Swell Seasoner Marketa Irglova recently released a solo album, Anar . Watch her perform three songs at an NPR Tiny Desk Concert . Speaking of the Swell Season, there's currently an off-Broadway musical version of Once hitting the stage in a few days and documentary about the band is making the rounds.
Tak, to prawda - w związku z dużą ilością pracy pauzujemy. Nie ma jednak co drzeć drogich hipsterskich szat, albowiem powrócimy mocniejsi. W pośpiechu: Polecamy Wam iść na koncert Nosowskiej , bo mimo tego, że grany w całości i naraz materiał z "8" (myk znany z koncertów Hey, podobnie jak playbackowe intro) nie zawsze *nadanża*, to Katarzyna udowadnia, że "nie ma tu z kim przegrać". Nowe aranże starych numerów piją do (a może pod) surowości (-ć) (no-ment o-ment) "Sushi", która to (surowość) bardzo współgra z "ósemką" (dobrą, lecz chyba gorszą od "Uniseksu"). Fani nadal [...]
Life imitating art? Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova starred in the movie Once and while that was a fictitious tale of an older street busker and a younger musician, it was an intimate look into a real life love affair. Hansard and Irglova were then thrust into the public spotlight - maybe not as much as Hollywood couples - but even my mom knew who the couple was and followed their fairytale story. Apparently a documentary was filmed as the two - calling themselves [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive , Q + A Gino DePinto Marketa Irglova first wowed the world in 2006, when she burst onto the scene with her candid and natural performance as the unnamed female protagonist in the modern-day musical ' Once .' From there, she became the youngest person ever to win an Oscar in a musical category when she took home the [...]
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Tweet Buy the album on Amazon - MP3 | CD In 2007, a wonderfully refreshing musical named "Once" made headlines when its featured song "Falling Slowly" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. A few months later, it was again on everyone's mind when "Falling Slowly" won the Oscar and when one of the award recipients, then-nineteen-year-old Markéta Irglová , was cut off mid-acceptance speech by an over-eager orchestra. [...]
Watch the debut single from Oscar winner Marketa Irglova.
Filed under: News , Spinner Interview , New Music Sion Fullana Marketa Irglova was just 19 years old when she was cast as the 'Girl' with mousy hair and a timid singing voice in a low-budget indie film called ' Once .' Four years later, the now 23-year-old has chopped off her blonde locks, and departed (for now) from the Swell Season and bandmate/co-star Glen Hansard to record her debut solo [...]
Markéta Irglová - The Oscar-winning success of the modern movie musical Once with her Swell Season mate Glen Hansard plus the solid reception to the duo's subsequent works set the stage for the new solo outing for this 23-year-old Czech-born songwriter...Irglová expands upon the nuanced piano/guitar acoustic pop sound of Swell Season for her new project, drawing, she says, upon a varied stylistic palette influenced by classic American R+B, adventurous alt/art-rock and even Broadway showtunes...one additional output from the album sessions: Irglova married engineer Tim Iseler...album title is Persian for "pomegranite" // [...]
Marketa Irglova storybook rise to fame began at the age of 17 with her starring role as "Girl", alongside Glen Hansard, front man of Irish folk-rockers The Frames, in the 2007 musical-drama Once . The unexpected runaway success of the movie, which cost only $160,000 to make, and has grossed over $20 million world worldwide, garnered the pair an Oscar for Best Original Song, and made Irglova the youngest person to win an Oscar in a musical category at age 19. Capitalizing on all of that, Irglova and Hansard formed The Swell Season , who have released [...]
Filed under: News , Video , New Music , Exclusive Sion Fullana Marketa Irglova was thrust into the spotlight after her role in the breakout musical hit ' Once .' One Academy Award and several years later, she's readying her debut solo album 'Anar' for release on Oct. 11, but first she's giving fans a taste of the new material with her video for 'Go Back.' Irglova drew inspiration from the [...]
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Era el año 2007 y la mitad de planeta veía con cara de embobados como Marketa Irglova y Glen Hansard se conocían, enamoraban y ganaban un Oscar luego de haber filmado Once , esta película no apta para corazones débiles y obligatoria para aficionados a la música y las historias románticas. La cinta fue además el inicio de un camino que llevó a los dos cantantes a formar The Swell Season , grupo con el que lanzaron un par de adorables discos y tocaron [...]
Era el año 2007 y la mitad de planeta veía con cara de embobados como Marketa Irglova y Glen Hansard se conocían, enamoraban y ganaban un Oscar luego de haber filmado Once , esta película no apta para corazones débiles y obligatoria para aficionados a la música y las historias románticas. La cinta fue además el inicio de un camino que llevó a los dos cantantes a formar The Swell Season , grupo con el que lanzaron un par de adorables discos y tocaron [...]
The cover song on Friday honours the passing of REM as one of the best bands ever. When I think of all the songs I love from REM including Country Feedback, Turn You Inside Out, The One I Love, Drive, Walk Unafraid, .... the list is endless. One of the best songs from the album 'Green' is this song Hairshirt which Glen Hansard regularly performed during the last Swell Season tour of the US. Here he is performing in Atlanta the REM classic 'Hairshirt': Glen is halfway through his European solo tour: [...]
As we wrote about last month, Once film star and Swell Season counterpart Markéta Irglová has been busy readying her solo debut, Anar, which comes out October 11. Things have been changing rapid
Glen Hansard , l'acclamato frontman dei FRAMES e degli SWELL SEASON, arriverà in Italia a Settembre per un unico concerto solista a Roma che anticipa l'uscita del suo prossimo album previsto per l'inizio del 2012. Questo appuntamento sarà parte del primo tour europeo solista per Glen Hansard, che ha appena concluso un tour negli States come support di Eddie Vedder, con cui ha anche collaborato nel brano 'Sleepless Nights', contenuto nel nuovo album di Vedder Ukulele Songs. Continua a leggere Glen Hansard: live in Italia il prossimo 26 settembre con un solo [...]
A third time for The Minutes to be my 'Amhrán Gach Lá' artist but this in celebration of some great news from Other Voices. Here's The Minutes performing 'Fleetwood' for the Other Voices TV programme last year. Great news for Irish bands number 1: Other Voices has just sold to GlassBOX Television in Canada for AUX TV . Raw, authentic and intimate the channel uncovers some of the best artists from rock to hip hop. AUX TV features music videos, live performances, movies, event documentaries, interviews [...]
To celebrate Van Morrison's 66th birthday, we've assembled a collection of five different covers of his work from throughout his career.
Among the contributors are David Gray, Paolo Nutini, Beck, Swell Season, and Robert Smith. In the late '60s, the late British guitarist and songwriter John Martyn broke ground by leaping from acoustic folk into highly successful experiments with tape delay, wild recording scenarios, and jazz-inspired arrangements. He became a cult figure among British musicians. A list of his admirers reads like a who's-who of rock, pop, and even trip hop: Eric Clapton, The Band's Levon Helm, Lee "Scratch" Perry, The Cure's Robert Smith, Beck, Morcheeba. To honor his life, thirty artists reveal the full breadth of Martyn's creativity [...]
30 artists pay tribute to the prolific singer-songwriter
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