When your career is built on sombre music, it's very hard to catapult your career onto worldwide attention. The first single you put out has to be relevant in sound, yet descriptive of your direction as an artist and not a fluffy number as you might run the risk of attracting the wrong audience. Very few artists have managed to capture that feeling and maintain a career in melancholy music. Think of what "Luka" did to Suzanne Vega's career, or Tracy Chapman's first record. Here, Lianne La Havas does that. "Forget" is a midtempo number with all the vigor of [...]
"You moved in slow degrees/A sudden memory/You're a Leonard Cohen song" - Better Than Ezra, "Under You" "But I was caught, like a fleeting thought / Stuck inside Leonard Cohen's mind" - Mercury Rev, "A Drop In Time" "Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld / So I can sigh eternally" - Nirvana, "Pennyroyal Tea" It's almost unbelievable now to think that we almost never heard Leonard Cohen , the singer. A well-regarded poet from the late [...]
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Recommended Show: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2011 SUZANNE VEGA @ JOE'S PUB 425 Lafayette St New York, NY 10003 $40, 7:30PM & 9:30PM You have two chances to see Suzanne Vega at Joe's Pub tonight, 7:30PM and 9:30PM. It's a little bit pricey, but worth it to see one of the legends of alternative rock. Saviours @ Saint Vitus Suzanne Vega @ Joe's Pub John Scofield @ Blue Note Heavy Pets @ Brooklyn Bowl 2:54 & Caged Animals [...]
Here are tonight's XPN Welcomes : Bela Fleck & the Flecktones perform at the Keswick Theatre at 8 p.m. Tickets to the all-ages show are $27.50 - $44.50. Suzanne Vega is at Sellersville Theatre at 8 p.m. Jann Klose opens the show. Tickets to the all-ages show are $35.
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Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive , Q + A Carlos Alvarez, Getty Images Last month, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness, Pioneers for a Cure launched the third phase of its charitable MP3 download project, 'The American Collection.' Suzanne Vega , featured on the compilation, recently sat down with Spinner to talk about her involvement with the cause, as well as her play 'Carson McCullers Talks About Love' and her upcoming [...]
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill "You, It's you and me, It's you and me who won't be unhappy." Alright I think I'm doing pretty good representing some more girl power on here. I go a lot of times with just putting up all male voices, and not enough female representation. Makes me sad so I am a little happy now. So this song on last.fm is tells me that I scrobbled it in 2009. That is one of the things I love about last.fm keeping track of all this stuff. [...]
Close-Up, Volume 3: States of Being is the third in Suzanne Vega's latest project, to rerecord, reinterpret and revisit her entire back catalogue in four new records, each with different themes. We have already been treated to Love Songs and People & Places so now Vega is tackling her most difficult subject: mental health. Looking through the track list, it is not the most recognisable collection of songs. From her original albums the songs from her eponymous début are Cracking, Straight Lines and Undertow, the title track from Solitude Standing, 50-50 Chance (originally Fifty-Fifty Chance) from the much-ignored Days Of [...]
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I'll admit it, I like Suzanne Vega, and always did. She's one of the few coffeehouse types who knows that all those vocal curlicues do not signify actual emotion outside of commercials and rom coms. She sings plain and understated, and bless her for it. She got kinda experimental after that "Luka" hit, and most people didn't care much for that. I know she went folky again later on, but I lost the thread there. Here's a surprisingly slinky one. Part of me wants to hear a version with Donald Fagan singing. And for those of you on the [...]
Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner One of the things I've always appreciated about Hip-Hop is that it has indirectly introduced me to dope artists and music of different genres. This is largely due to rap's love of sampling. Hip-Hop and sampling have always gone well together, kind of like Kim Kardashian and athletes. If it wasn't for Twista's " Well it's Time ," I would have never heard Feist's " Gatekeeper ." I wouldn't have known about The Isley Brothers' " Footsteps in the Dark " if my mom hadn't informed me that Ice [...]
Understated Aussie-based blog Timber & Steel may well be my new favorite folk/americana blog, bar none. The mix of undersung local Australian acts and international acoustic and nu-folk - aka "folk music that falls through the cracks between the trad and indie scenes" - is impeccable, the content is always fresh and often first to hit the web, and the short blurbs which typify the entries are generally spot on, making for an environment that enriches the soul and the ears. As they rightly note, native daughter Kasey Chambers ' brand new [...]
Two years ago, my annual visit to the folkfields produced a manifesto of sorts, anticipating and acknowledging the blur between old time, bluegrass, folk, and other american roots forms being performed by a rising crop of very young artists. Much of this came from the dual nature of my summer revelry: moving from Grey Fox Bluegrass to Falcon Ridge Folk allowed for a surprisingly consistent journey, and that which I saw in one site, I confirmed in the other. This year, though work and other obligations left me unable to attend Grey Fox, I [...]
This is Suzanne Vega recorded live in Albisguetli, Zurich, Switzerland on May 18th 1993. Following the concerts broadcast on FM radio, German bootlegger Arriba! released a CD version in 1994 (ARR 94.055) from which this version is sourced. Other version have also been in circulation most notably 100° Fahrenheit in Montreux and Dancing Girls however the audio rip for the Arriba! version appears to be regarded as the best. Suzanne Vega was born July 11, 1959 in Santa Monica, California. Her mother, Pat Vega, is a computer systems analyst of German-Swedish heritage. [...]
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This is your Daily 2% – Chilled and Ready to Serve . We will try to bring you one "chill" track every day. This is for when you get home and you are trying to unwind. You reach for that glass of wine or that unlit Black & Mild or maybe you reach for something more herbal. This track is for those times. We are just your milkmen and I'm here to make a delivery. Chill….. Today's delivery is brought to you by Suzanne Vega . The image above should be pretty familiar to any classic [...]
:: RJD2 - Ghostwriter the world quietly spins on its thin axis light slowly filters through and in my mind i blast this rising up these clouds and birds take my notice its bound to be a beautiful day somehow I know this a short trip to the waterfall got on my freshness plottin' the next 24 as if I'm the king and this, chess soles to concrete departing the only safe place step into the black [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Between the Notes Columbia When Ben Lee was 18, he heard Bob Dylan 's song ' Isis ' playing on a turntable. It was Christmas Day, and the onetime boy rocker was in California, far from his home in Australia. Lurching headlong into the "mysterious, terrifying world of adulthood," the young singer was floored by the mid-period Dylan track -- number 34, if you're counting, [...]
I was sent this promo CD, of the My Head Radio album, and I didn't really like it 'cause it wasn't really my thing, but then I heard something that reminded me of something from my childhood, and that something was Toms Diner by the artist Suzanne Vega, which they had tried to cover so I did a little research and found it was from '86 but it was an accapella, and even so it had a video, and it was played on MTV, [...]
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