Friday Five : \'frī-(,)dā,-dē 'fīv\ : On the sixth day of every week, I hit the shuffle button on my iTunes, then share the first five tracks and thought for each track. Sometimes there is a playlist involved, occasionally we'll have a guest, but most of the time it's just me. The rest is up to you, our friends and readers! Fire up your media player of choice and share the first five random track of your shuffle in the comments. The Five: " Dreams " by Van Halen [...]
Nowadays, if they think of Christmas music from the Sixties, young people are apt to think of The Beach Boys' Christmas Album or Phil Spector's A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records or any of the Motown versions. But I think of artists like Perry Como, Johnny Mathis, Andy Williams, and Nat King Cole. Back when I was a kid, the Christmas music I heard was pretty lightweight. I wasn't listening to some of the fine seasonal offerings from Stax or Atlantic. I wasn't much of a rock or soul aficionado at all. [...]
56 mins : 34 secs | 38.8 mb Emmy The Great And Tim Wheeler "Christmas Day (I Wish I Was Surfing)" ( 02:35 ) This Is Christmas [ amazon ] website | myspace | facebook Parker Lewis & Matilda Berggren "All Alone On Christmas" (04:59) A Polaroid For Christmas [ free download ] website | myspace | facebook Kula Shaker [...]
Anytime someone utters the phrase "cover song" or "cover version," most music aficionados cringe and scoff. The idea of someone covering a "classic" usually ends up with a song temporarily being ruined by an artist. One of my favorite all-time songs is "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister and every cover version I have ever heard has been beyond awful. Luckily, there are plenty of songs that are arguably just as good, if not, better than the original like Guns N' Roses' version of "Live and Let Die" (Paul McCartney), Alien Ant Farm's version of Michael [...]
Norwegian alt-folk band Sunturns made a very pretty Christmassong. Available December 1st, but you can listen to it on their Bandcamp page already. Sunturns - Christmas EP by lazyacrerecords Also on Bandcamp, personal favorites The Bird and the Bee with their seasonal track: Wishes by The Bird And The Bee
Glee returns to pop music with a series of mostly 80s-themed mashups. Read our takes on and watch videos of covers of Van Halen, Hall and Oates, Blondie, Pat Benatar, Lady Gaga, Adele, and more!
Prepare para ter a sua vida mudada mais uma vez. Após dividir opiniões da crítica e público com sua parceria com o produtor Danger Mouse , o Broken Bells , James Mercer está de volta com sua banda principal, os ícones do indie-pop The Shins , e já planeja lançar um novo álbum no próximo ano. O The Shins acaba de assinar contrato com a gravadora Columbia, que deve distribuir em parceria com o selo Aural Apothecary de Mercer o próximo álbum da banda, que será lançado em 2012 [...]
A tribute to heartbreak, this song is a soundscape best experienced by the doleful. If you're not taken by the brass (trombone solo? nice), you've still to contend with the mellifluous voice of Inara George. She reinterprets the classic in vintage and makes it something her own. Their website
This mix is a combination of the original 12″ inch version by Hall and Oates with the new cover by The Bird And The Bee from 2010. Enjoy! I Cant Go For That (Cygnet Mix)
It's a perpetual game of CATCH UP for me - for music, and movies! I only just watched the Judd Apatow -produced/ Paul Feig -directed Bridesmaids two weekends ago and I have to say it's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. I absolutely LOVE Kristin Wiig and the rest of the cast, including Maya Rudolph , Rose Byrne , Ellie Kemper and Melissa McCarthy , was absolutely fabulous as well. [...]
► Buffalo Springfield are back at it again and they're playing The Wiltern this time around. ► Archers of Loaf and The Globes please '90s rock enthusiasts again by returning to the Troubadour for night two. ► Producer Greg Kurstin and singer Inara George take a break from their side projects (such as the Living Sisters for George) to play as L.A.'s beloved The Bird and the Bee again tonight. It isn't just any regular night at the Bootleg though. Tickets are for seats at a table and [...]
Looks like one of MY favorite indie/synthpop bands, The Bird and The Bee , are working on a new album! AHHHH ! So exciting! Per a tweet from 1/2 of The Bird and The Bee , Greg Kurstin on May 16th : "Really excited about new bird n the bee album. Think it's my fav! 9 songs pretty much finished so far." { SOURCE } I know this isn't much to go off [...]
Sleigh Bells began with a conversation in a Brazilian restaurant between the guitarist of Poison the Well and the mother of the very talented Alexis Krauss. In what remains one of my favorite "this is how the band got together" stories, Derek Miller (previously of poison the well) was waiting tables at Miss Favela when he mentioned he was looking for a female vocalist and heard the mother of Alexis Krauss immediately volunteer her daughter. Sleigh Bell's sound might be described by comparing them to another male/female duo "the bird in the bee". If you're familiar, imagine the bird and [...]
As we shared with you back in March, the VIVID Live 2011 at The Sydney Opera House, curated by Modular Records, announced today that The Cure will be appearing onstage with a uniquely evolving line-up of band members past and present, The Cure "Reflections" will see the band perform their first three albums live, in their entirety, in an extraordinary concert experience exclusively for Vivid LIVE on May 31 and June 1. This will be the first, and only, time The Cure perform these albums in succession. [...]
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Singer Inara George ("the bird") and producer Greg Kurstin ("the bee") have been on the music scene since 2006. Their melodic songs have been on Apple commercials, movies like Sex & The City and Forgetting Sarah Marshall and more recently in every clothing store I've shopped at here in L.A. The other day I heard their cover of Hall & Oates' "Sarah Smile" at the Banana Republic (pause). One thing you must know about me is I love Yacht Rock . It might be my favorite genre of [...]
I can't remember how I first happened upon The Bird and The Bee's How Deep Is Your Love, my song for Day 23 of the seemingly never ending 30 Day Song Challenge. Imagine this at your wedding I do, however, have a very fond memory of being dragged to see the first Sex and The City film. Having never seen the TV show due to a severe lack of want, I watched the first one in the cinema armed with a bottle of [...]
The Bird and the Bee bring their Casio joy to Madonna's 'Material Girl'
LA dream-pop duo The Bird And The Bee recently revamped their official site. To celebrate that, they made an amusingly geeky welcome video. However, the best part is they uploaded a bunch of rarities on Soundcloud! The highlight is an unreleased cover of Madonna's "Material Girl". It's a fun '80s take, complete with 8-bit synths [...]
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