Author: Paris365
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When Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink, otherwise known as Azure Ray, reunited in 2009 and set to work making their fourth album, Drawing Down the Moon, they used their very first album as a blueprint. “That approach facilitated Orenda (Fink) and I bringing our sound together stylistically and emotionally after working so many years apart,”…
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Forget Rod Stewart, *this* is how you do the American songbook. With 12 standards from the ’20’s through the ’60’s — each loosely representing a month of the year — Emmy marches through each of these precious classics with military-like precision and every bit of the wide-range of emotion she displays during each heart-breaking and…
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It seems like just yesterday I was buying Helloween’s brilliant Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part 1 on vinyl. But the fact of the matter is that two decades have past. Literally. And this, my friends, is Helloween’s 14th album. Boy does that make me feel old. It also makes me want to give a…
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MC Jin, a Chinese American rapper and songwriter, was born Jin Au-Yeung in Miami Florida. After spending years living in New York, he decided to move to Hong Kong, where he learned to speak Cantonese, though he eventually decided to move back to New York during the summer of 2012. From 2002 through 2005 Jin…
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Just a couple of years ago Sky was supposed to become an overnight sensation with her song “Obsession” appearing on everything from The Vampire Diaries soundtrack to one of those infamous NOW CDs. But the song’s failure to make much of an impression on anyone was likely a source of amusement for Sky, who was…
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SOUND CITY PLAYERS FIRST & ONLY EVER NEW YORK SHOW FEBRUARY 13 AT HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM Dave Grohl And Extended Foo Fighters And Nirvana Family To Be Joined By Stevie Nicks, John Fogerty, Rick Springfield, Lee Ving Of Fear, Rick Nielsen Of Cheap Trick, Brad Wilk Of Rage Against The Machine And More For One…
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Let me begin this review by stating that I was a huge fan of Christina’s last album, Bionic. I realize that most of the critics hated it and that it was a commercial flop, but I consider the majority of it to be forward-thinking, artsy pop. And that’s exactly what she was aiming for. She…
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VIDEO: Marina & The Diamonds: How To Be A Heartbreaker from the U.S. version of her latest album, Electra Heart
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Tonight at 12AM GMT (that’s 7PM for New York/EST) Bon Jovi will reveal the album cover for their new album, What About Now, exclusively on their Bon Jovi official app. It was previously believed that Bon Jovi were naming their new album Because We Can, which is the title of their latest single, but either that report…
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If the red heart that reads YOU AND ME on the pink notebook album cover didn’t give it away, well, this is clearly a Valentine’s Day-themed release. Something that should not surprise Meiko’s longtime fans, who know the indie pop singer to be a hopeless romantic addicted to writing and singing love songs. The E.P.…
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Australian Julia Stone first captured our ears as the sister-half of the brother and sister duo Angus & Julia Stone. Together they’ve released critically acclaimed albums like Down The Way, Memories Of An Old Friend and Heart Full Of Wine. But they’ve never been mere critics’ darlings. On the contrary, the prolific duo has amassed…
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Mylène Farmer is, by far, the most successful singer of all-time in France. Celine Dion hasn’t even come close to selling the number of albums Mylène has sold there. Even in Canada, where Mylène was born, she rivals Celine. She’s hugely popular in other countries, too, having completed sold out tours of Russia before her…
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She & Him will release their third studio album of original material with Merge Records this spring! Volume 3 will be available in stores and online May 7 (North America) and May 13 (UK / Europe). The album’s track list, seen below, includes 14 songs – 11 Deschanel originals and three covers. All songs were…
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Official music video for Tegan and Sara – Closer off of the Heartthrob album
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Here it is, Tegan & Sara’s much-talked about leap to… pop? Electronica? Club music? It seems like everywhere you’ve turned lately, people have been talking about how Tegan & Sara’s new album is going to be “different,” as if different means terrible. But these are people who like to gossip, or so-called fans who haven’t bothered to…
