Anais Nin described life as a process of becoming, a combination of states people have to go through. For her, people fail when they elect a state and remain in it, resulting in a kind of death. fanshaw, the musical persona of Olivia Fetherstonhaugh, has managed to cheat this kind of death in her brief [...]
Sunday, March 7, 2010
This album was released last month and showed up on my last.fm recommendations section. I finally checked it out and thought it was a good change of pace from a lot of the folk I listen to. Adam Green (born May 28, 1981 in Mount Kisco, New York) is an American singer-songwriter. Green attended Emerson [...]
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Taken by Trees is the latest project for artist Victoria Bergsman from Stockholm, Sweden. Bergsman was singer-songwriter for The Concretes for eleven years before deciding to leave the band in July 2006. The debut album Open Field was recorded in six days; it’s packed with stark, delicate pop melodies. Victoria has the sort of voice [...]
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
This album is worth picking up for the song Black Ice alone. Yes, I posted another cute indie album after posting a Twee album, so what? Soft and loud. Sweet and sour. Boys and girls. Together and broken… Sometimes violins, sometimes orgasms. Ohbijou plays music to swell your heart. Ohbijou is… Casey Mecija, Jenn Mecija, [...]
Sunday, February 21, 2010
I was looking through some Alternative to post and came across this singer; she kind of rocks. Polly Jean Harvey, born October 9, 1969 in Yeovil, United Kingdom and raised in nearby Corscombe (Dorset), is an English singer-songwriter. She has recorded as a solo artist under the name PJ Harvey, but she began her career [...]
Friday, February 19, 2010
Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981 in Hell’s Kitchen, New York), better known as Alicia Keys, is a Grammy award winning American soul and R&B singer-songwriter, composer, pianist, poet and actress. Keys is a world renowned artist who has sold over 35 million albums worldwide and won numerous awards, including twelve Grammy Awards, seventeen [...]
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Tom Waits (Thomas Alan Waits, Pomona, California, December 7, 1949 ) is a prolific American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. He started his career in the early 1970s as a singer in spit ‘n’ sawdust bars. Initially, he was deeply influenced by the beat generation (novelists like Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs, poets like Allen [...]
Monday, February 15, 2010
I couldn’t think of an album today, so this one is brought to you by my girlfriend. Behind the name The Tallest Man On Earth is Kristian Matsson of Dalarna, Sweden. He plays guitar and banjo and has released a full length album entitled ‘Shallow Grave’ and a self-titled 5-track EP on the Swedish label [...]
Sunday, February 14, 2010
The Mountain Goats is the musical project of singer-songwriter and guitarist John Darnielle. The New Yorker magazine referred to him as “America’s best non-hip-hop lyricist”. In its June 2006 issue, Paste magazine named Darnielle one of the “100 Best Living Songwriters”. Darnielle’s lyrics are literate and filled with imagery that reference classic literature, religion and [...]
Saturday, February 13, 2010
In 2000 Madeline began performing her songs in Athens, Georgia at the age of 15. Over the next couple of years, Madeline worked on a full length album and fronted the locally successful psychedelic pop band, The Sugar Shakers. In 2002 Madeline self-released her album Kissing & Dancing. In 2003 the record was re-released by [...]
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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