Lisa Mills' Tempered in Fire reveals the singer to be a female blues talent who deserves to be heard again and again.

By December 1983, my radio listening habits were going through a migration from Top 40 stations, which I had been listening to for a couple years, to the album rock of Q95 and, mostly in the evenings when reception was possible, the newly-minted 97X. But, Casey Kasem and American Top 40 was still a drowsy weekend morning staple and I would often peruse Billboard magazine when I'd come across a copy in the magazine racks at Walden Books while hanging out in the malls in Cincinnati. During [...]

It is always sad when a band splits up - unless of course the solo projects than spin out from its demise are by and large amazing. The solo project in question here is by a man recording as Pearl Fiction . Swedish pop band Zeitgeist split in 2009 (AND YES WE ARE JUST GOING THROUGH THEIR WIKIPEDIA PAGE PULLING OUT THE KEY PIECES OF INFORMATION HERE) after a string of electropop successes with their blend of music, performance and art. One third of the band, Pearl, is now carving a rather impressive solo career [...]
Di solito evitiamo, per una scelta pratica oltrechè tematica, di soffermarci sugli artisti ormai inseriti nel mainstream, salvo che non siano nati attraverso strade come talent show o similari. Però questa cover di L'Aura (anzi L'Aura Abela, come lei stessa si accredita nel disco, includendo il cognome) insieme a Nek merita decisamente una segnalazione. "Eclissi del cuore" è una delle sei tracce dell'Ep " Sei come me" inciso dall'artista bresciana. Chi mastica un minimo di musica avrà riconosciuto la melodia originale, che è "Total eclypse of the earth", [...]
Filed under: Exclusive , The Hit List YouTube.com There are plenty of scary music videos out there, but many of them are from artists you'd expect to go the horror route: Marilyn Manson , Nine Inch Nails , Tool , etc. But there are also many videos that are even more unsettling and off-putting, simply because it's unexpected. Whether it's possessed children starring in the clip of an '80s ballad, pop [...]

01. Total Eclipse of the Heart [0:06:58.42] 02. Against the Wind [0:03:38.58] 03. It's a Heartache [0:03:29.05] 04. Lost in France [0:03:54.07] 05. God Gave Love to You [0:04:30.05] 06. Why [0:03:57.40] 07. Loving You is a Dirty Job But Somebody's Gotta Do It [0:07:46.30] 08. To Love Somebody [0:05:39.45] 09. You are so Beautiful [0:02:23.55] 10. Call Me [0:03:59.53] 11. Angel Heart [0:03:48.35] 12. Lovers Again [0:04:30.27] 13. A Whiter Shade of Pale [0:04:27.63] 14. Silouette in Red [0:03:58.60] 15. Straight From the Heart [0:03:39.42] 16. Islands [0:04:18.03] 17. Stay [0:04:04.30] DOWNLOAD
Oops, I think I missed last week. Oh well. Our previous selection, the Footloose Soundtrack, remains one of my favorite albums of all time. Yes, it is pure 1980s pop - mostly of the over-the-top, cheesy variety. But it is the best of that genre with non-stop, back-to-back catchy pop hits. Kenny Loggin's title track [...]

1983 was a pivitol year for me and music. As the year began, I had begun to explore more of the radio stations available to me in our corner of the Midwest, gaining familiarity and interest in songs and artists that I might not have heard on Top 40 radio. I was also hearing music from the '60s and '70s, some of which existed as vague recollections, but much of it for the first time. There would never be a time in which more music would be a wholly new experience for [...]

Bartónar Kallakór Kaffibarsins hefur um nokkra mánaða skeið setið við æfingar á Bonnie Tyler slagaranum Total Eclypse of The Heart og hyggur á frumflutning á Kaffibarnum á morgun (laugardaginn 4.júní). Tilefnið mun vera hin árlega humarveisla Kaffibarsins, SumarHumar en ásamt kórnum munu plötusnúðarnir Andrés Níelsen og Árni Sveinsson leika listir sínar fyrir humarelskandi gesti fram á rauða nótt. Aðgangur er ókeypis og hefjast hátíðahöldin klukkan 18.00 . Related posts: Nýtt tilraunaverkefni frumflutt á Reykjavík Music [...]

You like Huey Lewis and The News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humour. [...]

In 1977 I started to build a record collection; in 1978, the year I turned 12, I began to be really serious about music, buying singles by the Sex Pistols and Jethro Tull alike. And I became a Blondie fan before anyone else I knew was even aware of them. In early 1978 I had my first kiss (which also was the last for a while), went to my first rock concert (ditto), and made a friend whom I recently met again for the first time in 29 years (but more of that at a later stage). The first part [...]
During their years of touring, Guster has taken on many cover songs with both their sensitive and playful dispositions (but mostly the latter).

Today is October 30, which means it's time for ghoulish Halloween X Factor spook-tacular! And oh, how terrifying it was: Damning choir chants from Hell, epilepsy-inducing flashes of lights, Louis Walsh's general existence—wait, how's this any different from any other week of the X Factor? Oh right, heavier eyeliner. To kick off the night, the Beloved Jewel of Ireland, Tesco Mary Byrnes came out in a pair of modest devil horns for a gloriously dramatic, disco-y rendition of [...]
Couple of days ago I wrote about the nice album by Hurray For The Riff Raff which presented a nice country-folk music. This post is not going to be very different, because Melaena Cadiz's debut, DIY album "Rattle The Windows" is a another fabulous album of a young American singer/songwriter, a student in the Loretta Lynn/Bonnie [...]
I don't usually go negative here, but this is really more of a fond recollection of terribleness than a complaint... I've been making up for a 26-year-old gap in my knowledge by watching Hot Dog... The Movie (in installments, because it's very bad, and I say this as a lover of the genre). Naturally, there's plenty of montages with folks skiing over a classic 80s soundtrack - and when I say "classic," I don't mean like "Hungry Like The Wolf" (although that song's featured during a party scene). I mean classically awful, with [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Statia Photography, Getty Images At a certain level, a band's status is determined by the athletic activity that typically takes place in the largest venues it's able to play. Hockey and basketball are respectable; football and baseball signify superstardom. Thursday night, Metric put a new spin on this idea, bringing its heavyweight New Wave sound to the place where much of Brooklyn goes to jog, walk its dogs and watch its kids [...]
FMB hero Rayko sent us through a nice big batch of his newest edits, hot off the bench press! Here's are favourites...as you'd expect there's plenty of chunky slow burning... High quality download and some links hidden from RSS feed, click through to http://www.feelmybicep.com for full download

Though Paloma will likely roll her eyes, I'm not one to be swayed by commercials. Sure, there are things that are of use to me that I've learned about via an advertisement - the garden weasel or Hardee's mushroom and swiss thickburger - but I'm not going to merely goose-step to the store because of a celebrity or a snappy jingle. As a kid, though, it was far easier to be drawn to the siren song of commercials, especially the ones sprinkled throughout a morning of viewing cartoons on Saturday mornings. The main obstacle [...]

1977, the year I turned 11, was a pivotal year in my life, perhaps more than any other. My family was torn apart by my father's sudden death, I discovered love and became a serious fan of pop music. We'll deal with the first two in part 1. As always, I must stress that all songs are included here because they have the power to beam me back to the time under discussion. Some I like, and some I most certainly do not endorse. Don't despair, things will get better as I get older… * * * [...]

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