Blog: After Hours

Oh Happy Day!

Jan 20, 2009, 1:46pm After Hours
Oh Happy Day! Fly your freak flag. Put on your boogie shoes! It is a very happy day. "Oh Happy Day" by Edwin Hawkins Singers
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Artist:Edwin Hawkins Singers
Title:Oh Happy Day
Link Text:Oh Happy Day
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Year:1969

Beneath the Covers of New Music

Jan 18, 2009, 1:26pm After Hours
Beneath the Covers of New Music In the marketplace of shared music on the millions of music blogs, cover songs are the fastest growing franchise. Former denizens of grainy bootlegs and B-sides, the number of cover songs has exponentially grown in a fracturing music industry. With a little more time than to record the track, any artist or wannabee can digitally send that cover around the globe. If the artist is big enough, the release becomes an EVENT. If you don't even have [...]
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Artist:Hot Chip & Peter Gabriel
Title:Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (Vampire Weekend Cover)
Link Text:Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
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Artist:My Morning Jacket
Title:You're All I Need (marvin gaye) * +
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Artist:The Magic Numbers
Title:Crazy In Love (Beyonce)
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Year:2005

Music Business Is Eating Its Tail and I Feel Fine

Jan 3, 2009, 10:44am After Hours
Music Business Is Eating Its Tail and I Feel Fine It was a moment of digital revelation. While listening to a podcast of a NPR radio program through my iPod connected to my car stereo, the Clash's "London Calling" was played. I had to turn off my iPod to ensure that my cell phone wasn't playing its own "London Calling" ringtone. This circular auditory confusion must make the music business feel like the snake eating its tail. And they're right. However, this is just the noisy debris of a rapidly-expanding music industry. [...]
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Artist:Elvis Costello
Title:Radio, Radio
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File Name:11 Radio, Radio.mp3
Year:1978

New Year's Eve On The Radio -Updated With Playlist

Dec 30, 2008, 8:03pm After Hours
New Year's Eve On The Radio -Updated With Playlist For a year-end wrap up, After Hours contributors Duncan Strauss , marty and Ian Minor will be appearing live on WMNF Radio on New Year's Eve from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Listen to us here . Or if you are tooling around the Tampa Bay area, check us out at 88.5 [...]
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Artist:R.E.M.
Title:Radio Song
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File Name:01 Radio Song.mp3
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Year:1991

Eight Favs in '08

Dec 20, 2008, 10:32am After Hours
Eight Favs in '08 Officially dubbed the " Year of the Beard," 2008 was a very good year for the facially hirsute . Whether it was the hippie-looking dudes from the Northwest , the brothers from the Caskills or the farm boys from Kentucky [...]
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Artist:Blitzen Trapper
Title:Furr
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Year:2008
Artist:Fleet Foxes
Title:White Winter Hymnal
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Artist:Jenny Lewis
Title:Acid Tongue
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Year:2008
Artist:My Morning Jacket
Title:Evil Urges
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File Name:01 Evil Urges.mp3
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Year:2008
Artist:Randy Newman
Title:A Few Words in Defense of Our Country
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Year:2008
Artist:The Felice Brothers
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File Name:Frankies Gun.mp3
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Year:2007
Artist:The Whigs
Title:Right Hand On My Heart
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File Name:01 Right Hand On My Heart.mp3
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Year:2008
Artist:Vampire Weekend
Title:Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
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Year:2007

Beck At SunFest? Not Necessarily a Pipe Dream

Dec 17, 2008, 7:22pm After Hours
Beck At SunFest? Not Necessarily a Pipe Dream Beck at SunFest ? Really? Well, I wouldn't be putting your lawn chair out on Flagler Drive just yet. However, the inclusion of the postmodern rocker in a talent survey the West Palm Beach festival organizers are circulating is an encouraging sign. Take the survey here . For too many years, SunFest abandoned seeking out interesting acts in order to play it safe with reliable oldies groups - especially those with roots back in [...]
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Langerado 2009 Moves Downtown

Dec 9, 2008, 8:37pm After Hours
Langerado 2009 Moves Downtown Langerado 2009 is moving downtown in all senses of the word. Along with the festival's physical and mental relocation to downtown Miami's Bicentennial Park (sorry campers), Langerado has continued its slow walk away from its jam-band origns. Today, festival organizers announced the most diverse line-up yet for the March 6, 7 and 8th. Death Cab for Cutie , Ryan Adams and [...]
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Artist:King Khan & The Shrines
Title:(How Can I Keep You) Outta Harms Way
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Year:2008
Artist:Ryan Adams
Title:Halloween Head
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Year:2007

What Did Tom Waits Do To You?

Dec 4, 2008, 6:17pm After Hours
What Did Tom Waits Do To You? By marty Really, what did Tom Waits do to attract this attention? Always a popular source of cover song material , our long-distance drinking buddy Tom (we drink and he stays a long distance away) has been the subject of two recent tribute/vanity projects of varying degrees of success/listenability. [...]
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Artist:John Hammond
Title:Jockey Full Of Bourbon
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Year:2001
Artist:Los Lobos
Title:Jockey Full of Bourbon
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Year:2004
Artist:Scarlett Johansson
Title:Falling Down
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Artist:Southside Johnny
Title:New Coat of Paint
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Year:2008
Artist:Tom Waits
Title:Jockey Full Of Bourbon
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Year:1998

Giving Thanks and Taking Names

Nov 26, 2008, 6:06pm After Hours
Giving Thanks and Taking Names As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy This year, in particular, I am thankful and grateful that the words "Hope" and "Change" graciously returned to the national vocabulary. There is much work to do. This all has to be more than just talk. [...]
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Artist:Adam Sandler
Title:Thanksgiving Song
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Artist:Loudon Wainwright III
Title:Thanksgiving
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File Name:09 Thanksgiving.mp3
Year:2003
Artist:Sly & The Family Stone
Title:Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
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Year:1970
Artist:Steely Dan
Title:Black Friday
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File Name:02 Black Friday.mp3
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Year:1985
Artist:The Flaming Lips
Title:thank you Jack White
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Artist:Vince Guaraldi
Title:Thanksgiving Theme
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Year:1998

There's Really No Debate On The Eels' Magic Or Their Leader's Major New Projects: It's E Said, E Said

Nov 20, 2008, 10:24am After Hours
There's Really No Debate On The Eels' Magic Or Their Leader's Major New Projects: It's E Said, E Said By Duncan Strauss My family and I moved from Southern California to Florida a hair over three years ago, and in some ways, one of the things I miss most is the Eels . Don't get me wrong. I deeply miss dear friends, former colleagues and family members, and I make a point of seeing them all on occasional trips back to California. But when I have returned to my old So. Cal. stomping grounds, I have not been able [...]
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Artist:Eels
Title:I Like Birds
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Year:2000
Artist:Eels
Title:Novocaine for the Soul
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Year:1996

Obama Inauguration Pre-Pre-Preview

Nov 8, 2008, 10:30am After Hours
Obama Inauguration Pre-Pre-Preview By marty Still unable to wipe the smile off my face since Election Day, it is not too early to start planning for the really, big party - the Inauguration. For the weary, but happy staff, at After Hours World Headquarters, the Inauguration's music is of particular interest. Not in recent history has music played an important and integral part of a political campaign. While musicians were filing suit against the McCain campaign to prevent the use of their music, rockers were lining [...]
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Artist:Bruce Springsteen
Title:"Workin' on a Dream" (Live)
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Artist:Mavis Staples
Title:We Shall Not Be Moved
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Year:2007
Artist:Stevie Wonder
Title:Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
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Year:2002

Blues: The Next Generation

Oct 24, 2008, 8:02pm After Hours
Blues: The Next Generation By marty To be honest, when the clerk at the Cat Head blues shop in Clarksdale, Mississippi suggested the brothers-sister blues act, Homemade Jamz Band , I was skeptical. There is a solid precedent regarding sibling bands - Osmonds , Hanson , and the omnipresent Jonas Brothers - for my skepticism. Also, the band's name, with the bubble-gum Jamz with a "z," was also another warning sign. It seemed like just another gimmick. [...]
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Artist:The Homemade Jamz Blues Band
Title:Voodoo Woman
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File Name:02 Voodoo Woman.mp3
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Year:2008
Artist:The Homemade Jamz Blues Band
Title:Who Your Real Friends Are
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File Name:01 Who Your Real Friends Are.mp3
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Year:2008

Bees in the Tree

Oct 17, 2008, 10:09pm After Hours
Bees in the Tree By marty I have bees in my tree. A crapload of bees in my big, beautiful mango tree. A barrel-size hive/nest/ Death Star of bees dangling precariously on a limb 35 feet above my Thinking Spot - my quiet little seat to smoke too many cigarettes, listen to good music and solve all the world problems. [...]
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Artist:Cassandra Wilson
Title:Honey Bee
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File Name:09 Honey Bee.mp3
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Year:2003
Artist:Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones
Title:I'm A King Bee
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Artist:The Bird and the Bee
Title:Birds And The Bees
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Year:2007

Lemon Demon: View Monster

Oct 13, 2008, 6:54pm After Hours
Lemon Demon: View Monster By Ian Minor Lemon Demon 's newest album is what you might call a reinvention. With a noticeably different style from Dinosaurchestra , his last album, Neil Cicierega is growing into his artistic skin. The album boasts 16 tracks, with transition tracks between them. This [...]
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Artist:Lemon Demon
Title:Ben Bernanke
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Welcome Home, Chrissie Hynde

Oct 8, 2008, 8:30pm After Hours
Welcome Home, Chrissie Hynde By marty After 35 years of living the exile's life in London, Chrissie Hynde has returned home. The irascible, 57-year-old Hynde now has an apartment in hometown Akron, Ohio and has opened up a vegan restaurant there . [...]
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Artist:The Pretenders
Title:Boots Of Chinese Plastic
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Year:2008

Just Like Going Home: The Reclaim Festival

Oct 4, 2008, 3:51pm After Hours
Just Like Going Home: The Reclaim Festival By marty For The Felice Brothers, the rustic environ of the Reclaim Music Festival was the perfect antidote to the parade of fast food joints and strip shopping centers found on the road. The festival site, down a gravel road to a reclaimed strip mine outside Rutland, Ohio , reminded the brothers from upstate New York of their rural upbringing. Even before the show, the band commented on how the hilltop festival was already a favorite. From the stage, drummer and vocalist Simone Felice [...]
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Artist:Appalachian Death Ride
Title:St. Anthony
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Year:1995
Artist:Southeast Engine
Title:Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
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Year:2007
Artist:The Felice Brothers
Title:Goddamn You, Jim
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File Name:04 Goddamn You, Jim.mp3
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Year:2008
Artist:Woody Pines
Title:CandyMan
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File Name:02 CandyMan.mp3
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Year:2007
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