@Mijangos // " Melody Fair " - Bee Gees Vi esta película de niño y Melody fue mi primer crush. @AtomicMx // " Possession " - Sarah McLachlan Quisiera tener una buena explicación para excusar este guilty pleasure. Creo que en esa época me gustaba mucho Canadá. @RodrigoAlcocer // " Shine a Little Love " - Electric Light Orchestra Violines, Lásers y Jeff Lynne coqueteando durísimo con el Disco. Perfecta para los que se ilusionan en San [...]
President Barack Obama built his entire campaign on the premise of hope and change. Along the way, he's realigned the musical tastes associated with the leader of the free world, as evidenced by his love of hip-hop and Al Green and invitations to acts like The Killers and Yim Yames to play the White House. Fun fact: President Bush only had a paltry 250 songs on his iPod . In an effort to further play up his musical savviness (which undoubtedly translates to more votes in the Williamsburg region), [...]
I love that ELO have been thoroughly rescued from the dustbin of AOR history, and that Jeff Lynne's insistent fusion of Beatles and bombast seems to have the respect it always deserved. Still, I suspect their '80s output will remain stashed in the attic. Which is a pity. Secret Messages has some killer moments. This is my favorite, with its preposterous rainy day verses (synth sax!) and equally preposterous chorus (TR-808 handclaps!). Totally mismatched and totally worth blasting out loud. I'll stand this one next to "Evil Woman" any day. Dig [...]
You knew it was coming. Com's The Dreamer, The Believer hits stores December 20th, so make sure you pick up a few copies. It's definitely worth it. Hit the jump to stream some of the tracks No I.D. used to craft Com's latest joints. The Fellows - "Make It Last" ("Ghetto Dreams") Make It Last Electric Light Orchestra - "Mr. Blue Sky" ("Blue Sky") Mr. Blue Sky Doris & Kelley - [...]
Owl Mag photographer, Don Albonico, takes us for a ride in his blue 1970 Mustang Mach 1.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Common is far from an up & comer, but I could not disregard the incredible energy off this track. I don't know how I did not see this a little earlier, but this goes hard. I'm a long time fan Common, and this track put a modern twist on the classic Chi-city [...]
Lead singer James Petralli lists his influences // Follow Owl and Bear on Facebook and Twitter for contests, MP3s, and links that don't make it onto the blog.
Common, recently featured on these pages as a topic of the interview with Professor Adam Bradley, is putting out a new album, The Dreamer, The Believer on November 22nd. His first two singles have definitely done a great job of helping the faithful listener put the relative debacle of Universal Mind Control even further into the recesses of our mind. "Blue Sky," released last week, is one of those songs that is an immediate jamandahalf. The song feels, above all, large. Sounding like it would have fit right in on Kanye's last album, "Blue [...]
Common's got a new track from The Dreamer, The Believer making the rounds. I gotta say, it's always good to hear some Common. Even that UMC stuff. He's definitely in my top three, possibly top two. "Blue Sky" samples Electric Light Orchestra's "Mr. Blue Sky", and it's a pretty good track. Everything you've came to expect from the Chicago native.
Common + No I.D. + Electric Light Orchestra = dope.
To say "Give Me Jeff Lynne or Give Me Death" might be a bit much, but today's my birthday so I think I am entitled to a bold statement or two.
As I often remind Paloma, my childhood was spent in the hinterlands of the Midwest, right past where the flat Earth ends, amidst a lot of corn. Its charm is far more apparent given time and distance. Paloma has heard me recount tales of my years in the wild. There was no MTV because there was no cable. And new music was not easily attainable. Life was often accentuated by imagination out of necessity and, yet, I never had an imaginary friend. The last item came to my attention the other night when I happened across [...]
Eldorado - A Symphony By The Electric Light Orchestra (known as simply Eldorado) is the fourth studio album by the Electric Light Orchestra, released in 1974. Read more »
Electric Light Orchestra - Letter From Spain
One cold New York City night in January 2009, I found myself in the back room of the Bowery Poetry Club, encircled by the typical PBR-wielding twenty-somethings and some of the most magical music I've ever encountered. By wandering in to find shelter from the shivering chill, I had unknowingly stumbled upon the EP release [...]
I don't know what it was that made me think of this the other day, but I suddenly had that image from series 2 of I'm Alan Partridge where he's playing the air bass to Gary Numan's 'Music For Chameleons' as the tax people come round. (Watch it here. I'm not doing it any justice!) Anyway, it's a great song. So then I thought, what other songs does Mr Partridge like? He is, after all, a DJ. Here are some of his favourites. How do I know this? A careful mix of enjoying the show, Wikipedia and having [...]
Austin quartet White Denim will release D, their fifth studio album on May 24. That same night, they'll play San Diego's Casbah, and it'll be worth your while to check it out. The experimental indie band has been compared to the Minutemen and Randy Newman (yes, both), and is known for infusing anything from punk [...] Follow Owl and Bear on Facebook and Twitter for contests, MP3s, and links that don't make it onto the blog.
Mayer Hawthorne's covers EP soul-ifies Chromeo and modernizes the Isley Brothers.
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Mayer Hawthorne has been teasing folks through twitter with rumors of releasing some cover tracks he recorded during his last tour. Well, Stones Throw Records announced earlier this week that the rumors are true, the EP is title Impressions, AND, it is currently available for free! DOWNLOAD :: Mayer Hawthorne - Impressions EP [via Stones Throw ] 01. Work To Do (The Isley Brothers cover) 02. Don't Turn The Lights On (Chromeo cover) 03. You've Got The Making [...]
Downlaod Mayer's new soul-revival covers of the Isley Brothers, Chromeo, Jon Brion, Steve Salazaar, ELO, and the Festival!
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