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Still some good, relevant links:

Some good stuff!

• Pandora: free website which plays only the music you like [try my station]
• Last.fm: music community [check out our music compatibility]
• Moodstream.gettyimages.com: music and images streamed adjusted according to your mood

Notable artists: 

• Laura Mam: This singer/song-writer has her own youtube channel [ LauraMamMusic ] where she plays covers and songs she writes about Cambodia and other pleasant, though unconventional topics. 
• Dengue Fever: American-Cambodian rock band. Their music is a mix of blues/rock/psychedelic songs from the 50s up to now, fused with tradtional Cambodian melodies, a tribute to genres from the Cambodian past, tragically affected by the Khmer Rouge. Features a beautiful Cambodian lead singer with a beautiful voice. They also did a touching, funny and eye-opening documentary about their trip to Cambodia called “Sleepwalking Through the Mekong” (after one of their albums, I think?). Watch it if you can!

More notable performers:

• Diane Birch: I saw this stylish Londoner at the Cornelia St. bar in New York in the fall of 2008 and she blew my mind with her amazing sometimes clear and sometimes sultry voice, candid lyrics and piano accompaniment. She does her own trumpet solos, without a trumpet! (We were all looking around the bar to see where the sound was coming from: her lips!) Unfortunately, I didn’t get a recording or a CD right then and there, but this is a video of her I found on youtube: Diane Birch ‘s video
• A class of 7th graders perform a cover of “Whatever You Like” for the 2008 US Election with edited lyrics. Here is [the Times Article]. The video is at the bottom of the article. It’s catchy and adorable!
• Sweet Child O’ Mine on the sitar! [youtubevid]
• Colbie Caillat & Jason Reeves singing ‘Permanent’ at the beach in San Diego, CA [vimeo.com/1828239]
• ‘Who’s Loving You?’ on Britain’s Got Talent [perezhilton.com/2009-04-18-hes-no-susan-boyle-but] 
• Reni Lane: Last.fm says ”The best kind of song is familiar and illuminating all at once, and if you’re lucky, its creator is too. Such is the case with Reni Lane, the 20-year-old whose edgy beauty belies her geekier side. A campus character at Columbia University, this classically trained artist extraordinaire is ready to turn heads in the music scene - while finishing her homework first.” If you’re  CU student you MUST check out her short spoofy song “Frontiers of Science” - looks like it was shot in the freshman dorm, Carman!

Other links:

• Tribute to Dior, my singing dog (2001-2008)