The last time Cover Lay Down suffered a major technological crisis, we had plenty of warning: Blogger had just started shutting down music blogs for spurious copyright claims, and in response, our mp3 file host had given us a two week window to pack up and move on. And so, after some soul searching and a huge outpouring of support from our small but committed fan base, in November of 2008, we opened the doors to a newly redesigned space here at coverlaydown.com. For the next four and a half years, the bits and [...]
From April 4th to June 4th The Ripple Effect ran a campaign on the excellent online music website ReverbNation (www.reverbnation.com). This campaign allowed any artist or band registered with ReverbNation to submit their music to The Ripple Effect for possible review on the site and airplay on The Ripple Effect radio shows. When all was said and done we had received 4,799 submissions! Incredible! The purpose of this column is to highlight those artists and bands whose musical submissions I accepted as being worthy of consideration. While these are not reviews per se, I’m going [...]
As regular readers are surely aware, we tend to stay out of the ubiquitous year's-end "best of" fray, leaving compilation to those blogs that focus on the ever-new. In part, that's because we're archivists and folklorists, not tastemakers, here at Cover Lay Down - which is to say, you're just as likely to find a song from last decade as you are a release from last month being presented in our biweekly missives. Too, as a matter of policy and preference, we prefer not to play favorites among the best players, believing that [...]
Attention A Fine Frenzy fans, and everyone that enjoys brilliant and pretty piano enriched folky pop songs. Meet Merry Ellen Kirk, an incredibly talented singer-songwriter that grew up in Mongolia, but now lives in Nashville. Even if I tried, I could not describe better what her music sounds like than she writes about it herself in her masterpiece of a biography that is in itself is worth reading, so don't skip down the music without giving your eyes a treat as well. Sometimes at night fireflies light up; and so we catch them and put [...]
I have mixed feelings about Christmas. Having grown up Jewish, I always felt a little besieged by what I long considered other peoples' holiday. These days, as a professional culture vulture and cohost to a humanistic Jewnitarian household, the commercialism grates on me, though the threat of otherness has faded. I've even learned to live with the constant name-check of someone else's savior which permeates even the most innocuous of shopping mall soundtracks. But I have always loved the trappings of the holidays: the garish colorful world of [...]
As you can see by the title of this blog post that I am jumping on board with the whole "theme" playlist due to the time of year. Well as corny as it sounds (and it does sound corny) without at some point embracing this time of year you can't really sit and judge those that are actually in the spirit. I am not necessarily saying that I am IN the spirit now, but what I am saying is without being "into the season" how can you assume that it is all a load of malarkey and start quoting [...]
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MP3: Daft Punk – “Horizons” (RAM Japanese Bonus Track)
Mix/Cover/Live #887 (feat. Yalls & more)
Akabu feat. Alex Mills – Everybody Wants Something (Joey Negro Strip Mix) [New Release]
Le Fever :: "White Hearts"
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