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		<title>An interview about the new album</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Singer at Willamette Week in Portland did a great job weaving together the story of all the songs on my new album. Check out the extended web interview here.]]></description>
		<link>http://nickjaina.com/2011/08/30/an-interview-about-the-new-album/</link>
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		<title>Portland Cd Release Show and Western Tour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello. I&#8217;ll be officially releasing my new album in Portland Wednesday August 24th, and following that with a tour of Western and Mountain States for two weeks in September. The Portland show will be at Mississippi Studios and will feature the vocals of Kaylee Cole, Laura Gibson, Tahoe Jackson and others. Also on the bill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickjaina.com/2011/08/22/portland-cd-release-show-and-western-tour/</link>
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		<title>New Album Out Today, Digitally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My new album &#8220;The Beanstalks That Have Brought Us Here Are Gone&#8221; is officially out in the digital world today. You can listen and download over at Bandcamp, or at iTunes. A physical release (ew, gross) and proper tour will be coming in a couple months. So many wonderful singers lent their talents to this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickjaina.com/2011/06/21/new-album-out-today-digitally/</link>
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		<title>The racial composition of Portland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My recent column is about hipsters in Portland, and how the racial composition of a city matters in terms of the type of conversation the residents have about race. It&#8217;s a lot less dry than that description makes it sound, honest. It&#8217;s also about the rapture that didn&#8217;t happen on May 21st. If it HAD [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickjaina.com/2011/06/01/the-racial-composition-of-portland/</link>
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		<title>A Portland preview of the ballet music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on a ballet and choral music project with some people in New York over the last year. I&#8217;m pleased to say that it&#8217;s now complete and I&#8217;ll be able to preview it with our little ensemble in Portland on June 30th. Amanda Lawrence and Nathan Langston will be joining me onstage at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickjaina.com/2011/05/29/a-portland-preview-of-the-ballet-music/</link>
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		<title>Cover Artist Brooke Weeber</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Brooke Weeber designed the cover for my new album The Beanstalks That Have Brought Us Here Are Gone. We talked over different ideas of creating artwork that had more depth than an illustration, and we came up with the idea of building a diorama. All I told her was that I wanted some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickjaina.com/2011/05/25/cover-artist-brooke-weeber/</link>
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		<title>A Spontaneously Magical Performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple years ago I attended a dinner hosted by Michael Hebb. He likes to put artists and gastronomes in the same room with wonderful food and try to spark conversation. He told me that I should get up after the meal and play with the incredible singer Tahoe Jackson. It was a great idea, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickjaina.com/2011/05/24/a-spontaneously-magical-performance/</link>
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		<title>Video from KEXP Performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I played four songs with my band on KEXP radio in Seattle last November. The wonderful singer Kaylee Cole joined us on a song too. They recorded the whole thing on video. Here is an unreleased new song &#8220;Love Potion.&#8221; You can find the rest of the videos on YouTube if you search for &#8220;Nick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickjaina.com/2011/05/22/video-from-kexp-performance/</link>
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		<title>Jealousy and L.A.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent a week in Los Angeles and got two parking tickets. The first was when I was taking a ten-minute nap in my car. The second was when I felt like I had earned a free fifteen minutes of parking and didn&#8217;t pay the meter. I walked up to my van to see a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickjaina.com/2011/05/22/jealousy-and-l-a/</link>
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		<title>Daytrotter Sessions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve done two recording sessions over at the Daytrotter studios in Rock Island, Illinois. The most recent one came out last April and features some live in-studio recordings of some of my songs, including an older unreleased song. Sean at Daytrotter always writes beautiful summaries of the bands on the site, and he wrote some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickjaina.com/2011/05/21/daytrotter-sessions/</link>
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