Those of you with iTunes are probably already aware of the huge variety of radio stations available there for live streaming. I recently found one, Devil's Night Radio , that I have become a fast fan of because of the insane variety in their programming. At any given time you're as likely to hear Hank Sr. as you are the Stooges. As often happens with music I hear, it was something I heard on Devil's Night Radio that has inspired this post. While listening the other day, I heard a song called "Nick the Stripper" by [...]
In preparation for this weeks L'Amour Electronique, you should all be listening to La Chanson de Serge: The Serge Gainsbourg Story which was aired on BBC Radio 2 last Wednesday. It will be on the iPlayer until 20th October (so there's a few days if you missed the first broadcast). Malcolm Mclaren is your guide, and thankfully he leaves the self-aggrandisation for the last 15 minutes, where he assimilates various personal exploits/happenings-he's-taken -claim-for into the last few years of Serge's life (though on the whole I have to say I [...]
In homage to Brigitte Bardot who celebrated her 75th birthday last Monday, we bring you l'histoire de BONNIE AND CLYDE . The year was 1967, Serge Gainsbourg had landed the job of writing and directing a few musical numbers for Le Bardot Show . A working relationship very quickly developed into a series of steamy romantic liaisons, much to the chagrin of every other Frenchman opening his copy of France Soir to see paprazzi snaps of their divine B.B. arm-in-arm with her frog prince, whom [...]
It seems we've gone over our bandwidth allowance again this month - apologies for that -everything should resume as normal on 1st October (If it happens again, I'll looking into an alternative space for hosting the mp3 files). Last month's setlist is below, including one mp3 selected by each DJ for your listening pleasure. See you Saturday... Dominic Amadou & Mariam – Sabali Jiji – La Fusée Michel Polnareff – Voyages Marie Laforêt (avec Gérard Klein) – Le Vin de L'été Human [...]
Anna Maria, regular guestposter from Sweden, wins a copy of Gainsnord with her entry on her fave Serge song: Anita Lane, Nick Cave's old flame sang a lovely version of Overseas telegram on chief Bad Seed Mick Harvey's Serge tribute Intoxicated Man. It's in English but Lane's vocals are very suited to Gainsbourg's material. She's got that breathy close-mike Jane Birkin approach that works so well and makes this one of my favourite Gainsbourg covers.The strings are bursting with yearning as are the vocals on this version. You can really believe she misses her man. Lane's take on [...]
Former member of 90's Scottish trio One Dove, Dot Allison , more recently a collaborator with Massive Attack, Peter Doherty, Zero 7, Primal Scream with an upcoming record Room 7 1/2 , produced by PJ Harvey's Rob Ellis. Room 7 1/2 will also include contributions from Doherty,Paul Weller, Mick Harvey and James Johnston (Nick Cave). Dot Allison - "Buzzing Round The Honey Pot (acoustic)" -mp3
John Mayall is of course the Godfather Of British Blues, first recording in 1965 and still touring and recording prolifically today, well into his seventies. My favourite of his many albums is this offering from 1968, which is both a collection of original blues-based songs with contemporary psych overtones and also a diary in music of his three-week vacation in Los Angeles that summer: either a song cycle or a concept album, according to your own definitions, but certainly unique among the slew of straightforward blues albums being produced by white performers on both sides of the Atlantic at the [...]
Scots singer/songwriter Dot Allison got some increased visibility in the critically acclaimed documentary "Scott Walker: 30 Centry Man," and she also got signed by Walker's managers. Her new album, "Room 7 1/2," is due out September 7. From SW30 director Steven Kijak: The album includes Dot's nocturnal rendition of "Montague Terrace (in Blue)" from our SW30 cover album. Also featured are some amazing collaborations with Pete Doherty, Mick Harvey and Paul Weller, to name a few. The album was produced by another star of SW30, Rob Ellis. [....] The album is gorgeous, [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Back in March, PJ Harvey told Spinner that though she just released her second collaborative album with John Parish, titled 'A Woman a Man Walked By,' she had already demoed her next solo effort and planned to record it by next spring. While Harvey was mum on specifics, she did say that she plans to ask frequent collaborators Flood and Mick Harvey, along with Parish, to produce. "All I can say is that I am pleased with it, because [...]
Homebake, the most patriotic of Australian music festivals has announced their 2009 lineup with the likes of Powderfinger, Jet, Hilltop Hoods and Midnight Juggernauts helping to celebrate all things Aussie. Check out the lineup below... POWDERFINGER JET HILLTOP HOODS ESKIMO JOE SIA DANIEL MERRIWEATHER MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS SARAH BLASKO A special best of performance by TIM FINN CLOSURE IN MOSCOW TIKI TAANE (NZ) SHORT STACK UNDERGROUND LOVERS (original line-up) PHRASE DECODER RING BUMBLEBEEZ TUMBLEWEED (original line-up) EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING ROWLAND S HOWARD (together with Mick Harvey, JP Shiloh & Lindsay Gravina) THE FUNKOARS THE [...]
This gently psychedelic album is another of my vinyl bargain bin discoveries from the early '70s, which I picked up only because I knew Harvey Mandel had played with my favourites Canned Heat and John Mayall. Best known as a sideman - he later auditioned for the Rolling Stones on Mick Taylor's departure - this was Harvey's first solo work, dating from 1968, and an...
El próximo 21 de julio se presentará en el Teatro Caupolicán de Santiago una de las voces más singulares del neo folk. Ahora, con tintes de soul y al rescate de artistas como Aretha Franklin, Chan Marshall atraviesa uno de sus mejores momentos musicales. La mujer tras Cat Power pasará por Chile para presentar su alabado repertorio y es la ocasión precisa para revisar su destacada carrera como intérprete y compositora. Una tarde, Charlyn Marie Marshall se despierta a las tres, confundida y con su habitual vaso de scotch en la [...]
Here's a few more from Glastonbury . Including possibly my favourite single of the year so far. One which you may just be surprised to find me liking. Now I'm not entirely convinced by the seemingly endless crop of female 80s influenced synth pop acts that the music press and music industry are thrusting on us. It seems to be yet another example of that self perpetuating success thing that they do. Constantly telling us that somethings the best we've ever heard until it kind of becomes an accepted fact, regardless of the music [...]
Here's a few more from Glastonbury Including possibly my favourite single of the year so far. One which you may just be surprised to find me liking. Now I'm not entirely convinced by the seemingly endless crop of female 80s influenced synth pop acts that the music press and music industry are thrusting on us. It seems to be yet another example of that self perpetuating success thing that they do. Constantly telling us that somethings the best we've ever heard until it kind of becomes an accepted fact, regardless of [...]
Coming from Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia, Nick Cave's first band was originally known as The Boy's Next Door. Consisting of Mick Harvey (guitar), Phil Calvert (drums), Tracey Bew (bass) and Nick Cave on vocals the group began playing Punk and Proto-Punk cover songs as well as originals. The band would play songs by bands like Lou Reed, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Ramones, and Alice Cooper. Rowland S. Howard joined as an additional guitarist in 1978, which would result in the band changing their sound. With Howard in the band, they began incorporating Punk, Free Jazz, Blues, Rockabilly and other genres into [...]
Breaking Bad , c'est ma série télé préférée du moment. C'est aussi une série qui a tout pour devenir culte et qui l'est déjà pour bon nombre de gens il me semble. Tous les ingrédients sont là : un scénario dingue, des acteurs fantastiques, un décor somptueux, une réalisation cinématesque (ça se dit ?) et une bande-son très inspirée. Walter White est un père de familles sans histoires, bedonnant, moustachu, qui cumule deux boulots, l'un dans un lycée d' Albuquerque au Nouveau-Mexique et l'autre dans un "car-wash", une petite société de lavage de voitures. Il a une [...]
Ellis since 1996 has been a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds . Ellis and Turner have both released solo albums. In addition, Turner and White have released several EPs as The Tren Brothers , and appear as backing musicians on albums by Cat Power, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and PJ Harvey (White drums). Turner is also an internationally exhibited painter with his own work gracing the covers of all of their major albums except Sad & Dangerous. He also runs the band's own record label Anchor & Hope . In 1999, Dirty Three [...]
Sylvester's Over and Over is by far one of my favorite classic dance tunes. Released in 1977 on Fantasy Records , the Ashford and Simpson penned anthem was a staple for D J Larry Levan and his faithful Paradise Garage acolytes. It too has found a permanent place in my nightly "party records" rotation. Of course with a singer of Sylvester's caliber, it is easy for the vocal performance to outshine the musical arrangement, but to me, the latter wins in [...]
amazon.com Yesterday afternoon at Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square, 1623 people gathered to try and break the Guinness World Record for largest guitar ensemble by playing Neil Young's "Helpless", en masse, as part of the Luminato arts festival, the song chosen via a poll to determine the festival's "Great Canadian Tune" . They failed. Obviously in pure quantitative terms, Nick Cave would have only made the shortfall 178 bodies rather than 179, but in terms of pure cool, Cave would easily have counted for a couple hundred normal [...]
This album is kind of like the last one but with all the creases ironed out. There's no soaring pop gem like Hey Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken, nor is there anything as heartbreakingly gorgeous as Country Mile, or as gently lovely as Razzle Dazzle Rose. All you're left with is pretty, medium-paced croon-pop no real way to latch on and fall in love. Frankly I was afraid of this. After their last album I was so impressed that I dug through past singles and b-sides and ended up slightly disappointed. I am always wary of a [...]
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
The Beach House Theory of 2k10.
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
