Here are a smattering of the great tracks I've heard this year. Suddenly, Tammy! - Bathroom Maximum Balloon - Apartment Wrestling (w/David Byrne) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Heart in Your Heartbreak Mirrors - Ways To An End
Ik ben geen vaste lezer van het literaire tijdschrift The Believer , maar ik kon het juli/augustus muzieknummer niet laten liggen. Bij het nummer zit namelijk een cd met daarop 14 liedjes. Het idee van de redactie is simpel: vraag gewoon aan je favoriete singersongschrijvers om een akoestische versie van een song. Bekende namen doen mee, zoals Lloyd Cole , Mike Scott, Stuart Moxham (Young Marble Giants), Lisa Germano en David Sylvian . Maar wat de cd net dat beetje extra geeft zijn de bijdragen van Mary Margaret O'Hara [...]
Finding a band that is similar to Suddenly Tammy! is next to impossible mainly because there are very few bands where the piano is the primary instrument. Such was the case with this Lancaster, Pennsylvania brother-sister fronted band. Beth Sorrentino was the singer and piano player, while her brother Jay was the drummer. Rounding out the trio was bassist Ken Heitmuller. So yeah, there was no guitar!?. Even without a guitar they kind of reminded me of the Throwing Muses . Their song Lamp was the number two [...]
As usual, here is the recap post, offering you one-stop shopping for Christmas songs. I encourage you to browse the archives and read the notes. By coincidence, I notice that many of these songs are originals, rather than cover versions, and I also notice that there's only one traditional carol. It wasn't intentional, but it's a reflection of my interest in holiday pop originals. Most of the time, people do covers and I understand why. It's hard to write a really good new Christmas songs and people usually want to hear to old [...]
Christmas songs come in all varieties. There are vulgar ones, religious ones, happy ones, not-so-jolly ones. I kind of like mournful Christmas songs. It can be a very festive time, but it is also a time for reflection. It's supposed to be a time of family togetherness and jubilation and if you don't have that, it can be a sad time. Note this article from last year in WaPo about how Joni Mitchell's "River" has become a popular Christmas song, "...a bereft song about a woman whose [...]
Hoy en el recuerdo nos encontramos con este peculiar grupo de Lancaster, Pennsylvania, digo peculiar porque resulta curioso un grupo de pop en el que no hay guitarra. Los componentes del mismo eran Beth Sorrentino (voz y piano), Jay Sorrentino (batería y voz) y Ken Heitmueller (bajo y voz). Tras grabar un par de eps, el trío fichó por Spin Art Records, con los que grabó su primer disco de larga duración de igual nombre que el grupo. La verdad es que este disco a mi me pasa un tanto desapercibido, de hecho lo tengo ahora delante y [...]
[This is part of The John M. Higgins Memorial Xmasganza .] suddenly, tammy! had the guitar-less rock trio format before Ben Folds Five. BFF had more commercial success, but if you think about it, they weren't any more productive. ST put out a couple EPs and two albums (their third album, Comet , was recorded but never released). BFF put out three albums and the Naked Baby Photos collection. So, that's kind of a tie. suddenly, tammy! did release the promo EP [...]
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