We love musicians because of what they offer us: songs that fill us with emotions and that allow us to celebrate and even forever cement a particular moment in our lives. And with the recent tragedy in Haiti, many musicians are looking to give back. While some did it with the songs they're known for , others are taking a different path: making arts and crafts. According to TwentyFourBit , it's not so much arts and crafts as it is decorating and designing items for Artists For Peace and Justice , a non-profit that [...]
I am such a big fan of those rare moments in a film or a television show that are able to completely capture the perfect symmetry between scene and song. I think it stems from my constant need to soundtrack everything momentous in my own life, I just get genuinely thrilled when I see it done so well on screen. One of these rare moments for me, was in the series finale to the dearly departed HBO show Six Feet Under. That was really long winded way of saying today's Coachella artist [...]
With an eclectic blend of jazz, rap, and rock, find out whether this pianist/Feist collaborator left his mark on New York.
Irish electro-pop trio Two Door Cinema Club have released a brand new video for 'Undercover Martyn' today, the newest single off their upcoming album, Tourist History (due out March 1st on Kitsune Records). Citing both early Bloc Party and Death Cab For Cutie as musical influences, TDCC have been gaining notoriety on indie blogs with [...]
Canadian-born Jason Charles Beck began teaching himself piano at the age of three. Some 30+ odd years later, we've come to embrace [Chilly] Gonzales , a world-class pianist and all around "entertainist". Last night, the London-based musician began his month-long residency at Joe's Pub. On this inaugural night of his "piano talk show", Gonzales entered the room with a generous dose of artistry, donned in traditional bathrobe, holed socks and bedroom [...]
Get a Drink Have a Good Time Now. Welcome to Paradise. Download Friday Mixtape 053 as one track (MP3 149MB 320kbps) Track List: Since I Left You | Avalanches So Light Is Her Footfall (Breakbot Remix) | Air 4h30 | Danger Untitled | Wolfgang Gartner In a Dream | Skybox Neverest (Raw Man Remix) | Hey Champ [...]
The following tickets are on sale beginning Friday, February 5th, 2010. Oh, and did you know you can support CoS simply by buying through the links below? Talk about an added incentive! Drive-By Truckers: What: Dates for North American tour When: April - May Tixs: Price varies depending on location Buy: Ticketmaster.com at 10:00 AM EST Owen Pallett: [...]
A friend of mine is off to Australia tomorrow so I figured I'd put together a shortlist of my fave Aussie artists. In no particular order, here you go: Bertie Blackman - Black Cats (Shazam Rmx) New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream (Van She Tech Rmx) Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream Cut Copy - Lights and Music Sia - Buttons Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars Ladyhawke - Paris is Burning [...]
Gonzales may be best known for his songwriting and production work with Peaches, Jamie Lidell and Feist but Canadian born Jason Charles Beck has come a long way in the music industry. In the early 1990's he was a part of the alternative rock band Son before emigrating to Berlin to reinvent himself as a hip-hop infused pianist , songwriter and eclectic instrumentalist. Tonight kicks off Chilly Gonzales' Piano Talk's residency at Joe's Pub in New York, a month-long engagement with a very special guest every night. Tonight's guest is none other than Sia, with Andrew WK, A-Track [...]
One of Perez Hilton's favorites, GSL brings you a track entitled "You've Changed" off Sia's sophomore album.
The Specials at Terminal 5 (04/21/10) Buy Tickets Date Event Name Venue Buy Tickets Mar 27 2010 Al Jarreau with Special Guest Christian Scott [...]
Vocalist and songwriter Sia has managed to become Miss Popular since her 2008 release Some People Have Real Problems . While continuing work on its follow-up, the 34-year-old Australian pop singer has performed on nearly every late-night show, collaborated with David Byrne and Fatboy Slim on their upcoming release, Here Lies Love , written songs for the Christina Aguilera forthcoming release, Bionic , and, as we recently discovered, has planned to tour with the Lilith Fair later this year. Sia's fifth studio effort, [...]
Coldplay + Mew + A-Ha = Apparatjik Date Event Name Venue Buy Tickets May 6 2010 A-Ha Nokia Theatre Times [...]
In support of her upcoming sexily-awaited album We Are Born , SiA Furler is getting up off her bum to tour for us all. The tour is called The We Mean You Tour and it will start in Denmark shortly after the release of the new album and end in the USA. Or the other way around. Click below for the complete tour dates as of now. Pollstar for updates. Filed under: Aussie , Beats Tagged: album , Beats , [...]
T hese cold nights are making me want to venture out less. I want to live in Jamaica, and make music on the beach. Now it's only a dream. Something to get me through the long winter nights. Doves - "Compulsion (Andrew Weatherall Remix)" MP3 from the Winter Hill EP Sia - "Under the Milky Way" MP3 [...]
MUSIC NEWS - Australian singer/songwriter, Sia has announced an April 2010 return to the North America tour circuit, her first in two years, as she embarks on a headlining run, then off to Europe! April will also bring us her fourth studio album along with " The We Meaning You Tour ". The run begins with Sia's in Vancouver, BC for her first show of 2010, on April 10 gig at Commodore Ballroom. She continues til she wraps up on May 6 at Terminal 5 in NYC. She's also booked to perform at the 2010 edition of [...]
MUSIC NEWS - Australian singer/songwriter, Sia has announced an April 2010 return to the North America tour circuit, her first in two years, as she embarks on a headlining run, then off to Europe! April will also bring us her fourth studio album along with " The We Meaning You Tour ". The run begins with Sia's in Vancouver, BC for her first show of 2010, on April 10 gig at Commodore Ballroom. She continues til she wraps up on May 6 at Terminal 5 in NYC. She's also booked to perform at the 2010 edition [...]
Sia is going on tour again! Quickly after the April 2010 release of her fifth studio album We Are Born , The We Meaning You Tour will begin in Denmark and move around Europe for a total of eleven dates which are as follows: Sia European Tour Dates 2010 12th May - Denmark - Copenhagen - Falkoner Theatre* 15th May - France - Lille - L'Aeroef 16th May - Belgium - Brussels - Ancienne Begique 17th May - Netherlands - [...]
OMG. TGIF! AmIright? High time for another dose of 100 percent free and legal tunes from our inboxes direct to your ears. As always, simply click on the band name to visit their site and the song name to get the MP3. But wait, you ravenous free music consumers, first things first. In addition to the free and legal MP3s, we're continuing to offer music-related visual art education/appreciation with our Free Music Fridays posts. In fact, here's a bit about the above work before we dig into the music... the Archangel [...]
* Darshan - Why Wait [buy the EP] * Grasscut - Muppet (Nathan Fake Remix) [preorder the EP] * Dosh - Subtractions [new album out 4/13] * Another Electronic Musician - Fields And Axioms [buy the album] * Balmorhea...
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