image from here It's spring time, I think? Can't really tell down here in Florida. It's been in the high 70's, low 80's for weeks now. Florida doesn't really have much in the way of season change. It gets cold once in awhile but it is usually pretty hot and muggy most of the year. I remember growing up in New Hampshire. Now, there was some real seasons. My favorite season up there was fall when the leaves changed colors. So beautiful! I don't miss the snow though. The winters up there were [...]
The blogsphere is a great place to wonder around on special occasions such as Valentines Day, Mothers Day, Christmas and St. Patricks Day. Here are the best blog posts I found celebrating Irish Music on the net: http://coverlaydown.com/ finds Boyhowdy celebrating the folkier side of U2 with a post of U2 covers by folk artists. Find tunes by Luka Bloom, Bell X1, The Walls and many more. http://troubledsoulsunite.blog spot.com/ is a great Pearl Jam inspired blog. The blog contains tunes by Thin Lizzy, The Pogues and Flogging Molly. [...]
In introducing last year's surprisingly popular St. Patrick's Day entry on the folkier side of Sinead O'Connor , I noted that I had almost exhausted my collection of U2 covers. Since then, however, discovery and a surprisingly rapid pace of coverage have widened the playing field of potential, making for a lovely set. So raise a glass, and let's begin. It's St. Pat's, and the folk is flowing. I came to U2 too late to be [...]
Irish singer-songwriter Luka Bloom has a new album called Eleven Songs on Bar None Records . In celebration of St. Patty's day, enjoy this gorgeous new song from Luka's excellent new album. Don't Be Afraid of The Light That Shines Within You - Luka Bloom Check out this video for the song
Irish singer-songwriter Luka Bloom has a new album called Eleven Songs on Bar None Records. In celebration of St. Patty's day, enjoy this gorgeous new song from Luka's excellent new album.Don't Be Afraid of The Light That Shines Within You - Luka BloomCheck out this video for the song
MON 02 FEB Audio - NEW + Royseven FREE www.myspace.com/audiotheband WED 04 FEB I Draw Slow €10 http://www.myspace.com/idrawsl ow LATE BAR WITH DJ ALASTAIR FOLEY THUR 05 FEB Murmur + Richter Collective presents This Town Needs Guns + Adebisi Shank & And I Watch You From A Far €10 www.thistownneedsguns.com/ LATE BAR WITH SPECIAL GUEST DJ SUN 08 FEB Mark Dignam €15 Mark Dignam is an Irish born, US based songwriter who began as a busker on the streets of Dublin. [...]
..... yes Meath is fast becoming the gig capital of Ireland in a mountain going to Mohammad move for our most loved artists. If your experiancing negative equity in The Naul, the Seamus Ennis Centre has relief.... Thursday 5th Feb: SINGER/SONGWRITER SHOWCASE – TADHG COOKE & Q (Colm Quearney) Hailing from Dunboyne, Tadhg Cooke began his musical adventures at fourteen with the purchase of a guitar and a few lessons. His jazz-tinged acoustic pop has been described as "eminently likeable, utterly enviable" by The Irish Times. [...]
My memories of an early nineties family outing to the Irish Connections festival is a bit hazed by Harp and hot sun, but a quick check with my mother confirms it: though I do remember a few snatches of some relatively decent irish pub music at a small outdoor stage near the beer garden, it's clear that, back then, the music was clearly not the centerpiece of what was otherwise a decent cultural festival on a small college campus. But good festivals evolve, and even a cursory glance at their festival lineup [...]
I recently had a conversation with a co-worker that centered around how much we kick ourselves when we mess up. We berate ourselves for our own mistakes much more than we'd ever do to someone else. In fact, I can't imagine myself ever saying--out loud, anyway--some of the awful things I think to myself about myself. So we resolved to make a concerted effort not to do that to ourselves anymore. For my part, I'm going to try to go easier on myself and not repeatedly tell myself how very stupid I am for doing all the stupid things I [...]
A few weeks ago over at collaborative music blog Star Maker Machine I had the opportunity to share Bob Marley's Stir It Up -- a song which I maintain is one of the great summersongs of all time, in spite of its subversive political undertones. In my accompanying post, I noted that: Bob Marley's greatest hits release Legend may have been just a posthumous compilation, but it was a perfect, complete set; it caught fire upon its release, bringing the sound of reggae full-bore into [...]
Like pretty much everyone who heard it, I dug Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius pip's "Thou Shalt Always Kill" which was enough to make me check them out at South by Southwest and I've become a full-on fan ever since. (A whole month!) Anyway, the new single from this duo, "Look for the Woman," should take these guys out of One Hit Wonder novelty status and into the double digits. In fact, I think this will be a genuine (UK) hit for them, and deservedly so. It's kind of the British indie [...]
Quite impressive : one guy playing guitar and singing, on the giant stage of a rock festival, and still getting more than half of the public's attention ! That's exactly what I saw Luka Bloom do once (in 1992, when the festival also featured -among others- Smashing Pumkins , Red Hot Chili Peppers , Lou Reed and Bryan Adams ). Today is just the day to listen again to his beautiful album [...]
Jiro Osuga - The Person Who At A Concert IV (2005) The weekly countdown continues with ten more great songs from my father's addition to my 100 Great Songs of 2007 series. Our intertwined music experiences are apparent as he features a band that has slept on my couch, a lyric positing psychology hidden in smoking behavior, and a song about the beauty of functioning as a tribe as I ditch the family for Easter. But I think [...]
It is my honor to share a birthday with a seminal hip hop balladeer, a grunge god, the hands-down master of New Orleans R&B songwriting, and the best soundtrack and pop-americana producer in the business. Since it was too hard to pick just one, instead of focusing on a single artist or genre today, I'm featuring some of my absolutely favorite covers of the work of LL Cool J, Dave Grohl, Allen Toussaint, and T-Bone Burnett, all of whom were born on January 14. If I didn't have an outlet for celebrating these [...]
I adore a good cover! The following are the ones that really amuse me. I'm On Fire by Carbon Leaf , covering Bruce Springsteen. They do this one a lot live, this particular version is from a set they did for iTunes. It can be found here. I am not a big fan of the original (I have issues with Bruce's voice), but this I love. Bron y Aur Stomp-She Talks to Angels by Carbon Leaf and Toby Lightman , covering Led [...]
Top O The Morning To Ya. So the 17th March has come round again, and those fellahs/colleens in the world who claim to have some sort of Irish ancestry will be out drinking/partying/parading in acknowledgement of the man who ridded their Emerald Isle of snakes. The eagle-eyed among you will have spotted that the face of TVV up in the right hand corner is no stranger to the St Paddy's Day madness
Ah, bad news, folks, as one of my favorite places in the whole blog world has called it a day. We are fading has decided to end his blog. This makes me very sad, for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that he provided such an honest, welcoming place to go, a refuge of sorts where I and a lot of other folks could take off our masks and say just about whatever we wanted, knowing that he would always listen. Another reason I'm sorry to see him go [...]
Ok,here is the deal. In the effort to keep my mind sane over the weekend, I want to propose the following contest. I will put up two playlist mixes a day (Saturday and Sunday) based off your input. The playlists mixes will be combination of new and old tracks and will be based on a theme that you select and submit. I will randomly pick two submissions a day for the posts. Please submit your theme selection via my email merzmars at gmail dot com. I will randomly pick the themes based from the input I get via email. [...]
Luka Bloom- Dancing Queen Luka Bloom/Simon O'Reilly- I Am a River I'm looking forward to seeing Irish folk artist Luka Bloom next week on his unlikely three-date tour of the United States. Bloom is in the highest tier of contemporary songwriters. But he's also cursed with a talent for reinterpreting material by other artists. He finds the pathos inside Abba's "Dancing Queen" on Keeper of the Flame , a revelatory album of covers. Bloom is also soliciting pre-orders for an unfinished project. He offers the [...]
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