Over 140,000 people descend upon Nashville each June for the CMA Music Festival each June, and for those who didn't get to attend, ABC gave viewers a taste of the event with a three-hour special that aired on August 31st. It was a sampling of everything that the event has come to represent. Several sequences showed some of the interaction between the fans and the artists, as well as some interviews with the array of performers. Then, of course, there was the music…..and plenty of that. Nothing is ever perfect, particularly in the music business, but [...]
The folks at industry rag Hits have a handy chart of the albums coming out in the last months of the year , which, who knows, may be the last one in which a chart like this is even necessary! But even though we're a long way from the days of 50 Cent and Kanye West squaring off on the anniversary of 9/11 , it's still sort of fun to see what CDs will be landing at America's retailers on the same day. After the jump, five of the best battles that could arise from the [...]
The second single off of Miranda Lambert's forthcoming sophomore album Revolution (due out Sept. 29th) is a cutting alt. country/rock song that is this week's Billboard Country Charts Hot Shot Debut bowing at #50. Rolling Stone's September issue feature's "White Liar" as one of their Hot List picks of the month: "Don't mess with Texas cutie Lambert - on this twangy tow-step she catches her man creeping 'with a redhead named Bernice.' It's a little bit country, a little bit rock & roll, and a little bit Jon and Kate. (That dude is a douche [...]
Orenda Fink , one half of dream pop duo Azure Ray and, more recently, the excellent O+S, returns with her second solo album Ask the Night on October 6 (Saddle Creek). The disc's the ten songs are said to be inspired by traditional American folk music and Southern Gothic literature along with reflecting the singer-songwriter's roots in Alabama. The track list includes "The Garden," "That Certain-Something Spring" and "Why Is the Night Sad." Miranda Lambert 's upcoming album Revolution is now set for a September 29 street with fine first single "Dead [...]
As promised: The state of my "2009 awesomeness" playlist, in which I collect the songs that catch my ear as the year progresses in order to not make my best-of list a last-minute-of-December clusterfuck sort of thing. (It inevitably winds up being like that, but you know, I have noble intentions.) It's after the jump, and has some contextual links added in. Feel free to make your own and share it here! The Joy Formidable, "Cradle" Vistoso Bosses, "Delirious" Lily Allen, "Everyone's At It" Brandy feat. [...]
Country spitfire Miranda Lambert's new-ish single "Dead Flowers" is a stunner, a slow-burn lament over a relationship that's calcified into little more than wondering just when the good times ended. The clip for "Flowers" uses the metaphors with which Lambert describes her love's slow decay-dead flowers, burnt-out Christmas lights, hurricane winds-very literally, although I do wonder if a large reason behind that was because of the way her blonde tresses just go insane when the wind machine (representing the aforementioned gale-force gusts) is turned on them. Clip after the jump. [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =z0MlUHbWpbE Here's Miranda's video for her first single off of her third album 'Revolution' in stores in September. I love this song, and she looks absolutely stunning in this video.
Here is the full-length song version of Miranda's national campaign for Cotton Fabrics: "Fabric of My Life." She shares the campaign with 2 other artists, but her's is the best (I'm not bias or anything)...and the full length track is a treat for fans of hers. I also included one of mine and my sister's all time fav songs of hers, she wrote it back in '03 when she was a contestant on the first season of Nashville Star, called: 'California.' Look for Miranda's third cd titled: "Revolution" to drop 09.29.09...WORD. Check out [...]
Xtry, Xtry, Husband Found Clubbed to Death by Metaphor. First thing Cynical Me does with the new Miranda Lambert single (record's not due until September, so for now you should download from Amazon or the iLike ) is pick at the overkill. Flores por el muerte , bilge water, a limp string of burned-out off-season holiday lights, bald tires. It's as if this woman doesn't have anything to do but sit around and equate her relationship with every slight imperfection in her den. Our love is like how Channel [...]
I missed Miranda Lambert's "Dead Flowers" when she premiered it at the ACM Awards last month; it showed up in the iTunes Store yesterday, and holy cow does it pack a punch. It's a messy, sad song about a relationship that hung on just a little bit past its prime, with lyrics that are plainspoken, yet rich in metaphor, and Lambert's voice sounds as clear as a bell, even as her emotions sink into a knotted, rotting mess. [ YouTube via Nashville Gab ]
PHOTOS AND REVIEW BY NICK SPACEK The last "young country" show I saw was about 10 years ago, and when Tracy Lawrence suggested that the crowd turn Sandstone into a roadhouse, five fistfights broke ou... Continue reading "Concert Review: Kenny Chesney at Sprint Center, May 9, 2009" >
Here's a feature we haven't done in quite a while, it's 5 On A Friday in honor of the new Simpsons postage stamps released yesterday. Stop by the USPS site to vote for your favorite Simpson and register to win an autographed Matt Groening limited edition Poster. And remember to get those Mother's Day cards in the mail by tomorrow because on Monday May 11th you'll pay the penalty in more ways the one as the cost of a first class stamp goes up from 42 cents to 44 cents , not to mention what [...]
We'll admit that much, if not most, contemporary mainstream country leaves us pretty unfazed one way or the other. Far too often, paint-by-number songwriting , schmaltzy tear-in-your-beer sentiments and twangin' hayseed elements render a lot of what's on the country radio charts predictable, safe and assembly-line boring (much like Top 40 pop, actually). Often even a great song gets its production so overworked and overwrought that the soul is just bleached out. Then there are the exceptions...a great song joined with a voice just meant to sing it and a production that [...]
Whodathunk that the super cute girl half of She & Him, Zooey Deschanel, was such a cotton advocate? Adorable Zooey (yeah, I love her) lent her voice to Cotton's The Fabric of My Life campaign. The song is called "Fabric of My Life." Similiar songs were also recorded by GRAMMY honorees Miranda Lambert and Jazmine Sullivan for the campaign. While Zooey Deschanel's song is my favorite, I cannot ignore country vixen Miranda Lambert or Jazmine Sullivan's Philly soul, for that matter. It's pretty great that Cotton is embracing 3 extremely diverse rhythms of music and working [...]
The Touch, The Feel, The Fabric Of Our Lives... Zooey Dechanel, everyone's favorite aural sweetheart (and she's really easy on the eyes, too) has teamed up with, um, the folks that bring you Cotton. She's appearing in a new TV spot (below) and, the coolest part is, the full version of the song is currently available on The Fabric Of Our Lives' Website (no joke) along with a track by country radio sweetheart Miranda Lambert . If, like me, you find yourself wanting to play [...]
YUS!! Here is the "Studio Version" of "Dead Flowers" the upcoming single from country's rock princess Miranda Lambert. It sounds more Acoustic than the torrid performance version @ the ACM's , maybe there will be a more rocking version that is released to radio in the next few weeks? Let's hope so. I like this version better than the crappy quality of the ACM live audio that I've had on repeat this week, but I think this version needs to be amped up with more [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =hm97pu_Qjig My Girl Miranda Lambert just brought down the house (yet AGAIN) @ the ACM Awards last night in Las Vegas with a hauntingly beautiful new song called "Dead Flowers." Miranda said that one Valentine's Day someone had sent her a dozen roses but she was heading out the door so she threw them in the front yard. When she returned and saw the Dead Flowers laying there in the yard that imagery compelled her to write this song. If you haven't heard of [...]
For folks who saw the holographic Jerry Jeff Walker in the Austin airport yet still demand the real live thing: LIMITED NUMBER OF RESERVED SEATS JUST MADE AVAILABLE FOR STAGECOACH: CALIFORNIA'S COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL ON SALE THIS FRIDAY, MARCH 27 A limited number of reserved seats have just become available for STAGECOACH: California's Country Music Festival, [...]
This is the very first Top 5 list of 2009!!!!! Pretty exciting, if you ask me... I've been doing this list now for an entire year... it's been interesting to see whether my musical tastes have changed or not. I think, for the most part, my tastes have not changed... but now that country music is a big part of my daily habit, I know that I'm at least broadening my horizons.
The clip for Miranda Lambert's other-woman lament "More Like Her" is a simple affair, full of moving men, birdcages, and the hard-luck country singer boarding a 13th-floor elevator right at the clip's climax. It fits the wistful, gently self-flagellating mood of the song so well, you want to reach into the screen and give Lambert a hug, or at least invite her over for a glass of wine and some friendly conversation about methods of revenge. [ YouTube ; HT Rob Murphy]
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