Posts Tagged ‘music’
Xfm’s top 1000 white males
Or why you miss out with the mainstream End of year lists are by their nature selective (and most, dare I say it, pointless). The best ones, like the delicate offerings from music mag Loud and Quiet, carefully lay out the parameters of their selection – that you can’t possibly listen to every album out […]
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Tags: end of year lists, music, Xfm
Listen to Anna Calvi
Anna Calvi was one of the best things we saw at Truck Festival on Saturday. She resembles PJ Harvey – deep throaty voice and not afraid to delve into dark guitar squalls and screeches. She’s playing at Field Day, the Little London Fields Festival and Borderline in September.
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He Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss)
Just come across the Grizzly Bear cover of this song, which sounds much more ominous and full of sadness than the original (originally performed by the Crystals and arranged by Phil Spector, it was written by Carole King and Geoffrey Goffin as a critique of domestic violence but often misunderstood as an endorsement). After discovering another singer was being […]
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Beautiful Lily Allen won 3 Ivor Novello awards last night for The Fear. And I’ll take my clothes off and it will be shameless Cause everyone knows that’s how you get famous She said “This song is so much about feeling lost in a lot of ways. All of a sudden, this has made me feel […]
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Said my friend Tom, and he’s not wrong. I’ve been waiting for Beach House to come up with this – their other two albums have had moments of steady beauty which hinted at more potential diverse tricks up their sleeve, but not a full record of such track-by-track quality and restraint. Victoria Legrand is responsible for […]
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Tags: Beach House, music, Teen Dream, Victoria Le Grand
I came out at Unskinny Bop
Accidentally, that is, being that I am heterosexual. I was trying to explain to the women of Unskinny Bop that their night had encouraged me to want to go out at a time in my life when I would generally rather stay in with a boxset and a giant pack of After Eights than set […]
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Tags: Hairspray, music, Unskinny Bop
Gaga = underwhelmed
It’s very late to weigh in with observations of this video but really, I was terribly disappointed. I thought it was going to be good but involve tired old sexual stereotypes. Imagine my dismay to find it was poor and involves tired old sexual stereotypes. She can sure rock out a pop tune but this isn’t her finest hour. […]
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Tags: boring, Gaga, music
Winsome Newsom
Milk-eyed queen of the fairy folk Joanna Newsom lost her voice for 3 months but soon she is back with a new triple album. It will be interesting to hear what someone hailed as a genius at 28 sounds comes up with for their third album. Some lucky folk will get to watch her at […]
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