Ben E. King’s classic song “Stand By Me” will forever remain a classic. It’s uplifting and heart warming vibe it brings when played is incomparable, and along the years Stand By Me has seen thousands and thousands of covers, remixes and rehashes, but I don’t think one comes even closer to this collective artists rendition. Tears may fall… The song starts with a beautiful, bluesy guitar and vocal line by Roger Ridley, a well known…
Oh, boy. These new PETA awareness campaigns are getting more and more subtle these days. Wait, this is just a music vidoe. Okay! Getting past their hip name, Brooklyners Justice of The Unicorns new video for the single “The Dragon’s Claw” is both an admirable effort and a welcomed companion for this awesome soundtrack. The sinopsis sounds something like this. A wondering err… dude, in an animal suite of some sort, stumbles across an evil…
Last week I posted a bit about Natasha’s recent KoL cover of “Use Somebody,” seems, however, she’s here to stay on the blog as we’ve got yet another Bat for Lashes-centered post. Natasha just recently paid a visit to Jools Holland’s show, where she played a really beautiful live performance of Daniel, off her recent sophomore LP, “Two Suns”. Energetic and vibrant. Good going, Nat! [1st seen on Culture Bully]
Anthony and his band have been performing on TV all over for the past few months. Hard to name a few shows that didn’t have them as guests, and here we are publishing a story on them performing the exquisite “One Dove” live on Dutch national television, on Paul de Leeuw’s show. Who’s a total nutcase, by the way! Check out the performance bellow and skip or not (if you’re dutch isn’t quite as rusty…
After last year’s fun, but somewhat mediocre “Last Night” LP, Moby wants to make a bit of shift in direction with his upcoming new record “Wait For Me” – an album centered a lot more on emotions and creativity, as the American DJ himself confessed to in a recent interview with David Lynch. Apparently Lynch even influenced to quite a degree Moby’s new album, thanks to his well known evangelization of creativity as the epiphany…
Annie Clark certainly never would have thought her video for “Actor Out Of Work” would get such a straightforward treatment, but when you watch front to back, you can then see beyond its fragile appearance. In the video, Ian Kibbey and Corey Creasey, the two directors of the video, visioned the song’s vibe as ideal for that of a casting call. A swarm of people are lined up, each on a chair and then told…
Last year’s “In Ear Park,” by talented indie duo Department of Eagles, rocked our socks off, eventually landing the #26th spot on our top50 list for 2008. No One Does it Like You was a smashing single, although it’s summer release didn’t quite suite it well, an autumn one however, would have made both single and album quite the soundtrack. The video for the song debuted a couple of night ago during a showing by…
I’m pretty confused about as to where RATM stand at the moment: they split up in 2000 only to reunite to tour 7 years later, but pretty much all the members are involved in other projects that are recording albums, only RATM is not recording. One Day As A Lion is made up of frontman Zach De La Rocha of Rage Against The Machine, and former Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore, and their self entitled…
NYC’s new indie hope, Vampire Weekend, paid newly appointed Late Night anchorman Jimmy Fallon a visit last night, when the band played a brand new song called “White Song.” Although the band’s orchestra adopts a somewhat weird dressing code, the string section of the song makes it quite special, especially when put next to Ezra Koenig’s high pitched vocals. The song is scheduled to appear on VW’s upcoming new album, which has yet to receive…
The Ropes is a rocking NYC duo that’s been getting quite a lot of hype lately, through underground indie and college radios. They’re hip and stylish, without sounding pompous or over-pretencious, and that’s a rare sight in the scene. They just recently an EP, called “By My Gun,” available now on iTunes, featuring quite a few interesting songs, among which we can note as standouts the title track and “Kitty Get Down,” whose masterfully directed…
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