Hippie Sounds

October 28th, 2007

New Tunes by Lenny Kravitz

Spinner has some brand new tunes by Lenny Kravitz available for your listening pleasure. both songs are from his new album It’s Time For a Love Revolution that’s scheduled to be released in February 2008.
At Spinner you can:
Listen to ‘Bring It On’
Listen to ‘I’ll Be Waiting’
My lame media player is acting funky so later I’ll […]

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September 9th, 2007

NPR Interview With Ben Harper

Harper combination of acoustic folk, blues, funk, soul and rock echoes the sounds of the of the 60s and 70s and yet somehow is completely unique. NPR mentions Harper as a lesson in genre transcendence and that’s a great description.

Yesterday NPR posted a great interview with the amazing Harper who recently released Lifeline in late […]

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July 19th, 2007

Calling All Acoustic Musicians

The 4th Annual International Acoustic Music Awards (IAMA) is now accepting submissions. So if you play, it’s time to get strumming and send in your winning tunes.
IAMA honors and recognizes excellence in acoustic music performance but this isn’t just a classical contest they accept entries for and judge in numerous categories including:
Best male or […]

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July 7th, 2007

The Favorite 5 Challenge: Jimi Hendrix

When I was a kid (well 18…on) I worked in a music store. We used to do this deal where we’d post up a big sign each month that said stuff like, “Staff Desert Island Picks, Staff’s Best Tunes” and so on.
Two issues I had with this were one, it made us seem like we […]

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