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Monday Music: Jazz for Cows
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Monday Music: Fitzgerald & Armstrong, Summertime
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Monday Music: Wynton Marsalis Quintet @ Paris Jazz festival
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Monday Music: Adele, Rolling in the Deep
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Monday Music: Reel Big Fish Cover We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful
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The Roches: The Train
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Ben Sommer’s cover of Sister from the Black Keys’ El Camino.
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Morrissey: Irish Blood, English Heart
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Monday Music: Nick Cave’s (Are You) the One that I’ve Been Waiting For?
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Ben Sommer’s Latest Album: Super Brain
by JOHN ADAMS •
I’ve featured songs from Ben Sommer’s latest album, Super Brain, but a proper review of the entire album is in order. I liked and favorably reviewed Ben’s first album, america’d, and so was disposed to expect another solid effort. And yet, earlier-album familiarity nothwithstanding, Super Brain surprises and impresses, exceeding Sommer’s earlier work. First, for…
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Ben Sommer’s Video of Foster the People’s Pumped up Kicks
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Monday Music: Ben Sommer on Deo Gracias Anglia
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Ben writes about his latest song Deo Gracias Angliafrom his latest album, a song featured here originally last Friday. One dates oneself to write about liner notes, but there was great value in reading what a musician thought about his or her music that’s been lost without those notes. Commentary like Ben’s restores that additional…
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Premiere of Ben Sommer’s Deo Gracias Anglia from Super Brain
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The best moments of blogging aren’t in the writing, but in reading of others; not in saying, but in listening. It’s more than a treat to discover, and now to premiere, the sharp and compelling — here’s the FW premiere of Ben Sommer’s Deo Gracias Anglia from his latest album, Super Brain. Readers know and…