"Sorry kids, I was unable to prepare a test for you today. I was totally getted after my gig last night." I could only wish my teachers could tell me that. Here we have teacher by day, righteous musician by night, Cannonball Jane . I don't know too much about her other than the fact she makes wicked tracks. Reading somewhere along the clothesline, Beastie Boys are one of her influences apparently. Her sound is very...hard to put my finger on it, 60's+80's ish and is quite effective. I hear aspects of 60's spy movies [...]
Remember the Beastie Boys' old label Grand Royal that also featured Sean Lennon. Imagine if Sean Lennon and the Beastie Boys actually collaborated on an album...and imagine they were all just one woman...and this woman was Sharon Hagopian, an elementary school music teacher from Bridgeport, CT. This is Cannonball Jane. Hagopian has that 60's pop mentality of Lennon and the 80s B-boy rhythm of the Beastie Boys, which makes her friggin' awesome. She put out Knees Up , an EP on Gaddycat Records , last year, but I'm loving this right now. If you're a fan of Luscious [...]
(Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin) Via Chromewaves , I found this Web site called Buffet Libre, which recently posted Rewind: The '80s Covers Project , a four-hour (!) mix of '80s cover tunes -- downloadable for free . The collection has mash-ups (Yes vs. Howard Jones) and remixes (Madonna, Def Leppard, Pet Shop Boys), although it covers a surprisingly diverse array of genres -- from folk-pop to electro, hip-hop to straightforward rock. Notable artists contributing include Dragonette, [...]
Chanel Anger Happy Funk from sexymess.com Check out the 80’s cover project by Buffetlibre , a Spanish website dedicated to the promotion of pop and electronic music in legal mp3 format. Rewind is a non-commercial project intended as a unique tribute to music of the 1980's. The first project, 58 covers and remixes of songs from the great 1980s, was made available on July 1, with the next installment due September 1. The artists include interesting unknowns as well as those whose names are getting to [...]
Some people simply make me tired with all they do in a given day. Case in point, Sharon Hagopian. Her day gig is elementary school teacher in Connecticut. As my sister is a grade school teacher, I can tell you with some degree of certainty, that’s an occupation that takes hours and hours of one’s day. That doesn't stop Hagopian from putting out some damn fine hip-hop inspired tracks by night under the moniker Cannonball Jane , though. You may recall Ms. Hagopian made something of an internet splash about a year ago. As I recall, she was "discovered" [...]
The older I get, the more I appreciate the darkly twisted Nick Cave . He and his Bad Seeds have a new record out, "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!" which is just pure art. Check out the title track for a glimpse. MP3: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!" London based singer-songwriter Owen Duff has offered up his latest EP "The Stop Gap"as a free download. A little reminiscent of Badly Drawn Boy, but definitely worth a listen. MP3: Owen Duff - "Act of War" [...]
June 12th - June 15th - NYC Popfest Recently, we had the opportunity to cover our first of hopefully many summer festivals, NYC Popfest . Three days, 24 bands and no major headliner. What drew me to this festival was the wide cultural range of bands, and the smaller feel of the festival. Each year they try seek out the best of under heard from around the world and bring them to New York. This years line-up is listed below: The Besties (NYC) [...]
Bikini - I Remember Being Young ( mp3 ) Camp Radio - Cons At The New Moon ( mp3 ) Cannonball Jane - The Secret Handshake ( mp3 ) Coldplay - Life In Technicolor ( mp3 ) Coldplay - Strawberry Swing ( mp3 ) Computer Vs. Banjo - Give Up The Ghost ( mp3 ) Dream Bitches - Me And The Major ( mp3 ) Dream Bitches - Mother’s Day ( mp3 ) Flannel - Morning, About Mill and Mugs ( mp3 ) Fleet Foxes - He Doesn’t Know Why [...]
So I was cleaning out my inbox tonight and came across a few tracks some of you might be interested in. Please click on the artist's name to learn more about them and if you like what you hear please buy their music! Enjoy. Cannonball Jane - The Secret Handshake (mp3) The Acorn - Good Enough (Cyndi Lauper cover) (mp3) Tilly and The Wall - Pot Kettle Black (mp3)/ Cacophany (mp3) [...]
Monday, June 16, 2008 Hey! How was everyone's weekend? Mine was full of work that gave me a newfound hate for the heat that comes with Texas summers and there was a little bit of sadness that my Celtics couldn't close out the Lakers last night. Sigh. Sorry for skipping out on another podcast this week. Here's an EP to square things up. Enjoy. : The Weeks - Buttons : Here are a bunch of kids (the band's [...]
School’s out for the summer and so is Sharon Hagopian, aka Cannonball Jane - music teacher by day and underground electro-pop phenomenon by night. When she’s not teaching in her hometown of Bridgeport, CT, she’s out creating a mind-bendingly brilliant mix of hip-hop samples and sixties girl group pop. With summer vacation underway, Hagopian is taking a time-out by launching a northeast tour to promote her latest EP Knees Up!, which features a remix of the hit “Take It To Fantastic” by Adrock of Beastie Boys. Sounding more like the work of a throng of music nerds (banned-from-the-academy [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Antlers : free and legal New York Hospitals EP (zipped) [mp3] other Antlers music blog posts at Largehearted Boy Bowery Boy Blue : "Come Closer, Sisters" [mp3] other Bowery Boy Blue music blog posts at Largehearted Boy Cannonball Jane : "The Secret Handshake" [mp3] from [...]
Ein allra besta plta ársins verður að teljast samnefnd plata hinnar stórgóðu sveitar Fleet Foxes . Hinir háu herrar hjá Pitchfork sáu meira að segja ástæðu til að gefa plötunni heila 9.0 í einkun og verður það að teljast nokkuð sjaldgæft á þeim bænum. Ég er enn að vinna í því hvernig ég á að útskýra tónlist Fleet Foxes fyrir fólki en um leið og ég átta mig á því megið þið búast við einu stykki Rjómadómi um plötuna frá mér. Fram að því skil ég ykkur eftir með lagið "White Winter Hymnal" [...]
School's out for the summer and so is Sharon Hagopian, aka Cannonball Jane - music teacher by day and underground electro-pop phenomenon by night. When she's not teaching in her hometown of Bridgeport, CT, she's out creating a mind-bendingly brilliant mix of hip-hop samples and sixties girl group pop. With summer vacation underway, Hagopian is taking a time-out by launching a northeast tour to promote her latest EP Knees Up!, which features a remix of the hit "Take It To Fantastic" by Adrock of Beastie Boys. Recorded entirely at home, Hagopian's studio set up of beatboxes, samplers, tambourines, guitars, [...]
Jun 10, 2008, 2:53am
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Whenever I hear the name Jane I can't help thinking about a high school friend of mine (spelled "Jayne"). She was one of maybe three people from my school I hung out with my senior year. When I attended a reunion recently my wife asked me, not facetiously, "Are you even going to know anyone here?" The only person I could think of was Jayne, but I knew she wouldn't be there. Like me, Jayne was slightly anti-social. As I expected, no Jayne. But you know how high school reunions put you in that nostalgic mood/mode? Thus affected, [...]
Elementary school teacher turned electro-pop darling Cannonball Jane heads off on a summer tour, sans a notebook. “Cannonball Jane is the coolest one woman band I’ve heard in a long time. This is what Carole King would sound like if she had a sampler and was really into Francoise Hardy.” – Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre “…one-woman New York punk-funk project Cannonball Jane lived up to the hype” – New York Magazine “Cannonball Jane purveys an inventive mishmash of hip hop beats and day-glo ‘60s pop that suggests a female Beck [...]
Cannonball Jane [Connecticut] One-girl force Sharon Hagopian is cool enough being an elementary school music teacher just over the Long Island Sound from me. As CJ, she loves to mash hip-hop beats, samples and sweet vocals. Already, she earns my jealousy for going out there with the Go!Team and Le Tigre among others. Hogopian's Knees Up! EP is so hip it's wearing argyle socks. mp3 - The Secret Handshake dates with the nite: 6/10 – [...]
“ Cannonball Jane is the coolest one woman band I’ve heard in a long time. This is what Carole King would sound like if she had a sampler and was really into Francoise Hardy .” – Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre “…one-woman New York punk-funk project Cannonball Jane lived up to the hype” – New York Magazine “ Cannonball Jane purveys an inventive mishmash of hip hop beats and day-glo ‘60s pop that suggests a female [...]
The Helio Sequence Keep Your Eyes Ahead MP3: Keep Your Eyes Ahead The Indelicates MP3: New Art For The People Cannonball Jane Knees Up! MP3: Take It To Fantastic [...]
New York, NY I cannot get enough of this track from Cannonball Jane. Fun fun fun! Would fit well in the Pulp Fiction soundtrack. "Take It To Fantastic" Cannonball Jane on MySpace Cannonball Jane on The Hype Machine
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