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im not a band – this is it

another week begins and i think ive got some good tunes in store for this week, some new and some old. building upon the momentum created by fridays party time remix, i figured it would be best to post another rockin tune thats pretty much all electronic except for a…violin? yes, todays track is by berlin group im not a band, created by stephan j. he played a few instruments including violin and according to their myspace, began “playing laptop” a few years back. its really a pretty cool combination of classical sounds over kickin electronics. …read more and hear the song…

devotchka – transliterator

if you are not familiar with devotchka and have any interest in anything even remotely european, then you are really missing out. i never knew where these guys and gals were from until just now, and i have to say im extremely surprised that they are from denver, colorado and not some distant european land 40 years ago. while the band is american, its easy to hear the international influence in most of their work, and thats part of whats so exciting about listening to their albums. one minute you feel like youre in the middle of a raucous eastern european wedding, and the next youre taken away on a seven minute mariachi-influenced ballad. id like to take this opportunity to make my first ever reference to a book. …read more and hear the song…

gettin freaky with beirut (realpeople?)

last night was day 3 of the movement festival in detroit (day 2 for me). it was, without a doubt, way more awesome than the previous day. the plan was to see tiga at 630, then a yet to be determined 8PM act, followed by benny benassi at 930. in true fashion, the group started talking at 6pm about we had to leave right now to make it downtown by 630. at 745, we finally found ourselves at the stage where tiga was performing. …read more and hear the song…