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Tuvan throat-singing punk band

Read about them here, buy it here.  Their "When the Levee Breaks" blew me away, the next best thing to having Howlin' Wolf sing it.  Here are two MP3 tracks, but alas not the ones you might want.  Here is a good recent (short) article on globalized culture.

Posted by Tyler Cowen on August 20, 2005 at 07:13 AM in Music | Permalink

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