May/June 2004 Issue

The MoJo Mix

What we’re listening to: Our favorite mp3’s.

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ARTIST

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In The Morning

Norah Jones

Booker T. organ lines and hushed, Joplinesque vocals

Look What You’ve Done

Jet

Shades of Nevermind and Sgt. Pepper

Stay Don’t Go

Spoon

Nothin’ but lo-fi beat-box tenderness

December 4th

DJ Danger Mouse

A mix of Jay-Z’s Black Album and “Mother Nature’s Son” from the Beatles’ White Album

Fast As I Can

Erin McKeown

Björky vocals, beguiling syntax: “Tonight, woke I in a strange bed.”

Pink Bullets

The Shins

“In a movie so crass and awkwardly cast, even I could be the star.”

Out On the Rolling Sea

Olu Dara

A bluesy take on a Bahamian sailor spiritual (by the father of rapper Nas)

Butterfly

Mason Jennings

A perfectly contagious, conflicted ode to love

Oh My God

Michael Franti

Sultry funk from the planet’s grooviest conspiracy theorist

Goodnight Moon

Will Kimbrough

A full-grown Southern lullaby: “Good night, ol’ broke-down cars…”

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That means we're going to have upwards of $350,000, maybe more, to raise in online donations between now and June 30, when our fiscal year ends and we have to get to break-even. And even though there's zero cushion to miss the mark, we won't be all that in your face about our fundraising again until June.

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