Saturday, July 7, 2012
Just Bieber Covered - (Boy) Girlfriend.
It’s “Boyfriend” like you’ve never heard it before — all swaggy and live — courtesy up-and-coming L.A.-based band Palter Ego. The dynamic duo of jazz musicians Jesse Palter and Sam Barsh sounds like a cross between Etta James and Sia.
Friday, July 6, 2012
Pride Season is upon us
These videos are part of a series by Pride Toronto and Google+, and the music is somewhat adorably by Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields.
Heathers
"Forget Me Knots" is now available on iTunes, with I also available to pre-order ahead of its release in September. In the meantime, keep up to date with all things Heathers via Facebookand Twitter.
And just because:
And just because:
Shouldn’t we be over gay people in the workplace?
The last week was a particularly eventful one for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
On Saturday almost 30,000 people paraded in the annual pride parade in Dublin, second only to the St Patrick’s Day procession as the largest parade in the capital. Then on Sunday the weekend Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore declared “The right of gay couples to marry is, quite simply, the civil rights issue of this generation, and, in my opinion, its time has come.”
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Pair fined for sitting each other's Leaving Cert physics exam
A Yale graduate and a rugby team vice-captain have each been fined €200 after they sat each other’s Leaving Certificate physics exam.
Conor Dooney (aged 22), described in court as a gifted student, sat Stephen Boucher’s (aged 22) higher level physics paper after using his friend’s student number because Boucher wanted the extra points for a marketing degree.
Boucher later got 20 points more than he needed for the course in Dublin Institute of Technology on Aungier Street, meaning Dooney’s points were of no benefit to him.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard the students were caught out after their physics teacher heard rumours that they had sat each other’s exam. She reported it to the principal after noting that Dooney got a “C” in his paper when she expected him to get an “A”.
Garda Joanne Holahan told Tara Burns BL, prosecuting, that the teenagers’ English exams were then compared to their physics exams.
The scripts were later sent to a handwriting expert at the Garda Technical Bureau and compared with other samples of the students’ handwriting.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Holly Throsby is a singer-songwriter originally from Sydney, Australia but currently based in London. Holly’s songs are mostly set at night, and are built around finger-picked guitar and her distinctive, fragile voice.
The arrangements, which incorporate double bass, piano accordion, melodian, clarinet and the barest of vocal recordings, are both delicate and painterly.
She has released five full length albums- On Night in 2004, Under The Town in 2006, A Loud Call in 2008, a children’s album, See! and Team both in 2011. She was nominated for an ARIA award in 2006 for Best Female. In 2007 she released an EP called One Of You For Me.
Holly has played shows with Joanna Newsom, Smog, David Pajo, Devendra Banhart and Architecture in Helsinki and has toured in Australia with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon), The Eels, Hayden, Micah P. Hinson, Art of Fighting and New Buffalo.
At 33 minutes, the album is short and sweet; and with ten uniform songs, Throsby manages to create a musical nook that both feels familiar and unique. It’s claustrophobic, sweet, sad and filled with minutia that ground her airy, epic sentiments. The final track, When?, sees Throsby singing out to a void; heartbroken and wishing to get over a love that may just be doomed to last for eternity. It is the best song on the album and trickles out beautifully, leaving the album hanging. Throsby's is a world worth visiting.
Download album here.
Listen to album here.
The Presets - Youth In Trouble [Single]
The first single from their new album "Pacifica" that comes out on September 14th.
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