When I was a kid, growing up in a house with Cat Stevens, Neil Diamond, and Simon and Garfunkel, the first time I ever heard Kiss's "Detroit Rock City," it was a moment of musical epiphany. It was just so vicious, aggressive and mean. It changed the way I listened to music. I've had a few minor epiphany's since then, when you come across a band that just brings something new and revolutionary to your ears. What have been your musical epiphany moments? About 10 years ago I was good friends with the brother of James Black ...

Hold your pasties aloft with pride. Saturday March 10 th sees a mini invasion assault on the capital from a host of West Country acts. Yes, it’s the third annual ‘Kernow In The City’ mini fest (Kernow being Cornish for Cornwall). The day itself is St Piran’s day—Cornwall’s National Day, and to celebrate 6 of the counties finest acts are playing at a manifest in East London’s Rich Mix venue. Headlined by excellent acoustic singer/songwriter Ruarri Joseph – oft likened to Tom Waits, Cat Stevens, and even (by the NME, no strangers to hyperbole truth ...

Across a multi-decade career that has included work with Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Phil Woods and Freddie Hubbard, pianist Mitchel Forman has also aligned himself with such top-tier vocalists as Mel Tormé, Astrud Gilberto, Janis Siegel and Diane Schuur. But for this duets project, Forman focuses primarily on lesser-known and emerging jazz singers. Among them, only Tierney Sutton, contributing an ethereal “Turning Into Blue” and a magnificent, roiling “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?,” is a marquee name. The remaining six are an eclectic bunch, extending from twentysomething Lizzy Loeb (daughter of singer ...

Lambchop: “Gone Tomorrow” Hearing a bit of Cat Stevens in Kurt Wagner’s voice on “Gone Tomorrow,” a fine preview of his forthcoming Lambchop LP, Mr. M , that floats along in hushed, alt-country waters before washing ashore into more unknown territory. Collaborator Mark Nevers described the LP’s instrumental concept as having a “psycha-Sinatra sound, one that involved the arranging of strings and other sounds in a more open and yet complex way.” Whatever they’re up to, it’s really working here. You can give it a spin above and download the sprawling, 7-minute cut here .

A few weeks ago, we released an astounding alchemy of a music video, replete with magic, mysticism, lazers, dancing, and Ms. Dominican Republic 2008. Today, using the magic of the internet, you can take the song and its many iterations home by purchasing the second single from Pepe Deluxé’s forthcoming record,   Queen Of The Wave.  “A Night And A Day” is up on iTunes now, right here . The song features an international cabal including lead vocals from Johanna Försti, a Finnish soul/funk singer who has sung for the President of Finland; backing vocals from Australian Boi Crompton, Gulf ...

A few weeks ago, we released an astounding alchemy of a music video, replete with magic, mysticism, lazers, dancing, and Ms. Dominican Republic 2008. Today, using the magic of the internet, you can take the song and its many iterations home by purchasing the second single from Pepe Deluxé’s forthcoming record,   Queen Of The Wave.  “A Night And A Day” is up on iTunes now, right here . The song features an international cabal including lead vocals from Johanna Försti, a Finnish soul/funk singer who has sung for the President of Finland; backing vocals from Australian Boi Crompton, Gulf ...

There are musicians out there who utilize their instruments as a sort of weapon, wielded to make a musical statement come hell or high water. And then there are musicians in the world who employ their instruments as a sonic paintbrush, stroking and splashing an autobiographical soundscape, and transposing each chord and string-pluck into an emotive experience. The latter only touches the surface of what a listener can absorb from JJ Crowne's latest release, SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE. A singer-songwriter for the 21st century, Crowne is bringing back the road-weary, scholar-of-life art of musical storytelling that seemed to ...

I was born in South Africa, and lived in Johannesburg (a frenetic, troubled, interesting place, with the best weather in the world) until 18 months ago, when I relocated to Berlin (a chilled-out, fun-filled but complex city in which I am terrifically happy to reside). I am a rather loud, often child-like, always earnest, seriously serious and overly sensitive human. I also happen to write songs sometimes in order to express myself. < Listening to:  The last couple of years have been rather barren on the music listening front. I somehow just haven't had the drive to listen to any ...

Something new for the new year.  We decided to start the first week of the year by asking our Ripple scribes to tell the story of the first album they ever bought with their own money. So without further ado: We shouldn't of been there. Each passing second I was sure we were gonna get caught. Maybe that's why we did it so often. The "city" of Walnut Creek was only about 7 miles away from the small ranch town where we lived, but when you're 12 years old, it may have been in another state.  To ...

[ If reposting, kindly credit Frank & Earthy: http://www.jessejarnow.com/flotsam/ylt ] Yo La Tengo at Maxwell's 26 December 2011 *(Hanukkah, night 7)* Kurt Vile & the Violators and Leo Allen opened. benefit for Pathfinders International. Mix discs by Ira (whole show with Dave Schramm on guitar) Sudden Organ Can't Forget How To Make A Elephant">Baby Elephant Float I Can Hear Music (Ellie Greenwich)
 When It's Dark Here Comes My Baby (Cat Stevens) 
Cone of Silence Little Eyes I Feel Like Going Home Griselda (Antonia) (with Peter Stampfel on fiddle and vocals) 
One PM Again (with PS ...

1959 - Chuck Berry was arrested after taking 14 year old Janice Norine (who unbeknown to Berry was working as a prostitute), across a state line. He was sentenced to 5 years jail but after racist comments by the judge Berry was freed. 1977 - Cat Stevens formally changed his name to Yusef Islam.    2000 - Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall was given a police caution for possessing cocaine and cannabis. Police found the Class A and Class B drugs at his Surrey home after a woman falsely accused him of rape in November. 2006 - It was reported that U2 singer Bono was ...

Apparatjik, the supergroup of Magne F (A-ha), Guy Berryman (Coldplay), Jonas Bjerre (MEW) and Martin Terefe (songwriter and producer of Jason Mraz, Mary J Blige, KT Tunstall, Martha Wainwright and Cat Stevens & more), have announced the follow up to 2009's We Are Here will be entitled Square Peg In A Round Hole . Unlike traditional album releases, the whole thing has been released already via their Facebook page in the form of a first draft. It comes with an open invitation to fans and other artists to collaborate, remix and add ideas to the album, with the final version of ...

Seasons Greetings! The Hit Men – the celebrated SuperGroup consisting of the original performing and recording members of mega-star acts including Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, Tommy James and the Shondells, The Critters, Simon">Carly Simon, Cat Stevens, Jim Croce and more – have debuted their...

THE HIT MEN, a new ''supergroup'' consisting of the original performing and recording members of mega-star acts including Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons , Tommy James and the Shondells , The Critters , Simon">Carly Simon, Cat Stevens, Jim Croce and more – have debuted their new holiday track A Four Seasons Christmas . A medley of everyone’s favorite holiday songs performed in the style of The Four Seasons, you can stream it below, right here on Kik Axe Music™.

Das Londoner Düster-Pop-Quartett Still Corners veröffentlicht das Video zum Titel "Into The Trees". Der Song stammt vom Mitte Oktober erschienenen Debütalbum "Creatures Of An Hour", das via Sub Pop seinen Weg in die hiesigen Plattenläden fand. Vorher hatte man bereits die erste Single-Auskopplung "Cuckoo" verfilmt ( motor.de berichtete ). Das neue Video ist ähnlich atmosphärisch aufgebaut wie sein Vorgänger und begeistert mit einer Mischung aus körnigen Naturaufnahmen und kaleidoskopisch verschwommenen Portraits der Band. Überzeugt euch selbst. Still Corners – "Into The Trees" Die Musik der Still Corners baut sich ähnlich der Dramaturgie eines Films sehr atmosphärisch auf. "Es steckt eine unglaubliche Spannung ...