I’m Sorry. If you don’t even know what KCRW is, I just don’t think that I can go out with you.
I concur.
(via kcrw)
Stevie and Michael, staring into each other’s eyes.
Innervision at BofT
or maybe Stevie’s looking at the man in the mirror
does it count as a rickroll if a) no audio’s involved and b) i post it on my own tumblr?
(via cynicalidealist)
In honor of the 40th Anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s historic concert at the Kennedy Center; & inspired by NPR’s story yesterday about the Center’s re-imagining of the concert and involvement of young artists to remix the title track.
Been a big 24 hours in music. Among other notable milestones, celebrating the superhumanly long career of Pete Seeger (Happy 93rd Bday!) - and the tragic premature loss of MCA (No sleep till Brooklyn!).
Nina Simone passed away in Carry-le-Rouet, France on 4/21/2003. It is 4/21 in Carry-le-Rouet now. RIP.
(This was our “first dance” on my wedding night. Magical magical memories.)
In honor of her first new album in years - and of the absolutely beautiful new Spotify integration on Tumblr - this is one of my all-time (if depressing) faves from the blues master Bonnie. So many of her tracks give me chills when “she sets up the rhythm with her band and then slides her voice in like a letter going into an envelope addressed to you” (thanks, Ken Tucker).
“A folk song is what’s wrong and how to fix it, or it or it could be who’s hungry and where their mouth is or who’s out of work and where the job is or who’s broke and where the money is or who’s carrying a gun and where the peace is….
Woody Guthrie (saw this in a centennial exhibition in Tulsa, OK, this weekend and it gave me chills)
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