Earth Hour Aims for Ray of Hope in the Dark : Discovery News
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
3652011 Track of the Day : M.Ward - Carolina
Matthew Stephen Ward, known by his stage name M. Ward, is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who rose to prominence in the Portland, Oregon music scene. In the summer of 2006, Ward relocated to New Hampshire and in the fall of 2007 subsequently returned to Portland. In addition to his solo work he is known as a member of She & Him and Monsters of Folk.
Monday, 21 March 2011
Sunday, 20 March 2011
Simply Brilliant : Agnes Obel
Agnes Caroline Thaarup Obel (born 1981) is a Danish singer/songwriter. Her first album, Philharmonics, was released by PIAS Recordings on 4 October 2010 in Denmark, Norway, Germany and other European countries.[2] Since February 2011, Philharmonics is certified gold.[
Like this track : Joan Osborne - What Becomes of the Broken Heart
Standing in the Shadows of Motown is a 2002 documentary film directed by Paul Justman. It recounts the story of The Funk Brothers, the uncredited and largely unheralded studio musicians who performed on Motowns' recordings from 1959 to 1972. The film was inspired by the 1989 book Standing in the Shadows of Motown: The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson, a bass guitar instruction book by Allan Slutsky, which features the bass lines of James Jamerson.
The film covers the Funk Brothers' career via interviews with surviving band members, archival footage and still photos, dramatized re-enactments, and narration by actor Andre Braugher. The film also features new live performances of several Motown hit songs, with the Funk Brothers backing up Gerald Levert, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Joan Osborne, Ben Harper, Bootsy Collins, Chaka Khan, and Montell Jordan.
The impetus behind making the film was to bring these influential players out of anonymity. In addition to bassist James Jamerson, The Funk Brothers consisted of the following musicians: Jack Ashford (percussion); Bob Babbitt (bass); Joe Hunter (keyboards); Uriel Jones (drums); Joe Messina (guitar); Eddie Willis (guitar); "Pistol" Allen (drums); "Papa Zita" Benjamin (drums); "Bongo" Brown (percussion); Johnny Griffith (keyboards); Earl Van Dyke (keyboards); and Robert White (guita
3652011 Track of the Day : Josh T. Pearson - Country Dumb
Josh T. Pearson is a musician from Texas. In 1996 he formed the short-lived but now critically acclaimed band Lift to Experience, who released one double album, 2001's The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads, before splitting up soon after.
Pearson is currently pursuing a solo career, which so far has consisted of a number of tours, both headlining and supporting. Pearson no longer plays any Lift to Experience songs live.
Pearson has not released an album or much else in the way of recorded material since the demise of Lift to Experience. In the meantime Pearson has been selling a variety of self-produced live recordings at recent gigs, including a bootleg album To Hull And Back and a DVD single Live In Paris. He featured on a guitar and backing vocals on two songs, "Seal Jubilee" and "Trophy" on the Bat for Lashes album Fur and Gold.
The only solo studio-recorded song to be released for almost ten years is a cover of Hank Williams' song "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", which was released as one half of a split 7" single also featuring Dirty Three. Pearson has notably performed at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival several times over the last few years.
Pearson's current solo output falls into two categories - rock songs performed on electric guitar, more reminiscent of his output with Lift to Experience and quiet, acoustic country songs. He has performed the former material live with Robert B. Weaver III of The Paper Chase on bass, and former Lift To Experience drummer Andy Young on drums, most notably when supporting the reformed My Bloody Valentine in Austin and Dallas, Texas in April 2009. In June 2009, Pearson moved to Paris where he joined a group of musicians, including Bosque Brown and H-Burns, in playing regular gigs at Paris crêperie West Country Girl with his final appearance in June 2010. An album of sessions performed there will be released in 2011.
In January 2010, Pearson recorded an album of epic acoustic ballads in Berlin. He has also recorded two songs with pianist Dustin O'Halloran while in Berlin, "Sweetheart I Ain't Your Christ" and "Country Dumb". "Sweetheart I Ain't Your Christ" can currently be exclusively heard on his SoundCloud page . In August 2010, Pearson signed a worldwide record deal with Mute Records. In November 2010, Mute announced the signing of Josh T. Pearson and details of his debut solo album release. Last Of The Country Gentlemen will be released in the Spring of 2011.
Pearson is currently pursuing a solo career, which so far has consisted of a number of tours, both headlining and supporting. Pearson no longer plays any Lift to Experience songs live.
Pearson has not released an album or much else in the way of recorded material since the demise of Lift to Experience. In the meantime Pearson has been selling a variety of self-produced live recordings at recent gigs, including a bootleg album To Hull And Back and a DVD single Live In Paris. He featured on a guitar and backing vocals on two songs, "Seal Jubilee" and "Trophy" on the Bat for Lashes album Fur and Gold.
The only solo studio-recorded song to be released for almost ten years is a cover of Hank Williams' song "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", which was released as one half of a split 7" single also featuring Dirty Three. Pearson has notably performed at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival several times over the last few years.
Pearson's current solo output falls into two categories - rock songs performed on electric guitar, more reminiscent of his output with Lift to Experience and quiet, acoustic country songs. He has performed the former material live with Robert B. Weaver III of The Paper Chase on bass, and former Lift To Experience drummer Andy Young on drums, most notably when supporting the reformed My Bloody Valentine in Austin and Dallas, Texas in April 2009. In June 2009, Pearson moved to Paris where he joined a group of musicians, including Bosque Brown and H-Burns, in playing regular gigs at Paris crêperie West Country Girl with his final appearance in June 2010. An album of sessions performed there will be released in 2011.
In January 2010, Pearson recorded an album of epic acoustic ballads in Berlin. He has also recorded two songs with pianist Dustin O'Halloran while in Berlin, "Sweetheart I Ain't Your Christ" and "Country Dumb". "Sweetheart I Ain't Your Christ" can currently be exclusively heard on his SoundCloud page . In August 2010, Pearson signed a worldwide record deal with Mute Records. In November 2010, Mute announced the signing of Josh T. Pearson and details of his debut solo album release. Last Of The Country Gentlemen will be released in the Spring of 2011.
"The Stars in His Head" (Dark Lights Remix)
Another posting on the brilliant Colin Stetson
Pitchfork: Forkcast: Colin Stetson: "The Stars in His Head" (Dark Lights Remix)
Photo gallery - Channel 4 News team in Japan
Superior news coverage by Jon Snow & Alex Thomson from Japan
Photo gallery - Channel 4 News team in Japan - Channel 4 News
Photo gallery - Channel 4 News team in Japan - Channel 4 News
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