Dissensus (Free subscription) | yesterday
Through the magic of YouTube I have listened to over a thousand lady singers across all styles - Pop, R&B, Soul, Blues, Jazz, Bossa Nova, Punk, Gospel, Rock, Folk, Country, Metal ... - and judged them on pitch, tone, range, control, phrasing and versatility. These are, in my opinion, the best...
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Coldplay, Radiohead and Gnarls Barkley are among the artists featured on a forthcoming Grammy CD, which includes several musicians nominated for 2009 Grammy Awards.
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
IN CREATOR, the rawest track on Santogold's debut album, the singer Santi White boasts, "Me I'm a creator/Thrill is to make it up/The rules I break got me a place
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
AC DC have topped a new list of rocking autograph givers - because they're always happy to sign for fans. HoundsTV.com, has compiled a list of the best and worst ...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
An hour "in the studio" with the purest musician in America, watching her do songs from her last, elegant but over-finessed album. For a woman who places so much emphasis on naturalness and authenticity, she must really like her make-up artist, who appears to have done the job with a spatula and blowtorch.
Alternate Brain (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch - I'll Fly Away Clips from " O Brother, Where Art Thou? "
E! Online (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
Jimmy Page can't seem to get Robert Plant onboard for a Led Zeppelin reunion. Maybe Queen Elizabeth can do some arm-twisting. Seems Her Majesty is a big Zep fan, naming Plant as one...
Atom Sounds Music News (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
Almost 20 million people are reported to have tried to buy tickets for the roof-raising reunion concert at the O2 of the blues-rock behemoth whose members lived lives of legendary hedonism. Plant, 60, from Worcestershire, asked on a stage in Barry in Wales about a possible reunion tour with Led Zeppelin band mates Jimmy Page and [...] Post from: Atom Sounds Music News Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant made...
Granby01033 (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
Bluegrass music isn’t dead. It doesn’t smell funny either. Although it’s rare to hear Earl Scruggs play the theme song to The Beverly Hillbillies (unless you watch TVLand), you can hear elements of bluegrass in the music of many contemporary recording artists today. Best known in what is called newgrass or progressive blue grass is Bela Fleck and the [...]
RT's Ponderings (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
Alison Krauss–”There is a Reason”
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
FANTASY author Terry Pratchett is now a real-life knight after being awarded the highest recognition in the Queen's new year honours list.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Rock singer Robert Plant, fantasy author Terry Pratchett and Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton were all honored by Britain's Queen Elizabeth on Wednesday.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
FANTASY author Terry Pratchett is now a real-life knight after being awarded the highest recognition in the Queen's new year honours list.
Buzz, Balls & Hype (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
Songs From the Heart of a Marketing Plan by JON PARELES for The New York Times is an interesting article about commercialism and music. IN “Creator,” the rawest track on Santogold’s debut and self-titled album, the singer Santi White boasts,...
Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 29/12/2008
First I need to get something out of the way. In a review I wrote earlier this year, I mentioned that the album I’d reviewed had attained a special status — it had become a VCD. I then went on to explain that the sobriquet stands for Visor CD — albums that I like so much [...]
