Lately I'm obsessed with this youtube hit dude, Andy Rehfeldt.
I guess he's been popular for a while, but I had never heard of him until coming across a death metal version of a pop song the other day. Then, someone linked me to his account and I started listening to his really high-quality genre-shifting songs...

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So good!!!

I made these while I was bored the other day. I'd think that only people who have met a lot of serious klezmer fans would get these, but then again some of my relatives on facebook seemed to find them funny for whatever reason.


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Lately I've been watching videos on youtube of this great guy, Arkady Gendler, an elderly Yiddish singer from Ukraine.

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Actually, I went out to a Yiddish singalong night a bit more than a week ago ( Read more... )

I've been listening to the Gore Brothers a lot at work lately. I mean every day, maybe twice a day. Here's my favorite song of it all:

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I really love his accordion tone, as I mentioned in another post a while ago ( Read more... )

I've been really into these two Romanian musician brothers, Aurel and Victor Gore, for the last couple of weeks.


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Hee hee, I'm getting a bit more settled in in Vancouver ( Read more... )

I'm in Montreal, and last night I went to the show which was sort of the purpose of my trip here--to see Amebix, one of my favorite bands as a teen, and who seem to have recently reformed to go on tour, after 25 years..

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I had no idea what to expect--whether they would still be able to play their music, whether half the band would be young ( Read more... )