Greetings fellow music lovers. Bruce from Some Velvet Blog back with another edition of Something Old & Something New . Time to rep a little for my hometown of Philly: Bassist and multi-instrumentalist Dave Hartley, AKA Nightlands has released two new cover songs that you can download here for free. On Covers Hartley recorded the Lindsey [...]
The Postal Service - Give Up Editorial: Wonderfully Depressing, Part 1 May 15, 2011 by Chuck Norton Over the years I've collected thousands of CD's, hundreds of records and dozens of tapes. While I am not as close to my collection as I once was, that doesn't devalue the importance a great album can have on my life. Like most audiophiles, my teens and early twenties found me forlorned, I struggled for years with who I was and who I wanted to become. [...]
Today's Edition: A review of the The Future by This Frontier Needs Heroes; we're anticipating the new album by Paleo; considerations of note this week; and videos! Review: This Frontier Needs Heroes - The Future Siblings Brad and Jessica Lauretti are This Frontier Needs Heroes , an alternative folk act out of Brooklyn. Their second album, The Future , is out and available on Bandcamp . This album is immediately striking. Many of the tracks feature the two [...]
Hello music lovers and welcome to this week's edition of Something Old & Something New . Bruce from Some Velvet Blog here; this week taking some inspiration from Mayer Hawthorne who just dropped a new free EP of six cover songs called Impressions . It features covers of songs by Chromeo, Electric Light Orchestra, Jon Brian, a couple of lesser known tunes and a classic from The Isley Brothers . Before we [...]
Goodbye, April. Hello, May! Welcome back, Ramblings and Considerations! In this edition: We're digging Myra Lee and In Golden Tears, Weekly Considerations, and Videos! Introducing: Myra Lee photo credit: Tom Chabbat To many indie music fans, Myra Lee refers to the title of a 1996 Cat Power album . It is also the nom de plume of a French [...]
Happy Day to you fellow music lovers! Bruce from Some Velvet Blog here with another edition of Something Old & Something New . Today I'm taking some editorial liberties and calling "Something Old" something that actually came out in January of 2010 by Sharon Van Etten . The Brooklyn songstress cut a session for a non-profit new music project I am involved with here in Philly with the radio station I work at ( WXPN called Shaking Through [...]
Growing up, my best friends and I would make mixtapes for each other by ripping songs from the radio or other cassettes we owned. The other day when I was visiting my family in the house I grew up in I began to dig through some old boxes. I was pleasantly surprised to find a pile of these old mixtapes. Let me tell you they were fantastic to listen to all over again. The nostalgia was overwhelming. I even found my old Wu-Tang collection. Man, I was way cooler then. If you’re from the Boston area then I’m [...]
The Stills The irony is I was going to write about The Stills this week. Only now, the angle changes. After 11 years, The Stills formally announced their break-up on their Web site today, April 17, 2011. The Montreal-based indie-pop band of Tim Fletcher, Dave Hamelin, Liam O'Neil and Oliver Corbeil left only three full-length album as their legacy. A case-study in quality over quantity. The Stills official announcement of their break-up In my years as a music [...]
The Stills Editor's Note: This article will also appear in its entirety on Paper Crane Collective , tomorrow, April 18, 2011. The irony is I was going to write about The Stills this week. Only now, the angle changes. After 11 years, The Stills formally announced their break-up on their Web site today, April 17, 2011. The Montreal-based indie-pop band of Tim Fletcher, Dave Hamelin, Liam O'Neil and Oliver Corbeil left only three full-length album as their legacy. A case-study in quality over quantity. [...]
Hello Music Lovers! Bruce from Some Velvet Blog here with another edition of Something Old & Something New . This week: It's all about one of my favorite all time musicians, Neil Young. When it comes to covering Neil Young songs, you really can't fuck around. In fact, you better not. And if you do, you better nail it. Yesterday the interwebs were all abuzz about this new collection of Neil Young covers called Headed For The Ditch: A Tribute To Neil Young [...]
Hello fellow music lovers. Bruce from Some Velvet Blog here, this time reporting from Ireland where I'm currently traveling around the country. So in between kissing the Blarney Stone and taking in the Ring of Kerry on the Western coast of Ireland, I'm squeezing in a quick post this week - Something Old & Something New from the legendary soul music icon Booker T The Road From Memphis is the [...]
Dum Dum Girls Two weeks have flown by for me which means that today is the release of my next "Various and Sundry" column for Paper Crane Collective . Before watching the LCD Soundsystem farewell concert this past Saturday night, the column was going to focus on the Dum Dum Girls. Well, slight change of plans. So rather than wait two weeks, I've decided to create one mega-column including both. Here is a preview: Like many of you, I watched the final LCD Soundsystem [...]
Remember when cereal boxes had cardboard 45RPM singles? Well, I do! A new 45RPM postcard from Vex Ruffin draws on my childhood memories of collecting Archies and Monkees cereal 452s. Read the post here at the Paper Crane Collective
We All Want Someone To Shout For does have a meaning. It stands for those artists and heroes that make a difference in our lives. Music matters. It sucks that our generation doesn't have that one band that we all love. There will probably never be another band like The Beatles, and that just flat out stinks. I spill my mind out about this topic for the Paper Crane Collective. Check out my post: Where Have The Heroes Gone?
One of the lies I lie about no more ... My latest column for Paper Crane Collective went up this morning. From the column: First, a little housework. I promise that not every article will reference my newborn, but this post will. He was born a little over a week-and-a-half ago and was in NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care) for 10 days. As I’m writing this (on Saturday), he’s been home for just over 12 hours. I’m running on about 1.5 hours sleep. But he’s doing good and we are happy to have [...]
First, a little housework. I promise that not every article will reference my newborn, but this post will. He was born a little over a week-and-a-half ago and was in NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care) for 10 days. As I'm writing this (on Saturday), he's been home for just over 12 hours. I'm running on about 1.5 hours sleep. But he's doing good and we are happy to have him home. Finally. Because of the unplanned post-birth scenario, I have done little music-related anything in the last two weeks. In the numerous trips back-and-forth from [...]
Welcome to the special SXSW edition of Something Old and Something New from Some Velvet Blog , coming to you live from Austin, Texas. Photo by Steve Gullick For Something Old this week, I've dug through the crates for this classic from The Flatlanders the legendary trio of Butch Hancock, Joe Ely and long time Austin resident Jimmie Dale Gilmore. The song comes from their classic roots record [...]
You all may have noticed the large white crane sitting on the sidebar that links to Tsuru Radio music blog. I've been invited along with 23 other music bloggers to contribute to this Paper Crane Collective of incredible and well respected bloggers. Today was my first post about a musical adventure at the library. I'll be writing about music discoveries at the library twice a month. I highly suggest reading through some of the posts. Everyone contributes original content and all together it makes for a really interesting read with everyones personalities coming through strong, it's practically like a magazine. [...]
As editor for The Recommender blog, I find our network of music bloggers one of the most rewarding aspects of our online world. This new Paper Crane Collective is the perfect forum in which to create something new out of the combined skills and passions of music bloggers. When I was asked to provide a regular feature it seemed fitting to create a post that focuses on the inner workings of music blogging itself. We fired off a Q&A to a multitude of world class bloggers, of all sizes, from all corners of the globe and [...]
Many of the music bloggers contributing to this collective are die-hard fans of indie-rock and folk music, but I'm willing to bet that the majority of us dabble in most genres. Well, it's insufficient to say that I dabble in hip hop, because frankly, it's most of what I listen to. I can't get enough of it. It fuels my fire. So when people say hip hop is dead, what do I do? I give them reason to believe otherwise. Welcome to my biweekly column: [...]
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