Last weekend, Kim Kardashian popped out her and Kanye West's firstborn and congratulations to the both of them, I'll say forthright. However, any lingering doubts over a paternal tenderness here infiltrating West's latest, the egomaniacally entitled Yeezus , are strictly put to bed by these belligerent and quite frankly bonkers forty minutes. From the opening salvos of On Sight to finely ground lines such as "Put my fist in her like a civil rights sign" (I'm In It) and "I'd rather be a dick than a swallower" (New Slaves), Kanye's on incendiary form as he shoots his [...]
There is no voice in the folk world today that has purer beauty of singer-songwriter ANE BRUN. Adding to the impacted of her vocals is poetic nature of her… The post Ane Brun - Songs 2003-2013 appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .
La productora Radical Media será la responsable de lanzar un documental acerca de la vida y música de Nina Simone , una de las voces más importantes que hayan existido dentro del jazz, blues, soul y R&B. Aunque el proyecto aún está en los preparativos, se sabe que seguirá los pasos de la cantante desde sus inicios en la música hasta su fallecimiento en el 2003. Además, incluirá pietaje y presentaciones nunca antes vistas. Jon Kamen, Justin Wilkes y Sidney Beaumont , así como y la hija de la [...]
Would you like to know another reason why Dr. Dre will never complete/release Detox ? No? Too bad, because it's being reported that he's being tapped to compose the score for ... wait for it ... the Nina Simone biopic. You might have heard about this film already, as some folks were up in arms when Zoe Saldana was cast as the legendary jazz singer. There's not much else out there right now about the project, though I can expect this latest bit of news will have people confused, perhaps shocked, and maybe even [...]
Bothering me most is the idea that someone else might become acquainted with the ritual of your feet just before you put on socks. Second to that is anyone else having my impatience while you hold a washed dish over the sink until it completely stops dripping before you will dry it. That impatience is my chore, a kitchen dance where the oven handle is misused as a barre. Almost in tandem is the book-happiness before bed. I used to be suspicious that the chaotic warming of an orchestra before an performance was a manipulation to arouse the audience. Surely, [...]
Ten days ago, star JamandaHalf correspondent, Jeff Cairney sent Leks and I one of the most firey JamandaHalf posts ever. The post was so potent that before we could make it public we needed to listen to Richie Havens nonstop for a week and a half. Jeff has been blessing us with some of the most radical posts over the years and is one of the most soulful, intelligent, and good vibed dudes out there. In his latest installment, Jeff gives us a little history lesson mixed with a splash of theory to sip on. [...]
No one buys albums anymore, goes the music industry truism. And yet, for all that the format's commercial viability may or may not be on the wane, sitting and listening to a great album from start to finish is one of the greatest pleasures that music can bring. Flavorwire recently got to thinking about how one might build a record collection if you really only did buy one record a year. So here's the result of our thought exercise: 50 albums you really should own, one a year from 1963 until the present day. Yes, of course this mean things [...]
In 1965, British Invasion greats the Animals had a hit with their cover of Nina Simone's "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," and now the former Animals frontman Eric Burdon has teamed up with the former Rilo Kiley leader Jenny Lewis to record another version of the song. This one is for True Blood , the HBO vampire melodrama that returns next month. The new version is, naturally, spookier and more atmospheric, and you can hear it at the KCRW website . A new True Blood soundtrack album is out 5/28 on [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Pearson Sound, Objekt, Joy Orbison Song: Nina Simone - Feeling Good (Ramadanman Remix) [download here ] What's so good? [...]
Joe writes: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blue isn't one of my favourite Bob Dylan songs, or wasn't until I heard Nina's restrained version of it. It's my new favourite Dylan cover and one of my two favourite Nina Simone tracks. Here's my other Nina favourite, Little Girl Blue, which borrows from Good King Wenceslas: and while I'm on the subject of classic tracks that borrow from Christmas carols, here's Joni Mitchell's River with its debt to Jingle Bells:
This week I wanted to get back to the bedtime mix and create something that would really twist you up and take you into different places and eras as you drifted off. For the first half of the mix you are in a silvery future with glistening glass skyscrapers and spacecraft zipping along the horizon but then things change with the track from Bent, things start to feel different. As "Moonbeams" ends you hear a familiar voice, something from the jazz age but it still sounds cohesive, and before you know it you are traveling back in time... Just trust [...]
Il 21 Aprile del 2003 Nina Simone , leggendaria voce e piano della musica, muore a Carry-le-rouet, in Francia, dopo una lunga lotta contro un tumore al seno. A dieci anni dalla sua scomparsa l'eredità dell'artista americana è ancora molto forte: sono tanti i musicisti e i cantanti che si sono ispirati a lei per le proprie carriere, sia dal punto di vista musicale sia da quello delle lotte per la comunità afroamericana (un nome su tutti: Alicia Keys ). Eunice Kathleen Waymon, questo il vero nome di Nina Simone , nacque a Tryon, in [...]
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So, tonight is the grand induction ceremony for this year's class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. You'll forgive us if we don't get too excited, though, as the whole Hall of Fame experience these days is as notable for who isn't included as it is for who is — and, specifically, for the ongoing lack of female inductees. There are plenty of worthy male artists and (predominantly) male bands whose continuing absence is inexplicable — Brian Eno, Nick Drake, Pixies, The Smiths, The Cure, Television — but the picture for women remains truly depressing. About this time two years [...]
By now you've no doubt heard Brad Paisley and LL Cool J's thoroughly bewildering "Accidental Racist," and wondered how in God's name we live in a world where this song exists. We guess the sentiment is laudable enough, in its own cack-handed way — ultimately, it's a plea for mutual understanding and racial reconciliation, which is something we can get behind, even if it is couched in curiously passive-agressive language and non-apologies — but boy is it ever both a) weird and b) plain old bad . In the spirit of [...]
No ano em que completaria 80 anos, Nina Simone continua presente como diva da música americana e símbolo de força, luta e orgulho não apenas de um povo, mas de uma geração. Ler o artigo completo [...]
We've had the weekend to mull over Lana Del Rey's cover of "Chelsea Hotel No. 2," and our conclusion — like much of the internet — is that we can't quite believe we're saying this, but we really rather like it. It also got us thinking about how relatively few great covers of Cohen songs there have been by female artists. In a way, this makes sense — Cohen's songs are quintessentially male in their own lugubrious way. But still, we're always up for a challenge, so we've rounded up a selection of some of our other favorite female-fronted Cohen covers. [...]
Laura Mvula is taking 2013 by storm with her sound. This is her third video and her second official single. The album, Sing To The Moon , marks her landing on the music scene platform and we have high hopes for her in the future. She is probably the closest thing to Nina Simone we have to do. We love when she yells: "Who made you the center of the universe?" in the song. Related articles Laura Mvula - In Session 2013 - Nights At [...]
Most people have at least one token jazz album in there collection. This week, we look at the ten you should add. Jazz is a bit of a sticky wicket in the music...
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