St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) -- ST. LOUIS - The Lemonheads knew it had what would become a modern-day classic on its hands while it was recording "It's a Shame About Ray," its album released in 1992. The breakthrough album for the band included the big hit "Mrs. Robinson," a cover of the Simon & Garfunkel classic. "It was our time," lead singer Evan Dando says of the album's out-of-the-box success. "If you hang around in show business long enough, you...
Neo-folk has always been a bit of a curiosity: contradictory at times and, from a purely objective point of view, you would guess that by now anyone foolish enough to wander back in to that ramshackle boathouse would find that the (combustion engine-fearing) ship had sailed. But, there is evidently a perception of a demographic with an unquenchable thirst for a technophobic troubadour, and here he is. Christopher Paul Stelling , just a man, with a guitar, again... To give 'Songs of Praise and Scorn' its due, it is a definite break from [...]
Pirates of the Weird and Wonderful The excitement of 9 new Chad VanGaalen tracks landing in my inbox is a little bit overwhelming, especially when it's delivered with news of a split 123 with the ever evolving and extremely weird Xiu Xiu. The 123 is the second release in a series of amazing collaborations being pedalled by German label The Altin Village & Mine Records. The first release came in March 2010, featuring the primal drone of Oneida and the [...]
It seems the only way to break out creatively in this over-saturated music scene is to branch out and expand past a simple recorded album paired with a tour. Enter Breathe Owl Breathe ; who is currently touring with Laura Gibson in support of their combination children's book and vinyl 73, The Listeners/These Train Tracks . Their 2010 full-length Magic Central reached a kind of fruition on a modest scale and really only displayed a fraction of the creative prowess of Micah Middaugh (guitar, vocals), Andréa Moreno-Beals (cello, vocals) and Trevor Hobbs (percussion). [...]
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Sam Genders, ex-membro da Tunng, é a mente pensante por trás da Diagrams, banda que lançou, no dia 12 desse mês, seu primeiro disco. Ao contrário de seu trabalho anterior, mais voltado para o folk, Genders volta-se para sonoridades menos "lo-fi", embora seus vocais e escolhas de arranjos deixem suas músicas com um certo ar soturno. Por exemplo, permanecem em muitas faixas as características batidas de violão com encordoamento de nylon, à Simon & Garfunkel. Em Diagrams, no entanto, há diversas músicas com bastantes intervenções eletrônicas, como em "Apetite" e em "Black Light". Como um todo, [...]
Woodpigeon - For Paolo "For Woodpigeon songwriter Mark Andrew Hamilton, For Paolo was inspired by his parents, the cassette tapes they played on long, family drives across the prairies of Canada." This is such a beautiful concept to build an EP around. As common as it is for musicians to refer to their parents' old records as inspiration, there's something refreshing about building a project around the music you were forced to listen to, whether you enjoyed it or not. Most folks within my [...]
Howdy folks! This is just a test post so I can properly tweak the new layout. More posts coming very very soon. I promise! If you don't believe me, that's OK, but you should. OK great. Let's get one thing straight (div test) Some text is better than no text at all, right? Yeah, I think that some soft and mellow music would be great. Maybe something from Electric Light Orchestra or Simon & Garfunkel. Just typing nonsense about a prairie dog runing wild across the southern plains of Australia or something like that. [...]
Though they've released two EPs previously 'Celebrate This Place' and 'Wimmy', this week sees Cardiff band Islet (Emma Daman and brothers John and Mark Freeman) releasing their proper debut album. As should be expected, most of the tracks on 'Illuminated People' take full advantage of what has been considered Islet's strength from the beginning: their ability to channel their talents into rhythmically eclectic tunes. What I found completely unexpected was that despite their reputation as being known as a "rhythmic" band, they can sound, scarily, like a loud rock band brandishing [...]
Londra sta cercando di organizzare al meglio le Olimpiadi del 2012 . DailyMail afferma che per dodici giorni sarà possibile assistere ai concerti delle leggende della musica internazionale presso Hyde Park e Victoria Park. Ad organizzare gli eventi sarà l'affidabilissima Live Nation che metterà così a disposizione un milione di biglietti. E volete conoscere i nomi delle stars di cui si vocifera? Si parla di Paul McCartney , Rolling Stones , Led Zeppelin , Jay-Z , Stevie Wonder , Pink Floyd , Take That e Simon [...]
Mercoledì 25 gennaio sul palco del Black Market di Via Panisperna riparte UNPLUGGED IN MONTI rassegna di private-show acustici organizzati e presentata da IndieForBunnies . Per la prima volta su un palco romano il songwriter texano Galapaghost , Casey Chandler per l'anagrafe. IndieForBunnies presenta UNPLUGGED IN MONTI: GALAPAGHSOT - mercoledì 25 gennaio Cantautore di nuova generazione, scoperto ed apprezzato dal sottobosco indipendente, Galapaghost ha fatto innamorare il popolo della rete con il brano "Never Heard [...]
Hello blogosphere, my second "stay warm post of the day" is featuring Mansions on the Moon. An electronically rhythmic-folk trio from, well.. their from VA, TN, and IA. I couldn't really find a comprehensive bio about these guys, but what I do know about them, is that they are connected. A mixtape/project with super producers Diplo & Benzi, along with NERD and Xaphoon Jones ( Chiddy Bang ), all this coupled with their core producer Pharrell (heard of him?) It is quite an star studded melting pot of a project. The music alighns with the new [...]
It's Friday, so time for another edition of Friday on My Mind, which presents you with different musical subjects to ponder each week. These posts are a joint effort between KEXP and King 5 News. This week, in honor of Seattle's snowy winter weather, we're focusing on Best Winter Songs. Simon & Garfunkel "Hazy Shade of Winter" Written by Paul Simon, "Hazy Shade of Winter" was recorded and released as a single in 1966, but then later included on the 1968 album Bookends [...]
Robin Pecknold and Fleet Foxes make their Austin City Limits debut this weekend along with harpist Joanna Newsom as part of legendary program's 37th season. The episode was taped back in October and you can expect plenty of tunes from Fleet Foxes' latest album, Helplessness Blues, which scored the number six slot on our list of the Top 25 Albums of 2011 . Friday, January 20 [All Times ET] Foo Fighters - Live From Wembley [Palladia 7:30PM] Los Campesinos [...]
James Last - Cecilia Beach party / protodisco version of a Simon & Garfunkel hit from the same 1970 album that has the legendary Happy Brasilia cut. Simon & Garfunkel were a duo of folk singers usually concerned with angst and the human condition. Related posts 1-2-3-4 More Love Related posts 1-2-3-4 More Love
Here we have another cut off of Mansions On The Moon's upcoming, debut album Light Years. Pharrell Williams had his hands on the majority of this record, including "Athens". I'm still sensing a mini Simon & Garfunkel style here, although not as strong as on "Rest Of Your Days". Just a very out-of-body, spacey sound perfect for otherworldly activities. Download: Mansions On The Moon - Athens [premiered on RCRDLBL] Tweet
If any two musicians best exemplify what makes Jam Cruise so special, they are Perpetual Groove guitarist Brock Butler and Surprise Me Mr. Davis front man Nathan Moore. So it was only fitting that both artists were still performing unscheduled sets aboard the MSC Poesia for Jam Cruise 10 when I finally called it "a day" at 6AM on Saturday morning as the tall buildings of downtown Miami and Ft. Lauderdale drew near. Brock was at a table on the Pool Deck playing for a handful of cruisers, while Moore was holding down "The Spot" with [...]
Galapaghost rappresenta il trait d'union esemplare da quella che era la musica prima dell'avvento della rete su larga scala e quella che è la musica oggi. Ma attenzione: non è questa l'unica prova di forza di questo giovane, il cui vero nome è Casey Chandler , che da vita ad un disco di dodici canzoni intitolato Runnin' ed edito dall'etichetta italiana Lady Lovely. Galapaghost è stato scoperto dal mondo proprio grazie alla rete, in particolare con il brano "Never Heard Nothin' " che è riuscito a totalizzare sessantamila ascolti in poco tempo. Un passaparola che ha [...]
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