Artist: franklin

Il 25 marzo 1942 è nata Aretha Franklin a Memphis e ancora oggi è una delle indiscusse icone della musica soul e r&b. E proprio oggi, compie 70 anni. La vogliamo ricordare su Soundsblog con qualche curiosità: E' nota nell'ambiente la sua paura di prendere l'aereo a tal punto dal rinunciare di partecipare al musical di Broadway Sing, Mahalia, Sing Dal 1967 fu celebre la sua cover di Respect di Otis Redding, diventato poi un vero e proprio inno femminista Altri celebri sui indimenticabili successi sono stati anche [...]

Here are the videos that caught the Devil's eye this week... Quiet Lights Break Trouble Wait Break Trouble Wait from Quiet Lights on Vimeo . Franklin Forest Sword Forest Sword from toma dutter on Vimeo . You Animals What A Shame, Lorraine [...]

Franklin is the solo project of Ile-de-France based artist Franck Rabeyrolles. This song is a demo of a track on his album, to be released in February 2011. We were sent this by the label, who wrote: "Here's a new song called "cats in the flat" for psychedelic pop lovers........ It's totally new and unreleased . It's not mastered ...a track only for pleasure to introduce this new project on Wool. " Download | Subscribe | Subscribe in iTunes | Subscribe [...]

• Franklin - Cats in a flat

Male Bonding - Weird Feelings from Sub Pop Records on Vimeo. Something about the name Male Bonding put me off from this recent Sub Pop signee. Perhaps its my increasingly lengthy tenure in San Francisco, but the sound of a band entitled Male Bonding raises my hackles, makes me think of popped collars and Chrissy Field. [...]

Something about the name Male Bonding put me off from this recent Sub Pop signee. Perhaps its my increasingly lengthy tenure in San Francisco, but the sound of a band entitled Male Bonding raises my hackles, makes me think of popped collars and Chrissy Field. I shouldn't doubt Sub Pop though, they're a label that [...]

• Male Bonding - Franklin (Album)

Streamable: Green Hell/Astro-Zombies/Mommy, Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight?/Die, Die My Darling (youtube) by TV Casualty (A Misfits cover band consisting of Ted Leo and Chris Wilson from Ted Leo + The Pharmacists , Atom Goren of Atom & His Package , Andy Nelson of Paint It Black , Brian Sokel of Franklin and AM/FM ) props to p4k watch more of this performance... here Streamable: U Got The Look (youtube) [...]

• Mount Eerie - Between Two Mysteries

With Pitchfork and Flatstock coming up this weekend, our good friend Dave Windisch aka Mile 44 wanted to give everyone an opportunity to win some of his goods. Dave is a local boy to Indianapolis area that has created everything from movie/gig poster to art prints. His work has a very humorous and cartoon feel to them. He has generously offered up posters he has done for Grizzly Bear, Spoon, Deer Tick, and Conor Oberst . In addition, check out the preview for his print he did for Flatstock [...]