Listening Booth

Listening booth — Billy May, “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo”

Chris Holmes
posted on November 30, 2011November 30, 2011
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A few years ago I published my first list of the best Christmas albums to own, and one of them was the fantastic compilation, Ultra-Lounge: Christmas Cocktails. The first track from that LP is a

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Listening booth — Field Music, “(I Keep Thinking About) A New Thing”

Chris Holmes
posted on November 1, 2011November 1, 2011
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I now have a reason to stay alive until February 2012, because that’s when the next Field Music album — Plumb — will be released. More specifically, February 13 in the U.K. and

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Listening booth — Mocean Worker, “Shooby Shooby Do Yah!”

Chris Holmes
posted on October 20, 2011
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Last month I featured the album art for Mocean Worker’s latest album, Candygram for Mowo! on this very blog. Today I’ve got something even cooler for you. It’s a video for the

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Listening booth — The Roots, “Make My” (feat. Big K.R.I.T.)

Chris Holmes
posted on October 19, 2011
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The first single from Undun (which the Roots say will be a concept album), "Make My," was just dropped. Check

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Listening booth — Emerson, Lake & Palmer, “Toccata”

Chris Holmes
posted on October 13, 2011October 13, 2011
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One of ELP's best classic music adaptations, it's "Toccata" from 1973's Brain Salad

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Listening booth — Pugwash, “Answers on a Postcard (live)”

Chris Holmes
posted on October 3, 2011
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The latest album from Thomas Walsh’s band Pugwash, The Olympus Sound, really is one of the finer records of 2011. If you love power pop as much as I do — hell, even if you don’t

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Listening booth — Kiss, “Escape From The Island”

Chris Holmes
posted on September 22, 2011September 22, 2011
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Legend has it that before the album that became Music From “The Elder” turned into Kiss’s half-baked attempt to imitate Genesis, it was supposed to be a straightforward hard rock

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Listening booth — Gabe Dixon, “Even the Rain” Live at Room 5

Chris Holmes
posted on September 20, 2011
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Enjoy a live version of Nashville-based Gabe Dixon's song, "Even the Rain," Live at Room

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Listening booth — Coldplay, “Paradise”

Chris Holmes
posted on September 12, 2011
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Let's take a listen to "Paradise", the second single from Coldplay's 'Mylo Xyloto' album, shall

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Listening booth — Billy May, “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo”

Listening booth — Field Music, “(I Keep Thinking About) A New Thing”

Listening booth — Mocean Worker, “Shooby Shooby Do Yah!”

Listening booth — The Roots, “Make My” (feat. Big K.R.I.T.)

Listening booth — Emerson, Lake & Palmer, “Toccata”

Listening booth — Pugwash, “Answers on a Postcard (live)”

Listening booth — Kiss, “Escape From The Island”

Listening booth — Gabe Dixon, “Even the Rain” Live at Room 5

Listening booth — Coldplay, “Paradise”

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