by teepoo Happy new years! Or almost anyway! Here's a bunch of songs about new years and resolutions. Sam Lowry- A New Years Song for Ryan HURTS- All I Want For Christmas is New Years Day Regina Spektor- All I Want for Christmas is New Years Day Ohbijou- New Years Electron Love Theory- New Years Day (U2 Cover) The Limousines- New Years [...]
I thought I would try to break down what I listened to this year for songs that more or less came out in 2009. What I am saying is some songs will have been released in 2009, some will have been live or bootlegs in 2009, some will have been re-released and some were demos for upcoming 2010 albums. But let's be clear, these all came to me in 2009, were basically recorded/released in 2009 and were listened to in 2009. This is also from my iTunes library and is NOT doctored in any way to try and justify any [...]
I have done this before (see here ) and I just did the whole drag and drop into my iTunes and have a new playlist for this Saturday. I have had these mp3s on my desktop for weeks now and they are not related at all besides the fact that I listened quickly, liked it and downloaded it, then didn't import the songs to my iTunes. I don't know what I'm doing half the time - there is soo much music out there and I try to grab as much of the stuff [...]
I have been in a bit of a funk lately. For a guy who routinely listens to "sad bastard music", this can be a bit of a deep hole to dig out of. So with this in mind, I have found solace in the singer songwriter (surprise), but one that comes with a signature voice. You might have received a bit of a preview of this style of singer songwriter with the Sean Rowe post from 2 days ago. It is a baritone style voice that is southern and gothic and can be thought of as the narrator's voice of [...]
It's Friday, and I was up way later than I needed to be watching Rajon Rondo attempt fade-aways and 45-ft runners (and laughing as the Canucks tried to give my friend Paul a heart attack-ack-ack). So, those expecting a typical herohill novella will be sorely disappointed. Instead, we take it old skool and deliver things the way MP3 blogs were meant to – a few poorly written words, a few songs. Elephant Stone – The Seven Seas web site With [...]
Wow a press release I can actually use. I'm flabbergasted. None of the CD release lists I peruse had a new Sam Lowry listed (I wrote about Sam here first three years ago) . So this is a complete surprise. Sam pals around with Murder by Death, Langhorne Slim, William Elliott Whitmore, Lucero and O'death and probably listened to a little too much Leonard Cohen growing up. His songs are not jaunty sing-a-longs. More often than not the chorus is absent and rhymes are few and far between. His new record [...]
myspace First things first... how about some new music from These Hands ? Can do. Michael recorded a complete body of work on March 1st/2009 and has sent over the lead track from the record, No Distractions . I can't speak for the rest of the appropriately titled - March 1st - but No Distractions is a dark, almost tribal jam. Dark piano chords, a big kick drum and ominous tones replace the pleasantries we embraced on songs like Zoe Montreal , but the way he adds the [...]
This week, singer-songwriter/bearded rock troubadour, Sam Lowry [Myspace] embarks on a month long tour, traversing the United States supporting his good friends Murder by Death & Langhorne Slim on the first and second legs respectively. The tour, which begins March 3rd in Salt Lake City, is the first of many tours planned to drum up support [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
At the start of the year I wanted to make this site more than just a random music blog and try and get a bit more involved in the Edinburgh music scene. Basically, I've not lived here long and I wanted to make some friends. Also, from a purely ideological point of view, I think that it's all very well to talk music and so on, but actually being able to genuinely support people who you know and like and who are really trying to make things happen is a good thing to be doing. I wanted, I [...]
Sometimes I swear the search feature over at Hype/Elbo.ws must be broken. How is it possible that no one has written about Sam Lowry ( MS )? I mean the guy has had three critically acclaimed records, is currently on tour with Lucero, Rocky Volato and William Elliott Whitmore and he has a bushy beard! Maybe he is a poor man's Bonnie Prince Billy (or Smog or Moutain Goats) but I'd still take that any day over Jet, Cold War Kids or The Rapture. Plus he's got members of Murder By Death, Early Day Minors [...]
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