By Tom Huizenga Conductor Marin Alsop ( Tracey Brown ) Let's face it, the world of classical music is fairly far off the radar screen for most people in this country. Still, [...]
La scorsa settimana abbiamo terminato il nostro viaggio attraverso gli album più importanti del decennio che si sta concludendo. Abbiamo quindi pensato di riassumere il tutto in questo post che non è altro che la lista completa, tappa per tappa, degli album che di volta in volta abbiamo approfondito, in modo tale da avere una sorta di indice delle varie puntate. Dopo il salto trovate anche la listona di tutti gli album che di anno in anno sono stati inseriti fra "gli album da salvare". [...]
Katharine McPhee premiered her blonde tresses and some new tunes a couple months back. And while the 2006 American Idol runner-up's second album Unbroken is due out January 5, 2010, she's hoping everyone's in the mood for a little holiday McPheever ahead of that! Kat's rendition of yuletide classic "I'll Be Home For Christmas"—which you can hear after the jump—will be made available digitally tomorrow. Well, that's sweet, if not completely harmless. Katherine's not the first Idol alum to tackle the festive standard—both [...]
Since the sort of recent Triple J's Hottest 100 Of All Time, there has been much talk about the lack of female artists in the list. In fact out of 100 songs there were no all female bands, solo female artists or female fronted bands. Only a couple of female guest vocalists. Was gender politics at play or have people become unnecessarily melodramatic about the result? To check out the list click here – Triple J's Hottest 100 Of All Time . Hummingbird Blonde Lager are using this fact to push their ' Hummingbird 100 Hottest Female [...]
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With more recently-released 73 singles, you never really know if it's 33 & 1/3 RPM or 45 RPM. Many do not say. With this single, I started out on 33 & 1/3 and it took me a moment to realize it should have been on 45. That's the beauty of Animal Collective : it could almost work on both levels. Animal Collective is one of those special groups that will never hit mainstream, but that doesn't mean it's not good music. The group's distinct sound is made up of impossible-to-decipher lyrics, shrieks, and random loops. [...]
Best Albums of 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 2007 might just be my favorite year for music releases this decade. Unfortunately, many, many great albums were left out of this list. It was pretty hard leave them out, but I couldn't press the little blue "Publish" button without any of the following albums on the list: [...]
By Pete Donahue I admit I am not too familiar with Devendra Banhart's previous work. I have heard bits and pieces; when his last album, 2007's Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon , was released, I sought it out not because I was intrigued by all the critical praise and blog hype, but because I read Nick Valensi of the Strokes provided guest vocals (in French) on a track called "Shabop Shalom." I still can't tell if I even hear Valensi on the track, but the song was interesting enough [...]
Canadian crooner Michael Bublé returns with his 4th studio album, "Crazy Love" , released earlier in October. After collaborating with Nelly Furtado (on the multi platinum album "This Time" , back in 2005) and Boyz II Men (on his previous release, "Call Me Irresponsible" , in 2007), the Jazzy Pop phenomenon teams up with vocal band Naturally 7 , and with Soulful diva Sharon Jones and her backing band The Dap-Kings (famous for their work with Mark Ronson/Amy Winehouse). Watch Michael 's video for his [...]
You never quite know what you're gonna get with Bradford Cox. Those expecting a spooky replication of Atlas Sound and its dreamy new record might've been somewhat caught off guard last Saturday when the band-Cox backed by opening ambient-groove-rockers the Selmanaires-played a fairly straightforward (for him) organic set of guitar rock. "Bet you thought this would be more spooky", Cox said in the middle of the show. "Me too", he continued, "but I can only be myself. I was born spooky." He then went on to lament how he'd become less spooky [...]
The Hills have whys. I'll assume that that you, as a loyal Idolator fan, are not a mouth-breathing dipshit who secretly wishes People used fewer words with two syllables. I'll assume you're not a dead-eyed blank slate who would refresh TMZ 200 times a day, if only the warm, relentless waterfall of drool that would result could manage to stay in your agape mouth and not drip onto your laptop's trackpad in cheerless slime puddles, rendering it useless. No, that's not you. That's not you [...]
23 - Blonde Redhead A friend asks: "Is this NY23 thing a big deal? Perhaps more importantly, do we want it to be (I can't tell whether I want the Republicans to implode after a long season of infighting or return to the middle so that elections can be about more reasonable things again, assuming they ever were)?" These are fair questions. I think the best take I've seen so far is from Jonathan Bernstein here and here . The takeaway is that the race does matter, sort [...]
It's been almost two years since we first featured the songs of Gillian Welch here on Cover Lay Down, though we've certainly had reason to revisit her works now and again as the coverage continues . As we noted way back when, Welch's talent is a revelation, both in performance and as a lyrical interpreter of the rural backporch mindset of the American South, and the dustbowl longing and religious overtones so often found in the works of this modern American Primitive are here in spades. There are several well-known [...]
Andrew King : Sweet William's Ghost [ purchase ] Back in 1987-88, I was involved with a folk music coffeehouse in New Brunswick, NJ, called the Mine St Coffeehouse. One night, we had an English folk singer in named Nick Dow. He did a great performance, including Sweet William's Ghost. I had never heard the song before. Sweet William's Ghost is a Childe Ballad, but a fairly obscure one. And that's a shame, because it is a fine song. You may have noticed, however, that I did not post Nick Dow's [...]
I've decided to create an installment in which I do a recap of my favorite albums of the past ten years now that we're coming up on the turn-of-decade - yes, 2010 is upon us. They key: I do them one at a time. I figure contemplating the weight of albums that have been instituted in my library for the better part (or even just half) of a decade would warrant a skewed opinion when comparing them to those released just this month. And, as these things are all truly opinion-based, well I just couldn't have that. [...]
I got an email from Chris Eaton from Rock Plaza Central the other day. He's on vacation and writing emails to his favorite bloggers. He mentioned that RPC was in the studio back in September and recorded a cover of Bob Dylan 's classic "I Want You" from Blonde on Blonde . I managed to coax the MP3 out of him. They just released ...at the moment of our most needing earlier this year, so the band isn't quite ready to record a new album yet but its great to hear them [...]
Oof. Last night. Wow. I'm definitely not feeling it today. Who would have thought an otherwise boring day (lunch with sister, a trip to the mall with mom) would turn out so completely insane. My sister suggested we go to a sports bar for Monday Night Football. I invited along Ken, Katie and Z. Elissa invited some of her friends. I've only ever been to that bar once or twice, but my sister is a regular. She knows all the bartenders, the owners, and the other regulars. She said she'd take care of me, and she definitely did. [...]
This week's edition was not written by a Wolfman. He'll deny it, but… The Eight Legged Beast moves as one brain-twisted entity like a Group Mind flailing around in the dark until all is silent—terrified, befuddled, looped, and not alone in these sinister thoughts. Suddenly, a voice, a series of whispered voices, echo through the cavernous depths. A Wolfman jogs Loaded up ahead, a pied Piper has some worm-y legs, and a Ghost appears and disappears—run asunder by bad acid, or a sign near the cave entrance that reads: "Turn Back! Beware! This is the [...]
The 4-CD box set Dolly Parton (and her fans) deserve Dolly Parton's outsized personality has occasionally obscured the fact that she's one of America's all-time greatest songwriters and an exceptional vocalist who effortlessly crossed from country to pop and back again. Her early years as Porter Wagoner's girl singer and duet partner, her television fame, her climb to solo country stardom, her painful split with Wagoner (brilliantly memorialized in her parting "I Will Always Love You," a three-time hit for Parton and a worldwide chart-topper for Whitney Houston), her crossover to pop, Hollywood filmmaking [...]
Bassist Tim Nordwind (right) and his bandmates OK Go has been one of the more underappreciated rock bands of the past several years. Their excellent last release, Oh No , was overshadowed by its equally excellent videos for "A Million Ways" and "Here it Goes Again" (the treadmill video), the latter of which won a Grammy Award. In January, they return with the Of the Blue Colour of the Sky , a record produced by Dave Fridmann (MGMT, Flaming Lips) that channels Prince and shows off the band's funky side. [...]
Lady GaGa : Everyone and their grandma's dog will be doing this one, but it's timely and fierce. Kanye West : a bottle of Hennessey and a leather top. Tip: keep interrupting people when they speak. Michelle Obama : Just look generally fierce. Avoid blackface. La Roux's Elli Jackson : Pasty look, colorful jacket and red Elvis wig. Avoid whiteface. RuPaul : just drag it up in high heels and big hair. Swine Flu : dress as a piglet and [...]
I remember hearing a version of this song in both Beach House shows I caught this year and the recorded version lives up to the memories. Taken [...]More about Beach House
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To New Zealand artist LEN LYE , whose animations I have recently discovered and find incredibly genius and want to watch them over and over again. There [...]More about Animal Collective
The weekend has arrived and it is long overdue. I had a week where I felt like everyday was thursday. Not cool. That being said the craze [...]More about Beck
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