It's not a new year's song, per se, though traditionally sung at midnight here and abroad. Rather, its message of friendship everlasting after a life well- and long-lived finds voice in, and brings hope and closure to, a multitude of celebrations throughout the English-speaking world, predominantly funerals and other ceremonies of remembrance. I posted a set of covers of Auld Lang Syne back in the waning days of 2009, too. But the Robert Burns poem and its various melodies seem particularly apt this year. For we heard its [...]
Today's selection of free and legal - because: official - downloads... Deadmau5 vs . Melleefresh - Afterhours Sherrie Austin - Circus Girl Blackberry Belles - Good Love Away / Cry Cry Cry Drake featuring Lil Wayne – The Motto (CDQ) Said the Whale – New Brighton Glass Candy - Halloween Wives - One Drake - The Motto [ft. Lil Wayne] ARMS – Heat & Hot Water Cloud Nothings – No Future/No Past The Drums - How It Ended (Jeremy Summer Camp Remix) Mike Patton - Twin [...]
The blogs are buzzing with yesterday's announcement, via a terse yet sincere statement on their website , that Athens, GA hometown heroes R.E.M. are calling it quits after three decades on the road, the radio, and the cultural consciousness. We first covered the genre-defining band back in 2009, so rather than rehash their path from college radio to iconic mainstream success, we're taking the opportunity to revisit that older post today in memoriam - with a couple of bonus covers of Losing My Religion , from more recent CLD faves Amber Rubarth [...]
Two weeks since the storm, and by most accounts, we're making real progress in our tiny town. Houses once broken disappear overnight, leaving empty spaces; others, chimney-less and battered, cover their gaping roofholes with tarps, until the valley below the town hall begins to look like a patchwork quilt: patches of peaked sky blue, newly exposed summer lawns, lumber, the stone grey of bare foundations. People go to work, and school. The local news moves on to other topics; there are long moments when I forget that the place where I live and love [...]
Alice Gold is gearing up for her debut album "Seven Rainbows," and recently released the pop friendly "Cry Cry Cry." Visuals for the feel good tune are above. Lp will see daylight soon.
Alice Gold seems every bit the modern pop star, washed clean of all the sugar coating that permeated through most other pretty-faced, female solo pop artists of the last billion decades. Like a lot of the pop predecessors who have punted out this type of chart-ready music she is styled and preened and looks like she has a bunch of 'edgy' looking session artists placed behind her in her videos, whom we imagine she only met that day, but in place of the dance moves and electronic pop we find her hitting guitar strings and playing distorted tunes with [...]
the Shirks "Cry Cry Cry" single (Grave Mistake) Did somebody distill all my favorite 7-inches into one potent platter of punk rock punchiness? If nothing else, it takes massive balls to entitle a song "Cry Cry Cry" and go nowhere near a Johnny Casd reference. The Shirks may very well be the heirs ...
Nicole Atkins continues to tour in support of her critically acclaimed sophomore album, Mondo Amore (Razor & Tie) with new tour dates announced through the summer. Check them out below and click here for a free download of "Cry Cry Cry". TOUR DATES: 4/29 Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse ^ 4/30 Philadelphia, PA @ Philadelphia International Festival of Arts 5/5-5/8 Las Vegas, NV @ The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas ^ 5/27 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE,...
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Filed under: Exclusive , Guest Blogger , Road Report Lucia Holm Nicole Atkins is currently on tour in support of her sophomore album, ' Mondo Amore ,' backed by a collective of musicians known as the Black Sea. Four years after the release of her debut record, 'Neptune City,' the 32-year-old singer-songwriter is back to showcase her unique blend of rootsy-folk and indie rock, exemplified by her latest single, 'Vultures.' [...]
Columbia Records must have just been some dead weight, because since splitting ways in June , Nicole Atkins is rolling. The New Jersey native's second album, Mondo Amore, just dropped February 8th, and she's now six dates into a nationwide tour with new backing band The Black Sea. Having a day to spare, Atkins and co. stopped by Conan last night to perform "Cry, Cry, Cry". With a voice as bright and vibrant as her dress, Atkins already possessed a dynamic sound. Combining those pipes with the power of guitarist Irina Yalkowsky, and [...]
Nicole Atkins performed "Cry Cry Cry" on Conan . Check it out and pick up her album Mondo Amore on iTunes , Amazon MP3 , CD Social Bookmarking
The beginning of the year is traditionally slow for new music, but over the last few weeks things have been picking up with a number of quality releases giving us some fresh music to inject into our ears. With that in mind, I thought I’d use this week’s Mix Tape to offer up a batch of songs from some obvious releases, and maybe a few that might be under the radar. So sit back, enjoy and play it loud. We kick things off with a trio of psychedelic [...]
We haven't traveled together since last summer's journey to Germany, and we've got the time. So my father and I are on the road again, just an hour or two ahead of an old-fashioned New England blizzard, off to Memphis, Tennessee, for the short gap between Christmas and New Years. So far, we've penciled in The Stax Museum of American Soul Music, the National Civil Rights museum, Sun Studios, and a chance to see the Gibson luthiers in action; the Smithsonian Rock 'N Soul Museum is actually in our hotel, so we'll be sure [...]
As folk critic Scott Alarik notes in his seminal 2004 essay compilation Deep Community: Adventures in the Modern Folk Underground , though the original American folk revival presented a plentiful mix of both female and male voices and songwriters, a quick "where are they now" look at the last few generations of folk artists reveals numerous women who went on to folkpop stardom - take, for example, eighties Fast Folk movement graduates Suzanne Vega and Shawn Colvin - with few male counterparts. In their stead, we find a set of male voices from that era [...]
Richard Shindell: The Ballad of Mary Magdalen [ purchase ] Cry Cry Cry: The Ballad of Mary Magdalen [ purchase ] This tale of Jesus' girlfriend's inner life after the ascension is one of my favorite songs from Richard Shindells' canon, and it's not hard to see why: the song offers a perfect set of all the things the ex-seminarian does best, from the fully humanized religious setting to the heartbreaking first-person portrayal of broken [...]
Happy New Year to everyone! I guess my resolution this year is to post more blog entries, I can't possibly post any less than last year. I suppose I'm off to a good start by posting the first day of the year. I'm glad to see 2009 go for many reasons, I'm ready for a new year, a new decade and a fresh start. I hope 2010 proves awesome for us all and far surpasses any expectations we may have. Quasi "This Will Be Our Year" [...]
Quick but heartfelt kudos to indie label Grinding Tapes for posting this timely in-house take on this classic year's end carol from The Points North . The flutes, guitar, and ragged vocal harmonies combine exquisitely, revealing a delicious old-school minimalist pubfolk perfect for a snowed-in New Year's Eve. The Points North: Auld Lang Syne Just as potent, in it's own way, is Sam Billen 's achingly fragile banjo-tinged [...]
Cry Cry Cry: I Know What Kind of Love This Is [ purchase ] I had originally been saving this song until the end of the week. But the diversity of posts so far - and the way in which each of us has come to the table using this week's theme to wrestle so well with a difficult issue - makes me feel the time is ripe sooner rather than later. So here is folk supergroup Cry Cry Cry with a potent, poignant [...]
Yes, it's Veterans Day, a "bank holiday", as the brits like to say; like so many other bloggers, I should be posting songs on the topic. But a recent bout of the dreaded H1N1 flu has left me late for end-of-term grading, perhaps one of the biggest sins a teacher can commit. As such, instead of taking advantage of the fine fall day outside, I find myself hunkered down over the dining room table, slowly making my way through a huge pile of previously-unseen papers and midterm exams. The post below was originally [...]
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