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I've been watching old eps of Later... with Jools Holland on Fuse. I love that he gets all these diverse artists in one studio at one time. You'll have Fergie bobbing her head along to the Arcade Fire, or Amy Winehouse twirling her dress while the Gipsy Kings are playing, and I start to wonder what Van Morrison thinks of Martha Wainwright. I just finished watching where the Arctic Monkeys follow Ms Dynamite who is taking a more soulful approach to her music, playing on the same show as Los de Abajo, relatively unknown, compared to those two big British acts. Love love this show. Youtube it, some really excellent performances. In fact, I'm so taken with this show I'm just randomly looking up favorite artist to see if they've been on the show. Dizzee Rascal, Rodrigo & Gabriela, Antony & the Johnsons, Rufus Wainwright, Editors, etc. Good stuff :)

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Wow. I just totally got distracted by watching Rodrigo & Gabriela videos on youtube. Guitar mastery liek WOAH.

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Speaking of Dizzee Rascal, I finally bought his latest album in Seattle, an import of course, because the physical CD was never released in the US. Too bad. Have heard a few cuts off it, PRIMO STUFF!! Anyway, I thought I'd bring it up since the title is "Maths + English" which a friend and I were just talking about today, about the apparent disparity in which people assume one falls into one category or the other. Dizzee is a genius, I tells ya! :D I wanna do a full entry on him later.

Edited to add: OMG. There *is* going to be a US release. Over a month away though. That only took about 10 months!! What gives?!

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How sad that I haven't gotten to write up my And One SF Philly Seattle NY summaries, especially since I ended up buying lots of CDs and also caught two cool acts in Shotty and Deer City.

Mental note: review anarcho-crust punk CDs by the Crass and Conflict too. Later. Sometime.