Global Juke Joint: Fly with Audio Lotion
From Your Sonic Beauty Case to Metrosensual to Bad Timing, masterful Swiss duo Audio Lotion makes me want to live in their albums.
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From Your Sonic Beauty Case to Metrosensual to Bad Timing, masterful Swiss duo Audio Lotion makes me want to live in their albums.
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Just a few of my favorite love songs in languages other than English:
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Last year, Air France decided it would compile a bit of its inflight musical entertainment into half-hour podcasts that you can download every couple of months. With an esoteric mix of relaxingly ambient and soulfully acoustic selections, the “On Air” podcast is excellent accompaniment for a lazy Sunday afternoon in the hammock, a lounge-y late
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Next time you’re on the train… Berlin: U8 to Hermannstraße Buenos Aires: Línea C to Constitución London: Piccadilly Line to Cockfosters New York: 2 Train – Uptown & The Bronx Tokyo: Ginza Line to Shibuya
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A powerful triumvirate of lyricists, CHOC QUIB TOWN hails from Quibdó, the impoverished capital of the mostly-black, oft-maligned, and federally-neglected department of Chocó, on Colombia’s Pacific Coast. In what is virtually the Mississippi of Colombia, the African heritage of the residents, relatively un-integrated with the rest of the country, foments a profound but largely overlooked
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Afro-Belgian musical group Zap Mama has effused pan-African rhythm and flow for the last 20 years, badooing and doowapping on politics and partying in English, French, and Bantu. Started by the striking Congolese-born, Belgian-bred Marie Daulne, and using their voices as musical instruments, the all-lady ensemble carries you from London to Lyon to Lagos with
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Eddy Meets Yannah. They bad, y’all. And they’re from Zagreb, too!
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Living outside of New York, it’s easy to miss entertaining, insightful, and even inspirational stage plays. Thanks to Spike Lee, the entertaining, insightful, and inspirational Passing Strange was filmed on its very last Broadway performance in 2008, capturing an amazing theatrical experience in an appropriate medium for temporal and spacial export beyond the Great White
Cruising around Miami for New Years in a rental car with no iPod dock meant much radio time. Thankfully, 93.9 (in spite of random and agonizing bursts of “I Gotta Feeling,” “Dancing Queen,” “Single Ladies,” and “I Will Survive”) took it back to 1980s Dade County, when no ethnic community was a true majority, South
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