It looks like somebody at MSNBC finally listened to me. The AMP guys got some real press and here it is on YouTube…

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[The Afghan Music Project]
[YouTube - AMP on MSNBC]

Update on my previous post on the Afghan Music Project:
As of May 1st, 2006, the Afghan Music Project CD has climbed to No. 12 on the iTunes World Music Chart. All credit is due to Chris Becherer and Adam Gouttierre, 2 Berkeley students who traveled to Kabul in the summer of 2005 to record and […]

Chris Becherer, a friend of mine at Berkeley, spent last summer in Afghanistan with another Berkeley student producing a record of traditional Afhgan music. If that doesn’t sound fascinating to you, spend just a few minutes on their blog.

They spent 10 days on the ground in Kabul, gathering famed Afghan musicians - long silenced […]

Jay Mohr - you might better know him as Bob Sugar, Jerry Maguire’s nemesis and one-time protege - goes on a diatribe about the winter olympics. While I don’t think he’s particularly funny and usually find his SI.com articles to be pretty worthless, this one, which could have been much better if he had spent […]