I've been having some car issues for the past two weeks. It's cost me a lot of money. A lot of money. I've had to dip pretty deep into my savings to afford the care it desperately needs. What's more, I got hit with a huge medical bill I thought was taken care of months [...]
A classic song sung by so many great singers to this day. Rest in peace to Sam Cooke and here's Al Green's version - packed so full of emotion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nua5k lb4Os Sends shivers down the spine.
The lockout may be drawing to a close but part of me hates to see the great, "lemons to lemonade" work done by Wieden + Kennedy go to waste. Directed [...]
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears On Sunday, Kilter wrote a post about being blue and what he does to get out of his funk. He does what I do. Well, I like to add booze to the the mix, but to each his own. When we are bummed out, we turn to music. I'm guessing you do the same, since you are spending your time reading a music blog instead of working/getting off couch/exercising. True to the music nerd he is, Kilter cranks up the Blues to [...]
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears On Sunday, Kilter wrote a post about being blue and what he does to get out of his funk. He does what I do. Well, I like to add booze to the the mix, but to each his own. When we are bummed out, we turn to music. I'm guessing you do the same, since you are spending your time reading a music blog instead of working/getting off couch/exercising. True to the music nerd he is, Kilter cranks up the Blues to [...]
For all those early morning hours when you're in need of some appropriate musical accompaniment, here's a playlist designed specifically for the nighttime: The Midnight Mixtape . Late night drives, long walks home, and/or bouts of insomnia should all set the stage for this collection well. Check it out tonight. download the zip . tracklist: 1) Youth Lagoon - 17 2) Machine Birds - Time 3) Young Man - Nothing 4) Houses - Soak It Up 5) Sampha - Indecision [...]
(Out now on Concord/Stax Remasters ) "The Philosopher of Soul," Arkansas-born Taylor was an early disciple of Sam Cooke, taking over Sam's part in the renowned gospel group the Soul Stirrers before landing up at Stax-Volt in the mid-Sixties. The next-to-last of Taylor's LPs for Stax, this 1973 swank up Soul Street is, along with Big Star's three-album output and a few Rufus Thomas and Shirley Brown singles, among the label's last notable recordings before the Memphis powerhouse folded in 1975. The wiseass persona Taylor displays on "Cheaper to Keep Her" exhibits only one [...]
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"It's such a small world: you're always a gig or a person away from something really cool," Judith Hill tells me, as she prepares to leave for South Africa the next day for a tour with Avon Cosmetics . That is a minor understatement, if I ever heard one. The "gig" this powerhouse vocalist is referring to happened to be the female lead in Michael Jackson 's back up for his This Is It tour. While any number of contemporary artists would be quick to include MJ in their list of influences, [...]
California dream pop band Tashaki Miyaki cover an all-time favorite song by an all-time favorite artist, Sam Cooke's "Nothing Can Change This Love". Tashaki Miyaki - Nothing Can Change This Love (Sam Cooke) Tashaki Miyaki ( Bandcamp ) Rating 8.0
We caught Steel Train performing live in Ventura, CA as part of their recent North American tour with Jack's Mannequin. After the show we caught up with bassist Evan Winkler to discuss Baseball, historic venues and a lot of Girls... the band. Cougar Microbes: What time did you wake up today? Was it out of [...]
Otis didn't just cover a song he reinterpreted it to bring his own style to the original and we have this Sam Cooke classic to prove it.
Golly Sam Cooke. Sam Cooke!! How can you not love him? Sam Cooke - "Cupid" Sam Cooke - "Chain Gang" Sam Cooke - "Havin a Party" Sam Cooke - "Only 16" — Basil
The pickings were few as Pitchfork Music Festival 2011 didn't quite rock as much as I hoped it would.
After several years of being available exclusively in Europe, music streaming service Spotify will finally cross the pond and will soon be available to music fans in the United States. The site, which boasts with a library of over 13 million songs, will offer users both a free ad-based service and a subscription model - which will be required for use on your mobile device. Currently Spotify has no official launch date, but you if you head over to their website you can sign up to try and score an invite to their beta launch. [...]
Yesterday, we published the first half of 50 Fourth of July Songs about America, fireworks, summer, patriotism, freedom, and other themes that are fitting for a 4th of July mixtape playlist. Afterall, you probably know how much we love making and sharing mixtapes and playlists with tens of thousands of people from around the world [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
I am a member of two Mix CD clubs. They're great! You get 12 people together and each month someone is responsible for sending the other 11 members a mix. You get new music, new perspectives, all for the price of the effort it takes to make one of these yourself and the subsequent packaging and postage. For various reasons, I wanted to put together a mix of American music for my latest mix. Partly, I was trying to understand what American music means to me, and what kinds of songs and sounds I find distinctly American. To [...]
Has anyone ever looked more badass than Sam Cooke in this photo? I contend that they have not.
1: Loneliness and Sadness "Every songwriter in their smallest song seems to possess some monumental grief clarified and dignified by melody, Bill thinks. His own sadnesses, on the other hand, slosh about in his life in a low-key way, formless and self-consuming." -from Beautiful Grade in the collection of short stories Birds of America , [...]
Heavy Years: 2000-2010 (Ernest Jenning) is the latest release from Brooklyn-by-way-of-Chicago singer/songwriter Chris Mills. The 14-track retrospective compiles songs from his last four albums, along with two new tracks recorded with DJ Oktopus (Dalek). Mills is currently on the road supporting Heavy Years, and he will also be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our [...]
Not much to say that hasn't already been said about the most influential, talented, beloved and important soul singer of all time.
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