Posted in Established Artists on 08. Dec, 2010
I don’t even need to hear more than the two songs I’ve listened to for the last few weeks to tell you that Rick Rubin and the team behind Adele will own 2011. Own it. And I couldn’t be more excited.
Here is video proof.
Rolling in the Deep -- Studio Footage
Rolling in the Deep -- Ellen
Rolling in the Deep Official Music Video
and…
Someone Like You on Later…with Jools Holland
Posted in Established Artists on 24. Sep, 2010
Thanks to Baeble Music and their TGI Mixtape 78 curated by Basia Bulat for introducing me to
This Grammy Award winning artist will stun you with her beautiful voice and expressive tonation.
Enjoy and it’s good to be back.
Posted in Established Artists on 20. Aug, 2010
Bandcamp has it…
Here friends: ALL DELIGHTED PEOPLE EP
What Arcade Fire couldn’t do on The Suburbs he’s done here.
Posted in Established Artists on 22. Jul, 2010
Sorry for the lag in posts. But today, here’s my latest addiction…
Florence and the Machine -- Heavy in Your Arms (photo above by Tom Beard)
Yes, it’s on The Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack. I’m not ashamed at all.
The song’s fantastic. If you sound anything like this, submit your music.
Posted in Established Artists, Notable News on 15. Jun, 2010
Thanks Consequence of Sound for this article!
Ben Folds and Nick Hornby unveil Lonely Avenue
There’s not much better in my mind than High Fidelity and About a Boy. The books and the movies. Then in 2009, we were treated to College a Capella groups singing Ben Folds songs and Nick Hornby as screenwriter for An Education.
Now they are teaming up on an album of Nick Hornby stories arranged into songs and sung by Ben Folds. I’m already in line for it.
Posted in Established Artists, New Artist on 11. Jun, 2010
In celebration of the World Cup in South Africa, meet Thandiswa.
She’s already very popular and well respected in her native land and in well educated circles here in the states. Now it’s time for the rest of us to catch up. Once in the band Bongo Maffin, Thandiswa is now an award winning solo artist.
With a beautiful, booming sound Thandiswa transcends the traditional labels given to world music artists and should be discussed in parallel to artists such as Jill Scott and India.Arie
Here’s her MySpace page and her iTunes page. Welcome to great music.
Posted in Established Artists on 09. Jun, 2010
Frankel. I wish that would be ‘nough said. I picked up his album Anonymity is the New Fame on 12″ Hand-screened Vinyl LP at Origami Vinyl a few weeks back. It’s really good. Frankel is a singer/songerwriter that is a true mystery. There isn’t much said about him anywhere. If he’s on Facebook, I’m not finding it. He’s a performer true and true and sends most his updates via Twitter. Yet I’m not finding that either. Luckily there is youtube and his albums for purchase.
And of course, there is MySpace.
What I love about Frankel is the creativity used on his albums to give an ethereal experience -- at times tranquil and other times very active. Every song has purpose and engages the listener. That’s not common with many singer/songwriters but Frankel nails it. Hope you enjoy.
Posted in Established Artists, Notable News on 12. May, 2010
I remember as a kid when VHS and cassette tapes were still popular items and mixtapes weren’t online playlists but hours upon hours of research and pause-record-pause moments. I also remember when the movie music video was key to a film’s success with the younger generation. MTV and vh1 would run these amazing music videos that would tease a new film and then once the film was seen, give you all the best moments to relive.
In honor of the upcoming major event -- being my wife’s birthday -- I started thinking about the best movie music videos and after pouring through youtube page after youtube page (I know, I should have pulled out the old VHS recordings) I realized that the best way to honor my wife and make this post musically legit would be to focus on maybe the greatest artist of movie music videos…Bryan Adams
After all, Bryan Adams made the #1 movie music video of all time… Everything I Do (I Do It For You) and this might be my wife’s favorite song of all time. It’s a toss up between this and Part of Your World.
I remember waking up as a kid and sitting in front of the TV waiting for this music video. After recording it, I’d watch it on repeat. I knew it by heart- every guitar riff, every inserted movie scene. My favorite part was when Maid Marion (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) would mouth “ROBIN” during the rad guitar solo. Let’s be honest, I’ve seen this video four times this morning.
The heartless bastard that Bryan Adams is, he decided that he’d continue stealing all our middle school girlfriend’s hearts by getting racy with Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?
And then…to ensure he’d go down as the greatest movie music video artist of all time, he asked Sting and Rod Stewart to join him to sing All For Love
By the time we get to All For Love, you see how it became more about the artists than the film they were apart of…how sad. Just for that, you now have to watch Everything I Do (I Do It For You) again.
(and to be honest All for Love came out before Have You Every Really Loved a Woman?)
Now it’s your turn. What is your favorite movie music video of all time? We all did it. We all watched them and secretly sneak on YouTube to find them now to watch again.
Have a great hump day folks.
