Adaline was recently chosen as one of the twenty finalists for the Peak Performance Project. The Peak Performance Project is sponsored by the 100.5 The Peak FM and Music BC. The PEAK Performance Project is a seven-year, $5.29 million contest open to all musicians in British Columbia. The project was created by 100.5 The PEAK and Music BC to develop BC based emerging artists. Every year, twenty finalists from BC will receive an intensive, one week training program in the music business, live performance, songwriting, marketing and [...]
Zu diesem Wochenende möchte ich Euch einer der wohl schrägsten Interpreten vorstellen, die die moderne Musikwelt bislang kennenlernen durfte. Thomas Alan Waits (* 7. Dezember 1949 in Whittier, Kalifornien) ist ein US-amerikanischer Sänger, Komponist, Schauspieler und Autor. Biografie Kindheit und Jugend Nach seinem Biographen Barney Hoskyns wurde Tom Waits in der Stadt Whittier im Los Angeles County geboren, einer Stadt, die auch lange nach seiner Geburt so typisch für das Bild Amerikas der 1950er [...]
Snow Patrol Prize Pack Speaking of new releases, on Tuesday Snow Patrol released a 2 CD compilation of singles, covers, rarities and album tracks in celebration of their 15 year anniversary. Here's a little press blurbage about Up To Now , their new career spanning retrospective: Up To Now includes three previously unreleased songs, "Just Say Yes" "Dark Roman Wine" and "Give Me Strength", as well songs from the two albums Snow Patrol released on UK indie label [...]
Originally published in 1927, Jim Tully's novel Circus Parade collects the gritty, dark stories of traveling carnival workers at the turn of the century. The term "noir" doesn't quite fully capture the essence of Tully's prose, which probes the evil in his characters' hearts and lays bare the cruelness of society toward its outsiders. Circus Parade impressed me enough to seek out as many Tully books as possible, and make time to read them. For one month, enter the coupon code "LHB001" at [...]
This past weekend I watched Down by Law , a 1986 Jim Jarmusch film. Not long ago I had watched an older flick of his and thought I'd check out some other things. The movie, in case you haven't seen it, is more or less about a pimp and an out of work DJ who land in, then escape from, a New Orleans prison. Along with them is an Italian guy whose knowledge of English is mostly limited to phrases such as "If looks could kill, I am a-dead now," or "I scream. You scream. We all [...]
(image) This song shits on Chamber Music . Raekwon flirted with live blues backing before with El Michels Affair , but not to this effect. The Black Keys' back alley noir soundscape makes Rae's coke tale that much more vivid. Check out some great photos of the Keys in the studio with RZA, Mos Def, Jim Jones and others. Blak Roc drops Black Friday. Download: Blackroc - Stay off The Fuckin' Flowers [...]
Snow Patrol reveals their Late Night Tales on November 3 The Band Select Fave Tracks on Latest Edition of Acclaimed Series For the 22nd edition of what Uncut Magazine calls "the excellent series of bespoke artist compilations", Snow Patrol presents the world with an impeccably selected and mixed Late Night Tales , which will see release in the United States on November 3, 2009. Buy Music: [...]
As promised in my last post about the Manics show in Toronto, one of this week's mixes will be Manics-themed. It couldn't just be a bunch of Manics album tracks, nor even a bunch of b-sides (frankly, I do enough of those in other mixes and posts, and that would all be too easy). Since they are one of the most dynamic live bands in the world, this mix is comprised of tracks from various bootlegs of Manics gigs. I have nowhere near the amount of bootlegs other Manics fans have, but I delved into what I did have and [...]
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It can be a difficult task, attempting to step outside of your father's shadow. Many would lament the comparison, but others embrace it. While there's no telling whether Harper Simon minds being compared to his father, the vocal likeness is undeniable. You can hear it in songs like "Wishes And Stars" and "Ha Ha". Harper Simon, then, runs a similar path as Jakob Dylan and Sean Lennon. Like those artists, Harper maintains a fairly contemporary style that hints at the greatness of their fathers. And like those artists Simon is gifted with immense [...]
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Skye Edwards was the former lead singer for Morcheeba , who released a solo effort in 2006 called, "Mind How You Go". Funny enough Jim Noir gave this remix the Morcheeba trip hop treatment to full effect, laid back, smooth and sultry with a dash of 60's psychedelic. Skye - What's Wrong With Me [Jim Noir remix] [ New Album Alert ] Skye's second full length is titled, " Keeping Secret" due out later this year.
Get ready for Cozzy D to take over in 2009/2010. Not only is he one half of the great D Dub duo but he can definately do magic on his own as well. Jaffa Jazz is a great tech houser with the perfect mood, groove, vocal snippets and saxified break. A chickmagnet and pure sunstroke from Ibiza. Nima Gorji (Cecille, Plastic City) gives the track a more driving and housey feel and sticks to the original magic of the track with his usual great treats and arrangements. Yakine (Supplement [...]
CMJ released the band schedule for its 2009 Music Marathon & Film Festival yesterday, which is about as good a sign of fall hitting New York as the return of apple cider at Greenmarket. The festival runs from Oct. 20 - Oct. 24 and includes various venues throughout the city, and the list of featured artists would probably take all four days to read through. But skimming the selection reveals a fairly equal distribution of well-known acts like Atlas Sound and Deer Tick , anonymous locals (including krautrock-y Jeff Buckley-channelers Pocketknife), twenty-two bands who [...]
The press release below doesn't actually list all the acts performing at CMJ this year, so you're probably better off checking out cmj.sched.org to get a true idea of what's happening during this year's marathon. Of course, sched.org is a little confusing too and it doesn't list unofficial events and day parties (as far as I know), so you'll have to wait a little bit longer for info to trickle out from the blogs and other unofficial sources. Lastly, even though the press release says the schedule is "final", you can pretty much bet that things will shift [...]
"Bored to Death" seems to be hitting its stride, and it does so with an episode that makes only glancing mention of Jonathan's private eye work. Instead, this is a showcase for Ray (Zach Galifianakis) and George (Ted Danson). Though the show is billed as a "noir-otic comedy," I had hoped for more noir than comedy. Sunday, it was all comedy and no noir. While the premise of the show has heart-broken writer Jonathan Ames posting an ad on Craigslist offering his services as a private detective, episode 3 finds Jonathan considering an offer to punch up a [...]
The Last Days of Jim Carroll: At NY Times A "brilliant work of art" is what Mr. Carroll's ardent, loyal fans were hoping for in his novel, and what the writer himself must have passionately wished for. A successful novel might have meant that he would not be marginalized as an aging "punk poet," as he was in some recent obituaries. Given his health, it might have constituted his most unlikely comeback yet. Remember, it's not your fault [...]
Take a deep breath - you've made it to the final day of The Rawking Refuses To Stop! 's countdown of the Top 100 Albums of the Decade. I promise only greatness. To click through the entire list, click below. 100-81 | 80-61 | 60-41 | 40-21 | 20-1 The 20 best albums of the decade, 2000-2009, after the jump. 20. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies [...]
What is the soundtrack of a novel? Or a novelist's dream life? Rorschach Jukebox attempts to answer these questions with a unique interview format: we ask a contemporary writer 15 questions; they can answer only with artists and track titles. The resulting mix can be heard by hitting any of the mp4 buttons on this page. Our subject today is D.R. Haney, author of Banned for Life (And/OR, Vancouver, 2009), a punk and post-punk epic that [...]
Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records Written by John Cook with MacMcCaughan and Laura Ballance Rating: An Absolutely Brilliant Must-Read Buy it at Amazon I first discovered Superchunk in 1995 after hearing "Hyper Enough" on modern rock stations and MTV, and I ended up buying Here's Where the Strings Come In , their 7th full-length record (including two singles collections). They instantly became one of my favorite bands and I bought up their [...]
The fourth annual Brooklyn Book Festival will take place on September 13, 2009 at Borough Hall Plaza, Borough Hall Courtroom, St. Francis Auditorium and The Brooklyn Historical Society. This free event includes readings, discussions, and panels with such literary, comedic and musical luminaries as: Jonathan Ames, Paul Auster, Russell Banks, Dominic Carter, David Cross, Jonathan Coulton, Edwidge Danticat, Lupe Fiasco, Mary Gaitskill, Ben Greenman, A.M. Homes, Siri Hustvedt, Naomi Klein, Chuck Klosterman, Jonathan Lethem, Leonard Lopate, Phillip Lopate, Norman Mailer, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Oliver Sacks, Melvin Van Peebles, Colson Whitehead and Mo [...]
Given this year's summer weather conditions in Chicago - chilly with a taste of sunlight - nobody expected the onslaught of rain and wind that was August 7th, 2009. Incidentally, that happened to make up the opening day of Perry Farrell's summer music extravaganza, otherwise known as Lollapalooza. As fans rolled in at the crack of noon, rain followed... and lots of it. Some might say it was a dreary English day, which seemed fitting given the talent headlining - Depeche Mode , for those unsavvy with geography. Regardless, the bustling Windy City festival hosted thousands upon [...]
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
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