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 [...]
01 - Norah Jones - Back To Manhattan 02 - Rickie Lee Jones - Wild Girl 03 - Gretchen Parlato - Within Me 04 - Somi - Changing Inspiration 05 - Bebel Gilberto - Sun Is Shining 06 - Small Color - In Light 07 - Portico Quartet - Dawn Patrol 08 - Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives 09 [...]
Rickie Lee Jones's 11th album shows inspiration, but only fitfully. Balm in Gilead opens with a song called "Wild Girl". Combining massed harmony vocals, doo-wop finger snaps, and skeletal jazz guitar chords, Rickie Lee Jones propels the song's unconventional structure with her unique, airy voice, building to a stirring yet understated climax. It's a hell of a way to begin an album, but the effect is diminished somewhat by the next song, "Old Enough". Here she teams up with anonymous lantern-jawed singer-songwriter Ben Harper (more...
Today's Digging Deeper is all about Bob Dylan. We've been celebrating his music for the past week and now he's finally here! He'll be performing tonight, November 9th, at the Liacouras Center at Temple University.This morning you heard Rickie Lee Jones' cover of "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and Toots Hibbert's cover of "Maggie's Farm".Looking for more covers? Paste Magazine did an article
This week Drake gets nostalgic with a couple of releases from hometown heroes Nirvana , and dismisses the Oscar Wilde inspired solo project from Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas . (I guess all that sunshine isn't inspiring him to do his best work.) -ed. Drake's Take: New Releases 11.03.09 We've officially moved into the gift-oriented release schedule, filled with deluxe reissues, box sets and other compilation/soundtracks to help (trick?) the average schmo get a gift for the music lover in their life. There's a couple [...]
Inevitably, a love of coverage leads to a constant, ever-vigilant search for thoughtful, well-crafted reinterpretation. I spend hours each week mining full albums for the hidden cover song, and scanning MySpace and email inbox for the promotional, the one-off acoustic in-studio radio track, and the otherwise unreleased singleton, and the endless discovery is eminently worth the pursuit. But there's no question that tribute albums are the cover lover's bread and butter. I gather these things in like truffles, and hold a special place for them in my heart and in my [...]
We've officially moved into the gift-oriented release schedule, filled with deluxe reissues, box sets and other compilation/soundtracks to help (trick?) the average schmo get a gift for the music lover in their life. There's a couple gift choices from the archives of Nirvana, soundtracks from Fantastic Mr Fox , Glee , NCIS and Aqua Teen Hunger Force -- which is actually a X-mas album, and my fave of the bunch. Of the few new releases, there's ones from Julian Casablancas, Weezer, Molina & Johnson and Girls in Trouble. Playlist: [...]
We've officially moved into the gift-oriented release schedule, filled with deluxe reissues, box sets and other compilation/soundtracks to help (trick?) the average schmo get a gift for the music lover in their life. There's a couple gift choices from the archives of Nirvana, soundtracks from Fantastic Mr Fox , Glee , NCIS and Aqua Teen Hunger Force -- which is actually a X-mas album, and my fave of the bunch. Of the few new releases, there's ones from Julian Casablancas, Weezer, Molina & Johnson and Girls in Trouble. Playlist: [...]
I haven't listened to Rickie Lee Jones' new album, "Balm in Gilead," enough times to review it yet, but I will. I already know I'm in love, though. Here's a clip of her song "Bonfires."
Try It Before You Buy It features free and legal mp3 downloads and full album streams from this week's music releases : Alan Cohen Experience: Eat the Peace "Ranger Stranger" [mp3] Andy Caldwell: Obsession full album stream [...]
Full album streams from Julian Casablancas, Slayer, CCR, Cold Cave, Foo Fighters, Rickie Lee Jones, and more.
From 1992 we have the oddity that was The Orb vs Mike Oldfield 1992. Or perhaps it wasn't that odd since they ploughed similar furrows. And from 1994 Oxbox Lakes. The former single is great, the latter probably my least favourite release from that period - despite the stellar remixers. In early 1990, Dave Stewart asked Paterson and Cauty to remix his single "Lilly Was Here"; the track hit the U.K.'s Top 20, and the Orb's remix work soon became just as popular as their original material. Erasure, Depeche Mode, Yello, Primal Scream, and more than 20 other [...]
The daily mix: 1) Heather Nova: "I'm the Girl" 2) Ian Gomm: "Little Lost Now" 3) The Blacks: "I'd Like to Say" 4) Jay Farrar: "Damn Shame" 5) Peter Bruntnell: "Perfume River" 6) Aimee Mann: "Thirty-one Today" 7) Rickie Lee Jones: "Altar Boy" 8) Syd Straw: "Think Too Hard" 9) Beth Orton: "Shopping Trolley" 10) Teddy Thompson: "Bon Jovi Said"
And so to the second part of our special week, with The Orb. As with Orbital, a post a day, each with B sides from various singles in the 1990s. Today, The Kiss EP, A Huge Evergrowing etc. and Rickie-Lee Jones baiting Little Fluffy Clouds. The Orb virtually invented the electronic genre known as ambient house, resurrecting slower, more soulful rhythms and providing a soundtrack for early-morning ravers once the clubs closed their doors. The group popularized the genre as well, by appearing on the British chart show Top of the Pops and hitting number one in the [...]
Alaskan singer/songwriter Kate Earl received acclaim for her 2005 debut album Fate Is the Hunter with an affinity for personal, sharply observant and finely crafted songs. Drawing comparisons to Fiona Apple and Rickie Lee Jones, Earl's dark and deeply dreamy compositions display an innate soulfulness that remains on display for her more R+B/pop-influenced self-titled sophomore effort due November 3 (Universal Motown). Working with producers Louis Biancanello and Sam Watters, Earl brings a sleek pop sheen to her newer songs, by and large leaving the acoustic sound behind for a brighter, bouncier and more radio-friendly feel. For [...]
The classic folk songs of Greenwich Village in the 60's are reimagined by a fine collective of artists on The Village: A Celebration of the Music of Greenwich Village arriving November 3 via 429 Records. Tackling 17 songs from acoustic pioneers the likes of Bob Dylan (represented wi th six tracks), Eric Andersen, John Sebastian, Tim Buckley, Fred Neil, Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon is a who's who of adult/alt performers such as Lucinda Williams, Bruce Hornsby , Shelby Lynne and Rachael Yamagata [...]
Since there have been a few new visitors to the site lately, I'll take moment to tell you about another show I do. Lyrics Undercover is an (almost) weekly show where we take a single popular song, and uncover as much of the inspiration behind it as possible. The regular, four-times-a-month feed is only $3 to subscribe, but I put an episode on the free feed the first week of every month. This week's free episode is "Chuck E.'s In Love", by Rickie [...]
It's been thirty years since Rickie Lee Jones made her triumphant arrival with her finger-snapping folk/pop self-titled debut album, winning a Grammy for Best New Artist (along with securing four other nominations), scoring a Top 5 hit ("Chuck E.'s In Love") and receiving probably the best critical reviews of any album of 1979. Throughout her career of moving easily between jazzy pop, ballads, standards and even some soul searching spirituality on her most recent album, '07's Sermon On Exposition Boulevard , Jones has put what the New Yorker calls her "restless" nature and unpredictable, soul bearing [...]
A La Carte , the second Loss Leaders sampler from 1979, revisits the restaurant theme (remember Hot Platters and Appetizers ?) but this time, with the sexy waitresses serving you on silver platters, they are much more ... uptown. But at least Burbank's not being as evasive as in the past: they proudly trumpet Swedish-born songstress Madleen Kane as "disco dynamite" and for former gospel shouter Candi Staton, the liner notes warn: "Watch out disco lovers everywhere - here comes Candi!" Norman Whitfield made his name at Motown, where he wrote and produced such classics [...]
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Vampire Weekend - Cousins
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
Zipper (Dj Manaia Remix)
remixed: the beach boys, lady gaga, duck sauce, ellie goulding, shakira, la roux, madonna, & more!!!
