Photos and words by Leslie Kalohi Shuggie Otis, the man, the myth, the legend, finished his U.S. tour promoting Inspiration Information / Wings of Love with a stop at El Rey Theatre. Otis impressed the LA crowd with his trademark sound, a smooth take on blues/funk/soul. Many couldn’t help but groove and dance along - the night a celebration of a man kept in the shadows for far too long. Now front and center and backed by a seven-piece band, Shuggie Otis and his musical prowess are now both in the spotlight, [...]
Your super Saturday: ► British psych-rockers Django Django, whose acclaimed debut came out last year< headline the Fonda Theatre. That's their video for "WOR," above. ► Day 2 of the Burgerama blowout at the Observatory in O.C. features Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, White Fence, King Tuff, FIDLAR, Hunx & His Punx, Beachwood Sparks, Allah-Las, Shannon & the Clams, Summer Twins, the Soft Pack, Dixie Band, Natural Child, Gap Dream, Cosmonauts, the Memories, Sam Flax, Fletcher C. Johnson, Tomorrows Tulips, Guantanamo Baywatch, Hindu Pirates and the Aquadolls. ► U.K. hard rockers [...]
Incoming: The Thermals, the Specials, Bajofondo, the Joy Formidable, Lianne La Havas, Chelsea Light Moving, Bernhoft, Black Francis, Imagine Dragons, Wavves, Charlotte Church, Reverend & the Makers, the Black Lips, the Spits, Matt Costa, Clutch, Doldrums, Christopher Owens, Burgerama, Anthrax, Django Django, 7 Lions, Jesca Hoop, Har Mar Superstar Above: That's Lianne la Havas ' video for "Elusion." It's part of a two-part release with the other video being "Gone." The folk-soul singer made a big splash at SXSW, and kicks off her U.S. tour this week in support of her [...]
Jesca Hoop releases her third single from ‘The House That Jack Built‘, ‘Ode To Banksy today, 4th March. watch the video above Jesca will be performing at this year's SXSW *( Dates )
Zo op het eerste gehoor zou Jesca Hoop best in de Mega Top 50 kunnen staan. Het eerste deel van het derde album van de Amerikaanse, maar inmiddels in Manchester wonende, singer-songwriter begint met het catchy "Born To" en daarna...
Louis CK - Word Recorded in 2010, Louis CK's Word was used in bits and pieces in those cutaway comedy scenes in Louie. As such, it suffered a bit because you've probably heard some of this before. But it's such strong material delivered by such a great performer that it's hardly a detriment at all. [...]
Nata nella California del Nord, in una famiglia di mormoni, Jesca Hoop è cresciuta - musicalmente, ma non solo - con la tradizione folk. Dopo l’abbandono della casa paterna, ha sperimentato la vita nelle aree più selvagge della regione natia e del Wyoming (la famosa wilderness); per poi giungere nelle montagne dell’Arizona, dove ha lavorato a un programma di riabilitazione destinato ai bambini. Queste note biografiche sono utili per carpire le tracce di America affioranti in The House That Jack Built , policroma raccolta di canzoni e terzo full-length per la cantautrice statunitense nell’arco di otto anni [...]
Another year, another great crop of songs. Some of you might be surprised to see a handful of radio smash hits on here, but I'd be lying to myself and you if I didn't include them in a list of my favorite songs of 2012. There's a Spotify playlist (with a few extra songs) to [...]
Jesca Hoop 's 2007 album Kismet stands tall as one of the more eccentric and adventurous debut albums of the decade, an extraordinarily inventive and artful musical statement that, sadly, was never quite understood or subsequently supported by her major label executives at the time. The L.A.-based songwriter's compositions are, as we've noted, "miniature vocal sonicscapes of startling originality, building songs that flit and dart, build and then break down again all against a backdrop of stark guitar runs, boldly progressive time measures [...]
Art credit: Terra Schneider, Maddie Rosemurgy Music is inherently and intrinsically weaved into my life. Virtually everything I do, day in and day out, has a meticulously-chosen soundtrack. My guess, dear reader, is that we share this quality. For many years, I chose my music based on a single facet, be it lyrics, vocals, intricacy, simplicity, or whatever else delighted me at the time. I would study this quality, taking in as much as I could, until that artist or genre was exhausted for me, then I'd move on. As my tastes matured, however, this method [...]
[ download ] Jesca Hoop has packed a lot of living into her 35 years on the planet. She’s broken her parents’ hearts by rejecting Mormonism, worked as a farmer and as a surveyor, counseled problem children in a wilderness survival program, worked as a nanny for Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, and suffered horrible hallucinations that her friends were evil clowns. She’s been a bit of a nomad, having lived all over the western United States before settling down in current home of Manchester, England. [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Ben Kweller : 2012-08-12, Columbus [mp3,ogg,flac] Ben Kweller: "Penny on the Train Track" [mp3] search for more Ben Kweller posts at Largehearted Boy Dead Confederate : 2012-08-10, Athens [mp3,ogg,flac] Dead Confederate: [...]
This isn't even close to my favorite song on Jesca Hoop's new album, The House That Jack Built. It's pretty darn good, but it doesn't touch songs like "Peacemaker," "Hospital," or "Ode to Banksy." "Born To" does hit pretty hard on the Little Scream-meets-Fiona Apple spectrum that's a pretty decent mark for Jesca Hoop's new [...]
" Jesca Ada Hoop is a American singer-songwriter and guitarist from Northern California, USA who performs music that covers differing genres. One of five children in a fifth generation Mormon couple, Hoop was steeped in a musical environment created by her family. She began performing as a child and starred in her high school choir. Hoop broke away from the strictures of Mormonism just as her parents were separating. During this time, her mother Janette turned the basement into a theatre, and brought in all sorts of eccentrics to rehearse and put on musical plays for the [...]
We're all over the map this Thursday: ► Jesca Hoop , who earned raves for her show earlier this week at Largo, continues her West Coast tour behind her new album "The House That Jack Built." She's touring with Grammy winner Jesse Harris , whose own new album "Sub Rosa" came out last month. Tonight they play the Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa along with Voxhaul Broadcast and the Ultimate Bearhug. ► Hanni El Khatib rocks a free evening at the park Levitt Pavilion Pasadena. ► Olin [...]
RR Upcoming Live Performances on MORNING BECOMES ECLECTIC with host JASON BENTLEY Monday, August 6, Almost a decade ago, KCRW began playing songs by a little known singer-songwriter named Jesca Hoop . Her latest album is one of her catchiest yet and we're thrilled to have her back in the studio on Morning Becomes Eclectic at 11:15am. Wednesday, August 8, The Dirty Projectors are masters when it comes to mixing different elements into their songs and [...]
Aug 5, 2012, 5:32pm
SGTMT
Tweet Here's another of those things that we're really late to. We don't care though. If it's good, it's good, even if it's not hot off the press. Jesca Hoop was born in California and lives in Manchester. There's something odd about that, I'm sure you'd agree. Maybe she loves the weather over here? Sun is so depressing isn't it? Whatever the reason, America's loss is our gain. Born To is such a great pop song. [...]
Aug 5, 2012, 5:32pm SGTMT
Tweet Here's another of those things that we're really late to. We don't care though. If it's good, it's good, even if it's not hot off the press. Jesca Hoop was born in California and lives in Manchester. There's something odd about that, I'm sure you'd agree. Maybe she loves the weather over here? Sun is so depressing isn't it? Whatever the reason, America's loss is our gain. Born To is such a great pop song. [...]
theclosing – box [mp3] (from theclosing , out now on Circle Into Square Records) An amalgamation of self-fashioned samples, field recordings, random noises, and computerized clicks, this Vienna-based trio renders abstract electronic soundscapes; think Boards of Canada and Four Tet . [...]
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From Go To Whoa
File Under: New Music
You Aint No Picasso
Indie-eye // re-censore (k.o.c.)
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the WILD honey pie
One Track Mind
largehearted boy
From Go to Whoa
Groove Radio PT
The Smudge of Ashen Fluff
The Dadada
Stream: Disclosure – When A Fire Starts To Burn
40 Year Itch: David Bowie TV Documentary Shot
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You’ve GOT to Hear This: “Enemies”
