Tweet I know what you are thinking, Tori Amos or Regina Spektor, and yep I had the very same thoughts. In the face of such tough competition it is remarkable that Nona Marie Invie's voice does so well to hold its own. Much of the success is down to the fact that it arrives unpolished, a trip from the lungs to our ears that suffers no studio gimmickry. And Dark Dark Dark, despite the heavy tones, do have a sense of humour (see their website url) [...]
Tweet Betty who? Who cares, because she's doin' the do. And how, from 'Spring Blossoms' quiet output a storm of creativity is brewing. Because we care we know that Sylvia Gordon has shown an insatiable appetite for jumping from one successful incarnation to another (Moby, William Orbit et al). Her latest stop on the way to infamousville is Betty Black and this is a taste from her upcoming 'Slow Dance' EP. It's quite unlike what we normally feature but then it is near impossible to [...]
Right around the time Mr Little Jeans said her songs were " The Royal Tenenbaums in musical form" ... I was pretty much sold on whatever came out of her camp! After that... I saw a promo pic of her... then I heard this cover..so pretty much at this stage of the game I would be down if her LP was a scintillating selection of glitch hop Tiny Tim reworks hahah..Sadly I am not kidding. lol Anywho give this remix a spin as she turns Arcade Fire into breathy, baby making music all that is missing [...]
Ach, die kleine Kathryn Calder aus Kanada ist schon goldig. Und wie die singen kann! Lieder macht die, dass wildgewordene Bullen plötzlich ganz sanft werden, und wir alle mitklatschen und mitsingen. Wahre Kenner wie Du wissen natürlich, dass sie bei den The New Pornographers war, ehe sie 2010 beschloss, auf Solo zu machen. Mir hat das natürlich wieder keiner erzählt. free mp3: Kathryn Calder / If you only knew
She's recorded a duet with Bon Iver but rather than completely depress you we'll stick to something she's done all by herself. Lia Ices' music could never be described as a conduit to shake unhappiness, unless of course you are one of those rare beasts that takes pleasure from listening to beauty. The Brooklyn singer falls into that category of female singers that is home to Cat Power and Joanna Newson wherein you'll quickly spot a talent at work but in the next second decide it makes sense whether it's one you want to give any time to. In this [...]
Taken from the Swedish musician Nottee's double-A-side release that dropped this week (this song b/w "Share This"), the clip for "Don't Waste Your Light On Me" was shot at a cafe during a live set back in December and it's some of the best music we've heard that riffs off of the early 80's "let's [...]
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Compliments of your dear friends over at Hype Machine, the new Lykke Li album Wounded Rhymes is streaming in its full, ten-song glory, a week before the record hits physical and digital shelves. This is the stunning follow up to Li's exceptional debut Youth Novels, which came out in 2008. "Love Out Of Lust" and [...]
If last night's Grammies shows us anything, it is that music that draws inspiration from the rich history of 702s and 802s Pop music is always going to be popular. Arcade Fire owes a lot to Springsteen, I think Lady Gaga should write Madonna a check for her new single "Born This Way" which is almost a direct rip of "Express Yourself." John Legend and the Roots took home a trophy for an album of 702s R&B covers. Last year, I posted a couple of articles about another artist that puts her [...]
Switchblades, sandpits, hot-pants and a dog that disappears by the 0:30 mark, this cryptic new black and white video from Sweden's indie pop chanteuse Lykke Li could well double as a Dazed & Confused magazine video portrait, what with her flailing into the earth with blades of steel, distant-on-some-horizon light and only a bit of [...]
Gazelle Twin is Brighton, UK's Elizabeth Walling, who creates some of the better dark, melodic, intricate pop music you'd find this entire year. Her single "Changelings" b/w "I Wonder U" on Something Nothing Records, released on November 8 in the UK and now available this week worldwide, is a wave and swath of hushed vocals [...]
(photo by Thomas-a) Oh Land, nee Nanna Øland Fabricius, is a Dane (a great Dane, no less) who hovers and saunters and coos and syrup-voices herself into your cold, near-dead heart, burning a fantastic fire in your gut and forcing bopping, hopping, skipping, dancing-general need for ACTION, really. As she yells "There is no silence!/ [...]
Taken from her EP of the same name, London by-way-of Tennessee singer/songwriter/chanteuse Lauren Pritchard's "Painkillers" is full of honey-voiced witticisms, soft and sullen emoting and the beguiling nature and intricacies of her voice. The EP, which is really just a single backed with a B-side and two remixes of the title track (dig on the [...]
From the French sud-ouest to the American Southwest, from filmmaker to performance artist, lyricist to singer.. here's "PARIS ONE TAKES", the latest album by Tucson-based singer Marianne Dissard, available as a free download. from official website: Tucson chanteuse Marianne Dissard 's 2010 " PARIS ONE TAKES " is a full-length live studio album that features 15 songs, culled from both her first award-winning "official" album, "L'Entredeux," produced by Joey Burns of Calexico, and her second, upcoming "official" album, "L'Abandon," due out in late 2010, recorded with Luke Doucet, BK-One, Thøger Lund [...]
We here around THE CULTURE OF ME were once obsessed with all things relating to Sassy and Dirt magazines. And while those titles are long gone, the sentiment of how they covered the culture industries has indeed left its mark on writers and culture vultures everywhere. It is because of that influence that we are proud to present our features post, "Getting Sassy with...", wherein we bring you that much closer to your favorite bands by way of a simple Q&A session that's both painless and informative. [...]
(photo by Roberto Foddai) A few months back, we featured London's Catherine A.D. as one of our "emerging" artists that we thought would be (and is) on the cusp of a full-scale pop culture takeover saying she was "gentle, coy, nearly-too-endearing-for-its-o wn good". Today, we got wind of yet another piece of evidence to push that mark up even further in this, a cover version of one of Catherine's apparent favorite songs from 2008, "Paris" by Friendly Fires . Instead of the original's complete lift of feeling from A Certain Ratio, [...]
(photo by Tod Seelie) The sophomore disc, a follow-up to the wildly great debut from two years ago, is called Actor . Annie Clark aka St. Vincent will be releasing it via 4AD on May 5 and if you happen to be at SXSW next month, she'll be previewing a bunch of new material at shows on March 18 at the Central Presbyterian Church (as part of the 4AD showcase) and March 20 at Antone's. She'll tour the states this year with Bonnaroo and Sasquatch! performances already on her radar, but more [...]
(photo by Rebecca Miller) A gentle, coy, nearly-too-endearing-for-its-o wn good emanates from Catherine A.D. , a woman who hones her honeyed voice over lilting piano and simple orchestration of drums and chamber-pop-instruments. Many comparisons have been made to a sort of hybridization of fellow countrymen Kate Bush and Patrick Wolf, but we actually hear much more of Stories From The City -era PJ Harvey . She's just released an EP called Carry Your Heart , and in its three songs, we get all sorts of wonderful fire, chanteuse-like cooing and dark sturm und [...]
Today's track comes from a very talented chanteuse Jill Barber. Jill Barber released her album titled Chances with her label Outside Music. The single Chances from her like titled album is a love song with a very personal connection, one that inspired Jill to move from her adopted home of Halifax to Vancouver. "I am drawn to write about love because it is a theme for the ages. Romance, on the other hand, seems to have gone out of style in much of modern music. I like to think of myself as a hopeful romantic, rather than a [...]
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