Beirut arrived at the NPR Music offices dusty and exhausted following a weekend at Bonnaroo in Tennessee. But after some much-needed showers, the band brought infectious joy to its short set behind the Tiny Desk. Set List: “East Harlem” “Sante Fe” “Serbian Cocek” For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concerts podcast, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts.
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Watch the hilarious trailer for Gary Shteyngart’s new novel, SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY with guest star James Franco, and others! The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America’s dysfunctional coming years—and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink. In a very near future—oh, let’s say next Tuesday—a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don’t that tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, the thirty-nine-year-old son of an angry Russian immigrant janitor, proud author of what may well be the world’s last diary, and less-proud owner of a bald spot shaped like the great state of Ohio. Despite his job at an outfit called Post-Human Services, which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldn’t it? Lenny’s from a different century—he totally loves books (or “printed, bound media artifacts,” as they’re now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly cruel twenty-four-year-old Korean American woman who just graduated from Elderbird College with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness. After meeting Lenny on an extended …

Harp Solo in Germany in 2006 with Homebound Concerts

The idea of going to a concert and experiencing their favorite performers doing it live excites live music fans everywhere. Getting the concert ticket allocation is the first piece of anticipation. This comes with the release of concert tour dates and the concert ticket publicity. But the idea of queuing for hours or even days to get your hands on the best concert tickets will test even the most ardent fans tenacity. Thank God the advent of the Internet has made this kind of concert ticket madness mostly a thing of the past. No longer do fans need to sleep rough overnight and waiting for the concert ticket selling venue to open and start selling the paper gold tickets for their concert. They don’t have to stand in line in all weathers in order to be first to get their hands on the best seats in the auditorium.The Internet is the great leveler when it comes to concert tickets. Every fan can acquire concert tickets for just about any performance with the click of a mouse. There are any numbers of online concert ticket websites that make it easy and simple to buy any concert tickets as soon as they are released for sale.Bye Bye box office. Does anybody regret the passing of the genuine box office in favor of the virtual concert ticket vendor? It isn’t just concert tickets that are online but you can buy tickets to every conceivable type of event too. The really good concert ticket agency websites are a veritable oracle when it comes to information on live performances of music, comedy shows, theatre plays and even circus events that are all over the World. Concert ticket sites are all about the 3 Ws. Who, where and when on the World Wide Web.There are only two limitations to the concert tickets you can buy over the Internet. They are size of your budget and your inability to be in more than one place at one time.Keep in touch. Having found your favorite concert ticket website you can keep in touch by signing up for regular email newsletters. Subscription is free and you only have put up with the pop-ups and marketing stuff that always goes hand in hand with them. When you subscribe to concert ticket websites you are sharing with them what type of entertainment you are willing to pay for. Then as new and similar events come on stream the concert ticket site will send you an email ‘heads up’ on the ticket information and when the concert tickets can be yours. You don’t even have to search for media references to your favored live performers.A final word on concert ticket websites. Watch out for their special contests open to their newsletter subscribers or their members and loyal customers. Sometimes, you can get to win a pair of concert tickets or receive a discount on your concert ticket spend.

ATTENTION! I’m Clarashoww! YouTube just deleted my Channel! But thats no reason to delete this awesome Vocaloid Videos! I keep on going! I will upload it again and again! Us against SEGA! I upload all 15 Parts again! (Mirrored) Thank you guys!
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Armed with acoustic guitars, tiny amps, a desktop percussion unit and a ton of grace, Wilco plays three new songs from The Whole Love and an old favorite in a stripped-down but powerful set at the NPR Music offices. Set List: “Dawned On Me” “Whole Love” “Born Alone” “War On War” For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concerts podcast, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts.