Skylar Grey was born Holly Brook Hafermann February 23, 1986 in Mazomanie, Wisconsin. She began singing harmonies at age 2 and was in a recording studio by age 5 singing backup for children's recording artist Ken Lonnquist. With her mother Holly Hafermann formed the children's folk music duo Generations. They recorded three albums and toured the Midwest over the next ten years. Eventually, she began venturing into Madison, Wisconsin to listen to and hang out with jazz musicians. In 2003 Holly Hafermann moved to Los Angeles and recorded a demo. She was signed as [...]
I love it when a plan comes together. Als je me wat beter kent, weet je dat ik zowel een zeer grote house als alternatieve muziekliefhebber ben, maar niet zo heel erg diep in de Urban, R&B en Hip-Hop zit. Maar toch is er ook wel het een en ander in dat genre waar ik wel degelijk van gecharmeerd ben. Ik was erg verrukt toen ik laatst een ontdekking deed die al deze muziekstijlen met elkaar verbond. En die ontdekking is Skylar Grey. En en Skylar Grey kennen jullie allemaal natuurlijk al. Niet? Nou, ik denk [...]
By the time you read this, we'll have been in the fields for two days already, camping out just a short hop from the Falcon Ridge Folk Fest mainstage while we help build the place from the ground up - and I'll have spent Saturday at Grey Fox Bluegrass Fest , too, so it's a reasonable bet that I've got a starter burn across my neck and nose, and a camera full of close-up press-access shots and shaky video of the best cover sets I could find. I'll have a lovely guest post [...]
Holly Brook: All I Want [unreleased; more Holly Brook here ] Jay Brannan: All I Want [ purchase ] Natalie Merchant: All I Want [out of print; more Natalie Merchant here ] We have an unwritten rule of sticking to older, more classic recordings here on Star Maker Machine. But as caretaker for the collaborative, I'm hereby declaring [...]
We've been waiting four years for some finished new music from Holly Brook whose major label debut album Like Blood Like Honey stood out sharply amidst the many like-minded female singer-songwriter efforts of the time. Opening one evening for Duncan Sheik proved fortuitous as the fellow songwriter and Tony-winning writer of the rock musical Spring Awakening tapped Brook to work on his most recent album and stage production Whisper House . In return, Sheik has produced Brook's long awaited new album O'Dark:thirty , a TBA upcoming release that has yielded "It's Raining [...]
Following the release of 2006's Eastern Philosophy comes "Victim," the latest track from Snuggle , which was released today.
Holly Brook, who's voice you may recognize from Fort Minor's "Where'd You Go" (which is my sh!t), teamed up w/ Apathy back in 06 while Fort Minor was on tour. Together they formed Perverts In Love ! They've been trying to get something out since but it wasn't until this year that Apathy made a beat that inspired Holly to write! That song is......... Perverts In Love - "Banana Leaf" Pigeons and Planes
Great shows all week. Good to see The Henry Clay People on Monday at their final residency night. That might be the last time we see the band as they have long past graduated L.A.'s underground and they certainly went out in style, so to speak. The band goes on tour with Ben Harper and Relentless7 in May... Tuesday, Castledoor and The Parson Red Heads hosted a dual record release show at Echoplex
Duncan Sheik is most remembered as a pop one-hit-wonder from the ninety's, specifically, for his hit "Barely Breathing". But for PopWrecker Mona and I, he's an overlooked musician whose music we've adored for years. We've discussed vehemently in past conversations which albums were the strongest, which songs the most beautiful, what his influences might be, and of course which song would we most want to hear live. Concerning that last question, Mona and I have agreed on the haunting and bare-boned "Home" from Duncan's self-titled album, whose simple lyrics sound like they came from an undelivered high [...]
You may know him as the mastermind behind the score of the Tony Award winning musical Spring Awakening . Or, perhaps his name strikes a chord because of his 1996 smash hit single, "Barely Breathing." Either way, Duncan Sheik is heading back into the spotlight. Whisper House is Sheik's first release since 2006--a post-World War II themed tale of one lonely young boy's melancholic ruminations, lighthouses, and ghostly encounters. As a result, the album's contents are similarly morbid; a brooding collection of electronica-tinged indie rock mid-tempos and woeful sea shanties that--within the [...]
Duncan Sheik teamed up with the beautiful Holly Brook to create the album Whisper House . Having already won a Grammy for his past work, Sheik is quite the experienced song writer. This album is nothing less of those standards than we've come to expect considering his discography. In nearly all of the songs on Whisper House , Brook makes an appearance that is akin to the beauty you might find in Mother Nature's most famous works. Most notably is the first song on the album "It's Better to Be [...]
Where'd you go? I miss you so, Seems like it's been forever, That you've been gone. She said "Some days I feel like shit, Some days I wanna quit, and just be normal for a bit," I don't understand why you have to always be gone, I get along but the trips always feel so long, And, I find myself trying to stay by the phone, 'Cause your voice always helps me and I feel so alone, But [...]
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