Nemone - 02/02/2010

Nemone interviews North Carolina-based trio the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a young string band in the centuries-old Piedmont banjo and fiddle musical tradition. Described by Rolling Stone as ".. revisiting, with a joyful vengeance, black string-band and jug-band music of the Twenties and Thirties - the dirt-floor dance electricity of the Mississippi Sheiks and Cannon's Jug Stompers", the band are currently in the UK promoting their new album "Genuine Negro Gig" There will be more tracks from this week's Featured Playlist, selected by Baltimore's Dream-pop duo Beach House whose new album "Teen Dream" is already being touted as one of the Albums of 2010. Discover the band's influences across the week including tracks by Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie, Fever Ray and White Trash Boys.