http://kplu.org en http://kplu.org/post/jason-molina-folksinger-who-embodied-best-blues-dead-39 <p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gBaolYCbyE</p> Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:20:50 +0000 Stephen Thompson 8039 at http://kplu.org Jason Molina, folksinger who embodied best of blues, dead at 39 http://kplu.org/post/first-listen-david-byrne-st-vincent-love-giant <em>Audio for this feature is no longer available.</em><p>There's essentially no way for a collaboration between <a href="http://www.npr.org/artists/15321830/talking-heads">Talking Heads</a>' <a href="http://www.npr.org/artists/15320822/david-byrne">David Byrne</a> and <a href="http://www.npr.org/artists/15159199/st-vincent">St. Vincent</a>'s Annie Clark to exceed the sum of its parts. Each artist is distinctive enough, and dominant enough over the work on which he or she appears, that their sensibilities can't be blended so much as stacked in such a way that they coexist simultaneously. Mon, 03 Sep 2012 03:30:55 +0000 Stephen Thompson 6179 at http://kplu.org First Listen: David Byrne & St. Vincent, 'Love This Giant' http://kplu.org/post/dirty-three-valentines-day-wordless-love-song As any pessimistic Valentine's Day veteran can attest, the holiday is strewn with land mines: pressure to find someone, pressure to buy the right gifts, pressure to formalize casual relationships, pressure to even remember the damn thing is <em>happening</em>. Music doesn't help matters: Do you send a love song when you're not yet officially in love? What if you accidentally send a love song that everyone else knows was written about a faithful bloodhound? Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:54:28 +0000 Stephen Thompson 4147 at http://kplu.org Dirty Three: For Valentine's Day, a wordless love song