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January 2012 Pioneer Playlist
Have you ever listened to an artist who is so captivating, so utterly authentic, that they send shivers down your spine and make you dizzy with wonder? Well, meet Petunia, who, along with his band The Vipers, is single-handedly reintroducing the world to a long-lost, old-time style of music incorporating flavours of roots, rockabilly, swing, and train car ramblin’ hillbilly folk. He even plays a homemade kazoozaphone (he makes it by ramming a kazoo into the bell shaped end of a bicycle horn) and yodels, too.
I first met Petunia …
November Pioneer Playlist
Bradford Cox was born in Athens, Georgia in 1982 with the genetic disorder, Marfan Syndrome. The disorder causes people to be unusually tall, with long limbs and long, thin fingers.
Cox dropped out of high school, and when his parents divorced he described his life as “Living in this big suburban house by myself.” He was a loner, but he embraced his isolation, and began making music on a small tape recorder after being captivated by Danny Elfman’s compositions for the soundtrack to Edward Scissorhands. The tape recorder was an …
October Pioneer Playlist
Discovering good hip hop these days is like finding a clean needle in a haystack of used syringes. That may be a strong analogy, but it’s an accurate one, as a lot of recent examples of the genre are toxic and dangerous in their blingin’ ballin’ blangin’ Bentley treatment of subjects like money, race, women and even fellow rappers.
Suffice to say there is a lot of rubbish clogging up the urban airwaves, but every once in a while something truly intelligent, unique and in the case of Brooklyn based hip …
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September Pioneer Playlist
The Pioneer Playlist is a new monthly feature providing a place to engage with music lovers and musicians throughout the region. It will include reviews and stories of artists/bands and topics that are either food for thought or inspirational. If you have an album or idea you’d like us to consider, contact joshua@cv-pioneer.com.
He has written and recorded over 350 songs, released 39 albums, performed in more than 20 bands, and played more than 1,000 shows in 25 countries across all four continents, so why haven’t you heard of him …