Sunday, 3 April 2011
3652011 Track of the Day : John Legend - Rolling in the Deep (Adele cover)
John Stephens (born December 28, 1978), better known by his stage name John Legend, is an American recording artist, musician and actor. He is the recipient of nine Grammy Awards, and in 2007, he received the special Starlight award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Prior to the release of his debut album, Stephens' career gained momentum through a series of successful collaborations with multiple established artists. Stephens added his voice to those of other artists, assisting in them reaching chart-topper hits. He lent his voice to that of Kanye West, on Slum Village's "Selfish" and Dilated Peoples' "This Way". Other artists included Jay-Z's "Encore", and he sang backing vocals on Alicia Keys' 2003 song "You Don't Know My Name" and Fort Minor's "High Road." Stephens played piano on Lauryn Hill's "Everything Is Everything."
Saturday, 2 April 2011
Like this track : Nicole Atkins - The Way It Is
Nicole Atkins (born October 1, 1978)[1] is an American singer-songwriter best known for her work with the band Nicole Atkins & the Sea. Her sound is known for its mix of traditional vocal styles and introspective lyrics. She has been compared to Roy Orbison and singers from the Brill Building era.
3652011 Track of the Day : Bjork - Unravel
Björk Guðmundsdóttir [ˈpjœr̥k ˈkvʏðmʏntsˌtoʊhtɪr] (
listen) (born 21 November 1965), known as Björk (pronounced /ˈbjɜrk/ byurk in English), is an Icelandic Polar Music Prize-winning singer-songwriter, occasional actress, music composer and music producer, whose solo work includes seven solo albums and two original film soundtracks.Her eclectic musical style has achieved popular acknowledgement and popularity within many musical genres such as, rock, jazz, electronic dance music, classical and folk. Her voice has been acclaimed for its distinctive qualities.
Björk's 1990s singles "It's Oh So Quiet", "Army of Me" and "Hyperballad" charted in the UK Top 10. Her record label, One Little Indian, reported that by 2003 she had sold more than 15 million albums worldwide. She has acquired a high level of critical acclaim. She has won four BRIT Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, one MOJO Award, three UK Music Video Awards and in particular, she received, in 2010, the Polar Music Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, in recognition for her "deeply personal music and lyrics, her precise arrangements and her unique voice".
Additionally, Björk has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, one Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. For her performance in Dancer in the Dark, Björk won the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. She was ranked #36 on VH1's "The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll" and #8 on MTV's "22 Greatest Voices in Music"
Friday, 1 April 2011
3652011 Track of the Day : Beach House - Silver Soul
Beach House is an indie rock duo formed in 2004 in Baltimore, Maryland, consisting of French-born Victoria Legrand and Baltimore native Alex Scally. Their self-titled debut, Beach House, released in 2006, was critically acclaimed. This was followed by their second release, Devotion, in 2008. The band released their third studio album, Teen Dream in January 2010, also to positive critical and commercial reaction.
Thursday, 31 March 2011
3652011 Track of the Day : Talking Heads - Heaven
Talking Heads was an American rock band formed in 1974 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison. Auxiliary musicians also regularly made appearances in concert and on the group's albums.
The New Wave musical style of Talking Heads combined elements of punk rock, avant-garde, pop, funk, world music and art rock. Frontman and songwriter David Byrne contributed whimsical, esoteric lyrics to the band's songs, and emphasized their showmanship through various multimedia projects and performances. Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes Talking Heads as being "one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the '80s, while managing to earn several pop hits."
In 2002, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Four of the band's albums appeared on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and the Channel 4 100 Greatest Albums poll listed one album (Fear of Music) at number seventy-six.
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
How to Start
‘There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the way, and not starting.’ ~Buddha
How to Start | zen habits
How to Start | zen habits
The Killing: In Lieu of Mad Men, AMC's New Series
The Killing: In Lieu of Mad Men, AMC's New Series - The Daily Beast
Getting To Know... Colin Stetson
Getting To Know... Colin Stetson :: Music :: Features :: Paste
3652011 Track of the Day : Meshell Ndegeocello - You've Really Got A Hold On Me
Meshell Ndegeocello (born Michelle Lynn Johnson, August 29, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, bassist, and multi-instrumentalist. Her music incorporates funk, soul, hip hop, reggae, R&B, rock, and jazz. She has received significant critical acclaim throughout her career, and has had ten career Grammy Award nominations. She is often credited for having "sparked the neo-soul movement."
One of my all time favourite songs unfortunately Meshell version is not available via the usual sources so enjoy version here by Elvis Costello & Smokey Robinson
Monday, 28 March 2011
Five unknown London pleasures
Excellent extract from a great blog, The Great Wen
Five unknown London pleasures | The Great Wen
Five unknown London pleasures | The Great Wen
3652011 Track of the Day : Ella Fitzgerald - Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist. With a vocal range spanning three octaves (Db3 to Db6), she was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
She is considered to be a notable interpreter of the Great American Songbook. Over a recording career that lasted 59 years, she was the winner of 13 Grammy Awards and was awarded the National Medal of Art by Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush.
Sunday, 27 March 2011
SONGS FROM THE SHED : Featuring Admiral Fallon
SONGS FROM THE SHED ACOUSTIC SESSIONS - LATEST SESSION
The shed is a former army billet based in the somerset countryside just off junction 20 of the M5, it contains a fascinating collection of curiosities and is the perfect location to take a break from the madness of touring, kick back for a while and watch some intimate lo-fi acoustic performances.
The collections in the shed were initially put together for meetings of a small group of friends with a love of Cheese, Cider and Real Ale during one of our regular meetings in The Royal Oak it was suggested we tried to get some musicians to play at the first meeting. The Cheese, Ale and Cider society was immeadiatly dropped and Songs From The Shed was born.
3652011 Track of the Day : Caetano Veloso - Cucurrucucu Paloma
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso (Portuguese pronunciation: [kaeˈtɐ̃nu emanuˈɛw viˈɐ̃nɐ ˈtɛlis veˈlozu]; born August 7, 1942), better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso is most known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s, at the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship.
Veloso was born in the city of Santo Amaro da Purificação, in Bahia, a state in the northeastern area of Brazil, but moved to Salvador, the state capital, as a college student in the mid-1960s. Soon after the move, Veloso won a music contest and was signed to his first label. He became one of the founders of Tropicalismo with a group of several other musicians and artists—including his sister Maria Bethânia—in the same period. However the Brazilian government at the time viewed Veloso's music and political action as threatening, and he was arrested, along with fellow musician Gilberto Gil, in 1969. The two eventually were exiled from Brazil, and went to London, where they lived for two years. After he moved back to his home country, in 1972, Veloso once again began recording and performing, becoming popular outside of Brazil in the 1980s and 1990s.
Saturday, 26 March 2011
Your Emails are Too Long
‘If you can’t write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don’t have a clear idea.’ ~David Belasco
Your Emails are Too Long | zen habits
Your Emails are Too Long | zen habits
3652011 Track of the Day - Scritti Politti - The Sweetest Girl
"The “Sweetest Girl”" is a song by British band Scritti Politti, released in 1981 as a single. The single peaked at #64 in the UK Singles Chart. The piano is played by Robert Wyatt.
Friday, 25 March 2011
3652011 Track of the Day : James Yuill - Left-Handed Girl
James Yuill (born c.1981) is an English folktronica musician from London, currently signed to the Moshi Moshi record label.
Yuill released his first album, The Vanilla Disc, on his own Happy Biscuit Club label in 2005. He was then signed by Moshi Moshi, who issued his next album, Turning Down Water for Air, in 2008, described by Clash as "a startling piece of work". He has been described as "a one-man band armed with a laptop, mixing decks and an acoustic guitar". His popularity grew internationally and he was signed by the Nettwerk Music Group in the United States in 2008.
Yuill also works as a remixer, sometimes under the pseudonym Hunger/Thirst, also the name used for a collaboration with Charlie Westropp, and has provided remixes for Tilly & the Wall, The Answering Machine, Au Revoir Simone, and David Holmes.
Thursday, 24 March 2011
3652011 Track of the Day : Jim White - Bluebird
Jim White (born March 10, 1957) is a Southern American singer-songwriter and guitarist. White's music can be loosely described as alternative country, but veers off in different, sometimes experimental directions with occasional nods to Tom Waits and the literary narratives of Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Harry Crews.
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Oranges and Sunshine
Oranges and Sunshine tells the story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals in recent times: the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom. Almost singlehandedly, against overwhelming odds and with little regard for her own well-being, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice. She discovered a secret that the British government had kept hidden for years: one hundred and thirty thousand children in care had been sent abroad to commonwealth countries, mainly Australia. Children as young as four had been told that their parents were dead, and been sent to children's homes on the other side of the world. Many were subjected to appalling abuse. They were promised oranges and sunshine, they got hard labour and life in institutions.
Hasta La Vista, Baby: The One Secret to Success
Hasta La Vista, Baby: The One Secret to Success | PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement
There’s just one more really important little tip for making it happen. Follow my Rule of One. Simply stated, do one thing every single day — no matter how small, no matter how simple — towards moving you closer to your goal. Imagine your progress when you’ve moved five steps closer to your goal in one week and twenty steps closer in one month. Before you know it, you’ll be on your way to living your dream.
Create your own success story. Start today.
Orna Draws
There’s just one more really important little tip for making it happen. Follow my Rule of One. Simply stated, do one thing every single day — no matter how small, no matter how simple — towards moving you closer to your goal. Imagine your progress when you’ve moved five steps closer to your goal in one week and twenty steps closer in one month. Before you know it, you’ll be on your way to living your dream.
Create your own success story. Start today.
Orna Draws
3652011 Track of the Day : Toots and the Maytals with Bonnie Rait - True Love is Hard to Find
Toots and the Maytals, originally called simply The Maytals, are a Jamaican musical group and one of the best known ska and reggae vocal groups. According to Sandra Brennan at Allmusic, "The Maytals were key figures in reggae music. Formed in the early 1960s when ska was hot, the Maytals had a reputation for having strong, well-blended voices and a seldom-rivaled passion for their music. Hibbert's soulful style led him to be compared to Otis Redding".
Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter, born in Burbank, California. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially accessible recordings in the 1990s including "Nick of Time", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneakin' Up on You", and the slow ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me". Raitt has received nine Grammy Awards in her career and is a lifelong political activist
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
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