The Canadians strike again! Don't worry, I still have a fond place in my heart for all that is good and true with Canadian music-- and I'm making room especially for this new chanteuse, Jane Vain. Accompanied by her band, The Dark Matter, what they do for unrequited love is sort of like what Emily Haines and The Soft Skeleton do my mental well being. Which kinda makes sense: Soft Skeleton! Meet Dark Matter! Oh, mind, body, and spirit. We are aiming for anatomical correctness here. Catchy name aside, it doesn't hurt that this group is really, really [...]
Hello again. Here it is, the Wednesday before Christmas day, do you have all of your shopping done? I managed to get all of mine done in 2.5 hours, that's gotta be some kind of record. But anyway, as I was dashing from store to store, from one side of the mall to the other, I was thinking about which batch of cover songs to share with you all tonight. It wasn't until I was walking up the steps to our apartment that I decided upon this group from some killer Chansons . Jacques [...]
Below you will find mix number five out of five that has come about as a result of EAR FARM's Thanksgiving Mix Contest . Well, there are ten mixes actually, but five that I'm posting on EAR FARM this week. If you're someone who entered the contest and won (and I've been in contact with you about a mix) who hasn't yet received your very own mix, you'll get yours shortly. In fact, it might just show up here on EF in the near future. Patience. [...]
a chilean prostitute is auctioning off 27 hours worth of sex for charity . Nancy Sinatra "These Boots Are Made For Walking (Carty's Horny Remix)"
"When I think of love as something new." The Donnas ~ Drive My Car performed by The Donnas from This Bird Has Flown Rosanne Cash ~ I'm Only Sleeping from Retrospective by Rosanne Cash [...]
Hey... I just heard that Lee Hazlewood has finally left the building... I noticed a surprising number of his tunes floating about online, which I first momentarily thought was an interesting cool coincidence, a simultaneous late recognition of his genius...maybe it was his birthday. That was until I realized, hey the guy is terminally ill, and it might be for another less fortunate reason. Well it was indeed the grim reaper, who'd been banging on his door for awhile, and Lee was well aware of it. I wrote up his final [...]
Songwriter, producer, singer, and all-around musical iconoclast Lee Hazlewood died Saturday, August 4, in Henderson, Nevada, after a three-year battle with terminal renal cancer. He was 78. Hazlewood was best known as a producer, songwriter, and sometimes duet partner of Nancy Sinatra. He wrote the smash "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" and recorded two full albums with Sinatra, 1968's Nancy & Lee and 1972's Nancy & Lee Again. Their most famous collaboration, though, was the 1967 single "Some Velvet Morning" , which reached #26 [...]
A dedicated reader prompted me to do a post on shoes. I hope this is what he had in mind. Paolo Nutini ~ New Shoes Lori McKenna ~ Ruby's Shoes (live) Danny Hutchens ~ Sensible Shoes Bird ~ Shoes Should All Cost The Same The Cat Empire ~ Two Shoes Rosie Thomas ~ 2 Dollar Shoes Covay, Don & The Jefferson Lemon Blues Band ~ Why Did [...]
SUGARTOWN RETURNS TO LAST EXIT BAR & LOUNGE TONIGHT... I'll be spinning the hits from all sortsa genres: new wave, soul, ye-ye, easy listening, bossa nova, post punk, garage rawk & whatever else feels right! PLUS -- Scopitones * screened all night for your amusement -- Snuggle up to an ICE COLD BUCKET OF MILLER HIGH LIFES --> only $15 all night!! Some fun classics: Nancy Sinatra -- Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) -- [...]
Photo credit: Chris Susi What's more chilling yet romantic than to hear someone sing a spine tingling tale of murder? Especially when the song involves a story of the victim being a loved one of the killer. Murder ballads have always been part of our musical history, but never seem to lose their disturbing impact. I buried my first victim when I was nineteen Went through her bedroom and the pockets of her jeans And found her letters that said so many [...]
Pelle Carlberg use to front the Swedish band Edson , they put out three albums in the early 00's. Carlberg decided to go it alone around 2005 and released his first solo record called Everything Now. The Edson records and his first solo disc were all fine records, but the songs just never jumped out and grabbed you the way great pop songs should. Sometimes it takes a band or artist a few albums to get going, hell Pulp 's first four albums are pretty much totally forgettable. It seems like Pelle Carlberg has finally come [...]
Early on in this last Sopranos episode, Christopher says something that speaks a lot to creator David Chase's methods: "Like a pebble in a lake. Even the fish feel it." He may have been speaking about the prior death of Vito, but the sentiment that even the smallest events have a larger rippling effect rings true in the series. It's what makes episodes like this so hard to gauge, where little happens and you can't figure out what's going to come back and be a significant player in the plot. And with only five episodes left, [...]
As the title of this post indicates, this will be a series of sorts cause I LOOOVE to karaoke. & occaisionally I'm delighted by some of the selections, more often I'm often saddened by the boring songs to choose from. If I had my way...I'd include these showstoppers: Spandau Ballet -- Gold I would wear a matador jacket & sing very emotionally into a skinny Bob Barker microphone: "These are my salad days, slowly being eaten away..." Please do yourself a favor & watch the video for it [...]
First off I want to say that this has been in the works (well in my head) for almost six months, but i've never had the time to just sit down and think about what I wanted to include. I make no secret about my love for film here on the site, as it's almost equal to my love of music. The connection I find between films and music is simple. It's that one scene and that one song that if they're both put to use correctly, than it can set that mood perfectly without there even being any kind [...]
I am going to go ahead and make a bold statement here, so do prepare yourselves: Best opening shot ever is in Kill Bill Vol. 1 , the black and white shadows along with Nancy Sinatra's beautiful haunting voice made this shot easier to take in and take in I did. I just think it is really well done in every way, if it doesn't grab you and suck you into this film, I honestly don't think anything would. I am one of those oddities who preferred Volume 1 over Volume 2, I mean in my opinion [...]
Thinking with Things: Toward a New Vision of Art by Esther Pasztory is a book that has changed the way I think about things. From the University of Texas Press : "This book is about the nature of things we call art—how we study them and why we should bother with them. Part One is a long study outlining a theory of art based on anthropology, philosophy, and art history." [...]
MONDAY, NOV 6TH -- THE PHANTASTIC INVISIBLE TENTACLE (every Monday) I've been invited to spin with DJ Go-Karff & DJ Shermy: Good music, candy, odd games & other distractementa! BEAUTY BAR 231 E 14th St near 3rd Ave Manhattan STARTS EARLY --> 8pm til ? -- no cover VETTY -- Nicolas NANCY SINATRA & LEE HAZLEWOOD -- Did You Ever? //*// //*// //*// [...]
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About forty-five years ago, I got hooked on a series of books that featured a British secret agent who was suave, sophisticated, deadly to his enemies, and irresistible to the ladies. (I was so fond of the books that I even tried vodka martinis - shaken, not stirred - but that experiment didn't last long.) The British agent was, of course, Bond...James Bond . [...]
There is a lot to be said on motivations behind bands covering songs. Truth is that even though we (the critical masses) think we know everything, only each artist can say for sure why he or she decided to cover a particular song. Some songs get covered by everyone ("All Along the Watchtower"). Some songs get covered it seems as a cry for help, or in hope that a blog will pick it up. How else would anyone have found out that James Blunt played a Pixies song at Coachella ? I guess it doesn't matter either [...]
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