Tag: review
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It’s hard to imagine that what you’re hearing above started off as a piece of classical music on a piano, eh? We know stranger things have happened, but we can’t recall the last time when a #songoftheday had such an odd background story. That’s not why you should like it though. You should like it…
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I was already excited about Iron and Wine’s Sam Beam making an album with Jesca Hoop — one of my favorite singer/songwriters — and now that I’ve heard “Every Songbird Sings,” I’m practically drooling. On their own, each of their voices tends to give me chills, they’re just so perfect that I am in awe…
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Trippy. Ethereal. Gorgeous. Brilliant.
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When it comes to indie singer/songwriter Emm Gryner, I always have very high expectations. This might have something to do with the fact that her album Northern Gospel was my #1 album of 2011 and that her album Torrential was my #12 album of 2014. Suffice to say she’s one of my favorites, so forgive…
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“I’m sick of this record already,” begins “Ordinary Life,” a song roughly halfway through the album that is about, well, being sick of ordinary life. While he sings about losing the will to live in Boston, floating and waiting to die, the song isn’t intended to inspire suicides. Quite the opposite in fact, “Just because…
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Sometimes when two artists get together and collaborate it’s a labor of love that’s largely enjoyable only to the two of them. That is not the case with Gary Lucas and Jann Klose’s just released album Stereopticon; their songs are not only accessible but a whole lot of fun. This is what you get when…
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Dystopia is album number 15 for Megadeth, the band that refuses to die, which I mean in a positive way. If you read the Wiki pages for the band and this album, Dave Mustaine and company faced some serious hardships while writing and making it. It would have been easy for Mustaine to take a…
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The video for DUCKY’s new single “Winter Song” doesn’t start off looking like your typical winter, but that’s clearly the point. Her EP is called Los Angeles and I believe that’s where the video was filmed.
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I’m always very excited when I find a truly awesome song that we can premiere, which is certainly the case with newcomer Olivia Cipriani’s splendid new single “Limitless.”
