wears the trousers magazine (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
‘Tis the season to be voting For the last 3 years Wears The Trousers has dutifully compiled year-end best-ofs that go against the grain of most other music press listmakers, and this year we’re bringing it back to our readers with our most comprehensive polls yet… We like the Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver and Sigur Rós albums [...]
USA Today (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
As a child, Dido was "obsessed with space travel. I only wanted to be an astronaut. The idea just blew my mind." So it's fitting ...
TheCelebrityCafe.com (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
- An all female singer-songwriter holiday album. That sounds like such an interesting idea. Singer-songwriters singing new and interesting music that they wrote. Instead we get almost half of the album as covers of classic songs and the other half are originals songs. The execution of this compilation is fifty-fifty. Half of it is great. The other half is horrible. There is a variance between the artists...
Atomic Ned (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
It’s not a novel concept - giving away free music - but it’s still nice to recognize and say thanks to Matt Pond PA for allowing fans (and potential fans) the opportunity to download a new EP on this day before Thanksgiving. Following in the footsteps of Fiona Apple and giving the EP a rather [...]
LMNOP (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
BuzzFeed got a great collection of awkward TV moments going yesterday/today. I hadn't thought of Fiona Apple's awkward MTV award acceptance speech in ages. And I had never seen this--pretty funny: Also, what language is that'?
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
It's easy to forget that Ingrid Michaelson is an independent artist. Record labels have courted the songwriter since 2006, but she is still calling her own shots.
The Constitution Club (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
For the unaware, the title of this diary is named after the singer who once spent most of her already thin public goodwill urging Americans to boycott eating turkey on Thanksgiving. It seems Sarah Palin took part in the grand political tradition of pardoning a turkey for Thanksgiving. Then she did a media availability. Unfortunately, it [...]
Robin's blog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
I have never been so insulted in all my life. Hey, that’s a line from a Fiona Apple song… anyway, just when I thought my work environment couldn’t get any worse it goes and does. it’s beyond baffling at this point. What exactly IS beyond baffling? Ridiculous? Incomprehensible? Well, insulting at least. As of tomorrow at [...]
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
The song “Tonight You Belong to Me” was written in 1926 by Billy Rose and Lee David. Gene Austin made the song a hit a year later, and it was brought back to prominence in the 1950’s by various acts (Frankie Laine and The Lennon Sisters among them). At just over two minutes, [...]
Faronheit (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
Much like Fiona Apple did with the title of her second album (re: "When the Pawn..."), Marnie Stern has chosen an impossibly long quote as the name of her sophmore effort. Stern takes her title, which I'm only going to type in full one time, from an Alan Watts essay. "This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That" may be incredibly exhaustive...
No Good for Me (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
Like Paul McCartney, I wanna fill the world with silly love songs. But sometimes another kind of love song gets in the way: Let's call it the "stupid love song." Or, more precisely, "the stupid-love song" - 'cause it's...
Blogizdat (Just Think About It) (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
"Everything good, I deem too good to be true, everything else is just a bore, everything I have to look forward to, has a pretty painful and very imposing before" - Fiona Apple
- Are You Riled Up? - (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Apple peeler Apple stock Apple macbook Fiona apple mp3 Apple bank for savings. These are all phrases being typed into a search engine everyday by people looking for very specific information. So, while adding the word apple to your site …[Continue Reading]
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
DIDOSafe Trip Home ***RCA 88697403212, £12.99 Having sold more than 21 million copies of her first two, Dido's third album has more substance than its suave, stylish predecessors. Which is to say that the polished veneer cracks to show some real emotion, and the record sounds like something with ambitions to go beyond the chic dinner party soundtrack.Producer Jon Brion, having worked extensively with...
Blacknell.net (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Chris Isaak’s Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing is his second hottest video. Imagine that. The first time I heard this next track, I thought it was Chris Isaak. In fact, it’s Jace Everett, singing Bad Things. Apologies for the cheeseball graphic - YouTube beggars can’t be choosers. Found Everett through HBO’s new True Blood series. Here’s [...]
