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Songs for Friday

This is the first in (hopefully) an ongoing series of posts where I upload some music and you listen to it.

The first song is Things That Scare Me by Neko Case. This song is taken from Neko's 2004 album Blacklisted. It's a spooky piece of bluegrass-influence country. Neko is known for her amazing voice and unconventional songwriting. I can listen to this song over and over. She comes from a punk background, and her defiantly independent attitude is probably the only thing holding her back from stardom.

Click on Neko's photo to see her Wikipedia entry.

The second song is Give It Up by J-Live & R.A. the Rugged Man. This song is taken from the 2005 album Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture. It's two underground MCs rapping over a great Wu beat by Preservation. R.A. is known for being grimey and filthy and rapping about what a fuck-up he is. J-Live is known as a conscious rapper who once dropped out of the game to become a school teacher. Neither is known very widely.

Click on their respective photos to see their wikipedia entries.