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Friday music blogging: Jenny Lewis A nine-minute country-fried epic from every indie boy's biggest crush	David Roberts	26 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Jenny Lewis came to indie fame as the singer for Rilo Kiley; since then, her profile has all but eclipsed theirs. (I'd bet their latest album, Under the Blacklight, is their last.) Her 2006 solo debut album Rabbit Fur Coat had critics all in a tizzy and, if I'm not mistaken, sold better than any Rilo Kiley album. I suspect her new album, Acid ...
Topics: green living, music (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: Tilly & the Wall DIY pop to make you feel young again (assuming you're old like me)	David Roberts	19 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Teen rebellion was commodified long ago, and much of the music now geared toward it is either whiny emo or sugar-coated pop punk. Occasionally, though, a band outside the Big Label Bland Suburban Angst world comes crashing in with a little raw abandon and exuberance that can actually plug you back into that old sense of thrilling freedom. Th ...
Topics: music, video (all these topics)

You Give Climate Change a Bad Name Jon Bon Jovi will play Live Earth concert in Mumbai		18 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 3:54 PM on 18 Sep 2008 After seven concerts on seven continents on 7/7/07, Live Earth has downsized (you may have noticed that 8/8/08 passed by with nary a warble). On Thursday, organizers Al Gore and Kevin Wall announced plans for a Dec. 7 Live Earth concert in Mumbai, India. The show will feature "some of the biggest artists from India to the U.S. and beyond," says Wall. Jon Bon Jovi and ...
Topics: Al Gore, celebrity, climate, green living, India, music, news (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: Aaron Tippin Astroturf, the musical	David Roberts	12 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Listen Play "Drill Here, Drill Now," by Aaron Tippin Newt Gingrich's American Solutions for Winning the Future is an astroturf group funded largely by Republican billionaires. In the short-term, it's designed to staunch Republican electoral losses in November by creating a new wedge issue: drilling for oil. In the medium term, it's taking on a range of other right-wing campaigns. In the longer term, expect to the see ef ...
Topics: energy, music, offshore drilling, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Jobs Well Done Newest iPod nano is 'toxic free'		09 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 4:27 PM on 09 Sep 2008 The newly unveiled update of the iPod nano is slender and sexy, equipped with "shake-to-shuffle" capability, and eco-friendly to boot. (Well, you don't actually have to boot it ... oh, whatever.) Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who is alive and kicking despite reports to the contrary, says the music player is Apple's "cleanest" and most "toxic free" offering. The device contains no arsenic, brom ...
Topics: business, green living, green products, greening biz operations, music, news, tech, toxics (all these topics)

Make it stop	David Roberts	19 Aug 2008	Gristmill
A note to conference organizers everywhere: it's been documented by science that extended periods of exposure to light jazz leads to terminal dyspepsia and even brain tumors. So perhaps you should find something else to play in the lulls between speakers.
Topics: events, music (all these topics)

We shall overcome Courage and song at Green Corps training	Ken Ward	16 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Last Friday, I lead a favorite Green Corps workshop on protest songs. When I first taught the session, years ago, I said that an organizer or campaigner might only be called upon to sing two songs in their career: We Shall Overcome at civil rights gatherings, and Solidarity Forever at labor conferences. The two experiences are very different. We Shall Overcome pours forth with spirit. Folks hold hands and sway in unison, while Solidarity Forever is generally ploddi ...
Topics: environmental movement, grassroots activism, music, politics (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: The Felice Brothers An anniversary song	David Roberts	15 Aug 2008	Gristmill
FMB apologizes for its long absence. As it happens, FMB's author enjoyed his seventh anniversary of marriage to his wife not that long ago, and of late this song has seemed a fitting testament to that occasion, indeed to that marriage. It is by the Felice Brothers, from their recent eponymous debut album, which is highly recommended. ...
Topics: music (all these topics)

Mellow fellow Jack Johnson is laid-back -- except when it comes to being green	Sarah van Schagen	14 Aug 2008	Gristmill
USA Today recently published a short feature on musician Jack Johnson. Although the focus of the piece (Jack's a mellow surfer dude from Hawaii) = not news, there is this interesting bit (emphasis mine): Johnson's contracts require that event organizers compost and recycle at least 50 percent of the waste generated at the show and purchase carbon-dioxide offsets covering the energy his show uses. To reach out to fans, he has created a social networking site ...
Topics: celebrity, green living, music, recycling (all these topics)

Don't like the sound of that ... Green music festivals losing money	Sarah van Schagen	09 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Music festivals across the country are going green ... but losing green in the process.By the numbers, green festivals can be both encouraging and discouraging. Jeremy Stein, one of the producers of Rothbury, which took place over the July 4 weekend, said that by composting waste, using recyclable materials for concessions and taking other basic measures, the festival was able to prevent 94 percent of the garbage from its central concert area from entering a la ...
Topics: economy, green living, music (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: Duffy A torch song for a summer weekend	David Roberts	25 Jul 2008	Gristmill
It's a testament to how silly pop culture gets that there's been a bit of controversy swirling around Duffy, the UK phenom who went from Spin's "who's next" to Spin's cover over the course of five short months. You see, Aimee Anne Duffy is a young white girl from rural North Wales, and she sings sultry torch songs in the soul tradition. Earlier this year she ...
Topics: music (all these topics)

The green Miley Popster Miley Cyrus pens 'eco-anthem'	Sarah van Schagen	22 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Photo: mileycyrus.com Fifteen-year-old Disney pop starlet Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) wants America to wake up and deal with global warming ... though she's not quite sure what that means. At least, that's what she admits in a song -- dubbed an 'eco-anthem' by some, though I'm curious what qualifies it as an anthem -- on her new release Breakout. It may seem not to fit on an album whose title track whines 'Every week's the same/Stuck in school's ...
Topics: celebrity, green living, music (all these topics)

Climate change no gangsta's paradise for this rapper Coolio to educate students about global warming	Sarah van Schagen	14 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Grammy-award-winning rapper Coolio is on a fantastic voyage ... to spread the word about climate change to historically black colleges and universities across the country. As an official spokesdude for the Environmental Justice and Climate Change campaign (a partnership with Gore's 'we' campaign), he'll aim to engage students in the climate justice debate and educate them on why global warming is no gangsta's paradise.
Topics: environmental movement, music, celebrity, green living (all these topics)

Helter smelter Bj�rk, Sigur R�s protest Icelandic aluminum plant in concert	Grist	11 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Grist video producer Jennifer Prediger visited Iceland recently, attending an environmental protest concert featuring Bj�rk and Sigur R�s. Here's her report, in words and video. In Iceland, the battle between power companies and conservationists is heating up. As the aluminum industry's plans to build dams and smelters move full steam ahead, Icelanders could well become the number one emitters of carbon dioxide per capita in the world. This possibility, in a land whose geot ...
Topics: energy, grassroots activism, greenhouse-gas emissions, Iceland, music, video (all these topics)

Salzburg Global Seminar: prelude Dave heads to where the hills are alive	David Roberts	08 Jul 2008	Gristmill
On Wednesday, I leave for Salzburg, Austria, where -- thanks to the generosity of a Knight Foundation Fellowship -- I will be attending a session of the Salzburg Global Seminar on "Combating Climate Change at Local and Regional Levels: Sustainable Strategies, Renewable Energy." I am of course excited about the substance of the event, ...
Topics: Austria, climate, climate change mitigation, movies, music, video (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: Sigur R�s Get hypnotized, Icelandic style	David Roberts	27 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I have a soft spot in my heart for Icelandic band Sigur R�s (pronounced see-gur rose). I was listening to their second album �g�tis Byrjun frequently when my wife was pregnant with our first child. We used to watch ultrasound videos with it playing along as a soundtrack (highly recommended). It was playing in the delivery room when my son was born Their third ...
Topics: music (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: Jamie Lidell Bright blue-eyed soul for a sunny weekend	David Roberts	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Jamie Lidell gained some renown in the late '90s as a producer of electronic music. In particular, Super_Collider -- his project with Christian Vogel -- achieved full-on cult status. But in 2005, Lidell took a sharp left turn with Multiply, an album of pure blu ...
Topics: music (all these topics)

Notable quotable Vegan food ain't Badu	Sarah van Schagen	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.' -- Erykah Badu, in the recentest issue of VegNews
Topics: celebrity, food, music, quotables, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Encore! On Gore! Hear a Grist clip of the Inconvenient Truth opera	Sarah van Schagen	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Hilarious-er: Grist's own Tod(d) Hymas Samkara shares his vision for the opera (from the June 5 podcast). Huge thanks to Production Intern Jon Volkman who did all the sound editing.
Topics: Al Gore, brilliance, celebrity, green living, music (all these topics)

Turn Down the AC, Turn Up the AC/DC Wal-Mart truck fleet on track to meet fuel-efficiency goals		13 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 4:06 PM on 13 Jun 2008 Wal-Mart has improved the fuel efficiency of its 7,000-truck fleet by 20 percent since Oct. 2005 and is on track to meet its goal of a 25 percent improvement by the end of 2008, a Wal-Mart executive said Friday. Having already downsized its diesel tanks and started rolling on more efficient tires, the company also hopes to introduce hybrids into its fleet and perhaps ...
Topics: business, fuel efficiency, greening biz operations, music, news, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Country songs dedicated to your favorite climate personalities	Gar Lipow	07 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Dedicated to the coal and nuclear industries: Lorrie Morgan's What Part of No Don't You Understand? Dedicated to Scott McClellan: Randy Travis' Pray for the Fish: Dedicated to all the carbon traders: Tanya Tucker's Lizzie and the Rain Maker:
Topics: carbon trading, climate, coal, energy, music, nuclear power (all these topics)

Some like it really hot An Inconvenient Musical plays on	Sarah van Schagen	02 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Think the idea of An Inconvenient Opera is a bit off-key? You might be singing a different tune after reading this: Apparently, An Inconvenient Musical opened to sold-out crowds in Toronto last summer. Says Kurt Firla, co-director/writer of the production:It's a satirical look at the climate crisis, corporate greed, and the general public's reluctance to do anything about the problem. It features some of Toronto's top improvisers/comedians, and we're giving $1 from ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, Canada, climate, green living, music (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: My Morning Jacket Melt your brain	David Roberts	30 May 2008	Gristmill
The first few albums from My Morning Jacket were haunting, twangy gems that sprang from their Kentucky roots. The Tennessee Fire and At Dawn were so reverby and echo-laden they sounded like they were recorded in an abandoned grain silo ... because they were. I had the band tucked away in my mental CD shelf as a spooky, charismatic folk band, kin ...
Topics: music (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: Fleet Foxes 'Baroque harmonic pop' to soothe your troubled soul	David Roberts	23 May 2008	Gristmill
The headline from The Stranger's feature story on Fleet Foxes tells the story: Fleet Foxes Are Not Hippies Don't Let the Floppy Hats, Jesus Beards, and Five-Part Vocal Harmonies About Rivers, Trees, and Sunshine Throw You Ha. The first time I heard the band, they came up on shuffle and I thought it was the new album from My Morning Jacket ...
Topics: music, Seattle (all these topics)

He's Got the Remedy Jason Mraz sings the praises of a simpler life	Sarah van Schagen	23 May 2008	Grist Feature
Jason Mraz is strumming up support for sustainability. Jason Mraz may still be the geek in the pink, but these days, the pop-rock-rhymer is hoping to distance himself from his cigarette-puffin', girl-chasin' past and move toward a simpler, more sustainable life. Since returning from his Mr. A-Z tour two years ago, Mraz has focused his attention on greener, non-music-related pastures. Last year ...
Topics: climate, energy, green living, interview, music (all these topics)

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