Britain's Got Talent sensation Connie Talbot, gives Adele's Someone Like You a try.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Day 25 - A Song That Makes You Laugh
Brings me right back to what, 1998? Pigtails, back of the bus coming home from a footy game.
Paper Aeroplanes all the way from Wales.
We Are Ghosts (March 2011)
01 Days We Made
02 Safe Hands
03 We Are Ghosts
04 Same Mistakes
05 My First Love
06 Stones Inside Your Shoes
07 Save It
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Previously featured here
Friday, April 1, 2011
Has to be Googles April Fools! :)
"A new way to communicate:
The mouse and keyboard were invented before the Internet even existed. Since then, countless technological advancements have allowed for much more efficient human computer interaction. Why then do we continue to use outdated technology? Introducing Gmail Motion -- now you can control Gmail with your body."
The mouse and keyboard were invented before the Internet even existed. Since then, countless technological advancements have allowed for much more efficient human computer interaction. Why then do we continue to use outdated technology? Introducing Gmail Motion -- now you can control Gmail with your body."
Patrick Wolf Announces New Album Details
Titled 'Lupercalia' Track List:
01 The City
02 House
03 Bermondsey Street
04 The Future
05 Armistice
06 William
07 Time of My Life
08 The Days
09 Slow Motion
10 Together
11 The Falcons
Glam-pop sprite Patrick Wolf is ready to release his new album Lupercalia to the world, and now we've got all the details. Hideout Recordings will release the album through Mercury on May 30. Wolf produced the album himself, recording it in England, Spain, France, Los Angeles, and Germany. The LP features a few other musicians, as well as choral and string arrangements, but Wolf plays a tonne of the instruments featured on the album: viola, piano, dulcimer, guitar, ukulele, Moog, and timpani.
Fred Alert
Fred release their first single from their new "Leaving My Empire" album which comes out on 15th April.
Day 24- A Song You Want To Play At Your Funeral.
I'll not be playing much at my funeral! But if I could press play on something, I'd like
Or a decent instrumental of this (which is proving impossible to find online for this post)
Or a decent instrumental of this (which is proving impossible to find online for this post)
Little Red - Recommended by Darren
Little Red formed in Melbourne five years ago, when five friends—Adrian Beltrame (guitar/vocals), Dominic Byrne (vocals/guitar), Quang Dinh (vocals/bass), Taka Honda (drums) and Tom Hartney (vocals/keys)—came together to jam in Adrian's basement, united by a love of infectious hooks and good times.
Rather than stealing inspiration from the ‘book of cool’ this 5-piece cut to the chase in a pure style they jokingly refer to as ‘doo-wop punk’. They maintain almost exclusively iconic influences, from a palette of Springsteen, Radiohead, early Elvis, Dylan, Sam Cooke, Nick Cave, The Beatles, and Lou Reed, as well as the more obscure gospel and doo-wop references that become apparent from listening to their fierce vocal passion, delivering the beauty and tension of musical emotion in a ragged and raw expression.
Rock It - Little Red from Little Red on Vimeo.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Anaïs (uh-nay-is) Mitchell
Indie/Folk
Anaïs (uh-nay-is) Mitchell, is an singer-songwriter from Vermont, USA, who attended Middlebury College. Anaïs’ voice is akin to Cyndi Lauper’s & song-writing / delivery’s inspired by the confessional styling of artists such as Ani DiFranco.
A rare musician who is equally comfortable wielding an acoustic guitar alone onstage, sharing a disc’s worth of alt-country duets, or scripting a vast operatic journey into the underworld. She’s a fearless explorer, and her world just keeps getting larger.
"Anaïs sings of love among the ruins, coming of age to find yourself an outsider looking for the place you belong, finding other strangers along the way. Details … are offered like clues or keys to the reality all of us sense is imminent and eternal beneath the surfaces of things."
— Hugh Blumenfeld, Sing Out!
She plays Belfasts Open House Festival on 2nd June 2011. Tickets £12 incl. booking fees.
Singing with Bon Iver here
Anaïs (uh-nay-is) Mitchell, is an singer-songwriter from Vermont, USA, who attended Middlebury College. Anaïs’ voice is akin to Cyndi Lauper’s & song-writing / delivery’s inspired by the confessional styling of artists such as Ani DiFranco.
A rare musician who is equally comfortable wielding an acoustic guitar alone onstage, sharing a disc’s worth of alt-country duets, or scripting a vast operatic journey into the underworld. She’s a fearless explorer, and her world just keeps getting larger.
"Anaïs sings of love among the ruins, coming of age to find yourself an outsider looking for the place you belong, finding other strangers along the way. Details … are offered like clues or keys to the reality all of us sense is imminent and eternal beneath the surfaces of things."
— Hugh Blumenfeld, Sing Out!
She plays Belfasts Open House Festival on 2nd June 2011. Tickets £12 incl. booking fees.
Singing with Bon Iver here
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding has just announced details of a special performance at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin on Tuesday 31st of May 2011.
You couldn't accuse Ellie Goulding of being obvious. She makes music that will appeal to lots of people, but it’s of the intriguing, curious kind. Described invariably as ‘electro-folk-acoustic-pop’ (or just ‘brilliant’ would suffice), her songs are soaked in an almost cinematic sensibility; the yearning lyrics and resolute refrain of debut single Under The Sheets, for instance, sound like a scene from Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet, with ace lyrics like "We're under the sheets/ And you're killing me/ In our house of paper/ Your words all over me".
Ellie’s beautiful re-imagining of Elton John’s “Your Song” has cemented her status as one of the most exiting artists working in music today.
Tickets priced €28.00 inclusive of booking fee are on-sale Friday, 1st of April from Ticketmaster outlets nationwide and ticketmaster.ie.
Links
http://www.elliegoulding.com/
Day 23 - A Song That You Want To Play At Your Wedding
Sure it wouldn't be a country wedding if this wasn't played! haha
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Best news story of the day:
Willie Nelson, who was recently busted with six ounces of marijuana at a border stop in Sierra Blanca, received an unusual plea bargain offer from Hudspeth County attorney Kit Bramblett: No jail time and a small fine in exchange for performing “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” in court.
“It’s the judge’s decision whether or not to approve it, but that’s what I would offer,” Mr. Bramblett told The Big Bend Sentinel. “That’s the one I would request, and that would be his community service.”
Nelson has yet to comment on the offer.
“It’s the judge’s decision whether or not to approve it, but that’s what I would offer,” Mr. Bramblett told The Big Bend Sentinel. “That’s the one I would request, and that would be his community service.”
Nelson has yet to comment on the offer.
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (2011)
1. Montezuma
2. Bedouin Dress
3. Sim Sala Bim
4. Battery Kinzie
5. The Plains / Bitter Dancer
6. Helplessness Blues
7. The Cascades
8. Lorelai
9. Someone You'd Admire
10. The Shrine / An Argument
11. Blue Spotted Tail
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ETA: Track 1 skips twice, but all the others appear to play fine.
On May 3 in the U.S. and May 2 in the UK, Sub Pop will release Helplessness Blues,12-song LP from Seattle's Fleet Foxes, tipped as one of the most anticipated records in the indie world right now. Phil Ek, who produced the first album, co-produced and mixed this one.
He was a skater boy
I'd love to be able to skate, always have done. I've tried, I got my fingers caught in a door one St. Stephens night while balancing myself, and thought I was going to lose them, ever since then my skateboard has remained neatly in storage. Now I've got that fear you get as you get older, that, 'oh my god there's so many things that could happen me while doing that' fear.
Secretly, I wish I could do even a fraction, a smidgen, of what Kilian Martin does in this video.
Secretly, I wish I could do even a fraction, a smidgen, of what Kilian Martin does in this video.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Ponder
Do you know what I missed today, just for a second, while reading something online. That feeling, you know, the one you used to get when you were called to get up and write on the blackboard, explaining how you got your answer in maths class...or biology...or whatever.
Chris Lilley + HBO
Oh yes!! Chris Lilley’s got a new comedy series coming to HBO called Angry Boys. Can’t wait to see this! I’ve been a fan of Chris Lilley’s TV shows — Summer Heights High and We Can Be Heroes — and I have no doubt this is going to be absolutely hilarious.
I would post a video but all I can get is:
I would post a video but all I can get is:
Yelle, new video.
So as discussed previously, Yelle has released an official video for Safari Disco Club + Que Tu Veux off her new album Safari Disco Club
Monday, March 28, 2011
Some days are better than others
I really like the poster for this film, and the film isn't too shabby either!
Sometimes The Stars
The new song from The Audreys, a band from Adelaide in Australia is 'Sometimes the Stars' and the video matches its ethereal beauty with elegance and charm. It tells the story of a lost girl who journeys through a dreamlike land – and her yearning to make a connection with this world.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Lenka - Two. All the way from Australia
1. Two
2. Heart Skips A Beat
3. Roll With The Punches
4. Sad Song
5. Everything At Once
6. Blinded By Love
7. Here To Stay
8. You Will Be Mine
9. Shock Me Into Love
10. Everything’s Okay
11. End Of The World
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Austrlian born Lenka, who resides in the States now, is a television actress - turned ensemble musician, with Decoder Ring - later, turned solo singer-songwriter in 2008. Most famous worldwide for her song “The Show”, which has been used in numerous advertisements, most notably for Old Navy.
Her vocal stylings offer a juxtaposition of catchy pop and layered, complicated world music influences. This juxtaposing is of late current in the popular music, spreading through the internet. Similar layering exists in the music of the anti-folk Russian-born New York City-based musician Regina Spektor, or the French/Israeli/Tunesian tri-language singer-songwriter Yael Naim. Lenka’s eponymous album is the latest salvo in this ongoing process.
She was previously best known as the third host of a long-running childrens’ breakfast cartoon program Cheez TV in Australia, and has appeared in numerous Australian television serials.
Roll With The Punches- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bk0E-4dCwQ
Everything At Once (promotional video): http://vimeo.com/19877175
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