February 10, 2010
Yesterday, despite snow and sickness, the All Songs Considered team recorded our annual Valentine's Day podcast. This year, the theme was breakup songs.
Listen to the show below:
Please share your favorite breakup songs in the comments section.
Spektor is an oddball sentimentalist whose words summon universal feelings of love, hope and desire.
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Carrie Brownstein is a writer and musician. She was a member of the critically acclaimed rock band Sleater-Kinney. Her writing has appeared in numerous books and blogs on music and culture.
Carrie Brownstein, former guitarist for the band Sleater-Kinney, offers musings for music fans, curmudgeons and recovering hipsters.
The decades-old group incorporates classics, Dixieland, jazz and Broadway into its repertoire.
After years of struggling in New York, the folk group left everything behind and settled in Denver.
Once the poet laureate of his Alberta hometown, Rollie Pemberton is three albums into a rap career.
Female-soul backup and defiant pride are also part of the Mississippi rapper's appeal.
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