British boy band Mcfly score fifth UK #1 single
British boy band McFly scored its fifth U.K. No. 1 single yesterday (July 23) as the double-sided ‘Don`t Stop Me
Oasis - “Unplugged 2″
I bought this Oasis Unplugged 2 bootleg via the used bin last week, it was a total score for only $4.00. Aside from the harsh cover photo of Noel’s head, it’s pretty killer. I never heard (of) Unplugged 1, but…
DO IT!
I don’t know much about the Pink Fairies aside from that they were a weird band from the late sixties that not too many people liked and their drummer was from a rad band called The Pretty Things. To be…
Margaret Atwood Might Call Them Survival Songs
Kathleen Yearwood - Night Falls What are Canada s musical specialties? Idiosyncratic poetic variations on folk-rock music. Large collectives of equals enjoying one another s creative input. Inventive knob-twisting, tape-splicing and other winterlong basement pastimes. Weekend hoser head-banging. Lilith Fair-style singer-songwriters. And, less often remarked, women who ve refused to take up any of the narrow positions offered by the entertainment industry and go another, utterly individual way, women such as Veda Hille, Jane Siberry, Jean Smith of Mecca Normal, Joni Mitchell in her day, the McGarrigle sisters (and Kate s daughter Martha) - hell, even Jann Arden from a certain angle. And then there s Kathleen Yearwood, the most enigmatic of them all, the one you haven t heard about. Black metal bands wish they could sound so fundamental, manifest their menace so dizzyingly, imbue their wrath with all the world s undercurrent of danger the way this semi-folk-singing, maverick intellectual musician from Alberta does. She performs draped in red light, small fingers wrestling with the strings of a black electric guitar, sometimes flinging beer bottles to shatter in an amplified metal bucket. She sings in English and in French and in tongues. She has a band called Ordeal, which can be one, and sometimes features…
Shakira climbs back to number one - CBBC newsround (audio)
Roky Erickson - “Gremlins Have Pictures”
A couple days ago I posted a few tracks from the Roky Erickson tribute album called Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye and someone commented that they didn’t know who he was… Well these songs are for you sizzle-chest. The…
Released: August 1st
Here are tomorrow’s releases via insound .com 08/01/06 Boozoo Bajou Juke Joint II !K7 08/01/06 Conrad Ford Don’t Miss Yourself Tarnished 08/01/06 Dirty Pretty Things Waterloo To Anywhere 08/01/06 Gisli How About That? EMI 08/01/06 Lily Allen Alright, Still Regal/Parlopone
Alan Williamson
Solo Andata
My family is about 1700 miles away right now, which probably makes me even more of a sucker than usual for this meditative, lonely man’s free jazz. Or maybe there’s an even deeper connection I’m feeling… Solo Andata is a long-distance duo as well: Paul Piocco and Kane Ikin, who live in Perth, Australia, and Stockholm, Sweden, respectively. They collaborate by means of modern connectivity, as I do with my wife and kids, which is great but means you kinda have to fill in the gaps in time and distance with your own imagination and memories. The resulting sessions are sparse, yet richly textured and nuanced, giving you the sense—and I know I sound like Abe Simpson when I say this— that you can actually hear the wear and tear that comes from sending their tracks back and forth over such long distances. Be sure to check out their remix as part of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Stop Rokkasho project, available on their MySpace page.
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