Sting - new york part II

embedding was denied by request for the next video, but check it out. sting is a fancy pants badass, yayo. it's taken from, Urgh! A Music War, a brilliant straightforward concert doc with one shot off performances from a crazy amount of wicked punk/new wave bands. i remember seeing it at the dobie 3-4 yrs ago and it blew my mind.
you tube - THE POLICE "ROXANNE" LIVE VIA URGH! A MUSIC WAR

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the speed of the internets



www.thatone08.com

new york in verse - various part 1

in honor of our upcoming experiment in family dynamics - aka the road trip ~ i offer an ode to the TX/PA/NYU/TX jaunt in an undisclosed number of acts.

as a salute to this cross-pollination of the south and nyc i bring you this discussion ... woody allen and billy grahm.



Kyle Andrews - Naked in New New York - mp3

Lady Genius - New York Through York - mp3

LCD Sound System - New York I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down - mp3

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York (Chew Fu Fix) - mp3

KCRW - fm and broadband

a great resource i've mentioned in the past but not yet in blog form ... till now! and on tuesday @ 1:15 pm CST the boys of The Broken West, of course, will be perform their gems and be interviewed by the seminal nic harcourt. a reminder of their slot ... now available to watch in the archives.

kcrw.com

The Broken West - Big City (live in seattle)

from a reliable source, they tip well, too.


The Broken West - Big City (live)

www.soundonthesound - the broken west

Biden

lowered, rock bottom, expectations made palin look like ... what (?), not the blithering sycophantic loathsome wretched threat to us all that she is? yes, biden looked good. but is there a nugget of sound that will resonate till november? i would have preferred an hour of the pair in this setting ... with russert, of course. we all can dream.

Gary Jules - Mad World

on the economic nose