It's been ages since I've seen Nicole Atkins perform, but her new EP Bleeding Diamonds is the perfect soundtrack for the day before Valentines Day. Tomorrow you will get drunk, but today you are free to be melancholy. A staple in the New York local scene, Atkins will put her crafted songwriting and haunting voice to the test when she releases her upcoming debut on Columbia Records. But for now, she is headlining Mercury Lounge next Tuesday, and we are holding a fun contest to support that show. Here are [...]
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I am knee-deep in meetings in Denver, but here are some bits that have piqued my interest in the past couple days: Of Montreal score best new music over at the fork. Menomena , not surprisingly, also received best new music. The Knife's (knives?) Silent Shout will get the deluxe treatment with a live dvd and a live concert disk. good stuff. Snowden will be playing Sonar on February 16th...see you there. "Alt-country" crooner [...]
During a bout of random surfing I stumbled across Nicole Atkins . Musically she is described as being akin to David Lynch's Blue Velvet where…'underneath the sunny blue skies, immaculately manicured suburban homes and their bright green lawns lies a forbidding black hole of danger, violence and death'. I don't know much about that – sounds like Scunthorpe on a good day – but she wears a pretty frock in a pretty field and has an immediately engaging voice and presence. Nicole (we're on first name terms already) has an EP – Bleeding Diamonds – out now, with a [...]
This is the last week you can enter the current Fingertips contest, the prize this time being a 12-inch vinyl copy of Be Your Own Pet's debut album ( Be Your Own Pet ). Turntable not included. Deadline is January 25; all the details are here . And have you heard about the Prize Closet blowout? Gifts for cheap! Those details are here . THIS WEEK'S FINDS week of Jan. 21-27 "Down in the Valley" - the Broken West Big Star meets Wilco; irresistibility [...]
Well my friends it would appear that we have reached hump day! I am normally not this enthusiastic about it but given that I should be receiving my laptop in the mail at anytime I figured it was a cause for excitement. Normal people would probably share some raucous arena anthem in this sort of situation but since my mind works in awkward ways I would rather share with you a lovely singer/songwriter who goes by the name of Nicole Atkins. She is on the verge of releasing her debut full length and to get everyone excited [...]
S'il existait un concours du Rufus Wainwright féminin, Nicole Atkins serait une bonne candidate. Comme le Canadien, elle affectionne les décors baroques sur lesquels elle appose ses mélodies et envolées vocales. Ses chansons naviguent entre hommage aux girl groups des 60's et plongées oniriques à la Tim Burton. On pourrait lui reprocher quelques boursouflures de production mais rien que pour le
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