It hit me on Sunday evening, right at the moment that my friend introduced me to Lindsey Buckingham. Not "What an odd name for a fish!" (Nemo and The Incredible Mr. Limpet aside, I've never really understood the practice of naming fish.) Sure, that thought did cross my mind, but it was totally upstaged by another one: Is there a more underrated rock & roll multi-hyphenate than the singer-songwriter/producer/gui tarist of Fleetwood Mac for whom my friend's fish is named? When people think of Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks is generally the first bandmate who comes to mind, but [...]
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Listening to Aaron and the Spell's new full-length Sing, you can tell that songwriter Aaron Brown pulls from a large pool of influences. The primary sound is soul, for sure, but there's a lot more going on than just that. We asked Aaron put together a video playlist of artists that have shaped him as ... Continue reading
Here come those tears again. No, not the 1977 Jackson Brown song, the real thing. They've been coming out in squirts for a couple of days now, ever since I began writing a 2,000-word freelance essay on Elton John. Instead of whistling while I work, I've been listening to music, his music, remembering how much I've always loved his sad songs -- they say so much, and they're so so good. I've been crying, too. Not sobbing uncontrollably, or even weeping. Just tearing up. A little. On and off and on again. [...]
As Fiona Apple recently reminded me with The Idler Wheel... , what you sing sometimes matters as much as how you sing it. A good beat will forever have its place (much like a memorable melody), but there's nothing quite so powerful as words -- words that make you laugh, words that make you cry, words that run through your mind -- sometimes a cappella, sometimes not -- as you run through the city. (I'm a journalist/writer/editor, so I'm particularly susceptible to word envy.) When Kylie Minogue opens "Illusion" (from 2010's Aphrodite ) [...]
Last night I did something I never dreamed I would do in, off all places, DJ Station, three of the gayest stories in all of Bangkok. I spent 30 minutes of quality time hanging out with a straight guy. He was a tourist from Texas whom I met through his girlfriend, who for some reason took a liking to me. This is actually the exact same scenario that led me to my last boyfriend in Melbourne two years ago. It was clear to me last night, though, that this story wouldn't have that kind of twist [...]
It's day two of my brand new obsession with Fiona Apple's The Idler Wheel... , and today the subject is song titles. Considering her verbose 23-word album title, Apple's new song titles are surprisingly concise. Six out of 10 are one word only, and not necessarily words we haven't heard before in song and movie titles : "Daredevil," "Valentine," "Werewolf," "Regret." Even her ode to a boy -- a specific boy, her real-life ex -- gets the long form of what must be the second-most common masculine name in the English language. (Though if [...]
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Louisiana-based Gregg Martinez presents a soul-lifting blend of blues, swamp pop and soul, powered in no small way by his canny choice of cover tunes. Some are in-the-pocket classics, others these offbeat delights. But each, in its own way, gives Martinez's new South of the Parish Line this keen edge and weight. For instance, Martinez - once pitched to record [...]
Last week the Guardian ran an interesting piece about "band collapse syndrome," the disconcerting phenomenon whereby a band's hitherto loyal fanbase abandons it in droves. They cited a number of UK acts whose record sales have decline precipitously of late — Glasvegas, Kaiser Chiefs, and Duffy, amongst others. This seems to be something you see more and more these days, which we guess makes sense when you consider it in the context of a general decline in album sales and a public who seem to have a shorter collective attention span than ever. But it's not [...]
She was one of the last women to really turn me on. I'm not completely sure what got me thinking about Belinda Carlisle. It may have been something by Terence Trent D'Arby (speaking of great singers who never got their commercial due, which is what I intend to do in a future post) that my iPod shuffle selected while I was in the gym yesterday. I don't know why, but for some reason, D'Arby's "Wishing Well" always reminds me of Belinda. I remember watching the Grammy Awards in 1989 -- he was hot with [...]
We've reached the 10th installment of the Sonoridade da Fotografia series, which is really just an excuse for me to share with you my love of photography, in this case Massalo's, and his taste in music, which usually is quite different than mine and provides this blog with some added and always welcome aural diversity. Terence Trent D'Arby is the man whose music graces this photo, and his singing is powerful. Holding on to You will be perhaps known to any Brazilians that watched the telenovela 'A Próxima Vítima' back in 1995; for me, it provides me a window into [...]
Hans Burgkmair & Jost de Negker woodcut, c. 1510, cut by Jost de Negker Marshall Crenshaw Someday, Someway Terence Trent D'arby Sign Your Name Barbara Acklin Am I The Same Girl? (Soulful Strut)
It's one of those instruments that is often derided as the soundtrack to tacky porn or bad 802s theme tunes, but today I would like to propose that the Sax is actually awesome. That's not to say it's not guilty of the above, just that there are better sides to it. How about we start with a super brief summary of what wikipedia has to say. It was invented by Adolf Sax, a Belgian, in 1841. Apparently he wanted to create an instrument that sounded like the human voice. He patented it in 1846. Blah blah blah. Basically [...]
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I was intrigued when I saw that Sheryl Crow covered Terence Trent D'arby 's 802s classic "Sign Your Name" on her new album, 100 Miles From Memphis . It's one of my favorites of the era, and one of those songs that sounds just as great today as the year it came out. So Sheryl had her work cut out for her. She even brought in Justin Timberlake to help out. So what's the verdict? Errrr - not so much. I've only listened to it once, but my initial impression [...]
Sheryl Crow keeps getting sexier and sexier with age. WOW . The stunning singer/songwriter seduces the camera in this video for " Sign Your Name ," the second single from her seventh studio album 100 Miles From Memphis , which peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200 Chart . The song is a cover Terence Trent D'Arby 's 1987 Billboard Hot 100 top 4 hit and features Justin Timberlake on background vocals. The single is [...]
Occasional singer Justin Timberlake provides vocals on Sheryl Crow's cover of Terence Trent D'Arby's 1988 hit "Sign Your Name." Alas, he's nowhere to be found in the music video for the tune, which appears on Crow's recent Top 10 album 100 Miles From Memphis . Head below to watch ageless Sheryl's latest, and to see the clip for the original version of the song. The video for Crow and Timberlake's version of "Sign Your Name" was directed by Mark Isham. Terence Trent D'Arby topped [...]
Sheryl Crow is releasing one of the covers on her new album 100 Miles From Memphis . This one was unexpected as it an ode to the Terence Trent D'Arby classic, which seems to be very forgotten these days. Beautiful little number. You know how much we love Sheryl. Related Articles Sheryl Crow releases new video for "Sign Your Name" (hollywoodnews.com) Sheryl Crow - Sign Your Name - Single and Video Review (unrealityshout.com) [...]
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