Belated blip.fm roundup

[sub_divided]

This will probably be the last batch - no real reason for these to be here, right, when they are also over there. (Secretly I repost so that I can edit -- blip.fm doesn't allow it.)

• Found on YTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AUGU3Jbmbw. Thinking about going caroling tomorrow, Hanukah starts Sunday. Religion as entertainment! Link
  
• Fourteen year-old white boy singing the blues. Link
  
• Starts out like a hymn, so it sounds Christmas-y to me (I only hear Church music in December). Then goes oldtimey, which also makes me think of Xmas. Link
  
• ...But I think I like the indie covers better than the piano-based original stuff (sorry Rufus). Link
  
• In Ohio for the holidays, back on Monday. Link
  
• From Ohio to NJ is an eight-hour car ride, this was the best song I'd never heard before on the radio. Link
  
• Happy early New Year! (John Darnielle belongs in the category of indie artists you want to beat senseless, like Momus and that guy from Placebo?)Link
  
• Is it just me, or are the provocatively sissy UK artists soft-voiced, while the American ones are nasal? Is this a cultural difference, do you think? Link
  
• So no one accuses me of bias, here is a female artist I admire but also want to punch out. (And MIA. But not Fergie - she doesn't bother me.) Link
  
• I wanted to do L-O-V-E (indie take on 60s psych-rock) or March was Fair at Best (indie take on country), but nothing from the first album is up here. Link
  
• Talked with petronia about the reason Steve Winwood sounds like Damon Albarn here - they're both singing above their range. Link
  
• from Lizzie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHgbzNHVg0c (we offer you the finest fashions in androids money can buy) Link
  
• Instrumental track made #29 on the pop charts, says wikipedia. Link
  
• trying to work out why this works. think it's: droning hypnotic vocals, guitar line pointing to blues harmonies that aren't there. brain fills in the rest. Link
  
• Man I'm so disconnected from pop music. Link
  
• Read an article on Gaye's relationship w/ his actual father and now whenever I hear this song I can't help but think of it: http://tinyurl.com/awbsmt. Link
  
• Seen live at a "performance space" in NY with falxumbra last night, really fun. (no sound on this computer, hope this is the right song.) Link
  
• Mark Olson and Gary Louris are playing at Carnegie Hall tonight. I am going to regret not buying tickets on time for the rest of my LIFE. Link
  
• Neil Young strikes again. (Never realized that that echoey sound is a "live" sound.) Link

Coming up: notes on Owen Pallett, sordid stories from The Web circa 1999. And maybe a review of Slumdog Millionaire?

Also: Possession by A. S. Byatt, for bibliophages.

A. S. Byatt is the older sister of Maragaret Drabble! Apparently she has been accused of being persnickedy and repressed, even by English standards. I definitely felt something of that while reading Possession, but it's hard to hold it against her, because she is self-aware about it, and brings it up within the text. (And ditto for every other critique I could possibly level.) Great observations about academia -- especially in the field of literary criticism -- brought back memories of archival research for my History thesis.