I've been on a bit of a Brazilian music jag ever since I picked up a copy of the wonderful Chill Brazil CD last year in Atlanta. Suddenly, I'm running into Brazilian musical posts popping up all over the place.

Here's a brief guide to Brazilian music along with a cool gallery of Bossa Nova album covers via Gilda at the always-wonderful Neurastenia. M. Ace over at Irregular Orbit also has a review of the book Tropical Truth: A Story Of Music And Revolution In Brazil, by Caetano Veloso, who helped launch the political/musical Tropicalia movement in 1968 as a reaction against the dictatorial Brazilian government and the influx of British and American pop music flooding the airwaves.

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The DRUMMERWORLD DrumSolo Collection: over 40 solos by rock and jazz drummers in RealAudio and MP3 format. I fired up John Bonham's Moby Dick solo then went to the bathroom while it was playing...IT WUZ JUST LIKE A REAL ZEP CONCERT, DOOD!

via Coudal

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Thanks to the tireless efforts of the crew at Ukulelia, I can now torment my entire family (including the cat) with offkey renditions of the SpongeBob F.U.N. song on my Mookulele!

But why did they leave out Plankton's lyrics? They were the best part of the song!

F is for Fire that burns down the whole town
U is for Uranium....BOMBS!
N is for No survivors when you're....

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