On 4 October Agnes Obel is to release her debut album on [ PIAS ] Recordings. Called, 'Philharmonics', the album will be preceded by the release of the 'Riverside' EP on 6 September. Feeling musically related to Roy Orbison , Agnes currently lives in Berlin and possesses the rare gift of a songbird's voice, bringing to mind Ane Brun , Joanna Newsom or even Ricki Lee Jones . Play "Just So" to anyone in Germany and they'll tell you it's the music from the Deutsche Telekom television advertisement. It's the kind of exposure many an artist would [...]
It may not be new... but every time is like the first time with Mew. -Dr. Madison Seuss Many of you may be familiar with my Danish, Swedish, Icelandic and otherwise odd foreign music fetish but I consider Mew the crowning jewel. They're a Danish group of seasoned musicians from Copenhagen. They've been making incredible [...]
Fade In: INT. DARK ROOM Me: "…but then what? What next?" Him: "A sex scene!" Me: "But it's a horror movie, don't we want it to be scary?" Him: "It'll be a scary sex scene!" Me: "A scary sex scene?" Him: "Yeah." Me: "How will it be a scary sex scene?" Him: "Because we'll have [...]
Due to sheer laziness, I only recently came across the 2002 release called This Is Stina Nordenstam by - wait for it - Stina Nordenstam. I could have and probably should have tracked this down a long time ago;...
Don't ask me why but for some reason I woke up this morning with Yello on my mind. "Who?" you ask yourself. Yello is the Swiss electronic duo responsible for the song accompanying Cameron Fry's 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California. Oh yeah. Still confused? Than you're probably not a product of the '80s. I've [...]
My 'Florida' playlist today is packed with great Swedish singstresses! (Me included of course Florida - Playlist #8 Sofia Talvik - The light Stina Nordenstam - From Cayman Islands with love Pernilla Andersson - Walk another road Lykke Li - A little bit Oh Laura - It ain't enough Theresa Andersson - Na na na Doris - Did you give the world some love today, baby?
farewell and adieu to you fair spanish ladies, farewell and adieu to you ladies of spain, for we've received orders for to sail back to boston, and so nevermore shall we see you again. croaked old quint in jaws. and now dear readers it's time for me to take out my teeth, flash my scars one last time and go hurtling knife in hand towards the gaping maw of that deadly great white… interesting as this writerly venture has been (mostly…), consider it somewhatofa psychological barometer of the past few years. for me anyway. [...]
It just keeps snowing. Is it ever going to end? I am kind of freaking out about it. When I was a kid, it used to snow like this, but we haven't had this kind of winter in quite some time and I am not used to it anymore. If I was in Michigan , I would expect it. I would feel prepared for and even welcome the nights spent in, drinking whiskey and playing board games. But this is New York . It's so out of context. I can't [...]
It just keeps snowing. Is it ever going to end? I am kind of freaking out about it. When I was a kid, it used to snow like this, but we haven't had this kind of winter in quite some time and I am not used to it anymore. If I was in Michigan , I would expect it. I would feel prepared for and even welcome the nights spent in, drinking whiskey and playing board games. But this is New York . It's so out of context. I can't [...]
the only positive thing about this year was that it didn't last too goddam long and had a motherfunker of a soundtrack. so here's to twenty ten. twenty ten... hooom.... royal trux : another year iron monkey : bad year the handsome family : drunk by noon codeine [...]
Whilst on twitter today we struck up a conversation with 'hot new singer/songwriter' Ellie Goulding . Did we talk about her amazing songs? The fact she's just signed to Polydor? Or, perhaps, we asked her about writing songs for Diana Vickers from last year's X Factor? No, we talked about Jordan and Peter Andre 's marriage problems...BUT we did get to share the new Peter Andre video with her and for that she will always be thankful, right? Wrong. This is Ellie: [...]
This mix was conceived on a cold winter night not so long ago, with the goal of making one all wistful while driving down desolate, glistening streets at night. Norwegian songstress Stina Nordenstam opens with a warm trumpet-filled trip-hop-lite track, but it only goes darker from here. If you're not in the mood for melancholy, now would be the right time to stop. Next is an atmospheric mix of Fever Ray's eerie 'If I Had A Heart'. Now I can almost see the trees roll back beside me. Blonde Redhead dampens the mood even further with one of the best [...]
May 15, 2009, 3:49am
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"You should see it for the simplest of reasons: Because it is a good story. Not because it may be important. Not because it is unforgettable, unyielding. Not because it horrifies. Not because the score is creepily spiritual. Not because it is littered with small lines of dialogue you will remember later. Not because it contains warnings against our own demise. All of that is so." After reading a rave review from Esquire [excerpt above] and finding the trailer to be horrifically gorgeous I'm thinking that it's time to start breaking in pages of [...]
# Stina Nordenstam : Now That You're Leaving # C'est promis : j'arrête de mettre des morceaux de Stina Nordenstam dans tous mes posts. Mais elle a fait 6 très beaux albums entre 1992 et 2004 que je redécouvre en permanence. ••• [ Download MP3 ] Stina Nordenstam : Now That You're Leaving (save as) // Alt Link (new window) :: stinanordenstam.net [...]
This is my first Christmas where I did not trek up north to stay with family. No, instead, I'm here in my studio apartment, preparing brunch for a friend who's arriving in an hour. I suppose this is my first non-Christmas. It's usually a very melancholy time of year for me, but not this year. No, this year I am blissfully alone, enjoying my records, my apartment, and the complete absence of expectation. (Afterall, isn't that the scourge of this holiday? Expecting some Norman Rockwell painting to be recreated in your parents' living room?) [...]
Courage, la période des fêtes est bientôt finie. Pour vous aider à passer ce moment difficile... ••• 1964. [ Download MP3 ]. Ike & Tina TURNER. Christmas Baby Ike et Tina nous emballent Noël à leur sauce. Bougrement efficace. ••• 1975. [ Download MP3 ]. Curtis MAYFIELD. Jesus [...]
Photography "Emergency Landing In Iceland No. 1" by Tsuru When it comes to geography, I'm woefully ignorant, like, extra super ignorant. Even here in the states, I've got a basic handle on the more obvious states, California's over there, Texas is down there, I was just in Arizona, it's kinda in between the other two, Florida (my homeland) is America's wang hanging low and lazy.... That's about it. International's worse, well except for Canada & Mexico, I've pretty much got them located in my mind, but it starts to get hazy [...]
In the pantheon of ethereal female vocals surely none is more distinctive than Stockholm's Stina Nordenstam. I first discovered her music via the seminal 'No Disco' program, Donal Dineen was enraptured and it was easy to see why. The thing about Nordenstam is that she looks exactly the way she sounds, delicate and shy yet utterly hypnotic. 'Little Star' was taken from her 2nd album 'And She
Norwegian record-pusher Christer Falck got hold of a country version of "Sign O' The Times" done by a drunk Joachim Lund, and that spurred the idea of a tribute album for Prince. 20 text messages were sent out to different Norwegian artists, and 19 replied positively. Falck hit a nerve, ...
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