→ March 12, 2009
A total of 31 exclusive tracks have been recorded for the compilation and will benefit the Red Hot Organization – an international charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS. Dark Was The Night began three years ago with a casual conversation between Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National and John Carlin. [...]
Raymond Charles “Ray” LaMontagne (born June 18, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter who lives on a farm in Maine with his wife and two sons. Reportedly, after hearing a Stephen Stills song, LaMontagne decided to quit his job at a shoe factory and pursue a career in music. He has since released three albums, Trouble, [...]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5rhhQbyYV0&hl=en&fs=1] Here are 10 suggestions for new music similar to classic sounds, from Alon Libman, chief musicologist for MeeMix.com and music analysts at Pandora.com (if you live in Canada you’ll find you can’t access – for those of you in the U.S. have a look) If you like … Bob Dylan, try Bright Eyes. Front man Conor Oberst [...]
Los Romeros, The Romero Guitar Quartet, is a guitar quartet, sometimes known as “The Royal Family of the Guitar” — their personnel consists entirely of members of the Romero family. The quartet was founded in 1960 by Celedonio Romero, who grew up in Franco’s Spain. All three of his sons, Angel, Celin and Pepe, had made [...]
→ February 21, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEzsPGHsi90&hl=en&fs=1] Styling dude…enough said.
→ February 10, 2009
Album of the Year The Plant/Krause duo garnered more of the awards than anyone last night in Los Angeles. Cold Play paid homage to the Sgt. Pepper’s look of the Beatles in 1967. Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney played “I Saw Her Standing There”. Al Green, performing “Let’s Stay Together” with Justin Timberlake, Boyz II Men, and Keith Urban. BB King paying [...]
→ February 9, 2009
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Some songs make you sad. This one is certainly one of them. I wanted to post a video of John Prine singing “Hello in There” and came across this one on YouTube. It had 85,439 views. There are other versions of the song by Michael Stipe + Natalie Merchant, Bette Midler and John Prine singing live from [...]
→ January 20, 2009
The Ahs Classical, ambient, Indie Cello + banjo, boy + girl click here to hear – The Ahs
→ January 18, 2009
This is an old story first written by Gene Weingarten from the Washington Post. I will make it short. Joni Mitchell wrote a song “Playing real good for free” about a musician she noticed on the street who was really good. No one stopped to listen to him. No one paid him any money for his efforts. [...]
Some of my friends are stuck in the 70’s still listening to the same music. Time for a change my friends. Expand your playlists. Here are some websites that will help you discover great new beats. Gnod: Find books, movies and music you like by typing in an artist or authors name – give you 6 [...]
