Bang on the money this week: gin in hand, more snow outside, Andy Williams is playing… You know that feeling (maybe?) that you just want something to dance to that your Dad used to play on vinyl when you were small… I still have the moves, Pops: Can't Take My Eyes Off You , followed by a bit of Moon River . Anyway, enough of that. You can just hear that needle ripping across the record… focus, focus. This week I'm enjoying Cate Le Bon's Puts Me [...]
This morning I heard a bird sing. The song was lovely. I don't know which kind of bird it was who serenaded me, but I am thankful for the song. Goldfinches are at the feeders now. An unfamiliar bird was there yesterday; it looked like a wren. A red spawn and a gray spawn of Satan had a bit of tiff this morning on the deck. The gray spawn, far bigger than the red one, ended up losing and fell down to the ground. I swear I saw the red spawn raise its arms in triumph. [...]
Filed under: News Getty Images Legendary singer Andy Williams has been diagnosed with bladder cancer. The 83-year-old crooner, best known for his hits 'Moon River' and ' Can't Take My Eyes Off You ,' reportedly met with specialists at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas last month, and began a three-week chemotherapy course on October 31. "Andy got the diagnosis of invasive bladder cancer very recently," a source told [...]
Every Time I Die have parted ways with bassist Josh Newton, making him the forty-seventh bassist to ever hold that particular position in that particular band. (I'm exaggerating, of course... but not by much.) Based on statements from both Newton ("Thanks to all the ETID dudes and all who cared. 'twas fun. ch-ch-ch-changes...") and the [...]
Ok, let's see... where did it start at? Well it started in a high rise Manhattan apartment building overlooking the Hudson River... wait, who I am kidding it started years and years before that. My brother Hector has one of the most extensive musical minds of anyone I've ever met, and this comes from a lifetime of constant exposure and involvement in all things music. I can't count the number of conversations me and him and have had about sacrifice... sacrifice of many common place things to ensure we live for our music. The songs that are chosen [...]
The snow is coming down at a pretty steady clip right now, and it has me in the mood for some hot chocolate and oldies, so I thought I'd share the chance to get reacquainted with the past. There is something magic about the scratchy record player scratch and pure vocal styles of oldies, and I have to say that I love the prevalence of the muted trumpet in music from back in the fifties and earlier. I can't think of a better type of music for a blizzard - I know when I have my own fireplace (assuming I'm [...]
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Now it's the most wonderful time of the year... A (relatively) modern addition to the Christmas canon, written in 1963 and popularized by Andy Williams on his Christmas Album , released that year. Another popular version - and my favorite - was recorded by Johnny Mathis for Christmas Eve with Johnny Mathis (1986). Here's Mathis performing (lip-syncing) it on a TV show from 1993: For me, it's a bit too poppy and fast-paced to really be [...]
Wrestling is awesome. This is probably why Andy Williams, burly guitarist of Every Time I Die is a big, big wrestling fan. It doesn't explain why he's preparing to get in the ring, have the hell kicked out of his Hulk Hogans and then capture it all on film. Regardless, that's what he's doing. Williams [...]
Over on Facebook, my mate Brendan asked recently if it were time for Christmas music yet, to which I responded with a most emphatic NO. Way too early. It may be "the most wonderful time of the year" - but not yet. I'm glad to see I'm not alone in feeling this way: Sorry, Frosty, not yet : I love Christmas music. Love, love, love it! Have scads of it. Perry. Andy. Elvis. Ella. Dean. Bing. [...]
And so it continues, the endless supply of awesome songs that I was allowed to play at my wedding. This section, played as background music during the cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, and dinner at our reception, was left entirely up to me to arrange. To keep the list coherent I gave my self a few limiting factors. Mostly all of the songs conform to the following criteria; a) songs must be music I would be willing to admit I listen to and enjoy, b) most of the music is to be by singer-songwriters, c) the music needs to span a variety [...]
Holy shit, is it seriously August already? It's gonna start getting cold soon. Motherfucker. Here's what we did this week when we should have been enjoying the sunshine and fresh air: We're streaming Dementia/Dyslexia, the Metal Blade debut of Fleshwrought, a new project from Animosity/Animals as Leaders' Navene Koperweis and Job for a Cowboy's Jonny Davy. We [...]
Exclusive beard+shlong nature noodz pic brought to you exclusively for this interview! Last week I conducted a very special interview I'd been looking forward to for some time: Andy Williams and Liam Wilson, two of metal's best beards, together on one conference call with me, self proclaimed Best Beard of metal writers. With the express purpose [...]
We all remember the days when movies were much milder - not only in terms of language, nudity, or sexual themes, but also in content. That might be at least part of the reason why some otherwise forgettable films made such an impression on us in those days by pushing the envelope a little. But in at least one case, a self-styled 'Shockumentary' also introduced a timeless song. In the early Sixties, the kind of reality TV that we've now grown accustomed to was not around, and when Mondo [...]
Retorna el miércoles de cátalogo con sus clásicos de tres décadas . Para celebrar el lanzamiento de The Places Between: The Best of Doves , vamos a compartir uno de sus temas emblemáticos — con fragmentos de Os Grilos de Marcos Valle, incluído originalmente en The Last Broadcast — 2002, Heavenly Records , aquí el primer sencillo de su segundo disco de estudio. Tómelo y huya; si le gusta, cómprelo... Escuche Galaxy 94.3 fm ® Los Mochis radio [...]
If you're like me then the first time you probably heard Andy Williams ' Can't Get Used To Losing You was via The English Beat (or as our fUKing friends across the pond know them, simply, The Beat ). Because of that I've always had a hard time parsing this tune from anything but a ska/rocksteady context. So for today I've rounded up a small collection of reggae,ska,rocksteady and punk versions. Minus the aforementioned Beat, we also have more Jamaican [...]
Y ou know that one section at CVS/Walgreens/Duane Reade that rotates its merchandise depending on whatever holiday is coming up next? The "seasonal aisle" has milk chocolate bunnies and pink Peeps around Easter. Then it's filled with red, white and blue everything for the 4 th of July—beads, sparklers, napkins and top hats. The stores are usually pretty good about staying up-to-date (and even better at giving great discounts in the days immediately after a holiday). But one holiday always gets special treatment. This year, the CVS [...]
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This week's episode of the current series of Later...with Jools Holland features a more interesting and diverse roster of artists than last week's one. Echo & the Bunnymen 's distinctive guitar and vocal sound brought them lots of critical and some commercial success in the eighties. They'll be playing songs from their latest album, The Fountain. Calvin Harris will be appearing and he's best known for his hit, Acceptable in the 80s. I've included a version from last week's guests, Editors . The Spaghetti Western Orchestra will be playing their versions of [...]
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