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Can’t Hardly Wait for New Westerberg

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 By Mayer Danzig

Filed Under: News, Rock, Videos Tagged With: Minneapolis, Paul Westerberg

Kiss Off! A Special Twangville Playlist, Part 4

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 By Mayer Danzig

I could go on for weeks picking tracks for this playlist. Alas, this will be my final installment. Now I turn it over to you, residents of Twangville. What songs have I missed? Daylight, Mike Errico If my life were a movie you’d be buried in the credits, you’d be woman #2 with her head […]

Filed Under: Downloads, Playlists, Pop, Rock, Streams Tagged With: Atlanta, Ben Folds, Boston, Butch Walker, Gigolo Aunts, Marvelous Three, Mike Errico, Minneapolis, New York, Paul Westerberg, Replacements

Mayer’s Playlist for January ’09, a Video Companion

Thursday, January 29, 2009 By Mayer Danzig

What’s a playlist without a video companion? We kick things off with Otis Gibbs and Miranda Lee Richards, our featured artists this month. From there we’ve got live clips from the Gourds, Gary Louris & Mark Olson, Joe Ely and A.C. Newman, plus videos from Frank Turner and Bruce Springsteen. We close out this month […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Playlists, Pop, Rock, Roots, Videos Tagged With: ABBA, AC Newman, Austin, Brooklyn, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Turner, Gary Louris, Joe Ely, LA, London, Mark Olson, Minneapolis, Miranda Lee Richards, Nashville, New Jersey, Otis Gibbs, the Gourds

Mayer’s Playlist for January ’09, Part 1

Monday, January 26, 2009 By Mayer Danzig

ALBUM OF THE MONTH: Grandpa Walked a Picketline, by Otis Gibbs Otis Gibbs is an American original, a gruff musical journeyman who is unafraid to tell it like he see’s it. With a matter of fact lyrical style, he spins tales of the back roads and the folks that wander them. “Caroline,” for example, tells […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Downloads, Features, Folk, Playlists, Pop, Reviews, Rock, Roots, Streams Tagged With: AC Newman, Australia, Ben Lee, Brooklyn, Bruce Springsteen, Gary Louris, Joshua Tree, Mark Olson, Minneapolis, Nashville, New Jersey, New York, Otis Gibbs

Thank You Prince and Alan Greenspan

Tuesday, December 02, 2008 By Mayer Danzig

So it has now been officially declared that the US is in a recession. Nothing left to do but “party like its 1999.” Prince |MTV Music Can I tell you how much fun I’m having digging through the MTV archives? Post a comment with your favorite video from the MTV archives and you could win […]

Filed Under: Contests, Pop, Videos Tagged With: Minneapolis, MTV, Prince

I Want My MTV!

Monday, November 24, 2008 By Mayer Danzig

Remember when MTV and VH1 used to play actual music videos? Well apparently the big-wigs at the music video channel discovered YouTube and thought, “hey, we should do this ourselves.” Here, here. Having spent countless hours over the past week staring at my computer screen watching videos, I’m happy to a few choice blasts from […]

Filed Under: Indie, News, Pop, Rock, Videos Tagged With: a-ha, Cameo, LA, Michael Penn, Minneapolis, Replacements

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