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Entries Tagged as 'Music'

Music Break: The Bongos, “The Bulrushes”

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 4th, 2009 at 11:36 am

I still love this song to death after all these years — Richard Barone and the Bongos are definitely one of the most underappreciated bands of their era. Such a great, distinctive sound. Play this song three times and it will be stuck in your head for weeks.

Richard Barone on the video above:
The Bulrushes […]

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Tags: Culture · Music · New Wave · Video

I Entweet You

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 4th, 2009 at 11:20 am


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Tags: Meta · Culture · Tech · Blogs · Journal · Comedy · Internet · Mike Scott & The Waterboys · Online Networking · Facebook

The Partly Dave Show: Please Mister Postman (at the Rhino Fest, Friday Feb. 20)

Posted by Ocelopotamus on February 13th, 2009 at 10:10 pm


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Tags: Culture · Music · Journal · Chicago · Theater · Neo-Futurists · Fringe · Performance · The Partly Dave Show

New Music from Dan: I Was a Cub Scout, Alphabeat, and The Helio Sequence

Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 24th, 2008 at 4:57 am


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Tags: Culture · Music · New Wave · TV · Folk-Rock · Video · Modern Rock

Judybats on Popdose, and First Judybats Album Reissued

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 26th, 2008 at 2:23 am


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Tags: Culture · Music · Blogs · LGBT · Modern Rock · The Judybats

Saturday, May 24: The Relaunch of Planet Earth Chicago at Subterranean

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 15th, 2008 at 8:11 pm


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Tags: News · Culture · Music · Chicago · New Wave · Ska · Punk · New Romantic · Nightclubs · Planet Earth Chicago

Wild Puppet: Kate Pierson Plays “Speed Quiz” on Pancake Mountain

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 8th, 2008 at 2:23 pm


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Tags: Culture · Music · Comedy · New Wave · The B-52's · TV · Video · Modern Rock

With Six You Get Blogroll

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:46 pm


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Tags: Blogroll · Meta · Politics · Culture · Music · Blogs · Journal · Chicago · New Wave · Internet · Books · Oobleck · Neo-Futurists · Animals & Environment · Mike Scott & The Waterboys · Even in Blackouts · Modern Rock · Vegetarian & Vegan

Thank You, Bob (or, That Flag Pin Won’t Get You Into Heaven Any More)

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 20th, 2008 at 2:40 pm


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Tags: Meta · Politics · Culture · Music · Barack Obama · Folk · Video · 2008 Election · Religion · Journalism · Elections

B-52’s Funplex Roundup

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 9th, 2008 at 6:16 am


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Tags: News · Culture · Music · Chicago · LGBT · New Wave · The B-52's · Film · TV · Video

Blue Angel, Red Hot

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 8th, 2008 at 3:40 am


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Tags: Culture · Music · Blogs · LGBT · New Wave · Cyndi Lauper · The B-52's

Out of the Lightfoot Closet

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 7th, 2008 at 3:42 am


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Tags: Music · The Partly Dave Show · Folk · Folk-Rock

Andy White at the Celtic Knot, 3/30/08: Follow-Up

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 6th, 2008 at 5:21 am


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Tags: Culture · Music · Journal · Chicago · Performance · Lit · Mike Scott & The Waterboys · Ireland · Celtic · Folk-Rock · Reviews

Andy White at the Celtic Knot

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 30th, 2008 at 2:28 am


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Tags: News · Culture · Music · Performance · Ireland · Folk-Rock · Crowded House · Tim Finn