemade, quirky videos as much as their lyrical, evocative music. They’ve toured around the UK and Ireland alone and with Duke Special, The Rumble Strips and The Answering Machine. In 2008, they released their debut mini-album, Yes Means No, on fast-rising…
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SnC 260 – Just one from Brooklyn
A lot of great music and precious little from me on SnC this week. We’ve tracks from London, Netherlands, Brooklyn, Mali, Belgium and Texas as well as a picture, of a field of winter wheat next to the barn, taken last November. I do usually take a picture on show day so that it is…
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SnC 259 – Cracker darling mad smiling, one fear, tango feet
A somewhat unusual mix of music on SnC this week, possibly the effect of this past Monday, being Feb 14th and all that that entails but some the mix of music is relatively melodic and love seems to be in the air. Ah well, let’s just go with it. There are a couple of Jemendo…
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SnC 258 – Packed full of musical goodness
A packed Suffolk ‘n’ Cool show this week with tracks from the USA and Canada. That’s not deliberate, just the way it goes. Southwold here on the Suffolk coast called we’ve had a few days of winds strong enough to whip a few tiles off the barn, so the sea was churned up, full of…
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SnC 257 – Five years on
It’s time to celebrate five years of the finest independent music from all around the world delivered direct to your ears every week, via a barn in eastern England. This week the music comes from California, British Columbia, Montreal, New York, Paris, Ottawa, London and Copenhagen. Phew! I think a bottle of Adnams Solebay celebratory…
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AOTM January 2011 – Standing Shadows
Los Angeles based alt-indie-electro band STANDING SHADOWS combine infectious guitar melodies and soundscapes, vintage synth tones and warbles, driving percussive beats, and the intimately emotional vocals…ranging from uber-chill heroin whispers, to heart-pumping, sweat-soaking screams. Official releases in 2010 include: full-length album “Five Years Of Darkness” and this track is from the upcoming “Remix” EP from…