
A historical day indeed, a new beginning and a big shot of HOPE that is in much need. The Los Angeles based artist collective known as VOSOTROS have put together a FREE album giveaway in celebration of Barack Obama 's inauguration called ¡ YES WE PUEDE !. The music is a collection of tunes from the American songbook, and these public domain songs have been reworked by various artists in the [...]

Today is inauguration day for the 44th individual to hold the Office of the President of the United States. It doesn't matter who you supported in teh election or who you will support in four years; my purpose is not to indict or annoint any individual involved today. What is important is that this transition of power and demonstration of political freedom and political peace is something for each of us, as Americans, to be extremely proud of and grateful for. Seeing such a display of historic significance and enduring power and relevance of the Office, and how America has [...]

Ben Sollee - "A Change Is Gonna Come" (Same Cooke cover) Cassettes Won't Listen - "Change" (Blind Melon cover) The Lovely Sparrows - "Chemicals Change" Spoon - "Change My Life"
Huzzah for democracy! Greg Kuehn "American Promise (feat. Elvis Kuehn)" (mp3) from "American Promise - Music from the Obama Campaign 2008" (Peligro Records) Buy at iTunes Music Store More On This Album -- Luciana Lopez; lucianalopez@news.oregonian.co m...
Heyyyyyyyuuhhh After all the hype and heavy rotation of Animal Collective's MPP on my pod and my recent return to life [broken clavicle shiitttt] I nearly forgot about Matt & Kim's January 20th release of Grand . Might be old news to some, but whatever. Here's a video of their new song "Daylight." Looks like they had a blast making it. Good, fun, upbeat song too. Nothing else was expected. [Hey, Blogotheque , get on this shit.] Also, check out their page @ Green Label Sounds to see [...]