Radio Dupree 2013 Advent calendar 21-24

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Let this and a couple more windows inform you of a couple of music documentaries worth watching. First out is Foo Fighter's Dave Grohl's 2013 documentary of legendary Los Angeles recording studio Sound City.
Read more about it and watch it online here: http://buy.soundcitymovie.com




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It's all about the back up singers in this 2013 documentary. http://twentyfeetfromstardom.com




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Released in 2002 and already a classic is this documentary about the musicians who played on all the Motown hits of the 1960's and 70's.
http://www.standingintheshadowsofmotown.com




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And for the explorer there's always this page on Documentarystorm focusing on nothing but music documentaries:
http://documentarystorm.com/category/art-artists/music/

And let's not forget

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014!!!

Radio Dupree 2013 Advent calendar 16-20

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One of our heroes in broadcasting is Alan Partridge. After watching this interview he did with The Who's Roger Daltrey we're sure that you agree!



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Year-end charts come in all shapes and sizes. Often with the same artists and albums mentioned again and again. For an alternative view we give you this from Vice:

http://www.vice.com/read/vices-top-50-albums-of-2013


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Did Hip-hop start at this one party? Interersting read from BBC:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20130809-the-party-where-hip-hop-was-born


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And how about music done for television. Can you find genius and creativity there to rival any classic recording from a studio or stage? Of course!

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20131121-dr-who-as-vital-as-the-beatles


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A witty letter from Don Was from Was (Not Was) answering questions about the groups hit Walk The Dinosaur. Read it after the video!

http://www.wilfturnbull.co.uk/DearWasNotWasReWalkTheDinosaurandreply.htm
 

Radio Dupree 2013 Advent calendar 11-15

So, here we go! We stopped our Advent calendar after Window 10 on December 10. Why? Because we had an idea.
And after letting all the other calendars finish December 24, we now have the luxury of being the only Advent calendar still alive and filling those final few hours of 2013 with the remaining 14 windows we have in store.

Here's 11 - 15:

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Let's begin with a new oldie. The Gramovox Bluetooth gramophone 1920s inspired by the 1920 Magnavox R3 horn speaker. Yours for $299 and up if you get your order in before the end of the year:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gramovox/gramovoxtm-bluetooth-gramophone
  
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With YouTube the most popular music place these days we thought we'd take a look at the year end global chart and finding very little to excite us. Miley Cyrus, Rhianna and so on... A bit more interesting or at least not played to death music can be heard on the various country charts collected by Buzzfeed in this article:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/krisandres/the-2013-most-trending-domestic-music-videos-on-yo-6qn0

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Do we still buy physical records over here at Radio Dupree? Yes, we do! And in contrast to all the music charting behidn Window 13 here's Neb Stephenson's final store find for 2013:

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And while we're on the subject of physical records we wonder if this might be the answer to a question we ponder now and then. "How big can a CD-box be?"
It's Karajan 1938-1960 released about a year ago. A box set of ... 117 CD's!

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And as far as year end charts go the 50 Worst Albums of 2013 from Vice is now and again a slightly smile-inducing read. Although we haven't heard much of the music they sometimes get around to mentioning inbetween bursts of ... well, go check it out for yourself.

http://www.vice.com/read/vices-worst-50-albums-of-2013

Radio Dupree 2013 Advent calendar: December 10

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And a brand new remix of a song from David's The Next Day!

Radio Dupree 2013 Advent calendar: December 9

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Radio Dupree 2013 Advent calendar: December 8

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Hello Radio Dupree! 

It would make my day if you could find me a music video featuring various cookies and cakes on plates suspended in air by strings. The video should also include at least one rabbit plus one other animal with a furry tail. Thanks! 

- A listener with specific taste

Thank you, A listener with specific taste. Here you go:

Radio Dupree 2013 Advent calendar: December 7

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Radio Dupree 2013 Advent calendar: December 6

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Radio Dupree 2013 Advent calendar: December 5

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Radio Dupree 2013 Advent calendar: December 4

We searched for "radio" on a popular video streaming site and hit upon this:

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Some of our favorite intros (420 to be exact) are in this mix we did for BBC Radio1 a while ago, and it is actually quite a good introduction to the rest of Radio Soulwax, as a lot of tracks that are featured in this hour will come back in later shows to follow. The animated sleeves illustrate the mix and give it a whole new dimension!

(Click the image to get to the site and watch the hour long intro-vaganza!)

Radio Dupree 2013 Advent calendar: December 3

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[UPDATE December 8: Hey! So what or who swallowed the content here? Link, video or whatever gone... If we'd kept any sort of list of what we blog each time we could've re-created the content, but as it is... Well, you'll have to settle for a bunch of Japanese celebrities + American movie actor Tommy Lee Jones singing a line each of the classic hit Sukiyaki/上を向いて歩こうmade famous by Kyu Sakamoto/坂本 九in 1961/1963.

Trivia: Apparently done to raise money after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Tommy has a house in Kyoto. At least that's what the Internet says...

OK. Let's see if this sticks behind Advent calendar window numer 3...]

Radio Dupree 2013 Advent calendar: December 2

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Radio Dupree 2013 Advent calendar: December 1

And with the first of December we'd like to introduce our own Advent calendar not really sure what we'll find behind each "window", but there will be one a day until Christmas.

So... first out we'd like to tell a story of Christmas that involves some people opening a 15 000 square feet/1 400 square meter large record store. Yes, you read that right. A record store. In these days of online buying and listening how can anybody make reality of opening a store where you're supposed go to buy music on physical formats like ... er ... what is that silvery thing from the 1980's called? Yes, CD! And no small store at that.

Are we just making this up or ... could it be true? The answer is behind

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