I love lists! Really, I do! It seems only fitting that I unleash a list enumerating my favourite tunes of the decade, because really, it's what everyone else is doing. I know I'm a little late on this, but I'm doing it anyway! There was lots, and lots and lots of really good music released in the last 10 years... making creating this list a daunting but fun task. So, here goes nothing: 100. Stand Up - Ludacris From Ludacris' 2003 album, Chicken-n-Beer , Stand Up gets the [...]
Oh love. Timelining through Cupid, St. Valentine, Aphrodite - more so her son Hermaphrodite, Cyrano de Bergerac, van Gogh, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Ike and Tina, the list. goes. on. For love to be so romanticized, it is quite a trying ordeal. On this most noted of all days dedicated to love, I've decided to venture down the road far less desired, but far more traveled. This path of great resistance may be long and arduous, but it makes for quite the soundtrack. It's baneful. It's adulterous at times. It's abasing. It's abstract and all-consuming. It's a journey. But, [...]
I forgot to mention that these top songs are still very personal opinions despite trying to take as many suggestions of the rest of the writers. I'm not sure how people will respond to the list, numbering isn't quite as important as inclusion . I like taking suggestions as there will be millions of tracks I likely missed. As is the goal with this list, 10-limit descriptions included. Previously: #76-100 Numbers #51-75: #51 Creator by Santogold w/ Switch and Freq Nasty ( myspace / video -unofficial was [...]
It's been a pretty good year for music in 2008. To celebrate the range of releases, the JamsBio Magazine contributors have selected a variety of favorites, listed in no particular order. We threw in a track with each one for your listening pleasure. Enjoy! [See post to listen to audio] Great Hip Hop Song "Give the Drummer Sum" by Black Milk (from [...]
It's been a pretty good year for music in 2008. To celebrate the range of releases, the JamsBio Magazine contributors have selected a variety of favorites, listed in no particular order. We threw in a track with each one for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!
Steve Jobs, or at least the well paid marketing people on Jobs' payroll, have done an excellent job at exposing unique, quality music to the masses. The fame that comes to the artists behind these cultural phenomena, is likely both a blessing and a curse. It's inevitable that someone will start to throw around the "Sellout" label, and the artists lose the street cred earned by being broke and unsigned. The symbiotic relationship between the artists and Apple works to sell the music, the store to buy the music (iTunes), and the hardware to play the music (iPod). That's some [...]
It's a little played out, the whole 'take a pop smash and re-do it earnestly, accompanied by acoustic guitar' thing. And yet, I can't stop myself liking it. Travis did it with Hit Me Baby One More Time (and it was good), and Ted Leo did it with Since U Been Gone (and it was good). And now Israeli-French* singer Yael Naïm (you may know her from the Macbook Air ads... or not) has done it with Toxic . And hey, it's good: MP3: Yael Naïm - "Toxic" [...]
So apparently this song by Yael Naim has been everywhere for a while now, including an Apple ad , but I somehow avoided hearing it until about week or so ago and now those la la la's sung in that irresistable French accent have been stuck in my head ever since. So if you've already heard this, here it is one more time, and if you're just hearing it for the first time, enjoy, as it'll be stuck in your head for quite a while. la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la... [...]
Yael Naim's "New Soul" is that track for the iPod air commercial that brought her some notoriety. I dug the track in the commercial but was never really compelled to do anything about it until I saw her performance on Conan. I always like singers who have genuine skill and sing at the top of their lungs live. I'd like to state that you're just a jerk (or ass) if you think that Apple is the only reason that these artists are successful. I mean iPod does contribute to an artist's success but it's not simply Apple putting [...]
So Amy is in Florida for some special Disney event where they've invited a bunch of mom bloggers from around the country to check out Disney World. Yeah, she's pretty much the shit when it comes to mom bloggers. I (on the other hand) am here in Chicago with Hailey on a gray (but slightly warm) day. Bet you didn't know we were a family of bloggers did you? Well, Amy didn't have time to make a playlist for her flight to Orlando yesterday, so here is my crack at it. [...]
Singles: Evan Voytas - The Yellow World Of '83 This reminds me of a less depressing Her Space Holiday song: electronic with background fuzz that sounds like it is about to fall apart if not held together by the smooth vocals. The escalating guitar/synth lines along with the mellow vocals really make for a catchy song. Pretty good stuff for a 24 year old from PA. His EP, Introducing Evan Voytas , comes out today. Myspace The Joy Formidable [...]
Each week (or whenever we have time) we take a listen to some of the top songs from elbows, review them and then give our selection of alternative tracks that we believe should be getting more recognition The Notwist "Good Lies" This is a new song from a new album by a band that hasn't put anything out in 6 years. I have never heard of them before but I am really enjoying this pretty melodic song. Their previous album got a 9.2 from pitchfork so [...]
Mar 12, 2008, 1:32pm
MVSW
Song Ida Maria ~ " Oh My God " download (via a website in another language I don't understand ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =naQSB1Ozyds Ida Maria is a Norwegian living in Sweden. Find a Cure... Find a Cure for my Life. Oh My God! Video De La Soul ~ " [...]
Yesterday was the big Victoires de la Musique award show, France's most prestigious pop prizes were handed out. Victorine of the night was Vanessa Paradis, who won two awards (for her album and as a female artist), three if you count the award for Le Soldat Rose, a theatrical spectacle V. was part of too. Also among the winners were newcomers Yael Naim (very fragile singer-songwriter) and Koxie (call her the French answer to Lily Allen). Had not posted songs by these girls - Yael because she sings mostly in Hebrew or English, and [...]
today's music is diverse, to say the least. song of the day: 1. New Soul by Yael Naïm this isn't the usual "you haven't heard of this" song. it actually isn't that new, but it has recently become popular due to its appearance on an Apple commercial (which always have good music!). yael naïm is a french/israeli with an adorable accent who sings in french, hebrew and english. this happens to be one of the english songs. Yael Naim: [...]
Okay, okay, so Apple knows good music. Consistently they seem to feature new, pretty cool artists in the adds for their new, pretty cool products. Apple also knows how to make good music popular. With the release of the new MacBook Air commercial, featuring New Soul by Yael Naim, a French artist, (it's a pretty cute song) the song has jumped to the number one Top Song on iTunes. A similar phenomenon occurred when they released the iPod Nano commercial featuring 1234 by Feist, as it did when they released the commerical for [...]
I've got two favorites this week and neither fit the " songs never heard " slogan I rock here at The Late Greats. Mostly because the first one is popular due to a Mac commercial and the other has the music-blog-o-web aglow in her Cat Power-esque vocal stylings. Both are great songs none the less. Listen: Yael Naïm ~ New Soul Yael's Further Study: Website myspace Wiki [...]
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