This week I have mostly been watching: Pat Kenny getting insulted on the telly : Thank God for YouTube, otherwise I would have missed this. Sure he was drunk, but it was good to hear what we've all been thinking. Bush taking advantage of Angie : You can tell that he instantly regrets it though. Wouldn't you? The Communist Manifesto : but illustrated by cartoons. Brilliant. The White House goes Stalinist : and makes an embarassing situation worse. Unicef attacks the Smurfs: but it's all [...]
RC's master of the lens, Braedon, made it out to the Jolie Holland show last week, and wanted to share his experience with you: How quickly you can travel back in time listening to Jolie Holland. What an old fashioned voice in a young, contemporary woman. Holland grew up in Texas, which gives roots to her folkier side, but when you hear her music, it?s hard not to picture yourself in a New York
Pointer Sisters & DJ Food - Pinball Number Count (moistworks.com) Curses! - Hungry 4 Love (callmemickey.blogspot.com) Young Dro - Shoulder Lean (Starkey Fractured Elbow Mix) (callmemickey.blogspot.com) Epic Man & Plan B - More is Enough (headphonesex.co.uk) Dawn - I'm Afraid They're All Talking About Me (saidthegramophone.com) Clipse - Trill (discobelle.net) Jolie Holland - Crazy Dreams (gorillavsbear.blogspot.com) The Valentinos [...]
The lovely Jolie Holland is playing tonight here in town, along with (the even lovelier?) Bosque Brown . Great bill, perfect venue , highly recommended, etc. Why was the newest Jolie Holland record so overlooked by most people (myself included) in blog-land? It's totally worth a second listen: mp3: Jolie Holland Crazy Dreams Jolie Holland Springtime Can Kill You *********************** p.s. I'd like to thank the eight or so anonymous [...]
Jolie Holland doesnt just sing, she croons. Ms Holland has a style that attaching a tag as pedestrian as "singing" to it just doesnt do it justice. Hot on the heels of her excellent release, "Springtime Can Kill You", Holland took the stage Monday night at The Southgate House to croon for us. It was a fairly mesmerizing set too. The crowd was very intense and reserved throughout, even the most die hard of fans were only giddy from thier seats. Which, is [...]
Sunday morning started bright and sunny, in contrast to the grey skies of Saturday. The sun kept shining until just after I’m From Barcelona’s set, which seemed appropriate, given their sparkly day-glo pop music. In the hands of one man and an acoustic guitar, these songs would be insufferably twee, but coming from a 29-piece all singing (literally), all dancing (yep, that too), all throwing-confetti-around, and generally riotous and fun Swedish band, they sound just right. Coming on a bit like the Polyphonic Spree, without the cultish overtones, and with better tunes, they were the perfect start to [...]
Note: One of the better acoustic wednesday list, almost coherent and dictating mood. It's early chilly late summer list, imagining fall. "Acoustic Wednesday No. 30. A Piece of Bitter Chocolate" The Transmissionary Six : Black Tin Rocket , Get Down (Film Guerrero, 2004) Jolie Holland : Old Fashioned Morphine , Escondida (Anti, 2004) Michael Leviton : Summer's The Worst , My Favorite Place to Drown (Ace Fu Records, 2006) [...]
A sultry Billie Holiday with an East Texas drawl? Soul-Jazz with a Country-politan lilt? Maybe, but the quality and craft of Jolie Holland's third full-length, Springtime Can Kill You , is beyond any convenient comparison. Like her previous albums (and brief stint with The Be-Good Tanyas), Holland's bouillabaisse of traditional American music defies easy pigeonholing and containment. Famously short-listed by Tom Waits on the strength of her home-recorded, and later Anti released, album [...]
Okay, it is very, very late in the game for me to post about this, but I've been out of town for a week (in Minnesota, where it was blindingly hot until the day I left , when it was a sweet, spring-like 75 degrees) and missed out on checking local events until today (although, my husband did put together a pretty fine list in my absence). But I had to scrounge together a post about tonight's show at 3rd and Lindsley . So, are you free tonight? Are you? Are you? [...]
Welcome to part 2 of 3 of the halfway-through-2006 songs of the year sessions, in which we encounter an aging punk band, a Coldplay rip-off, and a sultry Texan chanteuse. Mission of Burma - "2wice": mp3 You don't get to be a rock band forever. Most old codgers have long since given into decripitude and easy chairs, but not Mission of Burma. The horrible truth about Burma is that they still rock harder than than a slab of two-ton granite. "2wice" isn't the heaviest song on The Obliterati , but it's [...]
Ive confessed in the past that its tough for me to get into many female vocalists. I dont know why, Im a little short sighted I guess. There are a few that I cannot do without though and the shortlist includes Jolie Holland . I discovered her right around the time Escondida was released a couple years ago and have found her old time radio folk both haunting and enticing ever since. Jolie has a new album due out May 9th on Anti titled Springtime Can Kill You. Here are a couple [...]
I stumbled across Jolie Holland on the radio last night - which makes sense, because I was driving with Mr. Greg Katz, general manager of UCLARadio.com . I was immediately blown away and had to - had to - hear more. Boy was I unprepared. Vocally, Holland sounds somewhere between Feist's jazzy improvisations and Fiona Apple's vulnerability. Plus an accent. If I didn't have a longterm girlfriend, I'd already be in love - and that's not even mentioning the completely amazing lounge-y acoustic backing band. Taking a decidedly pro-blogger [...]
There is so much good music out there, but once in a while you come across an artist that plain knocks you over. Jolie Holland just did that to me. Born and raised in Texas, and with Creole roots, her music has a Southern sound but with a West Coast shine and brilliance. As she says in Old Fashion Morphine from Escondida "It was good enough for my grandpa - it's good enough for me...", tradition is always important and evident here in singing style, melody and arrangement. Yet the sound is sharp and [...]
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