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I don’t really get why Django Django aren’t bigger than they are. Their first three albums were glorious musical celebrations filled with great ideas, pop sensibility, retro chic, catchy riffs, and huge sing-along choruses. What’s not to like? In my mind they are main stage headliners at every festival with the crowd lapping it up. As I ponder this, I’m also reminded that their last album, ‘Marble Skies’, came out in 2018. Time flies eh? To remedy this, they have released a new al...

Django Django's fourth album, made in 2019, feels like an eerily prophetic forecasting of the world it would be released into

Soft and nuanced, this is an unlikely triumph from art-rock mainstays Django Django, despite originally being written to fill gaps in their live set

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Dictator erdogan who is going to mow through them. >> newt: we were helping the kurds because isis was killing them. >> gillian: that is not in the strategic interest. >> jessica: we have to acknowledge that this would never have happened had erdogan not been on the phone with president trump that sunday. i understand that there was no talking about pulling out of the region, the president may have campaigned on that, but -- you cannot ignore the duress line between what erdogan wanted to come o...

Point a lot of republicans are being quiet. for the first time i spoke to a serious trump guy who no matter what happened was like, no, no, no. the first time he said things arent working so well. it wasnt an issue about the investigation, it was about the economy. all of a sudden whether its trade, whether its the inverted yield curve, im starting to see people, and these are the people that once again have stood by him not as much even about the investigation, but theyre starting to sense that...

Now he was telling detective gibson he wasnt sure if his mother was alive that morning. said he only remembered getting out of bed and going to his moms room but she didnt answerer him. >> i just remember going to her room and she wouldnt wake up. i think it was valentines da day dad was gone, came back and i told him that yeah, she was not waking up. >> but the two older boys said they did remember seeing their mom that morning. this is the middle boy. >> i just remember like waking up -- like ...

And he stepped outside and he used some cuss words and lights went on, and everybody in the house started waking up, and then we were outta there to the next house. everywhere you looked was on fire. the hills, the ridges, houses, the field in front of us, the oak tree. everything was on fire. >> this thing is moving fast. you need to move with it. >> i woke to the smell of smoke. >> within five minutes, it went to complete black, where we couldnt see, heat, fire. >> the next thing i hear is joh...

Yeah, its a pretty big city, but its a small community. and i know that theyre in pain this morning. >> absolutely. waking up, you know, we just got a notice before we came on the air. one of the local school districts is putting out the idea that kids should be wearing white today in solidarity with the victims. which is such a beautiful expression. at the same time you think to yourself, kids wearing white to school, also a reminder of this tragedy that struck and what the world is that they a...

And i remember one particular gentleman thats like, "theres no fire," and hes standing there in his underwear, and i said, "take a look." and he stepped outside and he used some cuss words and lights went on, and everybody in the house started waking up, and then we were outta there to the next house. everywhere you looked was on fire. the hills, the ridges, houses, the field in front of us, the oak tree. everything was on fire. >> this thing is moving fast. you need to move with it. >> i woke t...