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Like A Star is the beautiful opening track on Corinne Bailey Rae’s outstanding eponymous debut album in 2006.
Corinne Bailey Rae has an incredible voice, sweet and sexy at the same time and in this video she looks like she sounds.
Corinne Bailey Rae - Like A Star

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MGMT - Time To Pretend Live on Later…Jools Holland

If you haven’t heard the name MGMT you may be familiar with their single, Time To Pretend, as it has been used on television throughout the year.
Every now and then a true classic pop song is released, one in which I contniue to play for years after.  [...]

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The Kooks - Acoustic cover version of Kids by MGMT
Here’s a clip of The Kooks playing an acoustic version of MGMT’s great track, Kids.
The clip shows The Kooks being interviewed in a local radio station studio amidst their current US tour.
Allegedly, The Kooks learnt to play the song as it was being played and then [...]

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Roddy Frame / Aztec Camera - Down The Dip
As a teenager I played guitar and sang in various local post-punk groups.  My lack of ability was overshadowed by my ideas and burning desire to be a musician; and the one saving grace I had was that all the guitarists that influenced me were older than [...]

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Stereophonics - Best Of You (Foo Fighters cover version)
Stereophonics come from a small village called Cwmaman, near Aberdare in South Wales. Kelly Jones and Richard Jones are not related but grew up together and began writing and performing with original drummer Stuart Cable.
Their first gig in 1992 was at the Cwmaman Workmens Club and in [...]

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