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<title>Thievery Corporation</title>
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<category>Ambient Dub</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:16:46 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Thievery Corporation hearken back to the suave musical era of the 1950s and '60s, when swizzle sticks and long cigarette holders were in vogue, and relaxing meant having a strong cocktail in very plush surroundings. While inherently down-tempo, Thievery Corporation (Rob Garza and Eric Hilton) toss in elements of nearly every musical genre, including Dub, Reggae, hip-hop, Cocktail/Lounge, jazz, and Funk, creating a highly relaxing world in which your ears will thank you. Predominantly instrumental, the pair occasionally draft the talents of evocative, breathy-vocaled women -- some of whom sing in French! They are also the founders of the Eighteenth Street Lounge nightclub in D.C. (as well as the label of the same name), concentrating on generating a calm and peaceful world in which languid beats, exotic instrumentation, and international influences are omnipresent. While definitely designed for the headnodders, Thievery Corporation continue to gain popularity among a wide variety of people for their sophisticated, stylish, and delicate musical charm.
- Tim Pratt]]></description>
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<title>Senor Coconut</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:56:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[While electronic music's culture of sampling takes "Is it live, or is it Memorex?" as its founding principle, Uwe Schmidt's Senor Coconut project puts an unprecedented multicultural spin on ideas of authenticity and appropriation. In the mid-'90s, having established a rep as an electronic maverick via projects like Atom Heart and Lassigue Bendthaus, Schmidt emigrated from his native Germany to Santiago, Chile, where he found inspiration in Latin American styles like salsa and <I>cumbia</I>. His first project, <I>El Baile Aleman</I>, interpreted Kraftwerk's coldly funky grooves as supple, sampladelic samba, and, aided by vocalists like Argenis Brito and Jorge Gonzalez, he followed up with similarly spicy covers of Sade, Michael Jackson and the Doors. In 2006, working with a full band, he released <I>Yellow Fever</I>, a tribute to Japan's answer to Kraftwerk, Yellow Magic Orchestra. Along with Y.M.O. members Ryuichi Sakamoto and Haruomi Hosono, a distinguished crew -- Towa Tei, Mouse on Mars, Burnt Friedman -- rounded out the collaboration.
- Philip Sherburne]]></description>
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<title>Pink Martini</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:35:44 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Those of you who believe that this whole Lounge thing is just a boring, kitschy, resurrection of a once deservedly dead joke should check out Pink Martini. This fine group of musicians (from the classically trained to jazz to Latin specialists) put their unique spin on a melange of styles. The world they create is a cinematic, refreshing mix of light and dark. It's as if Henry ManciniÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂs <i>Experiment in Terror</i> were playing behind Doris Day in <i>Pillow Talk</i>. The swank, lush beauty is there but sorrowful strains come through, showing the cracks and fissures in the polyester smiles.]]></description>
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<title>Billy Strange</title>
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<category>Cocktail/Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:07:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Pour yourself a thick mescaline colada and put some lobsters in your pants! The lounge-a-billy sounds of Billy Strange will madly soothe you. Strange was an infamous session guitarist of the 1960s, and arranged songs for Dean Martin and Nancy Sinatra. His virtuoso guitar pickings have been studied by six-string scholars everywhere. Strange is one of those guitar players who learned how to play "wrong" and developed it into his own signature stamp of scattered strums and pristine pickings that often sound as if a flamenco player did the score for a Sam Peckinpah western.]]></description>
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<title>Komeda</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:51:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Like a breath of intoxicating air, Komeda's music rushes at the listener like the theme song to a Bond film that has yet to be made, sweeping him off his feet with imaginative arrangements and expert songcraft. Their songs are smart, sexy and oh-so-very "now," what with their merge of electronica, lounge, and pure, bubbling pop. One can picture the boys from Air stripped of all slow seriousness, or Stereolab without the drone. The song "Feeling Fine," for instance, bounces along with heavily wah-wahed guitar -- think of your favorite '70s cop show -- a delicious and dreamy melody that glides over the lovely chord changes, and the effortlessly sung vocals delivered with an almost ice-queen quality by the female vocalist. Beware: you may easily get addicted to too much Komeda.]]></description>
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<title>Buster Poindexter</title>
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<category>Comic Song</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:34:17 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Friends of Dean Martinez</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:51:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Combustible Edison</title>
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<category>Retro/Vintage</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:29:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Swirlingly seductive dance rhythms are the foundation for Combustible Edison's modern brand of cocktail lounge. This Providence combo update the late '50s martini-and-olive aesthetic through kitsch and kitsch alone.]]></description>
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<title>Reverend Organdrum</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:48 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Space</title>
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<category>Brit Pop/Brit Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[NME and alternative rock radio fave of a few years back. The noir-ish "Female..." is made possible with marimba flutters, singer/bassist Tommy Gonzalez's torchy vocal delivery (Johnny Rotten meets Sinatra), and overall Bossa Nova-Lounge atmosphere.
- Chris Slater]]></description>
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<title>Tav Falco</title>
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<category>Rockabilly Revival</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:55:53 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Tav Falco's early albums were feckless Rockabilly romps that trucked in sloppily rendered classic rock riffs and comically campy versions of old standards. As Falco's persona became increasingly torchy, his songs headed in that direction as well.
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<title>The Puppini Sisters</title>
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<title>The Moog Cookbook</title>
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<title>The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group</title>
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<category>Indie Pop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:06:31 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Currently the Jim Ruiz Group are only legends in their own minds, but pop music this fun and refreshingly unmannered deserves a much wider audience. They give all of 1960s pop a big bear hug -- the band has echoes of old Astrud Gilberto and <i>California Dreaming</i>-era Wes Montgomery, as well as the more standard Beatles and Kinks influences. They combine these sounds with more modern retro references, such as early Everything But the Girl, the Style Council, and Haircut 100. This type of creamy pop is being made in Europe by Sarah Cracknell, Louis Philippe and Le Mans, although there is nothing Euro about this very American Minneapolis group except that they love great U.S. music as much as their Siesta label mates. Don't go for that expensive import price tag -- both <i>Oh, Brother Where Art Thou</i> (a nod to Preston Sturges) and the even finer <i>Sniff</i> have earned rave reviews and are available at cheap, domestic prices. We can't think of a better way to blow a few bucks than to actually make the Jim Ruiz Group legendary.]]></description>
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<title>Stereophonic Space Sound</title>
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<category>Surf Revival</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Carmen Miranda</title>
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<category>Brazilian Pop</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:01:01 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Les Hommes</title>
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<category>Acid Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:40:18 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>New Wet Kojak</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sultry, Lounge-damaged make out rock from the second half of Indie Rock outfit Girls Against Boys features smoky saxophones, scraggly guitars, slow-moving basslines and the ever-effective brushed drumming. If the one you want has a used fake leather coat, horn-rimmed glasses and a gin and tonic in his/her hand, then flip on New Wet Kojak and get freaky.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Orson Welles</title>
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<category>Comedy/Spoken Word</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:55:46 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A true artistic genius, Orson Welles forever transformed the worlds of theater, radio, and, most spectacularly, film. Welles was also blessed with a rich, mellifluous voice that lent a little class to a myriad of inferior commercial and film products. None of this quite prepares you for his short-lived career in mood music. Welles lays out regret-tinged love raps that come on like Barry White reading from Proust's <i>Remembrance of Things Past</i> while the backing music swells to amorous heights. This can be enjoyed as a great man's curious folly, a campy lounge classic, or best of all, as high-toned Quiet Storm for the upper crust.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Montefiori Cocktail</title>
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<category>Cocktail/Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 8 Oct 2009 11:44:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Because of their name and their use of retro-graphics, Montefiori Cocktail CDs are often filed next to Lawrence Welk reissues. Way hipper than that, they offer a frothy and very danceable mix of Mancini-esque easy listening and shimmy-inducing '60s rock. Perfect for bachelor pads, ski lodges or trans-continental spy adventures.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Hot Butter</title>
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<category>Cocktail/Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Primal Instinct</title>
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<category>Cocktail/Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:48 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Solo artist from Montana uses his keyboard masterfully, creating dopey tracks that straddle the line between Easy Listening and New Romantic. Ambient music for Todd Solondz's chateau de love.
- Doug Russell]]></description>
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<title>Dave's True Story</title>
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<category>Adult Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dave's True Story offer up cinematic narratives with snappy jazz backings. Like Rickie Lee Jones kissing Stan Ridgway at a flower-strewn crime scene.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Julie Wilson</title>
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<category>Cocktail/Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Korla Pandit</title>
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<category>Vintage Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:21:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The mysterious Korla Pandit was one of the true innovators of bizarre and exotic lounge. He had a swarm of female devotees in San Francisco who watched him play his organ over tribal drums and buzzing crickets. He performed in a turban and never spoke. File this under "Roots of Neo Lounge." Weird, wild stuff.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Renauld</title>
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<category>Cocktail/Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:29:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Marine Girls</title>
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<category>Indie Pop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:49:08 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Marine Girls brought Punk's DIY ethic to breezy bossa-jazz Jangle Pop in the early 1980s. With Everything but the Girl still around the corner, Tracey Thorn was given the opportunity to learn to play and sing with each member of this egalitarian collective. Their sound was at best ragged and at worst a mess, but always utterly charming. Their percussion, for example, sounds like coconut halves being struck together. Listening to them is like hanging out on the beach with friends and singing around the campfire. Excepting the cast of <i>Baywatch</i>, who doesn't need more beaches, campfires and friends? EBTG and such current bands as Saint Etienne, Arabesque, and Belle and Sebastian have since refined the Marine Girls' approach but their two albums still offer nostalgic thrills -- even if you're hearing them for the first time.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Quinn Lemley</title>
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<category>Cocktail/Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[There's a doll in your arms, a wad in your wallet and all the swells at The Mocambo love ya'. Quinn Lemley is playing on the bandstand, led by a dish with a sweet set of, uh, tonsils. Life is sweet, Bunky.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>The Coctails</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:13:29 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Popular cocktail-generation band delivers trademark retro gems, and a 2-1/2 minute '60s Brit Pop Garage tune. Hot organ work, groovy vibe, slinky come-hither horns, occasional jangly guitars and oodles of sass.
- Chris Slater]]></description>
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<title>Carmel</title>
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<category>Adult Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:56:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Frenchy</title>
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<category>Cocktail/Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:10:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Goofy, spirited retro-lounge from the ex-lead guitarist of the Dead Kennedys and vocalist Carla Lease. Frenchy is closer to a mono version of Esquivel or the <i>Star Trek</i> theme than jazzier lounge acts.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Harry Roche Constellation</title>
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<category>Cocktail/Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:12 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Love Jones</title>
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<category>Cocktail/Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Music for drinking martinis in matching suits. Love Jones have a gentle lounge sound influenced by Latin Jazz and Bossa Nova. Their hit "Paid For Lovin'" was featured on the <i>Swingers</i> soundtrack.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>The Mallet Men</title>
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<category>Cocktail/Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Seks Bomba</title>
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<category>Cocktail/Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A hard-hitting, rollicking modern swing band that could easily find a place among the famous in this most trendy of revival movements.
- Will Lerner]]></description>
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<title>Saint Privat</title>
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<category>French Pop</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 1 Jun 2009 08:30:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Daniele Luppi</title>
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<category>Film Scores</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:31:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Al Anthony</title>
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<category>Cocktail/Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Las Rubias Del Norte</title>
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<category>Cocktail/Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:51:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This New York-based group evokes a kinder, gentler era of Mexican music, when boleros and cha-cha-chas dominated, and narco-corridos were just a glint in Chalino Sanchez's eye. Led by two classically trained North American singers, the group brings a Sally Timms-esque detachment to classic tracks like "Piel Canela" and "Quizas, Quizas, Quizas," and even throw in a little Mozart and cowboy songs for good measure.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Double Six of Paris</title>
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<category>Cocktail/Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Soul Bossa Trio</title>
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<category>Acid Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The Blue Devils</title>
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<category>Cocktail/Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 9 Nov 2008 21:13:16 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Complex variations on famous film themes bring a bigger dose of good cheer to <i>Big Gundown</i>-era John Zorn. The Blue Devils have a Lounge sound, and group dynamics are favored over improvisation.
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<title>George Wright</title>
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<category>Cocktail/Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:16:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[George Wright's hilarious album covers seem to out him in the retro-lounge camp. But his Wurlitzer pipe organ sound will be familiar to anyone those who went to shopping malls and movie pre-shows during the 1950s.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Greg MacDonald</title>
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<category>Cocktail/Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:04:16 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Steel pans chime out a selection of tropical standards to the beat of a cheap drum machine and keyboard basslines. Caribbean lounge material.
- Robert Leaver]]></description>
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<title>Dave Myers &amp; The Surftones</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As cool and refreshing as Aquavelva after-shave (for which Dave Meyers named a song), the Surftones played light, quickly evaporating, jazz-infused beach songs. They have more of a plucky Cocktail feel than twangy Surf charm, like being plunged beneath the crashing waves and surrounded by the calm of the bottom of the sea.
- Mark Murrmann]]></description>
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<title>Black Velvet Flag</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:22:20 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Jazzy, Bossa Nova-influenced rock that replaces serious musicianship with enthusiasm. Black Velvet Flag aren't much different from the Legendary Jim Ruiz Group or early Everything But the Girl, but they lack the sense of fun and emotion of those two bands. Their interview clips have the band equating Retro Lounge music with Punk rock. They prove their point with a cover of the Circle Jerks' "Group Sex," which doesn't really differ all that much from the Hardcore band's version.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Roberts Basie</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:47:16 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Buena Vista Cuban Players</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:56:43 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Ino</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:51:34 -0700</pubDate>
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