{"id":2383,"date":"2013-11-01T11:55:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T15:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2014-01-18T12:11:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T17:11:25","slug":"good-read-good-listen-good-drink-alx-love-crushed-velvet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2013\/11\/01\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-alx-love-crushed-velvet\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Read A Good Listen and a Good Drink, ALX, Love Crushed Velvet"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a simple yet sublime pleasure, and just thinking about it can make you feel a little calmer, a little more content. Imagine: You bring out one of the good rocks glasses (or your favorite mug or a special occasion tea cup) and pour a couple fingers of amber liquid (or something dark and strong or just some whole milk). You drop the needle on the jazz platter (or pull up a blues album on your mp3 player or dig out that mixtape from college). Ensconcing yourself in the coziest seat in the house, you crack the spine on a classic (or find your place in that sci-fi paperback or pull up a biography on your e-book reader). And then, you go away for a while. Ah, bliss.<\/p>\n

In this series, some of NTSIB’s friends share beloved albums, books and drinks to recommend or inspire.<\/i><\/p>\n

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I first encountered Love Crushed Velvet<\/a> a couple of year ago when they were part of a Beatles on the Ukelele production in Brooklyn. One of the songs they covered was Back in the U.S.S.R.<\/i>; afterwards lead singer ALX and I bonded over being among the few people in the room old enough to remember<\/i> the U.S.S.R., and then I found out their original work was pretty great, too.<\/p>\n

On a related change-of-world-order note, here is the video for Revolution Time<\/i>, inspired by the Arab Spring of 2011, from their recently released EP Delusions<\/i>.
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"REVOLUTION TIME" - Love Crushed Velvet [Official Music Video]<\/div><\/div>
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