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Entries Tagged as 'Folk-Rock'

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

My old college pal Dan (well, actually we got to be friends after college, but that’s a long story), who was the master of the new-music mix tape back in the middle-eighties, turned up on Facebook recently and has been freshening up my iTunes with all sorts of fun new stuff.
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Tags: Culture · Music · New Wave · TV · Folk-Rock · Video · Modern Rock

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

May, 2005: The Arrival of Mr. Blue (and Kiwi, too)

Posted by Ocelopotamus on February 9th, 2008 at 3:15 am


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Tags: Music · Cats · Journal · Folk-Rock · Pets · 60s Pop · Kiwi · Mr. Blue

On The Christians and The Gays, and Keeping the Flock Together

Posted by Ocelopotamus on October 15th, 2007 at 3:27 am


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Tags: Politics · Culture · Music · Blogs · Journal · LGBT · Activism · Folk · Folk-Rock · Civil Rights · Religion · Spirituality · U.S. Congress · 60s Pop · Joan Baez

Clip and Trailer for Todd Haynes’ New Dylan Movie, I’m Not There

Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 24th, 2007 at 12:06 am


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Tags: Culture · Music · Film · Folk · Folk-Rock · Video · 60s Pop

Roundup: Skydiving Baby Giraffe Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 15th, 2007 at 10:39 am


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Boiling Some Cabbage with the Smothers Brothers

Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 8th, 2007 at 3:16 am


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Tags: Culture · Music · Comedy · TV · Folk · Folk-Rock · Video · 60s Pop

Roundup: Picketing Flamingo Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on July 23rd, 2007 at 5:17 am


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Roundup: Pottymouth Jar Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 22nd, 2007 at 8:20 am


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Partly Dave Show Tonight!

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 2nd, 2007 at 3:20 am


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Tags: News · Culture · Music · Journal · Chicago · LGBT · Comedy · Theater · Neo-Futurists · Fringe · Performance · The Partly Dave Show · Folk-Rock · Even in Blackouts · Punk

Waterboys + Decemberists = Fun

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 24th, 2007 at 1:53 pm


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Tags: Culture · Music · Mike Scott & The Waterboys · Celtic · Folk-Rock · Video

The Waterboys: Mike Scott in The Guardian, and new album Book of Lightning

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 26th, 2007 at 7:12 am


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Tags: News · Culture · Music · Journal · Books · Neo-Futurists · Poetry · Performance · Lit · Mike Scott & The Waterboys · Yoko Ono · Travel · UK/England · Ireland · Scotland · Celtic · History · Mythology · Arthur · Folk-Rock