Today you get eight versions of painter-turned-music-legend Joni Mitchell's ( fansite wiki AMG ) 1971 " River ." She first started singing by belting out Christmas carols in a children's hospital. By 1971 she was in California, missing the winters of Canada and writing a "selfish and sad" paean to the end of a relationship. I don't have a lot to say about this song, except that I had planned at one point to include every single one of these versions on this year's compilation, Have Yourself A Depressing Little Christmas. (Watch this [...]
Aubrey Edwards Never have I claimed to be the fastest to get turned on to something, to be the one who discovers the next big thing. I'm far more tortoise than hare in these sorts of matters, but even then there's not really any excuse for taking, oh, seventeen months to get around to writing up Bishop Allen's last album The Broken String - or even longer if you think back to the year-long "one EP a month" series in 2006 from which much of the album is taken. [...]
Tonight there's a phenomenally gritty and exciting show at the Ottobar with The Constantines and Time Fite. Down in DC DC9 has a pleasant amalgam with The Gray Kid and Paul Michel while the Velvet Lounge has PWRFL Power, Kitty Hawk, Hume, and Pree(of Le Loup). Finally up north in Philly Rachael Yamagata is playing an intimate show at the First Unitarian Church . mp3: Paul Michel - Day\'s Looking Up mp3: Rachael Yamagata - Sunday Afternoon mp3: The Constantines [...]
Shows are usually pretty limited over the winter, especially on weekdays. Following the trend, this week is a little light. Most being one city stops, but with some definite highlights. My Brightest Diamond (photo from r5productions ) Tuesday In my opinion, Rachael Yamagata is under-appreciated. She creates elegant melodies and well-textured songs. When I first saw her perform, it was in 2004. She was a better version of Fiona Apple and her latest album [...]
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Last night I attended Mountain Stage 's 25th Anniversary show featuring Joan Osborne, Rachael Yamagata, The Low Anthem, Todd Burge, and Johnny Staats & Robert Shafer. It was a remarkable show, though more for the occasion than the concert itself. The event sold out before I could get tickets, so I have to thank Joan Osborne's representatives for putting me on the guest list. I also think that the people who work the ticket and merchandise tables at Mountain Stage deserve a round of applause, because the crowd was huge and some ladies were being unnecessarily [...]
Last night I attended Mountain Stage 's 25th Anniversary show featuring Joan Osborne, Rachael Yamagata, The Low Anthem, Todd Burge, and Johnny Staats & Robert Shafer. It was a remarkable show, though more for the occasion than the concert itself. The event sold out before I could get tickets, so I have to thank Joan Osborne's representatives for putting me on the guest list. I also think that the people who work the ticket and merchandise tables at Mountain Stage deserve a round of applause, because the crowd was huge and some ladies were being unnecessarily [...]
Elephants... Teeth Sinking Into Heart came out a couple of weeks ago and I haven't listened to it muchly, even if I loved its predecessor Happenstance . Reasing being: I have problems with double-disc albums and I wasn't in a sullen girl mood. But, yesterday I was stuck in my netted bed trying to avoid malaria in Tanzania and reading another sumptuous rant on colonialism titled The State Of Africa by Martin Meredith. I have to say that it is rockier than the her other work, but equally tasty. It''s growing on me.
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What is it with these female artists who call themselves Rachael with an "a" and sing wonderfully raspy, airy music that makes me want to melt? Bring it on, snow - the Rachaels can handle you. You know how the Bens (Lee, Kweller, Folds) made an album together? I would love some of the same from the Rachaels. Rachael Pollard - "Crazy For You" (MP3) Rachael Sage - "Vertigo" (MP3) Rachael Yamagata - "Worn Me Down" (MP3) Visit their websites: Rachael Pollard [...]
השבוע, בעונג מוקדם, זוגות זוגות: מיקסטייפ ואהבה, פלייליסט ומהומה, סיכומים ושנה שננעלה, מוזיקאים וגניבה, אלארם ואורי שוחט, מאדליב וקאט כמיסט, לנון וקוואמי, סלבריטאים ודמעות, וולט דיסני וג'ני לואיס, לואיסוויל ומין אוראלי, רייצ'ל יאמגאטה ופיונה אפל, עטיפות אלבומים ופוטושופ (בעצם, בלי פוטושופ!), הארי פוטר ותעלומת התמלוגים, הגיבורים והגיטרות, טינה פיי ומוישה אופניק, ניל יאנג וסטרים חינם, רופוס ויינרייט ואפסו עוד. וחוזה גונזלס בעונג סשנז (!!!), למקרה שפספסתם. צ'ק איט אאוט
MUSIC NEWS - She's gotten critical and audience acclaim since her 04 debut, now singer/ songwriter, Rachel Yamagata has just released a new album. We sti ll regularly pop-in her 04 pop-rock debut, Happenstance, especially for the hit , ???Worn Me Down.??? As you might know, her cd sales didn???t match the buzz so, her first big label, RCA, dropped the VA artist even after sh [...]
Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart is the new two-disc set from singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata. Elephants is a full album of the kind of prettily melancholy piano ballads that we've come to expect from Yamagata as well as some new vocal acrobatics, while the five-song Teeth Sinking Into Heart gives a taste of an entirely different pop-rock musician. I posted about Rachael's music back in 2005 around the time her songs began popping up on tv shows like The O.C. . More recently, Yamagata sang backup on two Bright Eyes recordings. I [...]
While it's my opinion that the Hotel Cafe is of no real need for explanation, it is also safe to assume that is it possible that it may have slipped under the radar of a reader or two. The venue, which started as nothing more than a downtown coffee shop in Los Angeles, has spun into one of the most respected venues in the nation. It aimed to give artists a place where they could feel comfortable and free of the grinding competition created by the recording industry. It's reputation of a friends first environment helped create a [...]
Photography by Story WOOF, busy day Wednesday. Oy. Sorry for the delay... But let's get it on! Our little music brigade had ourselves a little contest over in the mixtape room. The challenge seemed simple enough, build a mixtape of essential songs, songs everyone MUST here before they die. But like I wrote the other day when I presented my 3 hour failure, the task is harder than it seems. The sheer weight added to a song by making it an "essential", [...]
The show includes singer-songwriters Rachael Yamagata, Meiko, Thao Nguyen and Kate Havnevik.
Hilary Walsh Well this certainly took a while. Four years on from the release of her debut Happenstance , Rachael Yamagata has finally released the follow-up in Elephants ... Teeth Sinking Into Heart , and perhaps in an effort to make up for the wait, it's a double album. Well, sort of. Though the physical release is divvied up into two CDs, the contents could quite easily fit onto one. The separation is intended to be thematic, with the first disc [...]
rachel yamagata - duet (w/ ray lamontagne) this lovely, melancholy duet between rachel yamagata and ray lamontagne comes from yamagata's new album, elephants... teeth sinking into heart , behind which she's currently touring, and which tour will bring her to san francisco ( & the great american ) later this month (17 nov).
After splitting with her label amidst the recording and production of "Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart," it's fitting that the album is in fact two halves that make a whole. " Elephants " is business as usual for Rachael Yamagata with breathy poetic lyrics ("You can flee with your wounds just in time or lie there as he feeds, watching yourself ripped to shreds and laughing as you bleed") over hushed acoustic tones. However, "Teeth Sinking Into Heart" is a complete surprise. Heavy electric guitar adds bite to Yamagata's snarling, snarky vocals in a sound [...]
Tonight the shows pick up steam with a ton in the area. Here in Baltimore the Ottobar has a stellar line up with All The Saints, Eureka Birds, The Snowmen, and Northernmost, while Sonar has Casiotone For The Painfully Alone and No Kids. Down south in DC Jay Reatard and Cola Freaks play the Black Cat while The Hotel Cafe Tour comes into town at the 9:30 Club featuring Rachael Yamagata, Meiko, Jenny Owen Youngs, Thao Nguyen, and Samantha Crain. Also in DC are Happy Hollows and Birdlips. Up north in Philly [...]
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