Liberal England (Free subscription) | yesterday
This choice will annoy Iain Sharpe , but it serves him right for giving up blogging. Carly Simon's LP "No Secrets" reminds me of taking my finals at York (a girl I knew had a copy) and also (along with Paul Simon's LP "One Trick Pony") of the summer I bought my house in the 1980s. Iain says: Carly Simon doubtless saw herself somewhere in the Carole King/Joni Mitchell singer-songwriter...
Kiss & Make Up (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here are some things we didn't play last Friday night, although it would have been quite nice if we had: And her are some things we did actually play: Stuart The Bluetones – Keep The Home Fires Burning (US Version) The Beloved – Hello Saint Etienne – Filthy Manic Street Preachers – La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh) (The Chemical Brothers Remix) The Clash – London's...
3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Don’t loaf about, get a slice of underground lit, it’ll bake your day, the upper crust of outsider writing, the toast of post-beat prose and poetry - and it won’t cost you any dough - sandwiched in November’s Beat the Dust spread you will find Jack Henry, John Dorsey, Steve Finbow, Ford Dagenham, David Blaine, [...]
Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Grammy-award winning singer Carole King has been raising her voice on the radio lately – not in song, this time, but in a plea for the Rocky Mountains. King hails from the mountains of Idaho; at the apex of her career, the Brooklyn native went looking for a place with fewer people and more space, and settled on a county in the center of the Gem State. She’s been active in the fight to...
Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The duo's fourth LP hit stores on February 9th.
John Nack on Adobe (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The San José Photoshop User Group is meeting next Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the Adobe SJ office (map). Pizza and drinks kick off at 6:30pm, with talks beginning at 7. The meeting will feature two speakers. As group organizer Dan...
Lemondrop (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Filed under: News , Entertainment , Music Lilith Fair is back. The highly successful all-girl music festival of the late '90s will be hitting the U.S., Canada and the U.K. in 2010. Although singer-songwriter and festival co-founder Sarah MacLachlan hasn't revealed anything about the lineup, ... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Spice Girl Mel C (full name Melanie Chisholm) made her theatrical debut on Monday (26 October 2009) when she took over the role of Mrs Johnstone in long-running musical Blood Brothers at the West End's Phoenix Theatre (See News::E8831252426405, 8 Sep...
KentNewsNet.com (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
I am willing to skip dinner dates, Friday nights at the cinema and long walks on the beach. I am willing to skip the obligatory cuddling and the constant contact. I can go without gifts of flowers, chocolate and teddy bears.
BUZZGRINDER (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
When they aren’t busy traipsing around the country with Jenny Lewis and chilling on the DL here in their native Louisville, The Watson Twins manage to find time to record demos in mountain cabins and flesh out songs with folks from Everest and My Morning Jacket in them there Hollywood hills. With that, Chandra and [...]
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Come Feb. 9, the California-based indie-folk sister act the Watson Twins will release a new album, Talking to You, Talking to Me, on Vanguard Records. The release is the follow-up to their 2008 Vanguard CD, Fire Songs , which, in turn, came on the heels of their independently released EP and collaboration with Jenny Lewis, Rabbit Fur Coat. The new release is said to contain 12 songs and is being produced...
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Spice Girl Mel C (full name Melanie Chisholm) made her theatrical debut last night when she took over the role of Mrs Johnstone in long-running musical Blood Brothers from 26 October. One fifth of the chart-topping girl group, Mel C (aka 'Sport...
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Kristina Train's debut album recalls Norah Jones and Carole King, with just a dash of Dusty Springfield.
Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
With (my) apologies to Gerry Goffin and Carole King for the above headline, Isiah Thomas tells SI.com’s Ian Thomsen he’s dismayed by Magic Johnson’s comments in the newly published “When The Game Was Ours”, a book co-authored by Magic, Larry Bird and former Boston Globe scribe Jackie MacMullan. In the tome, Johnson describes his [...]
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