It's taken me (Schönberg) a while to understand blogs. The ones I read are probably read by thousands of people and they're usually telling me something I didn't know. I kinda feel that normally I don't have anything to say that would be useful or interesting to others, so it puts me off posting. Anyway, I now realise that you don't need thousands of followers, if you're getting through to just a few people then the whole experience can be worthwhile. Each January I set myself some musical objectives for the coming [...]
I have been anticipating this for awhile now- our beloved Kitten cover one of my favorite bands of all time, The Smiths. As expected, this cover is ace. It will be officially released on Please, Please Please a Tribute to The Smiths , a compilation featuring a bunch of really cool names including Stars and William Fitzsimmons. It's available for pre-order here .
BUY TICKETS: Morrissey w/ Kristeen Young at The Shrine Auditorium The long weekend continues Scenestar readers! No more Thanksgiving or Black Friday sales but some Scenestar favorites return again this week for our Show of the Night. Morrissey is back...
slow moving millie - please, please, please, let me get what i want ( the smiths cover) [like most people, we all heard this borderline blasphemous cover of the classic smiths song via the lovely john lewis xmas advert that's been passed around virally (see below). turns out amelia warner (aka slow moving millie) is putting out a whole album of covers featuring 80's classics from thompson twins, black and yazoo! i'm definitely curious (heck if birdy can do a whole ballad album of current indie hits, why can't amelia?]] as promised, the john [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List C Flanigan, FilmMagic Few bands who can sell out arenas and peddle 50 million records over seven albums are able to evoke the same rage as Nickelback . The Portugese have even thrown rocks at 'em and despite their party-hearty music seemingly purpose-built for macho stuff like football, people in Winnipeg and Detroit [...]
Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, it's nearly Christmas. We are over-excited. That means we'll buy anything with snow on the cover and sleigh bells on the record. Step forward Smith & Burrows - aka the singing one from The Editors and the real brains behind 'America' from Razorlight. Here are the things we love about this project: 1. Christmas. 2. Christmas. 3. They are not taking themselves too seriously (*Ahem* Johnny Borrell) - see picture with angel wings above. 4. It's a proper Christmas song (like Fairytale Of New York) that would sort of be acceptable [...]
I know with just over four weeks to go until Christmas it may seem a tad premature to be listening to Christmas songs, but seeing as I've been singing them for a while now, quite frankly, I don't care! It also helps that I think this is one of the best Christmas songs that has been released in a while. It comes from duo Smith & Burrows comprising of Editors' Tom Smith and We Are Scientists' Andy Burrows and if, like me, you are particularly drawn to Christmas music with a heart instead of simply cheese then [...]
BUY TICKETS: Morrissey at the Music Box Yes Scenestar readers, this is a picture of THIS morning in the streets of Hollywood. This clinches our choice for our Show Of The Night when Morrissey takes the stage at the smallest...
Download covers of every song on the Strokes' 'Is This It' from Brazil and the Smiths' 'The Queen Is Dead' from Greece!
PLAYLIST: Atlas Sound - Walkabout Marion - The Smile The Railway Children - Gentle Sound The Curtain Society - Marigold Girl The Depreciation Guild - Dream About Me (album version) Gliss - Kissing The Blvd. Curve - Already Yours London Blackmarket - Checkmate Metric - Gimme Sympathy Riverside - Genuine Citrus Groove - Sympathy Bradford - Gang of One Rollerskaters - Boyhood Shed Seven - Mark The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (Live) - Rank Jarvis Cocker - Running The World Super Furry Animals - [...]
Pure, unadulterated simplicity here. Acoustic bliss is found in this not too daring, but wonderfully deft cover of throwback indie favorites, The Smiths, by singer-songwriter, Josh Rouse. It may not ask much of the your palette, but sometimes there is nothing like that fall-back favorite from the menu. It's simple, you know you'll love every bite, and you feel like you haven't had it in ages.
After a cover appeared in that ad Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want is being reissued....
As we informed you this past weekend, Morrissey has added a special new tour date this week. Besides his SOLD OUT dates on Saturday, Nov. 26 at the Shrine Auditorium and Monday, Nov. 28 at the Pomona Fox Theater, Morrissey...
Slow Moving Millie Covers The Smiths' 'Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want."
Editors-frontman Tom Smith and (ex-Razorlight) Andy Burrows have been drinking buddies for years and both had a knack for classic Christmas songs as well. So... why not just make a Christmas album together then? The result is titled 'Funny Looking Angels' and has some self-penned songs but also covers like Yazoo's 'Only You'. Agnes Obel can also be heard on the album. You can stream the upcoming album, out November 28th on PiAS in full below. Read more »
'Arise and Go' is a powerful collaboration of music and poetry from poet Stephen James Smith accompanied by the vocals and instrumentation from Enda Reilly. The majority of the eight tracks on 'Arise and Go' celebrates the poetry of Yeats, Kavanagh and Luke Kelly along with two original works. Smith & Reilly describe this collaboration of poetry and music as 'Spoken Word Sung Verse' and their objective is to give new life to old poems. It's a bold move by the [...]
Hirishikesh Hirway, the songwriter behind L.A.'s the One AM Radio , had a simple proposition: If anybody donated $500 or more to the Internet radio station and DJ collective Dublab, he'd cover a song of the benefactor's choice. He issued the challenge on Facebook, and a fan named Gerard Cronin stepped up. (Cronin's employer matched the donation to the nonprofit orgnaization, so Dublab actually realized $1,000.) Cronin's song of choice was the Smith's 1987, Johnny Marr-penned gem "A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours," and the One AM Radio gives it a nifty electro treatment, and [...]
Photos by G. Andy Rourke and Luke Pritchard Is there anything better than seeing Andy Rourke of The Smiths interview Luke Pritchard of The Kooks on his radio show on East Village Radio? Yes... Listening to it on the EVR Archives . I met Luke Pritchard on this wonderful occasion and you can see a photo from that moment after the jump. Luke Pritchard of [...]
A lot of huff has been expended on the decision by Morrissey and Marr to let John Lewis write them large cheques this Christmas. Now Johnny Marr is fighting back . Speaking from, probably, a Jacuzzi of cash, Marr explained that letting the song advertise geegaws and whatnots wasn't a bad thing at all: Writing 'Please Please...' one Friday in '84 is one of the best memories of my life. This ad has not sullied that memory one bit." "And you know what", he continued. "If my memory had been sullied, I could have just popped it [...]
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