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Laura Mvula: Diamonds

Dave Grohl's new project, Miriam Makeba remembered, Beach House's "Wishes" and more in our weekly music recap

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Eric Wareheim—one half of the hilarious sketch comedy duo Tim and Eric—takes Beach House’s perfectly sedated “Wishes,” off their 2012 album Bloom and turns it into a psychedelic anthem about high school dreams, in a video that feels like Friday Night Lights meets the circus. Just when we thought that song couldn’t get any better, Wareheim gives us even more reason to keep it on …

Beach House: Wishes

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Miriam Makeba: Soweto Blues Google Doodle paid homage to the late Miriam Makeba on Monday, who would have been celebrating her 81st birthday. The South African singer will be forever remembered for speaking out against apartheid and delivering protest songs with majestical prowess, such as “Soweto Blues,” which was written by her former husband Hugh Masekela after a student rally went majorly awry in 1976. …