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...have pretty eclectic musical tastes—I’m a fan of Celtic and world music. One of my favorite bands is Old Blind Dogs, a traditional Scottish folk group with fiddles, flutes, and bagpipes; I’m very depressed because it looks like they’re about to break up. I haven’t had the guts to have my roommates listen to any of my music yet, so I don’t know what their reaction will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eavesdropping | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

...soaring heights of Styrofoam and Shannon’s “I Found Love” remix, this album is high concept to the fullest–a collection of remixed tracks by the Free Design, a ’60s psychedelic folk family band whose records are highly sought after in the collecting world. The collaborative approach highlights the talents of some of the most innovative producers out there (including Danger Mouse, Caribou, Koushik, Kid Koala, Belle and Sebastian’s Chris Geddes, and Def Jux rapper Murs), while maintaining a sense of cohesion and respect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editors' Summer Picks | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

...don’t mean to imply that there aren’t surprises on this album, or that the sound is much like Touré’s previous efforts, my introductions to the beauty of African folk-blues...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the Heart of the Moon: Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

...blue vs. pink. I suppose you could call this a compliment to women. It's men, the show is saying, who devote themselves to grandiose ideologies, and women who clean up their mess. Then again, one of the favorite arguments against women's suffrage was that the lady folk were too pure to sully themselves with partisan politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hail to the She | 9/20/2005 | See Source »

...NEKA Suteja Neka is Ubud's foremost art dealer and patron, and his gallery, tel: (62 361) 975 034, houses much good Balinese art, including beautiful examples of traditional shadow puppets. These are one of Indonesia's best-known folk art forms, and are said to be based on figures from the Hindu Ramayana and Mahabharata epics. You'll also find plenty of work by expatriate artists who have called Bali home over the years, including Rudolf Bonnet and Arie Smit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art Mart | 9/19/2005 | See Source »

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