the daily growl has been hip to her for while already, but for those of you are unfamiliar i have to let you all know about another precocious teenage female brit folksinger , this one playing by the name emmy the great . we're not going to talk about how old she is, however, or how jealous that particular information may make me feel. no no no, today, as always, it's about the music. so take a listen to the trio of songs below, including a swell cover of the (wicked awesome) pixies song "where [...]
Back in the day, I used to haunt every blog, LiveJournal or Myspace looking for new music. Then I started writing for a blog myself, and funny enough it seems like my time for scouring gradually decreased. Not that I'm complaining about the gig (don't worry Kipster!), but the reality is that between my daytime occupation and trying to keep up with an increasingly unmanagable inbox, I just don't have the time I once had. How does that whining tie into anything? Well, one of the artists I [...]
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The People to Get Excited About if You're Going to SXSW But Would Like Anyway Even if You Weren't Going Mix You're probably wondering what the hell all those letters mean. Considering the almighty list for SXSW was released a few weeks ago, there's been quite a bit of material that I could have covered. Operative phrase there being "could have." Undoubtedly, it's a gargantuan amount and the time I've had lately has been minuscule. All right! I've been lazy. Regardless, when situations like this arise, a blogger's [...]
The Garden Party (presented by PRESS HERE + HARP + GROUND CONTROL TOURING + Austinist.com) is happening on Saturday, March 15th from noon to 8 pm at the French Legation Museum (802 San Marcos St). You can RSVP [here] . The lineup is very solid: Okkervil River , Thurston Moore and The New Wave Bandits [...]
If you read a lot of music blogs you get the impression that next week everyone is heading to South by Southwest. (And putting on a day party.) Which isn't true. More don't than do, I think. But if you live in NYC you can reap the benefits of a lot of UK/European bands stopping on their way to or from the festival. The bands also tend to play normal length shows in New York, as opposed to 30-minute, wham-bam sets at SxSW. Add a trip to Hill Country or Fette Sau before one of these shows, and it will [...]
Song, by Toad is the future of music. So are Fence Records. So is Welcome to Our TV Show. This is neither as serious nor, actually, as facetious a statement as it seems. Song, by Toad? The future of music? Ah hah hah haaa, what vainglorious hubris! Well actually I'm not being [...]
Mr Jeremy Warmsley (and the mysterious Fay Buzzard) has created a web-tv show featuring live performances by a lot of cutting-edge British indie-pop-stars. You can watch the show on youtube , but if here's mp3-flavoured-taster before diving into the main course: some deliciously lo-fi mp3s I've been sent to share with you. LAURA GROVES ( myspace ) MP3: I wish I (live) Rather serene but suitably frayed folk music from the quick-sung Laura Groves, likely borned from the same stock as Ms Joanna Newsom, minus [...]
So, the second edition of Jeremy Warmsley and Fay Buzzard's Welcome to Our TV Show is up online now, and like the first, it's very good. It's a sort of lo-fi Jools Holland, where the hosts are less slick, but also far less cringeworthy. If you missed the first, the premise is basically a load of bands and mates piling into Jeremy and Fay's living room and getting filmed playing unreleased songs. This time round it's the turn of Emmy the Great, Lightspeed Champion and Laura Groves, as well as [...]
Photo via MySpace Aside from a few typos here and there in the last little while, I think I've been pretty good about reporting things that can generally be considered factual. Accurate. Based in truth. Which pretty much goes against the basic ethos of blogging, does it not? So with that in mind, I will indulge in a little wild speculation and rumour-mongering, though even that has a basis in reality. Yesterday morning, I got an email from a reader asking if I knew anything about a Verve [...]
Während junge Britinnen mit modischen Akzenten im Rekordtempo die Hypemaschine auf- und absteigen lässt sich Emmy The Great Zeit. Hat nach mehreren Jahren stetigen Fansammelns ihre erste EP rausgebracht die in nur 2 Tagen restlos vergriffen war, schreibt weiter fabelhafte Songs über M.I.A. und Osterparade und covert Pixies, spielt viel, promotet wenig. Tritt lieber in einer nicht sonderlich gut gemachten DIY-Fernsehshow auf Youtube mit musikalischen Mitstreitern und Freunden Jeremy Warmsley und Lightspeed Champion auf. Dort singt sie in 24 Zeilen wie "I would marry you for money but i don't suppose you'll ever have enough" [...]
A lot of new British bands are given plane tickets dumped in the Texas Desert and then forced to play South-By-South-West (SXSW) in Austin to pay for their journey home and simultaneously try to show-off some of the best new music Britain has to offer... here's a run down of my picks for the agenda-setting festival. BEARSUIT MP3: Steven Fucking Speilberg : Speeding South-Eastern indie-pop gets revved up screeching from motorway to dirt-road to railway-track looking for the line that takes them to the sea, smiling throughout knowing they [...]
Usually these "Youtube Saturdays" are reserved for more established artists or sometimes for lost causes from the past ( Galaxie 500 , The Feelies , Gil Scott Heron ). But today's "YouTube Saturday" is devoted to the future. And someone I believe is an incredible talent. Emmy The Great is that someone. She's English and started out a little twee/indie pop but has smoothed out her edges of late and become quite refined. She's suddenly also very hip as her friends Lightspeed Champion and Jeremy Warmsley are gaining some fame [...]
From the UK here's Emmy The Great doing a cool little cover of 'where is my mind' live. I can't believe they are on MTV UK now. Why is American MTV nothing but 24 hours of 'my super sweet 162 and then England is spoiled rotten with this amazing band? Emmy the Great are [...]
This has been a funny old year for gigs in the world of The Daily Growl. First five months I carried on my regular gig-going habit, albeit with a little more urgency knowing that frequent time spent in London's live music venues was drawing to a close, all due to the imminent arrival of The Baby Growl. The remaining seven months saw me eagerly taking the few opportunities I had to get out to see some shows. Given the lack of options available, I had to be selective and fairly sure it was going to be a good 'un. From [...]
Image: Helen Levitt I See Who You Are - Björk From Volta ( Amazon ), Myspace Image: Irving Penn Trust - Gravenhurst From The Western Lands ( Amazon ), Myspace [...]
Today has been weird. I seem to just keep finding out about more and more amazing releases. All on one day. I'll jump right in with Daft Punk's ALIVE album. As soon as I was out of bed today, I pretty much ran to Virgin Megastore down the road to get my hands on my copy. There was a guy in front of me in the queue that took forever. Seeing them at 02 Wireless in Hyde Park this summer was possibly the best live music experience of my life. I don't think I've ever [...]
Emmy The Great was recently recommended and I checked out some of her stuff. Her real name is Emma-Lee Moss and she was born in Hong Kong is lives in London, England. I must say she is very very attractive as she looks part-Chinese add that she plays a guitar she's now SUPER SEXY in my eyes. There aren't many songs by Emmy The Great but all I've heard so far are great. She labeled as being part of the anti-folk scene so the only person who comes to mind is Regina Spektor (whom I also love). [...]
Song obsessions are those songs that we listen to on repeat. I noticed that my obsessions are often a week long. I also thought that other people might have similar obsessions. I've collected a panel of a few like-minded individuals and gotten their "song obsessions of the week." Quite often it's easy to explain why the song is good; it's much hard to explain why we're obsessed. Maybe you'll become obsessed with one of these. - Adrian ( me ): Andy Samberg and Adam Levine (and Richard James) - Iran [...]
DOWNLOAD: Tulsa - Whissper (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Emmy The Great - Canopies and Grapes (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Emmy The Great - Easter Parade (MP3) Emmy the Great * ZZ Top are at Beacon Theatre * Genesis is at Giants Stadium * XXXChange & Flosstradamus are at Stereo * Dirtybird Monthly with Claude Von Stroke at APT Claude Von Stroke's wobbly [...]
'member Emmy the Great ? From a couple weeks ago ? Of course you do! Why, you haven't been able to stop remembering her! It's starting to worry people! Well *poof* she's got a New York date: Sidewalk Café , this Wednesday, 9/26. Tomorrow! She won't have a full band behind her, just her geetar and a pair of back-up singers. We'll take it. That's the only U.S. date currently scheduled. Sorry, rest of America. Here are a few songs from live [...]
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