Who is the Hottest Musical Couple of the Year?

...If you answered Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, you could be right. No doubt, their connection on RAISING SAND is one of the greatest musical surprise moments of the year.

But, to take that kind of chemistry a step further, the two that truly do it for me are Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova. It all started with the movie ONCE in which they starred as busking musicians on the streets of Dublin. Then it just exploded when they released a cover of Dylan's YOU AIN'T GOING NOWHERE from the I'M NOT THERE SOUNDTRACK. Glen and Marketa stirred up the ghosts of Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris for me....from that California country era that brought rock and roll and country together.

The Frames frontman and the Czech songbird and multi-instrumentalist exude something more than just chemical when they harmonize. There's something, well, kind of sexy going on when you see them onstage...or in the case below, when they heat up the Colorado snow at Sundance. So check it out and melt away!



p.s. It now seems the two are dating. I never would have guessed ;)

A New Take on Music Videos features TMD Artists

Coming back to Baltimore from NYC this weekend I was handed a magazine by the person next to me, Nylon Guys. While flipping through articles I came across an article on Vincent Moon, a filmmaker who is "reinventing the music video" artists include, R.E.M., Cold War Kids, the Kooks and Arcade Fire.

Moon is putting out a DVD The Take Away Shows, with these music videos and more. If you're in the store and see the Nylon Guys magazine, give it a read, it's worth it.

"In The Take Away Shows Moon has also crashed restaurants with Beirut, rolled through a warehouse with Cold War Kids, and serenaded school girls with the Kooks in the streets of Paris" (Mallory Rice, Nylon Guys).

Catch the Arcade Fire Segment here, a great part starts at 03:50, for more details check out The Take Away Shows Website