Friday, October 30, 2009
Cuban Jazz
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
The Swamp Fox
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Rumours
1. Second Hand News
2. Dreams
3. Never Going Back Again
4. Don’t Stop
5. Go Your Own Way
6. Songbird
7. Silver Springs
8. The Chain
9. You Make Loving Fun
10. I Don’t Want To Know
11. Oh Daddy
12. Gold Dust Woman
Amazon UK
Rumours
Seen them - a sellout for us wrinklies. I forgot how good a guitarist Lindsay is and Stevie wore her hat. Very good indeed - I need to see more live music!
John McVie excellent as always on Bass.
Mick Fleetwood (62)is the spokesman - an excellent drum solo at the end.
Indies Supergroup - The Dead Weather
Comprised of Alison Mosshart (of The Kills and Discount), Jack White (of The White Stripes and The Raconteurs), Dean Fertita (of Queens of the Stone Age) and Jack Lawrence (of The Raconteurs and The Greenhornes)
Excellent Live performance
Highly recommended - Fever Ray
This album is full of angst but ultimately enriching.
1. If I Had A Heart
2. When I Grow Up - this is an amazing video
3. Dry And Dusty
4. Seven
5. Triangle Walks
6. Concrete Walls
7. Now's The Only Time I Know
8. I'm Not Done
9. Keep The Streets Empty For Me
10. Coconut
11. If I Had A Heart
Amazon UK Fever Ray
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Music for Submarines
We British a bit more chilled?
iPhone advert for the Submarines
Amour, Imagination, Rêve - Air
Friday, October 23, 2009
Canadians - Po' Girls
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Steely Dan - Do it Again - Vid and Lyrics
Do It Again from the Album Can't Buy A Thrill
In the morning you go gunning
For the man who stole your water
And you fire 'til he is done in
But they catch you at the border
And the mourners are all singing
As they drag you by your feet
But the hangman isn't hanging
And they put you on the street
Yeah, you go back, Jack, do it again
Wheel turnin' 'round and 'round
You go back, Jack, do it again
When you know she's no high climber
Then you find your only friend
In a room with your two-timer
And you're sure you're near the end
Then you love a little wild one
And she brings you only sorrow
All the time you know she's smiling
You'll be on your knees tomorrow
Yeah, you go back, Jack, do it again
Wheel turnin' 'round and 'round
You go back, Jack, do it again
Now you swear and kick and beg us
That you're not a gambling man
Then you find you're back in Vegas
With a handle in your hand
Your black cards can make you money
So you hide them when you're able
In the land of milk and honey
You must put them on the table
Yeah, you go back, Jack, do it again
Wheel turnin' 'round and 'round
You go back, Jack, do it again
Do It Again MP3 Download @Amazon.com
Monday, October 19, 2009
Chinese Lullaby - Vienna Teng
Chinese Lullaby
This green island is like a boat,
floating in the moonlight.
My darling, you too
are floating in the sea of my heart.
Let the sound of my song follow the breeze,
blowing open the curtain of your window.
Let my love follow the flowing water,
endlessly pouring out its feelings for you.
The long shadows of the palm trees
cannot conceal my love;
the bright beauty of the moonlight
casts its brilliance into my heart.
This green island night is so calm and serene —
my darling, why are you silent, saying nothing?
Looking Glass: Brandy You're a Fine Girl
when he told his sailor stories
she could feel the ocean foam rise
she saw its ragin' glory
but he had always told the truth,
Lord, he was an honest man
and Brandy does her best to understand...
- Elliot Lurie -
Looking glass - Brandy you're a fine girl @YouTube
Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Not commercial but lovely - Hope Sandoval
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Relentlessly highbrow - Luke Haines
Relentlessly highbrow, Haines’s dark-but-mischievous lyrics typically fall into three groups: musings on obscure Anglicana (The Mitford Sisters, Freddie Mills is Dead), bitter attacks on modern society, particularly the arts (The Death of Sarah Lucas, Christ) and twisted 1970s anti-nostalgia (Leeds United, Here’s to Old England) - with the odd dash of self-aggrandisement thrown in for good measure.
I like this - a lot. Haines has played at book signings for David Peace who was promoting The Damned United, a book on Brian Clough's brief tenure at Leeds United in the 1970s. Leeds United relates to this, and with the reference to the Yorkshire Ripper, to Peace's earlier Yorkshire/Red Riding Quartet. The refrain "The North! The North!" advances on the earlier Auteurs track The South Will Rise Again, itself a response to The N.W.R.A. by The Fall. The phrase "The North! The North! Where we do what we want! The North! The North! Where we do what we like" is also a quote from a character in the Red Riding Quartet.
Mulatu Astatke: Ethio-jazz
According to Wikipedia;
Mulatu Astatke (surname also spelled Astatqé) is an Ethiopian musician and arranger. He is known as the father of Ethio-jazz. Born in 1943 in the western Ethiopian city of Jimma, Mulatu was musically trained in London, New York City, and Boston, where he was the first African student at Berklee College of Music. He would later combine his jazz and Latin music influences with traditional Ethiopian music.
From New York City to Addis Ababa: The Best of Mulatu Astatke
You can listen his new album here >>> Mulatu Astatke
Mulatu Astatke @Amazon.com
Friday, October 16, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Norwegian Indie
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Harrowdown Hill
Wow!
Review - Guardian
The news that Thom Yorke had come to Los Angeles and formed a temporary supergroup with Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers was surprise enough to most Radiohead fans. Most were intrigued, but for those concerned with rock credibility it was like hearing that the chaps from Peep Show were taking a break to write a show with Jim Davidson, or that Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall was collaborating with Bernard Matthews on a turkey burger.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Wall of Arms
Review of Tour- The Guardian 6th October
.... the kinetic opener No Kind Words, a tale of going off the rails that sees hooks, chords and melodies tumble over each other with a gloriously frenzied intensity.
Frontman Orlando Weeks is a slight, self-conscious figure, but much of the Maccabees' appeal lies in his tremulous, keening vocal and heroically bad dancing. His ungainly hopping from foot to foot is easily forgiven on Can You Give It?, where the band's chiming, three-guitar assault recalls the spindly energy and dizzy joy of early James. Weeks looks overcome on old live favourite Precious Time as 4,000 hoarse voices bellow the band's words back at them, but recovers his panache for William Powers, a nervous stutter of a song that shares Arcade Fire's knack of being simultaneously epic and intimate.
By the encore of Love You Better, even the drums appear to be speaking in tongues. If the Maccabees got any more overexcited, you would be unwise to rule out the possibility of spontaneous combustion.
Buy at Amazon Wall of Arms
Lovable Supergrass fellows - enjoy
Beatles Cover
Gang of Four cover
Beastie Boys Cover
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Big Beat Pioneers
Review of Invaders Must Die
The Prodigy - are back to take off your head, and transport your body to a claustrophobic dance floor before catapulting you into a gurning oblivion.
Friday, October 9, 2009
She Bangs the Drum
Ian Brown is an English musician and former lead singer of the alternative rock band The Stone Roses. He is widely considered to be one of the pioneering members of the Manchester scene.
The single used a noticeably different mix of "She Bangs the Drums" to the album version. The hi-hat intro was omitted, and it featured a slightly heavier guitar sound and a marginally different backing vocal arrangement. This single version is the one most commonly used for compilations and radio play.
The CD and cassette singles were noted for their strong selection of B-sides: "Standing Here", "Mersey Paradise", and the backward playing track "Simone". It is noted for its fusion of Indie rock, and acid house genres. Ian Brown wrote the verse lyrics, while John Squire was responsible for the chorus.
In May 2007, NME magazine placed "She Bangs the Drums" at number 12 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever.
I can feel the earth begin to move
I hear my needle hit the groove
And spiral through another day
I hear my song begin to say
Kiss me where the sun dont shine
The past was yours
But the futures mine
Youre all out of time
I dont feel too steady on my feet
I feel hollow I feel weak
Passion fruit and holy bread
Fill my guts and ease my head
Through the early morning sun
I can see her here she comes
She bangs the drums
Have you seen her have you heard
The way she plays there are no words
To describe the way I feel
How could it ever come to pass
Shell be the first shell be the last
To describe the way I feel
The way I feel
Have you seen her have you heard
The way she plays there are no words
To describe the way I feel
How could it ever come to pass
Shell be the first shell be the last
To describe the way I feel
The way I feel
Have you seen her have you heard
The way she plays there are no words
To describe the way I feel
How could it ever come to pass
Shell be the first shell be the last
To describe the way I feel
The way I feel
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Quicken The Heart
Track listing
1. "Wraithlike" – 2:29
2. "The Penultimate Clinch" – 2:36
3. "The Kids Are Sick Again" – 3:04
4. "A Cloud of Mystery" – 3:01
5. "Calm" – 3:07
6. "In Another World (You Would’ve Found Yourself By Now)" – 2:59
7. "Let’s Get Clinical" – 3:53
8. "Roller Disco Dreams" – 3:25
9. "Tanned" – 3:35
10. "Questing, Not Coasting" – 3:41
11. "Overland, West of Suez" – 2:46
12. "I Haven’t Seen Her in Ages" – 3:00
13. "Lost Property" (UK, iTunes Bonus Track) – 3:11
Quicken the Heart
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Awards a plenty
Blues Revue Oct/Nov
She's among the handful of guitar-playing blueswomen prepared to carry the mantle Bonnie Raitt currently holds
Philadelphia Enquirer
Foley has a killer voice an impossibly alluring blend of sex and innocence to go with those blazing guitar chops.