XO's Middle Eight (Free subscription) | yesterday
Earlier this year, I feel into passionate love with a track by Roots Union called Rough Diamonds ( read post ). Beautiful, rustic English folk that has just enough melodicism to verge into pop. Their album comes out in 2010, but before that we have Mumford & Sons and their own debut Sigh No More. I think this London quartet will appeal to folks who like Idlewild/Roddy Woomble, The Pogues, Passenger,...
GayGamer.net (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Last week we revealed Dragon Age's equal showing of romantic possibility in this exquisite man to man love scene (Spoilers!) . While this is arguably the most tasteful representation of our relationships we have had a long road leading up to this artful tryst. Ring King While not officially a "sex scene" there is most certainly something "up" in the pre fight prep scene in Ring...
Shot In The Dark (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
“When you’re taking flak, you know you’re over the target” — Mike Huckabee “When they call you crazy, you’re scaring the p**s out of them” — Mitch Berg “Most frequently, ideas about a struggle for truth and justice are formed by personalities with a paranoid structure,” — Vladimir Bukovsky Note to Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin,...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
ALAMEDA – Forget for a moment that the Raiders are trudging along at 2-6 at the season's midway point for the sixth time in the past seven seasons. Ignore, if you can, Tom Cable coaching for his very career, considering the poor record and seemingly everybody but the water boy from his Pee Wee League team accusing him of roughing them up. Put on your silver-and black- colored glasses, take a...
The Devil's Kitchen (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Frank Turner: boundless energy. A couple of weeks ago, your humble Devil was invited to watch a concert by an up-and-coming musician called Frank Turner ( here profiled in the Evening Standard ). It's been a while since I went to a gig that wasn't James , The Waterboys or my brother —and so it's been an age since I went to a gig where I didn't really know the music. I was pleased to find that...
The State Of The Nation UK (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
This is the third post that highlights some rarely heard music - the other entries can be found here . These are songs that you probably won't know but I would like to recommend them. You may love them, you may hate them - the choice is yours, but at least you had the chance to hear them... "Big Store" by The Devils Pete is a big Duran Duran fan and this track is related to that band. The...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Musician MARK SMITH, who performed with ROXY MUSIC, ROBBIE WILLIAMS and GEORGE MICHAEL, has been found dead at his London home at the age of 49.Smith's body was discovered...
Sweeping The Nation (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Funeral provides an interesting bisection in the decade. Before it: New Rock Revolution. After it: Fleet Foxes-fronted inclusive Americana, Modest Mouse and the Shins having US number one albums, the return of, to coin Mike Scott of the Waterboys' phrase, The Big Music. Hearing this some time in the second half of 2004 - it's easily overlooked now that they were as much a blog band as anyone - it was...
Bad Idea Blue Jeans (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
BAD IDEA SHOW REVIEW: TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS AT LINCOLN HALL photo via Flickr While watching Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Sunday night, I realized that it might have been the first time I'd ever seen a headlining act treat an encore more or less as it was originally intended. At this point, the art of the encore is a ridiculous notion. It's no longer a demand of the audience wanting more, but...
Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
“I don’t care what he did with his women. I don’t care what he did when he drank. I want to hear just one note From his lonesome old throat. Has anybody here seen Hank?” –The Waterboys New Orleans is swimming in music of every imaginable genre, but old time country-and-western gets short shrift. It’s just not a part of who [...]
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
IT’S not often that I interview an accordion player for these pages, I must admit. But then it’s not often that Sharon Shannon plays on this side of the Irish Sea.
World Hum (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Travel Dispatches from a Shrinking PlanetBlog CategoriesGoTravel Song of the Day: ‘The Whole of the Moon’ by The Waterboys Travel Song of the Day: ‘The Whole of the Moon’ by The Waterboys • Michael Yessis • 10.15.09 | 3:04 PM ET Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor of World Hum.Eva Holland checks out the Greek travel comedy that's just arrived on DVDTravel...
Specktra.Net (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
You have to read the title out loud to get the full experience. Just think Bobby Boucher's mama in "The Water Boy" LOL. Also it should have also read EX-PERSONAL TRAINER. The man that I was supposed to start training with had a family emergency so then was stuck with this douchebag. That man tried to kill me! I'm not in great shape but I'm definitely not weak. I told him my goals (i.e. lose...
'You've got your hands full' (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
PARENTS are supposed to embarrass their children. It's the law. Here are some of my "mum crimes" so far - that I'm willing to admit to anyway. Why not share yours too? Would love to read them - would make...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Huliyamma Devarahalli survived the fury of the floodwaters, her lifeline a thorny shrub. She hung on to it for dear life after saving a child, looking death in the face all the time.
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