In September of 2010, the world (well, the UK) watched as a jittery Worcestershire-born girl named Cher Lloyd strolled across the stage-suited in a a fitted black jacket and shredded white jeans-to audition for the X Factor . After a brief grilling by the judges regarding her name and age ("You look more!" Louis Walsh exclaimed after learning she was only 16 years old), Lloyd announced she'd be performing ( Keri Hilson 's cover of) Soulja Boy 's "Turn My Swag On." And then she opened her mouth to sing. [...]
MuuMuse Approved Tracks for the Week of October 31, 2010 5. Rihanna - What's My Name The second single from RiRi's upcoming studio album, LOUD, continues to push all the right buttons with me (and shows no sign of stopping). Naughty taunts and a haunted Island rhythm to keep those hips twerking for days-oh, [...]
It's all quick pre-scheduled posts here for the next few days I'm afraid as I'm away from home for work this week. I love all the songs you'll see here though, even if I've not had the time to write a lot about them! The Jezabels are an indie rock type four-piece from Sydney who spent much of May touring Australia in support of Tegan & Sara. I don't know much more about them than that, but their track 'Easy To Love' has copped a serious flogging around my place this weekend, and it's all down to lead [...]
Pop music veteran Siobhan Fahey of Shakespears Sister and Bananarama sat for a photo shoot, and we discussed the recording of her new album, Songs From The Red Room (due to release in the U.S. on September 21st), as well as her rebel girl relationship with music. I met Fahey late in the afternoon on a fully-cooked 107-degree steamer in New York City's Lower East Side. She looked cool and glamorous as she sat in the window booth at Fontana's, cosmetics casually laid out next to a light sushi lunch. With her red Lipstick on a [...]
It's been a long time since there's been any news on Shakespears Sister , a musical project birthed from the brain of former Bananarama member Siobhan Fahey , but, hey, a decade long hiatus is nothing in the grand scheme of things, right? That's right, on September 21 there will be a NEW Shakespears Sister album entitled Songs from the Red Room . This is super exciting news, but what may be more exciting is talk of a soon-to-be-announced fall tour.
More gig news today... Shakespears Sister (now basically Siobhan Fahey) play the Button Factory on Wednesday April 28th. A new, electro tinged album Songs From The Red Room is released two weeks earlier. Grant-Lee Phillips comes to the Sugar Club on April 20th in support of new album Little Moon . Sepultura have confirmed a one off Irish show at The Academy on July 18th. The band are currently touring across Europe and the UK with their latest studio album A-Lex . Tickets priced €25 including booking fee on [...]
Samuel Stewart might come from a pop music lineage, but, one year into his apprenticeship on the Los Angeles scene, he's intensely aware that he must make his own way, and that there's some serious dues yet to be paid. "I think that's the danger of being a professional musician's kid," the 21-year-old son of the Eurythmics' Dave Stewart and Shakespears Sister's Siobhan Fahey says. "People think you don't deserve what you get. But if I were to get attention I didn't deserve, I'd feel bad. I'm here, starting at the bottom, playing small venues like anyone [...]
Some would call this moon-themed post lazy, and those people would be right! I've been suffering from some serious writer's block lately (many of you might point out that I seem to suffer from writer's block most all the time, based on what passes for writing 'round these parts), and what better way to fill space with minimal effort than a theme post. Stick up a few mp3s with 'moon' in the title, briefly mention a moon-related event, then sit back and watch the hits pour in! Of course, that's not entirely fair. The 40th anniversary of the [...]
Sorry for the lack of posts on the Devil's blog for the past week. I've been away in Stratford. Although I took my laptop along to enable me to keep the world abreast of the latest and greatest in the field of new music the hotel was a wireless free zone and therefore I was unable to share my views with the world. I did, however, manage to get to see a Shakespeare play (The Merchant of Venice if you're interested) and surprisingly managed to follow it (well some of it) even laughing in the right places (admittedly a secod [...]
Shakepears Sister - Stay Vandenberg - Burning heartdÖf - codoDuncan Browne - The Wild Placesfra lippo lippi - shouldnt have to be like thatCorey Hart - I wear my sunglasses at nightJevetta Steele - I am calling you (Theme from Bagdad café)
In ninth grade, I had such a crush on this guy named Lee. I used to stare longingly at him during drama class - probably drove him crazy. Not that I would have known what to do with him if I'd gotten him - I didn't want him, exactly. I just wanted someone to stare at. So my best friend through this whole crush thing was Carrie. She came up to me one day with a tape (that's a cassette, for you young'uns. We rolled like that, back then) that had this [...]
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