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U2 Bookends & 20 Feet From Stardom's Oscar Win Influences Today's Mixtape

3.3.14 at 2:25pm by Eric Holland

Talking Heads & Clapton selections inspired by the backing singers performances - Eric

1U2 Invisible

2 Bad Reputation Freedy Johnston

The No Fuss and Feathers Road Show - Sunday Breakfast - 2014

3.3.14 at 1:24pm by John Platt

The No Fuss and Feathers Road Show is a side project of NYC singer-songwriters Karyn Oliver, Carolann Solebello (of Red Molly fame) and Catherine Miles and Jay Mafale of The YaYas. It grew out of their work with the female folk collective Chicks with Dip on "Joni Mitchell's Blue," where they discovered sublime harmonies when their voices blended. You can sense their special musical chemistry in this session in Studio A.

FUV's New Dig: St. Vincent

3.3.14 at 7:02am by Darren DeVivo

St. Vincent
St. Vincent
Universal / Loma Vista / Republic Records

St. Vincent blurs the lines between innovation and accessibility. She tests, and even destroys, boundaries. The tension that results from such musical experimentation is what makes her music so infectious: Pounding dance rhythms come and go, synthesized blasts of sound pulse and throb, angular guitars cut and slice. All the nervous musical activity partially, but not totally, masks the wit and bite of the lyrics.

Question of the Day: Lions

3.3.14 at 7:02am by Corny O'Connell

They say that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. It's certainly coming in like a lion this year with a dusting to an inch of snow and temps in the 20s today. Perhaps we can appease the weather gods by playing songs that mention lions. Leave your suggestions in the comments below and we'll spin a set after 9am.

Here's what we played this morning:

"The Lion's Roar" - First Aid Kit

"Wondering Where the Lions Are" - Bruce Cockburn

"All Things All At Once" - Tired Pony

The $99,000 Answer

3.2.14 at 9:28am by Rich Conaty

As someone who "brives a dus" during the week, I identify with Ralph Kramden, both as a fellow holder of a CDL and an amateur musicologist. After being stumped by "Swanee River," Kramden is led offstage babbling a series of songwriters. When the MC says, "I'll Be Seeing You," Ralph knows to blurt, "Irving Kahal and Sammy Fain!" Mr. Kahal, who was born March 5, 1903, will be saluted on tonight's "Big Broadcast." Here's another one he wrote with Sammy Fain (and Addy Britt).

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