Burl Veneer’s Music Blog Vox 2008-06-12T01:01:43Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d4144aef1d3c7f/tags/afrobeat/ Songs I Like Breaking news: New NOMO! tag:vox.com,2008-06-12:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fad68fb6ed0005 2008-06-12T00:49:17Z 2008-06-12T01:01:43Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I must interrupt the skronk thread to announce this breaking news, or broken news, as the case may be; it may be old news but it's news to me. Blog favorite Nomo has a new album, Ghost Rock, coming out on June 17th, but they're streaming three so...

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]]> Brand new Radio 4 tag:vox.com,2008-03-20:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398e7d0630004 2008-03-20T18:06:54Z 2008-03-20T18:47:49Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Speaking of Radio 4, as I just was, they released a new song today on the RCRD LBL netlabel. Which means it's free! Free to download, free to listen to, and free to embed as long as you use RCRD LBL's ad-supported widget: They're jumping on th...

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]]> Vampire Weekend, best new band? Really? tag:vox.com,2008-03-12:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398e514470004 2008-03-12T03:10:47Z 2008-03-12T03:13:04Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Aren't they pretty boring? So they incorporate some African pop sounds into their music; so do a lot of better bands. The Budos Band, for instance, who have a brand-new video: And they're on Daptone Records, so you know they've got to be good....

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]]> NOMO video tag:vox.com,2007-11-16:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398be01e20002 2007-11-16T05:14:21Z 2008-01-12T01:36:18Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Widgets, widgets, everywhere, I've just got to try them all out. I just got word on MySpace that Don Was has produced a video for NoMo, the coed Afrobeat band from Ann Arbor, Michigan (previously covered here). What sets them apart from other Af...

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]]> Afrobeat and Frankenstein tag:vox.com,2007-11-11:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398bc84020004 2007-11-11T15:55:38Z 2007-11-11T18:26:44Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Stanford University Band - Frankenstein

I caught Asheville, North Carolina Afrobeat band the Afromotive at Castaways last night; with four full-time percussionists they put out some really rich beats. It was a real luxury to take a ten-minute drive to see a ten-piece Afrobeat band for,...

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]]> Funk'n'Waffles tag:vox.com,2007-10-13:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398b24dfb0005 2007-10-13T03:24:20Z 2007-10-14T04:44:28Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

04 Crunch

Afrobeat is getting closer to Ithaca... Last night my daughter came along with me on the 54-mile trip to Syracuse to see the Chicago Afrobeat Project at Funk'n'Waffles. What a cool place! It's a former coffeeshop in a basement under a bar. It w...

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]]> Jammin'?! tag:vox.com,2007-10-03:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398af25a10003 2007-10-03T21:38:08Z 2007-10-03T22:34:50Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I thought that I would rather go through another divorce than ever go see a jam band, but it turns out that if the band has some ethnic percussion going on then I'm down with the jamming. In my efforts to find more live music to go see (of a styl...

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]]> Nomo, or Boston and Back tag:vox.com,2007-07-10:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00d4144caa113c7f 2007-07-10T01:44:09Z 2007-07-10T02:48:42Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

NOMO--Better Than That

One of my discoveries on emusic since joining last November is Ann Arbor-based "post-Afro-beat" band Nomo. Their latest offering is the Better Than That EP on Dutch label Kindred Spirits; when it showed up on emusic I downloaded it immediately. ...

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