This NPR Tiny Desk Concert by Mohammad Reza Shajarian is one of the most incredible performances I've ever seen. Enjoy.
"Sunday Under Glass", by Beulah.
Pavement + the Beach Boys, plus wildly intelligent and playful lyrics. Sadly missed.
No, YOU'RE late. Anyhow, here's "Wasting Time" by Reading Rainbow.
Pretty awesome.
"We Were Wild", by Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun.
It's catchy pop. The video is insipid, so we'll stick with the SoundCloud player.
"Solid Ground", by Maps and Atlases:
A couple of years ago, I rediscovered contemporary music. That's a story in itself. This is one of the songs that made me think, "Whoah...there is some really, really good stuff out there."
"The National Anthem", by Radiohead.
I showed the video to my wife recently, and as is their wont my two sons came up to watch. The 4-yr old quickly wandered off, bored that it wasn't Spider-Man or some such, but 6 stayed for the whole thing. I wonder what was going through his head; there's a lot in this that we've rarely talked about with him: religion, ritual, race relations (alliteration unintentional), and of course the flat-out jazz weirdness of the final breakdown...which I love, but I can't help but think it's an acquired taste.
Fim D'aemission.