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SnC 353 – One chew, one chew, one chew
Well, it’s 121212 and it won’t happen again for another hundred years. So let’s celebrate the work of the road crews in bringing live music to us. 31 Coupe – Angie and the Car Wrecks (Centralia, WA, USA) Too Rockabilly to be Country, too Honky Tonk to be Psychobilly, and too Punk to be Bluegrass,…
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SnC 352 – The power of positive ..
Checking the playlist, I see we’re going to be hearing exclusively from UK and Canadian artists this week. Purely co-incidence but an interesting mix, I hope you’ll agree. The Power Of Positive Drinking – The Trews (Antigonish, NS, Canada) The Trews has built its reputation belting their high-energy, arena-ready rock anthems from stages across…
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iTunes11: Is Apple just setting the stage?
iTunes 11 was released yesterday and I rather suspect that it may be more significant for what’s not yet visible than for the new look it has taken on in the latest version. The visible changes with 11 initially had me panicking about familiar workflows in checking out music and in keeping track of music…
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SnC 351 – How rad is that?
A selection this week that will surely test the new Suffolk’n’Cool site and podcast feed to the limit! We’ve got soloists from New York, South Africa, Texas, and British Columbia, duos from Ukraine and London, a quintet from Chicago and a sextet from Minneapolis. But what unites them all is that they make some excellent…
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SnC 350 – More highs than lows
A Suffolk’n’Cool week of great highs and lows so far – a brilliant afternoon of Canadian music in London on Monday. The new Suffolk’n’Cool site went up yesterday and today an innocent update to a theme brought it crashing down again – and it’s only Wednesday. Never mind. We’ve some really interesting music this week…
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SnC 349 – Acoustics
We’ve got a rather acoustic, unplugged kind of feel to a lot of the tracks this week. There’s a great mix of raw, passionate songs with some superbly executed musicianship from London, New York, LA, New South Wales, Manchester, Margate and Gardabær, Iceland. What Are You Waiting For – Dikta (Gardabær, Iceland) “Dikta has been a…
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SnC 348 – All corners of the everywhere
Music from all corners of the everywhere this week with a diversity of tracks from locations as remote as Oregon, Sweden, The Yukon as well as the hotbeds of contemporary music making in Ontario, Brooklyn, Japan and southern France. It never ceases to amaze me how much spectacularly individualistic music is being created today and…
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Canadians love their music
A vast majority of Canadians – 85 percent – say that music plays an important part in their lives, and a full 90 percent agree that it is the musician who should receive most of the proceeds from an original song, according to a new national survey conducted by Léger Marketing on behalf of SOCAN…
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SnC 347 – Racing with the sun
With music ranging from the deliciously quirky pop to the downright “interesting”, you’re almost certain to find some point this week where our respective musical tastes coincide. Probably. This week we’ve tracks from LA, London, Marseille, Dublin, Regina and Winnipeg in Canada and the almost chewable Mönchengladbach in Germany as well as the inevitable track…
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SnC 346 – Audio treats
As quirky a selection of music as you’re likely to get in your ear all week with tasty audio treats from The Bloody Angle, Little People, Choir of Young Believers, Orfanij, Lola Dutronic and firstly, You Bred Raptors? I’m actually pleased to be locked away in the barn this week, it was raining when we…
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The music sharing habits of Twitter users
Lauren Dugan at All Twitter reported on research carried out by social music service Serendip into the music tweeting habits of 2 million Twitter users by examining 114 million tweets sent over a six month period to June 2012. To be totally clear, this is not about file sharing (legal or otherwise) it is about…
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SnC 345 – Bodmin Dubbing
It’s 345 again! No it really is 345 this week. I just got it completely wrong all through last week’s show (#344). Doh. Must try harder. It’s CMJ week in New York and I’m stuck here in the UK. Still, cancelling New York relatively late in the day means that the diary is relatively clear…