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Pop Musicology - "The Second Drummer Drowned"

For this post, we're going back.

How far we going back?

Real far back.

Out to 1929, comes this rare video of two cats, one on the uke, one on kazoo and washboard, getting down like Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.

That guy on the washboard? Money. Anyone that can pick up a kazoo and a washboard and play a good jam without coming off like a eccentric loser is a big mack daddy player. You know how it is - if you dropped a little improvised washboard on the street today, people'd be throwing $5 bills at your feet.

Give those kids a room out back, give 'em some beans and pork, and tell 'em to play here three times a week. Kids from the city will love it!

(found on BoingBoing)

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New Kids on the Block - The Block

September 10th 2008 00:45

New Kids on the Block, pioneers of the 'boy-band' genre in the late 80s and early 90s, reformed in 2008 with all the original members - Donnie Wahlberg, Danny Wood, Joey McIntyre, Jordan Knight and Jonathan Knight - returning to the group after 14 years of disbandment.

The five-piece band scored a string of hits in the late 80s / early 90s with "Cover Girl", "I'll Be Loving You (Forever)" and their biggest hit of all, "Step by Step" - a platinum selling single from their 1990 album of the same name.

Due to waning popularity, the group disbanded in 1994 to pursue their own interests, start a family and even new careers. Despite several attempts to coerce the band into reforming temporarily for one-off shows, nothing materialised until an official announcement was made in April 2008 that the group was reuniting with the intention of recording a new album and planning to tour.

Five months after the group officially reformed, NKOTB's fifth and latest album, The Block, was released in September 2008 featuring collaborations with some of the hottest artists in the world including Ne-Yo, The Pussycat Dolls, Akon and Timbaland.

The album's first single, the mellow jam "Summertime" has so far peaked at no.36 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and no.90 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. R&B superstar Ne-Yo appears on the second single, “Single” and other collaborations include “Grown Man” (with The Pussycat Dolls and uber-producer Teddy Riley), and “Full Service” (with super-group New Edition).

The Block Track Listing:

1. Click Click Click
2. Single
3. Big Girl Now
4. Summertime
5. 2 In The Morning
6. Grown Man
7. Dirty Dancing
8. Sexify My Love
9. Twisted
10. Full Service
11. Lights, Camera, Action
12. Put It On My Tab
13. Stare At You
14. One Song
15. Don't Cry
16. Officially Over
17. Looking Like Danger

The Australian version of The Block is an extended collector's edition featuring four extra tracks - One Song, Don't Cry, Officially Over and Looking Like Danger.

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"Handlebars" by Flobots

September 8th 2008 23:41

Flobots are a Denver-based hip hop group that have been together since 2000, producing alternative hip hop with social conscious. You might be getting a little weary of preachy hip hop, but as long as hip hop has a powerful commercial presence, there'll always be the artists that want to push back.

This year, they came to prominence with a song called "Handlebars", which would appear to be about a guy riding a bike with no handlebars.

It's only after the music video got posted to Reddit did people start listening to the content of the song, noting that the video, an animated video, was chilling when matched with the lyrics.

Lyrics to "Handlebars" by Flobots

Here's the music video:

MC Johnny 5 says the song is a tribute to the potential of the human spirit, which may be expended for peace, for war, for creativity or destruction:

"And it's tragic to me that the appetite for military innovation is endless, but when it comes to taking on a project like ending world hunger, it's seen as outlandish. It's not treated with the same seriousness."

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The Verve - Forth

August 27th 2008 23:26

After a long eight-year hiatus, English rock band The Verve regrouped in mid-2007 to the delight of their worldwide fans. Having given us three superb albums - A Storm in Heaven, A Northern Soul and Urban Hymns - the first thing on the mind of music lovers was when were The Verve going to wow us once again with a brand new album, one that would be the most highly anticipated in the band's history

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Sneaky Sound System - 2 (Two)

August 22nd 2008 07:20

Sydney-based Sneaky Sound System is a three-piece Australian pop band made up of Miss Connie (Connie Mitchell), Black Angus (Angus McDonald), and MC Double D (Daimon Downey

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Whitlams - Truth Beauty And A Picture Of

August 6th 2008 23:15

The Whitlams are an ARIA award-winning Australian band featuring band members Tim Freedman (founding member), Jak Housden, Warwick Hornby and Terepai Richmond

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Devendra Banhart - Carmensita

August 4th 2008 02:18

From BoingBoing, a music video from psycha-Texan folk musician, Devendra Banhart, who makes this twisted Technicolor dream of a music video, complete with angry Hindu gods and Natalie Portman.

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Coldplay - Viva La Vida

June 24th 2008 06:15

Following the success of their no.1 album X&Y (2005), English alternative rock band Coldplay have released their fourth album Viva La Vida this month

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The Kooks

May 13th 2008 23:33

English indie rock band The Kooks were formed at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music by four students - Luke Pritchard, Hugh Harris, Paul Garred and Max Rafferty - in 2004

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Arctic Monkeys

May 5th 2008 23:33

From NME

English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys was formed by four mates - Alex Turner, Jamie Cook, Andy Nicholson and Matt Helders - in 2002 in the city of Sheffield, England

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Cut Copy

April 16th 2008 22:53

Currently touring internationally in Europe and then North America before returning to Australia in June for the last leg of the tour, Cut Copy is a Melbourne based three-piece electro-pop band formed in 2001as the project of member Dan Whitford

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Girls Aloud

April 8th 2008 23:03

Girls Aloud is one of the most successful UK pop groups of the past decade

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Matchbox Twenty

March 31st 2008 06:45

Matchbox Twenty have been one of the hottest rock bands in the world since forming in 1996 by Rob Thomas, Kyle Cook, Brian Yale, Paul Doucette and Adam Gaynor (later left the band in 2005

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Scouting for Girls

March 5th 2008 06:45

Over the years, Britain has produced some of the world's best and most loved bands including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and more recently, Oasis, while others such as Blur, Kula Shaker, Arctic Monkey, McFly etc. has been well received in their homeland

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