Dengue Fever - Little Drummer Boy

Pa Rum Pum Pum Pum is the same in all languages, apparently...

Death Cab For Cutie - "Black Sun" (Official Video)

Watch the video, no small symbolism...

The Decemberists - This Is Why We Fight

Portland make you better...

om jai jagadish hare - anuradha

Jai mata di

BOXED IN - NO JOKE (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

Good music, good vids....

HAIM - The Wire

Khmer Surin CVM v21 04 មេម៉ាយខូចត្រង់ណា​?

คิดถึงบ้าน

Raury - Friends ft. Tom Morello

Trip hop...

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Man On Fire [Official Video]

Everybody want safety (safety love)
Everybody want comfort (comfort love)
Everybody want certain (certain love)
Everybody but me

Bebe - Siempre Me Quedara (translated)

Time calms everything, la tempestad y la calma...

Evi Vine - Inside Her

Watch the VDO: rainy day woman, rainy day roominations, chiaroscuro, mostly cloudy with a chance of afternoon sunshine, crispy words on soggy backgrounds, prepositions without objects, pronouns without antecedents, propositions with no promises, proposals lying naked on autumn leaves quickly turning to winter...

Glen Hansard - "Love Don't Leave Me Waiting"

Americana, don't leave me wanting...

tUnE-yArDs - Bizness (Official Video)

Nice song, cute video...

Ray LaMontagne - Beg Steal or Borrow

Think this won Grammy song of the year a few years back; who knew?

Foxygen - San Francisco (Official Video)

Riffing on a theme, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair...

Ladytron - Seventeen [Official Music Video]

They only want you when you're seventeen, so what happens when you're thirty-nine?  Sixty-four?

Din Main Kab Socha Karte Thay - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Ghazal

Perfect antidote for New York...

Bombino, "Tar Hani" Live

Tuareg rock, big sound big desert...

Nada Surf - Electrocution

Rock n Roll lives!

Beirut - Gibraltar (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

Only 3699km/2000mi+/- from Beirut to Gibraltar, almost 10 hours by flight, taking you over parts of Cyprus, Greece, Tunisia, Algeria, and LOTS of water, and air...

First Aid Kit - Wolf

From the mouths of Swedish babes: shades of Emmy Lou, shape-shifting images from the Far North...

Youth - Daughter

"If you're still breathing, you're the lucky ones..."

Buscabulla -Sono

Airespanol... chevere'...

Nicolas Jaar - Aphex Twin + Notorious B.I.G Mashup

Mashed potatoes on Sunday, yum yum....

Wolf Alice - Giant Peach

Riffing on a theme...

Pedestrian At Best - Courtney Barnett

Garage rock, carport locks, biker chick with pedestrian kicks...

Martin Courtney - Northern Highway (Official Video)

Good ol' fashioned tuneage...

Korey Dane - Jules Verne

Shades of Dylan, not-so-dark shades...

LHASA -LA FRONTERA

Border towns of the world unite!

Dillon - Thirteen Thirtyfive at Studio 8

Sometimes pain is its own reward...

Yuna - LANGIT #flyinghigh

Flying high in the sky...

Suavecito - Julieta Venegas - Soundtrack Elvira te daría mi vida pero la...

Muy suavecito, no malo...

Crimes of Paris by the Incomparable "Napoleon Dynamite"

Riffing on a theme, by Elvis Costello...

Omar Souleyman "Bahdeni Nami" (prod. by Four Tet)

Who says Syrians don't rock?

ST GERMAIN - REAL BLUES (Official Video)

Blues for Paris, naked and unafraid...

Mdou Moctar - Adounia

Is this the new face to Saharan desert-rock? Will Mdou Moctar be Jimmy Cliff to Tinariwen's Marley, Bombino's Tosh?  We'll have to wait and see the movie 'Akounak', the harder they fall...

سلام-عبدالرحمن محمد ومهاب عمر/Peace-Abdulrahman Mohammed&Mohab Omer

Published two weeks ago: "With all the distractions and difficulties we have in life, I'm so happy and proud that we are still able to make some Arts, some music, some hope, living some freedom dreams through the arts we are trying to make. Deeply Thanks for all your deep understanding to the difficulties we are facing as independent artists in such a delicate and hard time for all the arts and artists in the Arabic countries and the Middle East in the current time."

Giant Sand & Rainer - The Inner Flame.wmv

How do you know that you've been in Tucson too long? When is death day really a birthday?  Happy birthday, Rainer Ptacek!

Gardens & Villa - "Fixations" (Official Video)

yeah yeah yeah

De Lux - "Oh Man The Future" (Official Video)

I guess the future is not so cool, after all...

Lykke Li - No Rest For The Wicked

Sometimes peace is hard to find...

Beck - Dreams (Official Audio)

This how it's done, Kanye, words and music...

Syria Sufi Music Part 1

Joaquin Lievano - The Art of Bowing

      

TURN IT UP and you just might get a buzz... this is one of my jazz favorites of all time, don't know why it's not famous....

Angus and Julia Stone - Big Jet Plane [Official Music Video]

I think I found a new theme song...

Band of Horses - Laredo

Welcome to Laredo, x-roads of the world, x-roads of your life...

Chucho Valdes & Archie Shepp Afro-cuban project - Jazz a Porquerolles Li...

Magic fingers, golden horns, kinky sax...

SOFI TUKKER - Drinkee (Original Mix)

Now for something completely different, mixing drinks mixing metaphors... genial, gabacho, aproveche...

The Helio Sequence - October (not the video)

October's gone, but hopefully there will be another one; fingers crossed...

Fatoumata Diawara & Roberto Fonseca - Baloise Session 2014

I think I'm in love...