- 171 CONCERTS · DIGITAL-DOWNLOADS Pearl Jam, Ben Harper & The Relentless 7 and Liam Finn at the QSAC Stadium in Brisbane, 25 November 2009 God, I can’t believe how long it’s been since I went to a gig… I think my last one was Ryan Adams at the beginning of the year, and here we are in November already. The good news is, my lapse in attending gigs was broke… NOV · 26 · 2009 11 COMMENTS READ →
- 172 2009-RELEASES · ARTISTS Dave McMillan – Trying to find Rewind So, if you’ve read my “30 South African Bands you need to hear!” post – and it seems like a lot of you are – you would have noticed my admiration for Durban muso, Dave McMillan. Dave was, quite literally, the reason I p… NOV · 23 · 2009 4 COMMENTS READ →
- 173 ARTISTS · LIVE-SONGS Ryan Adams – A video “Best Of”… So, a while back I noticed that I had watched a lot… and I mean, a lot… of Ryan Adams videos on the ol’ Tube. And I got it into my head that one day, I should really post a collection of my favourite performances of his… OCT · 17 · 2009 7 COMMENTS READ →
- 174 2009-RELEASES · ARTISTS-TO-WATCH-FOR-IN-2010 Mumford and Sons – Sigh No More So, I’ve held off on posting about this album for a while… when I first heard Mumford and Sons, there was this crazy rush of excitement (“thank god, finally a 2009 sound worth raving about!”) that I thought might colour… OCT · 14 · 2009 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 175 2009-RELEASES · ARTISTS The Middle East – The Darkest Side So, if you’re a fan of my Facebook page (and if you aren’t, what are you waiting for? Go on, visit the link and fan the page. I’ll wait. No rush. Back? Good. Ahem… where was I?)… oh yes, so if you’re a fan of my Faceboo… OCT · 06 · 2009 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 176 2009-RELEASES · ARTISTS Mumford and Sons – “Little Lion Man” (Video) & live “White Blank Page” I don’t quite know how I’ve let this go until now without a post. Mumford and Sons was a band I’d heard mentioned in quite a few places online, but for some reason I’d never bothered to track down much of their stuff. T… OCT · 05 · 2009 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 177 A-LOOK-BACK-AT-BURGOS-BLOG-THUS-FAR Wow. Two years old, huh? So it looks like I let something slip by without celebration that I promised I would not let slip by… the second birthday of Burgo’s Music Blog! That’s right, on the 17th of September 2009, this here music blog turned 2… SEP · 27 · 2009 5 COMMENTS READ →
- 178 2009-RELEASES · ARTISTS Dave Smallen – I Think It’s Getting Better There is no better day than today, a Monday, to play this song for you. Below, Dave Smallen‘s “I Think It’s Getting Better”. AUG · 31 · 2009 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 179 2008-RELEASES · ARTISTS So happy I just heard: Ben Howard The music blogging gig is a weird thing… you can go months without hearing anything that inspires you, and then all of a sudden a whole host of tunes reach out and smack you across the face in a course of a week. This h… AUG · 14 · 2009 5 COMMENTS READ →
- 180 MUSIC · MUSIC-DOCUMENTARIES It Might Get Loud Trailer – This could be very, very cool… I was sent a link to this trailer today (hi Mark!), and I must say that “It Might Get Loud“, a documentary by Davis Guggenheim – yes, the “Inconvenient Truth” Davis Guggenheim – looks like it could be very, very cool. T… AUG · 13 · 2009 6 COMMENTS READ →