THE DAILY MOJO by Adam Daniel

This video clip by the lovely Lisa Mitchell has the same wistful feeling as old photographs. Simple and beautiful.

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Coming to you from the Mojo Living Room, it’s the 2009 ARIA Awards Running Diary. This year the awards have moved to Channel 9. Hmmmm. A little worried, but I’m sure they’ve got their fingers on the pulse. 8:30: The night kicks off with Keith Urban’s live performance of “Generic Country Pop Song #24″… actually, [...]

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Paul Dempsey’s ‘Everything Is True’ album is a sure contender for the top end of my Top 10 Albums of 2009. Here IS one of the reasons why: Amazing lyrics, beautiful melody. Pretty cool ‘speed dating-esque’ concept for the clip too. You can’t help but empathise with the position of artist as circus exhibit after [...]

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This austere but charming little clip is a gem. I’ve been digging Miss Washington’s outstanding back-up vocals on Whitley’s new album. You can hear more of her fine work here.

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Only 3 days until Powderfinger drop their new album, ‘Golden Rule’. Here’s the great first single. Warning: it’s main riff is ear candy and will tend to lodge itself inside your brain. I guess the literal interpretation of the clip is they are still planning world domination. Looking forward to Homebake boys.

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I can’t embed the clip unfortunately, but I still had to make Pearl Jam’s ‘The Fixer’ my song of the moment. I hadn’t watched the video until last week, which is an egregious sin for someone who calls himself a PJ diehard. Seconds into it I found myself impressed with the energy captured by the [...]

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Last Friday night we descended from the mountains for a night of musical goodness at the Enmore Theatre, provided by the incandescent and immensely talented Sarah Blasko. Yes, I know this is starting to seem like a dedicated Blasko fan blog, and I promise that I will be ixnay on the Ask-Blay for the next [...]

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Not to be confused with ‘Realtor’, a new song about Raine and Horne salespeople, this is the first single from Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson’s ‘Break Up’ album. I’ve only had the album itself for a few weeks and it’s still settling in. Agreeable, but definitely not as poignant and vivid as Yorn’s fourth album, [...]

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The Swell Season, the musical lovechild of Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova from the film ‘Once’, are back with a new album entitled ‘Strict Joy’. Thanks to NPR, I just listened to the album from start to finish and as expected it’s another melodic, tender gem. Though Glen and Marketa are no longer together as [...]

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Let’s kick things off with the first single from Adrian Deutsch’s (Ex-Red Riders) first solo album, ‘Help You!‘, from the album of the same name. I love the classic 70s pop-rock sound of this song, and the simple yet charming video clip. This is just one of a batch of excellent new songs I was [...]

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