As you may of may not have noticed, I was absent from my usual time slot last week due to being a fun and adventurous college student. I was on spring break! Now I know what you're thinking: beaches, unruly alcoholism, Jersey Shore.... NO. Come on guys, I'm a classy broad. I went on a road trip! Me and 4 friends piled in a big ol' jeep and drove straight east from Claremont, CA into the American Southwest. What an experience, my friends. Over the course of the week I had about 16,000 new experiences. I went to Las Vegas, [...]
By most accounts, 2011 has been a backward-looking musical year. Whether it be the 80s lite-FM love of Destroyer , the new-wave stylings of Cut Copy , the R.E.M. worship of The Decemberists , or the Pavement-envy of Yuck , much of the year's best music has been unabashed in announcing its influences. Such a year may disappoint some, but it does provide one pleasant bonus: a surfeit of awesome covers. With the onset of Spring, we are about to see an absolute outpouring of new covers, from the new " Franz Ferdinand Covers [...]
"It is not the artistic aptitudes that are secondary sexual characters as some shams and shamans have said; it is the other way around: sex is but the ancilla of art." Vladimir Nabokov Joni Mitchell: [ Sex Kills ]
The big push is on! A tour and TV documentary are on the horizon to promote Hugh Laurie's forthcoming Let Them Talk CD.
How rad is the new Lykke Li record? The 24-year-old Swedish singer has got style and confidence in spades, and her second album Wounded Rhymes is an enthralling excursion into a hardboiled wonderland of melodies and desire. Musically sturdier than her debut Youth Novels (2008), the ten songs on Wounded Rhymes color her portraits of heartbreak and loneliness with a new palette of sophisticated, shape-shifting sounds – in the form of the vamped up exuberance on lead single "Get Some", the baroque swoon of "Love Out Of Lust", and the understated melancholy [...]
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You may or may not have noticed the Lilith-like ballad playing in the background of the last episode of 30 Rock. Let's have another listen: PaintsAndBrushes by EricAndrew16 If the rambling, sing-songy confessional style seems familiar to you (i.e. the ear-piercing "whyyyyya whyyyya do you drink so much red wine"), that's because Tina Fey wrote AND recorded [...]
James Blake has been popping up all over the place - and there is a reason, apparently the dude is fucking awesome. Cheers James Blake and your awesomeness! Recently, he covered the Joni Mitchell tune, "A Case Of You" and it's awesomeness was out of control. It's time for you to take a listen, and then check out the amazing original. "James Blake - A Case Of You (Joni Mitchell cover)" "Joni Mitchell - A Case Of You" xoxo, alyssa
In the wake of huge critical acclaim following the release of his self-titled debut album, new Rarities favourite James Blake treated BBC Radio 1 listeners to something very special last Wednesday. The hugely talented dub-soul experimentalist harnessed his folk sound with a stunning rendition of Joni Mitchell 's "A Case Of You". Blake explained his love for Mitchell to the show's presenter, Zane Lowe: "Joni Mitchell's album Blue totally destroyed me and then built me back up again. Second year at uni, I listened to [...]
Current music man of the hour James Blake proves that he doesn't necessarily need dance beats or vocal manipulation tricks to impress with this amazing, stripped-down cover of Joni Mitchell's Blue classic "A Case of You" he brought to the BBC Radio airwaves last week. Performed straight-forward backed by nothing but piano, Blake showcases his soul-bathed pipes to great effect here, his trilly notes working their way through the peaks and valleys of Mitchell's complicated vocal melodies with astounding ease. After the Feist re-do and [...]
Joni Mitchell : Slouching Towards Bethlehem [ purchase ] "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold." It's a very familiar quote. The original source is the poem The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats. The Second Coming was Yeats' response to the trauma of World War I. In the United Kingdom, the so-called "great war" cast a long shadow. Well into the 1920s and beyond, there are cultural references to the war, and to the generation of young men who were lost in it or permanently emotionally scarred by it. As [...]
We here at Frontier Psychiatrist are no fans of the Grammys. But, the announcement that tonight Cee-Lo Green, the mastermind behind 20102s "Fuck You," will be performing along with the Muppets (and Gwenyth Paltrow, presumably in the role of Janice ), has us somewhat giddy for tonight's awards. As such, we celebrate the 53rd Annual Academy Awards for Outstanding Achievement in the Music Industry by bringing you five classics from Grammy-winning artists...performed by contemporary FP favorites. Enjoy the show. James Blake - "A Case of You" (Joni Mitchell Cover) [...]
The tastemakers-that-be always have an indie darling and the man of the moment is James Blake . His self-titled debut has been getting rave reviews all around the board but for some reason the skeptic inside me wasn't completely convinced. That was until I heard his recent cover of Joni Mitchell 's A Case Of You featuring just his voice and a piano. It's beautiful and does everything a good cover should; stay true to the original but add a fresh twist. This led me to give his album [...]
There was a tray of lollipops on a table beside the door of the sales office. I only grabbed one because he did. I knew what flavor I wanted, but we were following someone to see a loft in a building we had decided was haunted. I'm sure there is something that can be said about a girl who takes her time choosing a lollipop. Maybe that she came from a place where no one ever opened their lips except to apologize. Maybe that she once saw a meteor shower in a bathtub made of sand and stared into someone [...]
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James Blake hat nicht vor, in naher Zukunft aufzuhören, uns zu verzaubern. Nach Feist hat er nun auch Joni Mitchell virtuos gecovert. James Blake gab Mitchells Ballade "A Case of You" bei BBC Radio1 zum Besten (Schön auch der Schluss: "Man, that was amazing. Are you happy with that? - "Uhm, ja"). [Im Feed kann dieses Video nicht angezeigt werden. Klicke zum Blogeintrag um das Video anzusehen.] Blakes Debütalbum hat Kollege Hofbauer bereits gebührend gewürdigt . Weitere Artikel zum Thema: [...]
by teepoo It's another Cover Saturday! HAPPY TRENDY- Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Illinois (Sufjan Stevens Cover) The Decemberists- Cuyahoga (REM Cover) Young Rival- All I Have to Do is Dream (The Everly Brothers Cover) James Blake- A Case of You (Joni Mitchell Cover) more after the jump-> Joywave- Hang With Me (Robyn Cover) Ian Schober- Sleepyhead (Passion Pit Cover) [...]
This guy is just ridiculous. To put it in a short and simple manner, James Blake is a man who know's how to play to his strengths. Here we have his incredible rendition of Joni Mitchell's, 'A Case Of You'. By now, it's obvious to the majority of listeners out there that James' voice is his one of the, if not the biggest weapon in his repertoire of skills. So when he goes and applies this over some elegant piano keys, the result is somewhat majestic. The song was performed live on Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show Wednesday (Feb [...]
Tweet The year 2011 is officially a James Blakeathon, and I don't hate it. The musical wunderkind was on BBC radio this week to talk about his debut album and performed a cover of Joni Mitchell's Blue classic "A Case of You", a bold undertaking for anyone. Covers are tricky - the best of its kind do more than wallow in the safety of familiarity; they illuminate and refocus, aren't rehearsed, but felt - forcing you to subsequently hear the [...]
During a Wednesday session with BBC's Zane Lowe, James Blake said he didn't "get" jazz, performed a cymballed-out live take on "The Wilhelm Scream," and played "Where To Turn," a yacht-prog song recorded by his father, James Litherland, that Blake's "Wilhelm" roughly covers. Here's his dad's blueprint: Stream: James Litherland, "Where To Turn" Then, following a [...]
I still remember the first time I heard Joni singing. It was from this album, Clouds, which remains my favorite. It was with me in Africa and was played so often the heat wreaked havoc on the tape, but I didn't mind. I'd patiently rewind the cassette using my Bic pen. It was always worth the effort. Okay, I've played this before, but I feel like playing it again. I just love the imagery in this song. The oranges are always green to me, as they were in Africa.
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