They don't get any more legendary than this. From 1964, The T.A.M.I. Show ! Standing for Teenage Music International, this one-off musical variety show set the bar very high for everything that followed, and has never quite been matched. Get a load of this line up: Jan and Dean (Here They Come) from All Over the World Chuck Berry Johnny B. Goode Maybellene [...]
Filed under: News Vimeo With the presidential election drawing near, activists around the country are still fighting to get people motivated to head to the voting booths. And one PSA is utilizing music and celebrity to urge women to vote against Mitt Romney. "You Don't Own Me" is a lip-syncing montage set to Lesley Gore 's 1964 hit of the same name. You'll recognize a lot of famous faces in there, including Carrie Brownstein [...]
Do you recognize some of these faces? Lots of local female singers singing into their computer screens to rally lady voters. And that's Lesley Gore, how about that!
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Today marks the 49 th anniversary of teen idol Lesley Gore's American Bandstand performance of "It’s My Party" — a chart-topper with a catchy, melodramatic, but unmistakably girl’s-eye view. Followed by the similarly spirited "Judy's Turn To Cry," "She's A Fool," "You Don't Own Me" and "That's The Way Boys Are," Gore's early singles are often considered as proto-feminist in emphasis. "You Don’t Own Me" is a potent statement in itself — an attitude that was to burgeon later in the decade. Throughout the centuries, women have accented popular song with resistance, resentment, and outright [...]
[Covers that have recently come across our radar...] Tokyo Police Club , "Kim & Jessie" ft. Jamie Jackson (of Hot As Sun ) (M83 cover) — Tokyo Police Club recently partnered up with Polaroid for a project titled "10 Songs, 10 hours, 10 days, 10 years" where they cover a single from the last 10 years in 10 days. For their choice of song from the year 2008, they called upon Jamie Jackson of Hot As Sun to lend some vocals for their upbeat and [...]
Announced at the recent Comic-Con , Kiss will be teaming up with Archie Comics for "In your face tales of Kiss/Archie". Apparently Kiss will come to Archie's hometown of Riverdale in the pages of Archie #627, that will kick off a 4-part "Archie Meets Kiss" storyline. Yes, to the left is Veronica, Jughead, Betty and Archie donning Kiss makeup. I don't know about you, but the phrase "in your face" was not exactly a phrase that I equated with Archie Comics or any of those characters at all. To my surprise, it [...]
01 Thee Oh Sees :: Tomorrow I'm going up to London to see SF's magical, mighty Oh Sees and I couldn't be more excited. Having seen them twice already this year, I am keen to make it to four Oh Sees shows on the year, starting tomorrow at Plan B in Brixton and then later [...]
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Amidst the fireworks, gunpowder and plot, November 5th or this Friday marks 22 years on this earth for a certain someone at Dots & Dashes . We'd like to think Amy Winehouse took time off boozing and stumbling about N1 to record this Lesley Gore cover of It's My Party in said someone's honour. Shucks. Presumably produced by Ronson and to be included in a Quincy Jones compilation LP also featuring Usher, Mariah Carey and other such superfluous, vacuous celebrities, it's fairly wonderful and ought to be slapped on any birthday bash playlist and bunged in dusty [...]
Next month will finally see the release of Q: Soul Bossa Nostra , multi-award-winning music legend Quincy Jones ' long-awaited set compiling fifteen contemporary re-imaginings of his most memorable songs with some of the biggest names in music today, and, as is the norm these days, cuts from the album have already begun making their premature blog rounds, including two of its more curious offerings: Amy Winehouse taking on Lesley Gore's 1963 No. 1 "It's My Party" and a cover of Michael Jackson's R&B classic "P.Y.T." with T-Pain (!!?!!) and [...]
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Amy Winehouse is back! Well, sort of.. She has returned with her first new studio recording in years. It comes in the form of a cover of Lesley Gore classic "It's My Party". She recorded it for the upcoming album Q: Soul Bossa Nostra, a tribute to Quincy Jones that will be released November 9th ( buy it here ). Her old tag team partner Mark Ronson produced the song, making it seem like only yesterday Back In Black came out. I'm really glad to hear new Amy. Hopefully she stays healthy and gives us [...]
Amy Winehouse - “It’s My Party” (Lesley Gore Cover) Included on Quincy Jones’ new star-heavy compilation, Q: Soul Train Bossa Nostra, is Amy Winehouse’s first new studio recording since her rise to fame on the back of 2007’s Back to Black and the troubling downward spiral that followed. The good news — aside from her cover of Lesley Gore’s 1963 hit , “It’s My Party,” providing irrefutable evidence of the talented singer’s return to the studio — is that Winehouse clearly didn’t lose her distinct vocal chops amid the past few [...]
After a four year hiatus, she returns with a classic soul cover!
Did you see that Giants game tonight? Talk about a futile effort. Neither of those teams really seemed to comprehend the ideas behind the game of football. I'm happy the Giants won, of course, but that offense looked absurd at times. Every time the team's defense did something to put them in a position to score, the offense threatened to give the ball right back to the Bears. It was almost as if the two sides of the same team were playing against one another. Also, no Victor Cruz? What the fuck? I thought you play to win the game...that [...]
Filed under: News , New Music , Holy Hell Amy Winehouse has had a fruitful collaborative relationship with producer and musician Mark Ronson over the last half-decade, but the pair appear to be on the outs. On Sept. 18, Winehouse took to her Twitter account to respond to an interview that Ronson gave to British late show host Jools Holland where he took credit for creating the songs on Winehouse's popular 'Back to Black' record out of her [...]
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Filed under: News , New Music It's four years since anyone has heard any new material from Amy Winehouse , but the Grammy winner recently hit the studio with producer Mark Ronson to record a new track for 'Q: Soul Bossa Nostra,' a tribute album celebrating Quincy Jones . According to the Associated Press , Winehouse and Ronson worked on a cover of Lesley Gore 's 1963 hit song 'It's My Party,' which Jones [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Die-hard Best Coast fans filled Chicago's Empty Bottle to full capacity on Saturday night for the band's official Pitchfork Music Festival after-show, preferring to see the trio in a more intimate setting than in front of the thousands they would be playing for during their scheduled Sunday afternoon set. "This is our first official show with Ali [Koehler, formally of Vivian Girls ] as our new drummer," singer Bethany Cosentino announced several songs into Best Coast's hook-driven [...]
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