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Where I live it’s mighty cold during this time of the year and every minute outside can be a challenge. Still, one can attempt to defy the weather gods with four layers of clothes, a flask of warming fluid in the coat pocket and treating freezing ears with this  kick-ass playlist.
Take care.

Earlier this week Julian Casablancas, front man of The Strokes, released his first solo album Phrazes for The Young  . Today it was added to the Spotify catalogue.
Casablancas has always been the main songwriter of The Strokes but this is the first time he’s left the rest of the gang to record an album of [...]

Mothers, mamas and mothers-in- law; everybody from Merle Haggard to LL Cool J has at least one of them. The two artists have more in common, as they were both featured in the second episode of Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour. Here’s the playlist of the tracks from the show. Some songs are still missing [...]

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros released their debut album Up From Below in July of this year. In August, Rolling Stone Magazine listed them as a band to keep an ear out for in 2009. Since then, they have been getting a lot of attention, for instance, with an appearance on Letterman in September. Up from [...]

Talking about the weather; a popular activity in many cultures. A topic often used to kick off a conversation and to brake the ice (no pun intended). Back in 2006, Bob Dylan kicked off his radio show on XM Radio by doing just this; talking about the weather. Here’s a playlist of the songs  from [...]

Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour; dreams, schemes and themes. Ah, just the sound of it…mmm!
If you haven’t had the pleasure of listening to any of Bob Dylan’s radio shows on xmradio.com I strongly recommend, no, implore you to check it out. After doing so, you are probably going to be wandering; how will I get [...]

Some  albums and tracks I found amongst today’s Spotify updates, check them out!
Here’s a playlist with some samples.
Foo Fighters- Wheels (New Single)
Atmosphere- When life gives you lemons, paint that shit gold (Album)
Bessie Smith- Nobody knows you when you’re down and out ( Track)
Koop- Waltz for Koop (Album)
Professor Longhair- The very best of (Album)

Madness are perhaps most known for their 80’s hit Our House and for the the ska classic One Step Beyond. A couple of days ago I stumbled upon a record of theirs which is of more recent times; The Liberty of Norton Folgate, which was released earlier this year. It’s really growing on me. Check out Idiot Child, [...]

Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 is without a doubt one of the best albums of the year.

Bob Dylan’s Christmas In The Heart is to be released on October the second. The official track list has not been released yet but www.dreamtimepodcast.com/ has found a German site where a possible list is published. They are mostly holliday classics and I have gathered earlier recordings of the songs here. Note that Dylan’s producer alias [...]