Tiny Desk Concert

NPR music makes me happy.
A few years ago, they were the magic behind my discovery of the lucid (in the luminous sense, and only because it was the adjective that came to mind. Perhaps his music makes the world glow. Probably...) Andrew Bird. The Tiny Desk Concert is my current background noise...my limited exposure to these wee snippets of music have been pleasurable and informative. And sometimes rather full of laughter (see Gogol Bordello's video*).

Just a thought. Since I'm not very good at discovering new music on my own, it's nice to have a source I can count on.

On a similar note, Take Away Show** has fun videos. It's just nice to see musicians that...well...don't need their voices edited to not sound like junk.***

One more thing (and related to getting well-produced singers into situations where you see their true mettle and hear their real voices. As of recently, I love this song. It's just so pretty. The first couple of days I listened to it, I listened to it over and over and over and over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSZ3WlFPGME&feature=related


(The translation techniques course I'm taking must be getting to me...I never used to use footnotes so rampantly.)
*I can't seem to find the original npr posting...but this seems to be in three parts. Highlights include climbing onto desks. As well as just...everything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUzivmtbis8&playnext=1&list=PL619347578D62CD26
**Beirut!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc3ZAs17uAg
***http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0