When was the last time Second Stage did a musical? Could it have been Sherie Rene Scott's Everyday Rapture, back in May 2009? That place doesn't produce many of them, and I'm afraid The Blue Flower, sweet and misguided, won't do much to change that attitude. http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ ping
Mazzy Star's 1990 track 'Blue Flower' gets made over by Brooklyn indie rock legend Frankie Rose.
In my initial profile post on The Blueflowers , I described their 2009 debut album Watercolor Ghost Town as "a stunning tale of love, life and heartbreak" and "an absolute gem". I still stand by this and can gladly report that these descriptions also apply to the follow-up, In Line With The Broken-Hearted . Once again I'm seduced by the blend of Gothic alt-country and folk, Kate Hinote's lush vocal, and cinematic visions ranging from couples slow dancing at a 1950s high school prom to lonely cowboys riding off into the sunset. Herein lies [...]
Blueflowers' second album combines dark lyrics with sweet melodies
Starring Me shares great new track 1987 . + 1987 Mailbox trivia: Have 4,507 mails in my inbox. 3,722 are unread. A search for " SXSW " creates 447 hits. MP3hugger posted the glorious Facing the Sun by Treefight for Sunlight yesterday. Grab it! Mono Noir [...]
Fragile , a new track by The Blueflowers , can be streamed from the band's Facebook page . Taken from their forthcoming album In Line With The Broken-Hearted . Still 5 days left to make up your mind, whether or not you want to help fund the album . The William Blakes is this month's guest contributor at mixtoverdener.dk , using samples from Danish composer [...]
Still cannot help being somewhat sad that Ether Aura decided to split up a few years ago. As I wrote back then it probably was a direct result of the band abandoning their shoegaze inspired sound and thus needing a new band name. The new constellation was named The Blueflowers and despite all changes the debut album Watercolor Ghost Town turned out to be quite brilliant. Now the band is ready to record a second album, [...]
Usually we don't do a lot of write-ups on hip-hop, but that's mostly because we don't know too much about it, but we do know about this guy. Kool Keith has been all over the place for years, sometimes as KK, sometimes as Black Elvis, but his most prominent persona for me is Dr. Octagon . His rhmyes are odd, and quite vulgar, but not in a "I just want to cuss a lot way," more in a disturbed MC sort of way. I used to listen to the first [...]
I was tempted to limit this to a top 30 songs of the year, but in the past couple weeks I've discovered quite a few new tracks that have convinced me this year was a bit stronger than I had initially expected. I would still say that the list this year is weaker than past ones. Not because there wasn't enough good music this year. It's just that there were a lot fewer peaks. There were a TON (as many or more than ever before) good to very-good songs and albums out this year, but [...]
I will be out of town and offline for the coming week during my annual visit with family in the southeastern U.S. I love seeing my family, but I don't feel the same about my old hometown, a place where I never felt at home. Some of today's songs reflect those feelings. Thanksgiving week, I usually post some of the more ambient or instrumental things that I have come across, and 2009 has been a fruitful year. I wish I could say more about these bands, but sadly I am whipping out these posts with [...]
Last night GSL joined our friends from across the pond, Blue Flowers, for a killer CMJ showcase full of the best new Brit acts + some much anticipated Aussies at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Full review and photos to come soon but in the meantime check out these videos
The drinks may not be free, but the music is.
GSL is co-hosting a party and we're giving you the chance to get in for FREE! Consider it "CMJ support."
2009 is looking to be rather adventurous and prolific for '90s dream-pop singer Hope Sandoval . A refreshing change from almost a decade's worth of silence, Sandoval will appear as a guest vocalist on Massive Attack 's upcoming full-length. More importantly, Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions , the hazy, folky group formed at the turn of the century, will release their long, long, LONG awaited sophomore record, Through the Devil Softly, on September 29th (preview a free track from the album here ). Though this flurry of activity is most exciting, [...]
"I Wasn't Her" - the Blueflowers Relaxed, reverb-laced tale of woe from a Detroit-based quintet that's new on the scene but features musicians with a lot of experience, including two--guitarist Tony Hamera and vocalist Kate Hinote (can that be her real name? "High note"?)--who had previously fronted Ether Aura, a dream pop band with a bit of a following in the '90s. Not to sound like a broken record on the matter, but I continue not to understand music culture's relentless focus on newcomers when music itself is so enriched by the background [...]
First let me introduce myself to Music Is Art. I will be on a weekly basis, featuring the best of British music. The vision I've got for this column is not just direct music review, more so I will be incorporating a column-esque style to it all. So, with my self-indulgent introduction over, let's move on to the first feature in Thoughts for Tonight In September last year I moved to London. After a dull August, September was peaking up and I was about to make my first venture out to 'Blue Flowers'. 'Blue [...]
Illustration: ihappened First let me introduce myself to Music Is Art. I will be on a weekly basis, featuring the best of British music. The vision I've got for this column is not just direct music review, more so I will be incorporating a column-esque style to it all. So, with my self-indulgent introduction over, let's move on to the first feature in Thoughts for Tonight. In September last year I moved to London. After a dull August, September was peaking up and I was about to make my [...]
It was by pure coincidence that I found out that Ether Aura had put their name and dreampop sound on the shelf and started afresh as The Blueflowers . Upon first hearing the news I was disappointed - I loved Ether Aura's albums Crash (2005) and Before We Could Sing (2007) after all. But once I gave The Blueflowers a listen I found myself enthralled by them all over again. Some shoegaze fans haven't been all positive concerning the band's new direction, but I find the dark blend of folk, Americana and indie [...]
First off, do you realize how many different aliases Kool Keith has? We were just browsing his site and came across all the aliases. Why Kool Keith's site is based in the UK, we don't know. He grew up in The Bronx, NY. Where's the connection? Don't know. At any rate, check out the aliases as broken down by Kool Keith himself at the end of this post. Before we get into Dr. Dooom 2, here's a classic Kool Keith track you should know. From 1996-yes, Kool Keith has been around for a while [...]
Die amerikanische Shoegazeband Ether Aura hat meinen musikalischen Kosmos in den letzten Jahren um zwei tolle Alben bereichtert. Während der Aufnahmen zum dritten Werk stellte die Band fest, dass ihr sich abzeichnender Stilwechsel nicht mehr so recht zum alten Bandnamen passt, und so benannte man sich kurzerhand in The Blueflowers um. Statt an Curve & Co. fühle ich mich nun an die 10000 Maniacs oder Mazzy Star erinnert. Trotz der Abwesenheit von Gitarrenwänden gefällt mir auch die neue Musik sehr gut – gerade kam das Debütalbum «Watercolor Ghost Town» heraus, das Morten [...]
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