new beach house album

new SVE EP

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"The Sweet Sound of Beale Street" NPR On Point

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here's a sneak peek of a hot new science podcast from NPR, invisibilia. premieres january 9th.

interactive map of all those great depression photographs

long read on the east nashville scene

from NPR's ann powers:

"East Nashville — it was already a worn out phrase when I came here," said the producer and recording studio owner Andrija Tokic, who moved to the area a decade ago, when he was 21. "To me it would be impossible to say what East Nashville is now. It used to be that I could go to any bar, and I would know everyone there, and everybody knew what everybody else was doing. Now, claims the name "East Nashville" for whatever their niche project is."

To an outsider, Tokic may seem to overexaggerate. East Nashville isn't Brooklyn yet; it's not even Seattle. And Nashville remains known for country music, which has never been hotter, commercially. But East Nashville now is at the peak of the classic creative-class arc: A new generation of music- and other makers has built a lifestyle vibrant enough to be irresistible to outsiders, including wealthy locals and newcomers from other cities, whose presence makes it both more profitable to some, and unsustainable for others. (via)

listen to the new jenny lewis

right here.

don't not listen to this

if you don't know that this week is dumpling week...

...on NPR, now you know.

blas was on the radio this morn.

For three and a half years, Bill de Blasio has been the city’s official gadfly. As Public Advocate, his job has been to point out where the city’s fallen short. And that’s been the primary message of his campaign, up until the last few weeks, when he catapulted to frontrunner status in polls. Now, he’s trying to show voters he also knows how to run things. (via)

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Laverne Cox, who plays Sophia in Orange is the New Black is an actual trans-woman and is from Mobile (just like thomas wilhelm), and was spotted in the wild in Madison Square Park by me and Kylie. Listen to this NPR interview. She also has a twin brother in real life who (spoiler alert) played Sophia pre-transition on the show (her episode was directed by Jodie Foster).

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eleanor friedberger's upcoming album, personal record, is streaming right over here.

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first listen : fiona apple, "the idler wheel..."

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CEEEEYYYYUUUTE!

NPR came up with some CUTE valentines to send to the granola-eating communist in your life.

claaaaaaaaasssssssic georgia

Speaking of girl scout cookies. A new ad campaign aimed at ending childhood obesity in Georgia has got some (fat) parents in an uproar. Georgia is second in the nation in fat kids behind Mississippi. Can't Georgia win ANYthing?

how the sausage gets made.

this is a few months old, but NPR's planet money did a piece on how much it cost to create rihanna's rated r album. she could save a lot of money if she wrote her own hit songs like beyonce.

some npr for ya.

the history of bananagrams! no embed, so i included a photo from a game with thomas wilhelm.

here's his:

and...

a history of the tappan zee!

24/7 all songs considered

this has been going for a while now, but i'll tell you about it anyway. npr has set up a 24/7 stream of every songs they've ever featured on the show in the 10 years its been on. and this week they've added holiday songs. so if you need something to listen to, click on over here.

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