Videos

Lupe Fiasco (ft. The Roots) – The Show Goes On (Live on Fallon)

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The Roots make everything better. It's just science. Like I wish I could put The Roots on the sandwich I ate for dinner last night, cause that shit sucked. Anyways, Lupe Fiasco performed what is probably my least favorite song on Lasers, "The Show Goes On" on Fallon last night and it was chill as an ice cube. I think there's a formula that says "?uestlove + gospel choir + hip hop song = briliance" but I didn't really pay attention in high school Physics.

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Videos

XV – All Of This For Me

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This is my JAM. I've been stalking @XtotheV's Twitter feed for daysss waiting for this video to hit. It finally did today and it does the song justice. It's pretty damn straight-forward, but it's colorful and full of fast cuts and I'm easily entertained. Vizzy's main mission right now seems to be to work me into a fever pitch waiting for The Kid With The Green Backpack to drop. He's winning.

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Throwbacks

Blur – Coffee And TV

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Blur – Coffee and TV

There was a short period in high school when I was so into Blur that I thought they were the perfect band. Their sound was just so appealing to me that I starting telling people that if I ever had a band, it would end up sounding just like Blur.

The video for "Coffee and TV" is a classic (Animated Milk Carton category). The song also contains what is probably my favorite harmony of all-time on the line "I've seen so much I'm going blind, and I'm brain-dead, virtually" during the chorus. Whenever I'm singing along in my car I can never decide whether to take the high or low part.

This is the kind of straight-forward, even-keeled, unpretentious, honest pop rock that I miss these days. Anyone have any suggestions on where I could find it?

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Diggity Damn Good Tracks

Fort Frances – Falling Down

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You know, the reason I got into blogging was to introduce all of you to great tunes. I never really anticipated how great having a blog would be for my own musical discovery. The tight-knit community of blogbros means that great tracks and bands get passed around from band to blog to readers to blogs to blogs to readers to bands and back to blogs. Today's example is the lads of Chicago's Fort Frances and their album The Atlas, which I've been devouring for a week.

Fort Frances – Falling Down

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News

Paper Crane Collective

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We have big, huge, epic news today at Those Who Dig. We are extremely honored to have been asked by Aaron of TSURURADIO to join a collective of some of the biggest, baddest, and bestest music bloggers on the interwebs today. The group is affectionately called the Paper Crane Collective and the official launch is today!! Each of the bloggers will contribute an original feature to the Collective a couple times a month.

For our part, we'll be writing a feature every other Tuesday (starting tomorrow!) called "All-Time Top 5" in which we profess our massive love for High Fidelity and present a Top 5 list on various topics, genres, themes, news stories, or whatever we feel like writing about that day – along with commentary, stories, and tunes!

So what the hell are you waiting for, get over to the PCC and check out what's going on!!

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Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: Feb 20-26, 2011

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It's time once again for Weekly Roundup, a place to recap some of the week's interesting and important news and share some great songs and videos we dug over the past seven days. Though it was a light week in comparison to the past few, there's still some good stuff for your ears and minds ahead.

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Mp3s

Third Stream Music: Leo Brouwer & Bill Harris

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My favorite musicians are the ones who are not bound to the expectations of normative technique or repertoire. That being said I recently ran into a 'musical experiment' from Bill Harris where he performs a transcription of Leo Brouwer's Danza Characteristica for drum kit alongside Manuel Barrueco's recording.

Inventive, thought provoking, unique, cool. What's not to love?

Leo Brouwer: Danza Caracteristica

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