As we progress down our path of the loveliest music of the decade, we'll give you a bit more detail on the records we've chosen. While we were infatuated with numbers 31-40 (which you can read here), we're ready to go to battle over every selection from 1 to 30. Not a bad song on any of these albums, if you ask us. You can listen to the entire album of each of these by registering with Lala.com.... but you knew that, right? While we don't claim this to be a defining document of merit, we [...]
Filed under: News , UK The Strokes ' 'Is This it?' has been chosen as the Album of the Decade by NME. The 2001 debut by the tight-jeaned five-piece from the Lower East Side, the album beat the likes of the Libertines , Yeah Yeah Yeahs , the Streets , Radiohead , and Arcade Fire to take the magazine's award. The winning album was chosen by a panel of more than 100 music industry figures, including bands such as Arctic [...]
It's baby-boomer heaven thanks to Reprise Records, which will release remastered versions of Neil Young's first four solo albums, including classics After The Gold Rush and Harvest … Reprise isn't the only label taking a look backward; Dischord Records has nearly completed its year-long series of Fugazi reissues, with Margin Walker and Furniture being re-released, [...]
It's been a wee while since I threw some interesting cover versions your way. So much so, I feel it needs to be a quartet today - all of them covers of classics:- mp3 : British Sea Power - A Forest This is such a difficult song to cover. I've always felt that with this 1980 single The Cure created one of the all time classic goth anthems. Almost 30 years on the original hasn't dated one bit - it still fills [...]
These BBE Lost & Found compilations are quickly becoming the way to get a fast, thorough initiation into the deep cuts of a given genre. Keb Darge last teamed with Cut Chemist on the initial Lost ... Continue reading "Keb Darge and Paul Weller Compile Lost & Found - Real R'N'b and Soul" >
Media contact Justin Kleinfeld rephlektor inkorporated justin@rephlektorink.com www.rephlektorink.com (646) 383-8827 November 12, 2009 Keb Darge and Paul [...]
A Dee C. Lee post on this blog? I never thought I'd see the day. *chortle* Dee C. Lee - Come Hell Or Waters High mp3 Dee C. Lee - The Paris Match mp3 Mildly Interesting Pop Fact 1 : Although the above two songs are cover versions - written by Judie Tzuke and Paul Weller respectively - Dee C. Lee wrote the song for which she's most famous herself. Which must have been some kind of compensation, royalties-wise, when Girls Aloud massacred [...]
So to the second best album from The Jam All Mod Cons , another November release one year on from This is the Modern World, t here were two singles gleaned from All Mod Cons , the first was a double A-side (does anyone do these anymore) a cover of The Kinks David Watts doubled up with A Bomb In Wardour Street which was followed by Down in the Tube Station at Midnight which charted ten places higher - peaking at number 15, the B-side included a [...]
Filed under: The Hit List Covering a Beatles song is like taking up residence in the Great Pyramid: The foundation is unshakable, but anything you bring along for decoration is bound to lower the property value. Of the thousands of artists who have tried, only a few have made themselves at home in the band's music. The Jam, ' And Your Bird Can Sing ' The Clash may have [...]
November was a pivotal month in the career of The Jam, it was the month the worst Jam album ( "pretty fucking patchy" to quote Paul Weller) This is the Modern World was released - under today's music business rules that album could have been the end of the band, but patience won out and a year later it was followed by All Mod Cons the second best Jam album (IMHO of course). After the raucous debut album [...]
Paul Weller e DJ Keb Darge cureranno una compilation di canzoni soul '50s and '60s. "Lost & Found: Real R'n'B and Soul" è atteso per i primi mesi del 2010.
A lot can be accomplished musically in two minutes and twenty eight seconds. What that brought this to mind was a Little Feat tune I heard on my way to work recently: "Feats Don't Fail Me Now". It funks and it rocks & rolls and grooves...makes me wanna strut down a crowded street with a sweet hat and some big fat shades - a grin on my face. "GIT the hell outta my way people, I'm coming THROUGH!" I sorted my iTunes by Time, and found 37 tunes in my online collection that clock in at [...]
R.E.M.'s live album, Live at the Olympia (2-CD) , finally hits stores tomorrow, along with Devendra Banhart's major label debut What Will Be and The Swell Season's Strict Joy . From what has already been sent my way, I can strongly recommend BOAT's Setting the Paces , Gemma Ray's Lights Out Zoltar! , Hem's Twelfth Night soundtrack , and Tegan and Sara's Sainthood . [...]
In the early-to-mid 1980s, 4AD was a record label with an well-defined image: sumptuous, dreamy and elegant. Never was the house style better expressed than in the output of This Mortal Coil, the indie studio supergroup with an ever-rotating list of band members. This track, from their 1986 album Filigree and Shadow , consequently sounds like something of an anomaly. The vocals are by Alison Limerick, who would later go on to be one of the defining voices of acid house, but was then best known as a backing singer for Paul Weller's Style Council. [...]
Sin duda Jools Holland es un nombre bastante respetado y admirado en la escena musical actualmente, cualquier banda o cantante cool desea estar en su programa, sin embargo siempre hay un gran staff en el show que decide que artistas van al programa y cuales no, y la verdad es que este staff tiene un gusto por demás refinado. Hace ya un tiempo se lanzo la primera edición de lo que vendría siendo el disco compilado con versiones en vivo del show Later ... with Jools Holland, sin embargo [...]
Photos by Tear-n Tan For London UK's The Rifles , their first show at Philadelphia's Kung Fu Necktie was a mixture of fans who had previously seen the band live and opening for Paul Weller on a previous tour, and new fans aware of the buzz on the group's latest album, "The Great Escape". Newly signed to Nettwerk for the group's second album, the band played a surprisingly modest set for their first show in the sense that their on-stage banter was confident, but their playing was reserved with tracks like "Great Escape" running [...]
El presentador de música más famoso del Reino Unido (y en algunas partes del mundo), Jools Holland, presentará este mes un nuevo compilado con la música en vivo de los artistas invitados a su programa Later With Jools Holland . El programa lleva más de 17 años al aire y ha contado con la participación desde Franz Ferdinand y Norah Jones hasta Radiohead y Metallica. El tracklist completo al salto. CD1: 01 Muse: "Uprising" 02 Elbow: "Grounds for Divorce" 03 Little Boots: "Remedy" 04 Hot Chip: "Ready for [...]
"The double CD features some amazing music. There are tracks from the current crop of young acts including Little Boots, MGMT, Hot Chip, Vampire Weekend, Paulo Nutini and Arctic Monkey's frontman Alex Turner's band The Last Shadow Puppets. Plus a selection of exclusive live performances by some the world's the biggest acts including Radiohead, Muse, The Manic Street Preachers, Keane, Lily Allen and Paul Weller. In addition there are killer contributions from the biggest Drum'n'Bass outfit around - Pendulum, original Soul Man Al Green, punk legends New York Dolls and Jack White's storming outfit The Raconteurs.Chuck into the [...]
150 - Band of Horses Everything All the Time 149 - Ray Lamontagne Trouble 148 - Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand 147 - The Acorn Glory Hope Mountain 146 - Richard Thompson Front Parlour Blues 145 - Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days 144 - Robert Wyatt Comicopera 143 - Leonard Cohen Ten New Songs 142 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell 141 [...]
In my late teens I was never really one for looking back at bands or singers of days of yore. As far as I was concerned, the music of today (whether that be 1979, 80, 81 or whenever) was all that ever mattered. There's no way you would ever catch me listening to stuff that my mum and dad liked. As I matured somewhat in my later years, I realised that it would be a nonsense to maintain such a hardline approach, and now there are some acts from the 60s and early 70s that I [...]
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
The Beach House Theory of 2k10.
Friday Five: Surf Songs
