(Today we continue our new monthly column , Dialogue , where our editors discuss an ongoing controversy in pop music. Today, Keith Meatto responds to L.V. Lopez's impressions of Lana Del Rey's Born To Die and the critical struggles surrounding the album.) Lana Del Rey, Diet Mountain Dew Who cares if Lana Del Rey's daddy is rich or her mama's good looking? Who cares that music tastemakers made her an Internet sensation, then tore [...]
Paleface is a presence woven so deeply into the fabric of the indie-folk/anti-folk/pop-folk/ whatever-you-want-to-call-it-f olk scene that it's difficult to find a related artist whom he's not associated with in some way. Taught to write songs by Daniel Johnston, managed by the godfather of American punk Danny Fields, and one-time roommates with Beck, he has been diligently building up an arsenal of songs since 1989. If he's not contributing to the next Avett Brothers' album or making friends with Regina Spektor, then he's probably hard at work on his next project. Since 1989, he's released over fifteen albums and has been an [...]
An eerily ambient hand clapping accompaniment paves the way for the Regina Spektor being interrupted by Sheryl Crow vocals, as the expressive Scarlette Fever ponders the meaning of significant others, 'Hour Of Sunshine (Remix by Cenzo Townsend)'. The versatility of the vocals is celebrated proudly here. They can take on a low-key pleading touch when needed and, then build up to a full frontal pop push when the twinning guitar led and rustling percussion instrumentals increase in volume and heart. 'Cheatin' Man (Live Mix By Ashley Howes)', shows an ability to lean in a more blues country direction, [...]
Lizzy Grant, o mejor dicho, Lana del Rey , se está transformando en una de las artistas más controversiales del año . Su disco debut es uno de los más aguardados de 2012 , y sin embargo, a pesar de las muestras de su música que venimos viendo desde el año pasado, muchos todavía dicen que se trata de una farsa. Para intentar demostrarles lo contrario, Grant reeditará su primer disco de estudio , titulado justamente Lizzy Grant . [...]
Lana Del Rey's first album — released under her real name Lizzy Grant — was available on iTunes for only two months before it was mysteriously yoinked from existence. Though it's easy to assume Del Rey (and perhaps Interscope) wanted to distance herself from her Lizzy Grant past, it appears that's not the case. "I'm re-releasing it, maybe in late summer," the "Million Dollar Man" singer revealed to BBC. The album, Lana Del Ray A.K.A. Lizzy Grant , cost only $10,000 to create, and featured production duties from [...]
Indie music's current buzz worthy poster girl of the moment seems to be Lana Del Rey . You may or may not be aware that all the way back in 2010, the young artist released her first record. It came out in her real name, Lizzy Grant . Most have pointed out that the soon to be released Born To Die is not her debut album. She has just announced that the first will be remade later this year. "People act like it's so shrouded in [...]
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El virtuoso gurú de las cuerdas y cantante K Ishibashi , más conocido como Kishi Bashi lanzó una canción que forma parte de su disco debut. Kishi Bashi tocó con otros artistas como Regina Spektor , Katy Perry y Sondre Lerche . De hecho, siendo telonero de este último, tuvimos la oportunidad de recibir una genial reseña de Diego V. Miranda el año pasado [...]
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Tweet One of the rewards of being a fan of a particular band, besides their actual music, is that you sometimes get to reap the benefits of the music they're into. In this case it was Sondre Lerche and his uncanny ability to pick remarkably talented show openers. Before attending his summer tour I had never even heard of multi-instrumentalist K. Ishibashi, a.k.a. Kishi Bashi . It's sort of surprising I hadn't heard of Ishibashi sooner, considering [...]
Think we're at a musical low tide now? In December 1997, I'd become a jaded, beaten-down critic, having given up on rock for the moment and permanently given up on music writing for a career. It paid shit, plain and simple. Worse yet, it was impossible to escape the Spin Doctors, Offspring, No Doubt and Hanson on the radio dial. Indie, modern, alternative - whatever we called the good stuff - was dead, gone, embalmed and buried. Joey Ramone had become an online stock trader by then, which to this day some fans still [...]
Amory Sivertson's latest release, Human , is a wonderful mix of pop melodies, soothing piano lines and beautiful vocals. Sivertson, an Emerson-college student, is signed to the student-run Emerson record label, Wax on Felt Records . Drawing on influences from such artists as Feist, Regina Spektor and Ingrid Michaelson, Sivertson manages to craft an album that is at once familiar and yet entirely unique and original. The opening track on the record, Wrap My Arms , is reminiscent of a blues number, infused with gospel and soul. The song, an acapella-style round, [...]
El bajista de The Strokes , Nikolai Fraiture , tiene en qué mantenerse ocupado cuando no se encuentra grabando o girando con sus compañeros de banda. Junto a su proyecto paralelo, Nickel Eye , ha editado ya un disco, pero también nos hace entrega de un cover de The Beatles , In My Life . El video fue lanzado a través de YouTube y se trata de una interpretación [...]
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Consisting of three ladies each established in their own field of the music industry, Seeker Lover Keeper fundamentally sounds like a good idea. Sarah Blasko, Holly Throsby and Sally Seltmann are currently some of the biggest Australian songwriters, previously writing songs for artists like Fiest , and touring with Lykke Li , The Tallest Man on Earth , Broken Social Scene and more. However, it takes more than apt songwriting and [...]
Nikolai Fraiture , o intrigante baixista do Strokes , acaba de soltar um cover para In My Life , dos Beatles , no tumblr de seu projeto solo paralelo , o Nickel Eye . O Nickel Eye tem um álbum lançado, The Time of Assassins (2009), que contou com a participação de gente como Regina Spektor e Nick Zinner ( Yeah Yeah Yeahs ). Assista aqui o cover de Fraiture :
Is Obama a huge Maroon 5, Glee , and Black Eyed Peas fan? Maybe, maybe not — but he does want their endorsement on his 2012 re-election. The Commander-in-Chief already has stars like Lady Gaga on his team, but that didn't stop him from releasing a "wish list" of celebrities he'd like on board as he bids for a second term. Amongst names we might easily expect to find here, such as B.o.B., Jay-Z, and Alicia Keys, there are such diverse acts as Arcade Fire, Lady Antebellum, the Jonas Brothers, Janelle Monae, Ricky Martin, Regina Spektor, and [...]
<!-- --> Click here for download Sounds like: Fiest, Department of Eagles, Alela Diane, Joanna Newsome, Regina Spektor Song: Laura Gibson - La Grande [download here ] What's so good? At times it's haunting, like a forest of nymphs, or a secret society of hippie pirates. Or maybe I'm just thinking of [...]
It occurred to me the other day that it's been a while since I heard from Maia Hirasawa . After all, she's responsible for one of the finest, catchiest indie pop songs ever made . So I decided to do some catching up and to my surprise, not only had the lovely Swedish/Japanese singer/songwriter relocated to Japan, she also released a new album over there last year! Her self-titled Japan-only album is a collection of new songs in English and Japanese, as well as assorted tracks from her second album and Swedish EP. The lead single "It [...]
If you checked out my Sound of 2012 list, you may recognize the vocals on this track as belonging to a certain Chelsea Burgin , who also lends her fall-head-over-heels-in-love tone and irresistible charm to Columbus five piece Jackie & The Stabbs . I'm Not Waiting is a gorgeous piano ballad, in a similar vein to the likes of Feist and Regina Spektor , with Chelsea's stunning vocals backed up by an equally bewitching instrumental section.
If you checked out my Sound of 2012 list, you may recognize the vocals on this track as belonging to a certain Chelsea Burgin , who also lends her fall-head-over-heels-in-love tone and irresistible charm to Columbus five piece Jackie & The Stabbs . I'm Not Waiting is a gorgeous piano ballad, in a similar vein to the likes of Feist and Regina Spektor , with Chelsea's stunning vocals backed up by an equally bewitching instrumental section.
Australian radio station Triple J's Like A Version covers session has delivered gold in the past, like Regina Spektor's cover of Radiohead's "No Surprises" or The Kills' reworking of "One Silver Dollar" . Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner was the latest rock star to hit the studio, where he performed a version of Patsy Cline's "Strange" (the track also makes an appearance during Monkeys performances of "Fluorescent Adolescent"). The cover is decidedly simple and lonesome-sounding with Turner providing some slightly rockabilly-esque vocals to the strum of an acoustic guitar. The heartache of the [...]
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