Traveling Wilburys : Handle with Care [ purchase ] 1988 was Roy Orbison's big year. It started with Cinemax special, A Black and White Night, which aired in January. A diverse set of artists, including Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt and Bruce Springsteen, formed an all-star band, backing the man who perfected the art of the rock ballad. Orbison started out as a Sun rocker. After shifting to the nascent Monument label in the early 1960s, he had a long string of hits -- "Pretty Woman," "Blue Bayou," "Only the [...]
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Filed under: News , R.I.P. Ryan Miller, Getty Images Barbara Orbison , the widow of the legendary Roy Orbison , died Dec. 6 in Los Angeles on what was the 23rd anniversary of her husband's death. She was 60. According to The Mirror , she died from pancreatic cancer surrounded by her sons. No notice of her passing has been placed on Orbison's official site as of Wednesday morning however a video [...]
'Don't Blow Your Cover' lets you determine whether a band breathes new life into an older, established song In this edition, Austra covers Roy Orbison's "Crying". Read more » http://rpc.blogcatalog.com/ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ ping
photos by Tim Griffin Austra just finished a tour that stopped by Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin last month. Pictures from their set are HERE and HERE and HERE , and we've got another set in this post. Their excellent debut LP, Feel It Break , which came out this past May on Domino, was reissued as a deluxe edition [...]
Roy Orbison -- one of our greatest songwriters. Outside of his more familiar hits like "You Got It" and "Pretty Woman," there are so many other classics like "Crying," the 1961 ballad that sounds rather orchestral thanks to lush string arrangements soaked in reverb. It's a song that hits all sorts of new emotional highs with Orbison's absolutely angelic -- and nearly operatic -- delivery. Toronto six-piece Austra recently covered "Crying," re-imagining the song as dreamy, orchestral pop song with only stringed instruments and keyboards. It's sounds rather magical and still possesses the original's inescapable emotionalism. [...]
Canadian six-piece Austra released a bonus track from their Feel It Break this week.
To commemorate their successful this year, Toronto goth-pop group Austra is releasing a deluxe version of Feel It Break. The version contains B-sides, covers, and even a remix of "Beat and The Pulse" by the clown from Slipknot (seriously). Check out this amazing cover of Roy Orbison's "Crying" and head to Domino Records to get [...]
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Tweet Listen to Austra cover Roy Orbison 's classic song "Crying" below. Canadian Poth (Goth-Pop) band Austra just released a deluxe version of their excellent debut album "Feel It Break" , on which includes unreleased b-sides, live tracks, a remix or two, and this gorgeous cover of Roy Orbison 's song "Crying" too. If you saw the live version of their stunning song [...]
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There is a trend lately with albums getting the Deluxe Edition treatment. One being Austra 's Feel It Break album which drops today. That album has been a critically acclaimed and was on the shortlist for Polaris Music Prize 2011 . Surprised to find out that Crying had made in the Deluxe Edition. Why? Before Austra was formed, it was just Katie Stelmanis. If you look on Youtube, there are some live videos of her singing that cover. All I [...]
When I first read the tweet from Domino Records about Austra covering Roy Orbison, I thought they had mistyped and meant to type kitschy act, Joy Orbison. Katie Stelmanis' voice on this cover sounds reminiscent of what could've worked in the Disney classic of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves." The cover appears on the "Feel It Break" (Deluxe Version) out everywhere. Try not to cry listening to the beautiful rendition. Austra-Beat and the Pulse [mp3] Austra [...]
Today, Austra offer a deluxe version of their quite good debut Feel It Break , complete with a number of previously unreleased b-sides and covers. Below, you can check out their rendition of the Roy Orbison classic "Crying," with Katie Stelmanis' operatic vocals providing a nice substitute for Orbison. Look for the release out now on Domino and we also have the tracklisting below. Austra - Crying by DominoRecordCo Feel It Break (Deluxe Version) [...]
You know you've done something right when your record label repackages your album and releases a newer version of it in the same year. In the case of Toronto's Austra , it's just a small indication of the monster year they have had. Feel It Break (Deluxe Version) will feature not only the original album, but a host of b-sides, remixes and covers, including this cover of the Roy Orbison track Crying . Consider Roy Orbison is a late 50s era crooner and Austra is well... an operatic midnight electronic band, you can very well realize [...]
Enjoy their take on 'Crying' via SoundCloud. AUSTRA recently performed at NYC's Bowery Ballroom. Purchase AUSTRA items via Insound. MP3: AUSTRA - Spellwork (Baron Von Luxxury Mix)
Sundays suck when there's no Giants game to watch. RULES for uninitiated noobs: I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes there will be themes that link all the songs together, other times I'll just [...]
Everyone's favorite neo-mariachi sextet Mariachi El Bronx recently cut this cool cover of Roy Orbison's classic "Only the Lonely". Listen. Mariachi El Bronx - Only the Lonely (Roy Orbison) Mariachi El Bronx ( Official ) Rating 8.3
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Este año Mariachi El Bronx lanzo su segundo album de estudio " Mariachi El Bronx II " y aunque en lo personal tambien he estado esperando que entreguen un nuevo material de The Bronx, creo que esto tambien nos vino bastante bien y esque ademas este alter ego de estos tipos es una cosa realmente brillante y enrealidad estan tocando mariachi; no un mariachi a modo de ridiculizarlo ni mucho menos, creanme, si aun no los han escuchado lo que estan haciendo es algo impresionante; Pero bueno, proximamente estaran arrancando su gira por Europa y con motivo de [...]
Mariachi El Bronx kick off their Vans Off the Wall European tour headlining in Dublin tomorrow. To celebrate they have given Roy Orbison's 'Only The Lonely' the Mariachi El Bronx treatment and we are giving it away for free! Read more..
The last post's subject title was, for those of you not paying attention, a reference to an old, old song by one of rock'n'roll's finest voices. Scratch that. The finest voice. You can line up your Robert Plants, your Jeff or Tim Buckleys, your Feists, your Mark Lanegans all you like, none of them can come close to the sheer futile majesty of Roy Orbison. He had, as someone once memorably put it, the voice of an angel falling backward out of a window. And the songs, once he'd got through attempts at shoehorning [...]
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