While in Sin Jawn’s I learned that friend Dave Bidini would be playing at his buddy Haddon’s house in nearby CBS. It was a grand, friendly and properly rowdy night. Dave, of the now defunct Rheostatics, has evidently been playing solo shows armed with only an acoustic guitar, but when I mentioned I didn’t know […]

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The South Pacific nation of Vanuatu (220,000 people dispersed over a vast archipelago) has long been an incubator for some of the more curious manifestations of human culture. Most famously, in the aftermath of World War II Vanuatu became a hotbed of cargo cults, one of which still worships noted xenophobe Price Philip. Less known […]

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In honour of July 4, here’s a swell piece of Americana to enjoy. These are the Quebe Sisters of Fort Worth, Texas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O98-XHT0zk

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