Music
Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen: new songs
Great video and the best thing I’ve heard from Young in ages. If this is typical of the cd, its a go. Brilliant cover of Oh Susannah. anybody else here shades of Shocking Blue’s Venus in this? And then Bruce. Maybe not my favourite Springsteen song but what struck me right off the bat was [...]
Icebird single and Art Brut
This is the freshest song I have heard in a while…though some might hear the obvious Black Keys influence this is so absurdly retro it sounds new. Not that I don’t think it is original but the organ is so 70s and the break in the middle is like a cross between Pink Floyd and [...]
Ximena Sariñana
Just discovered this song and am quite taken with the singer’s brilliant and yet unadorned vocal style. She is free of that godawful up and down warbling on any held notes that seems to have been the rage for the last decade or so in pop female vocals. She exhibits not only a wonderful clarity [...]
Wednesday Jukebox
I haven’t posted any music in a while. Here are some videos of songs on cd purchases of mine within the last few months. A little all over the map but hey, aren’t we all? Their most commercial release to date for TV on the Radio but I’m not complaining. When this group broke their [...]
Hot new music from around the world
June’s best new music from across the MAP From TheGuardian, this fascinating look into new music from around the world has only the drawback that much of it is not yet available but the songs are full clips and the whole list can be downloaded. Good news is that this appears to be updated monthly [...]
Hollerado Video
Found this via OneCoolThingaDay; Hollerado is a Canadian band -the song is called Americanarama.
