Big Joe Williams — Throw A Boogie Woogie.
“When we asked Halliburton, they said one thing’s for certain: nobody know nothin’.”
A great song — Nobody Know Nothin.
If you want to buy it, proceeds go to gulfaid.org
The Tallest Man On Earth — King of Spain.
Feist — Mushaboom.
(She does a guitar-only version here.)
All the different covers for Arcade Fire’s new album.
(h/t i guess i’m floating.)
Five Links:
- @wyntonmarsalis: This video is from our 2008 rehearsal of “Billie”, composed by master accordionist Richard Galliano http://bit.ly/dztSSK
- Argentina – beautiful new travel photo gallery by @NatGeoSociety http://bit.ly/aAvCf5 (via @Marilyn_Res)
- No full Social Security benefits until age 70?: http://bit.ly/9vvgnN
- New MP and former Oxford historian Gregg McClymont has written a blog on Hardie and the Liberals for Keir Hardie Day: http://bit.ly/bLs1GR
- Ed Kashi On Photographing Pakistan http://n.pr/dqeKBq
Rebirth Brass Band — Do Whatcha Wanna.
Alice Russell — Humankind.
Leonard Cohen — Take This Waltz. (Live in Norway, 1988.)
The only excerpt from “Karma Police” at Glastonbury 2010 I can find right now.
Peter Quaife of The Kinks is dead. Here’s a song.
It’s like In Rainbows fever all over again — two new Arcade Fire tracks.
La Bottine Souriante - La Montagne Du Loup.
Five Links:
- A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving. (from March.)
- Secret History of Chicago Music: Sunnyland Slim — You Put That Thing On Me, Come Home Baby, Tin Pan Alley.
- To read the 1,802 pages of the Swedish crime novelist Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy is to be told that, for all their perceived virtue, the institutions of social democracy are a farce. In Larsson’s books, American readers will find the Sweden they expect: the welfare-state comforts, Volvo security, and Ikea practicality for which the country is known. But they will also find a country they didn’t expect. In this Sweden, the country’s well-polished façade belies a broken apparatus of government whose rusty flywheels are little more than the playthings of crooks. The doctors are crooked. The bureaucrats are crooked. The newspapermen are crooked. The industrialists and businessmen, laid bare by merciless transparency laws, are nevertheless crooked. The police and the prosecutors … (n+1)
- Montenegro wants a language! Montenegro wants a language!
- How do Americans get to work?
Sweet Emma Barrett - I Ain’t Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jelly Roll.
Also: Louis’ take.
