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Exclusive Interview with Peter Oren, A Folk Singer With A Twist

Very few 23-year-old folk singers are ever compared to Bill Callahan, but Peter Oren is not like most folk singers.

With a calming, deep voice that is matched by his observant and direct lyrics, Oren follows in the footsteps of the politically-minded protest folk singer-songwriters who came before him (Dylan in his Greenwich days, Phil Ochs, etc) while making his own way with his atmospheric…

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Playlist: The 70s – Dazed And Confused

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Playlist: The 70s – Dazed And Confused

Just like I made a playlist for the 60s, the good old 1970s gets its own spotify playlist.

I’ve tried to cover as much ground as I could – from disco (Bee Gees, ABBA), Heavy Metal (Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin), R&B, funk, and soul (Al Green, Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye), lo-fi and punk (Buzzcocks, The Clash, New York Dolls), soft rock (Fleetwood Mac, Elton John), singer-songwriter (Cat Stevens,…

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10 Songs To Introduce You To…Lou Reed

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10 Songs To Introduce You To Lou Reed

In the 60s New York had two great musical poets. One saw New York as a place full of musical history that was in the middle of a cultural revolution that he had helped jumpstart. The other saw New York as a dark metropolis full of lonely creatures of the night, and he sang about everyday life as if it was a drugged out odyssey. This poet would go on to start a revolution of his own, though it…

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Double Feature: “Handle with Care” Covered By Two Different Music Supergroups

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Double Feature: “Handle with Care” Covered By Two Different Music Supergroups

In 1988 Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne formed the Traveling Wilburys and released their debut album Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1. The first song off the album is “Handle with Care” and it became one their most popular songs in their short career (Orbison died right before a proper follow up could be recorded).

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Playlist: The 60s – Peace, Love, and Dylan

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Playlist: The 60s – Peace, Love, and Dylan

I made for y’all a Spotify playlist of my greatest hits of the 60s, which include Aretha Franklin, The Byrds, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, The Kinks, Otis Redding, The Rolling Stones, Simon & Garfunkel, Sly & The Family Stone, The Velvet Underground, The Who, and many more. I’ve also included some deeper tracks from the likes of The Bobby Fuller Four, John Leyton, The Zombies, and more. And yes,…

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Playlist: Zach Braff’s iPod

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Playlist: Zach Braff’s iPod

This new playlist combines many of the songs from the Garden State and Scrubs soundtracks in addition to some other songs that I think match Braff’s great range of taste in music. There are also some songs on here from his new movie Wish I Was Here released in limited release July 18th.

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