Aki Starr, formerly of freestyle music duo Spanish Fly, recently signed to the Renegade Music Group (RMG) label and has debuted his first single and video, "The Closer I Get to You," which is a remake of Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway's dance classic from 1977. Within the first week of this

The Flaming Lips The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends Warner Bros. Records [2012] (Limited 2 LP Multi-Color Vinyl) (Record Store Day Exclusive) Fire Note Says: The Flaming Lips collaboration album not only was one of the best releases on Record Store Day but potentially is one of the better releases for the year! Album Review: At first it just seemed like another crazy Flaming Lips thing that was built on their earlier limited collaborative EP vinyl releases but Heady Fwends not only turned out some big names but pushes everyone's comfort zone here to the edge and makes for ...

Roberta Flack will be promoting her new album, "Let It Be Roberta: Roberta Flack Sings The Beatles" with appearances on Access Hollywood and Dave Koz's radio show

It had been around for more than a decade by the time she recorded it, but the definitive version of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" will always be Roberta Flack's . It's a song about oblivion, about being so overcome with feelings for someone else that boundaries-- between you and this person, between this person and the world-- disintegrate. "The moon and the stars were the gifts you gave to the dark and endless skies"; "I felt the earth move in my hands." That Flack plays down the grandiosity with such a gorgeously low-key delivery makes ...

It had been around for more than a decade by the time she recorded it, but the definitive version of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" will always be Roberta Flack's . It's a song about oblivion, about being so overcome with feelings for someone else that boundaries-- between you and this person, between this person and the world-- disintegrate. "The moon and the stars were the gifts you gave to the dark and endless skies"; "I felt the earth move in my hands." That Flack plays down the grandiosity with such a gorgeously low-key delivery makes ...

Roberta Flack will be promoting her new album, "Let It Be Roberta: Roberta Flack Sings The Beatles" with appearances on Access Hollywood and Dave Koz's radio show

Michael Kiwanuka is a 24-year old singer/songwriter from North London who has links to the same live scene that introduced Laura Marling and Mumford and Sons. Kiwanuka’s has been a name to watch for a while now, taking pole position in Mojo magazine’s preview of highlights for 2012. After a couple of listens to debut LP Home Again , it’s easy to understand the buzz and anticipation around him. For Home Again is an assured and consistent album of folk-soul that is marked by warm, honeyed production, evocative arrangements, and a clear commitment to the craft of ...

"It is suggested that you put this on a mobile music device and walk out of the city." We'll do just that Dam Mantle. David Byrne - 'The Red House' ("The Catherine Wheel" - Sire '88) Dose One - 'Music box of ants' ("Soft Skulls" '07) Dorovio Bold - 'Glub' (unreleased '12) Dimlite - Pour some Blood, we got this ("Grimm Reality" - Now-Again '11) Tomutonttu - Likaiset Pilvet - (OPN Split 7" - Alter02 '10) Flying Lotus - Melting3 ("Cosmogramma Alt Takes" - Warp '11) Art Ensemble of Chicago - 'Variations sur un theme de monteverdi' ("Le Stances a sophie" - Soul Jazz re-issue '00) Lloyd Mcneill Quartet - 'Home Rule' ("Washington ...

Guillemots have compiled a new mixtape ahead of their Positive Blackout shows. Guillemots have always been open about their influences. Admitting a debt towards left field classical music, the band have fused this with a love of a great pop song. A new mixtape finds the band matching these two strands together. Compiled in honour of their Positive Blackout concerts, Guillemots open the tape with a Nils Frahm track before heading in a soulful direction. Ending with the maverick output of Harry Partch, you can stream the Positive Blackout mixtape below. - - - Tracklisting: Kind - Nils Frahm Dogwood Blossom - Fionn Regan I ...

Somewhere between Flora Purim's fusion jazz and Roberta Flack's groovy, swinging '70s pop, Spalding has found her...

(429 Records/Sony) Killing Me Softly star delves into The Beatles’ back catalogue The Lennon/McCartney songbook is one of the most plundered by artists who simply want to get their chops around a great melody and lyric. From reverent facsimiles to total re-imaginings, the most successful versions tend to be those that put the song before the technical ability of the interpreter. The really smart operators can simultaneously achieve this, while also taking a hugely familiar tune into intriguin ...

Filed under: News , Exclusive , Q + A Andy Kropa, Getty Images If singers like Turner">Tina Turner and Millie Jackson represented the raunchier side of '70s soul, Roberta Flack represented its refined antithesis. The singer's latest effort is 'Let It Be: Roberta Flack Sings the Beatles ,' which, as the title suggests, finds her tackling a dozen songs by the Fab Four and drastically reinterpreting some of them in the process. In addition to classics like the title track, 'Hey Jude' and 'Come Together,' Flack has included some less obvious choices like 'If I Fell' and George Harrison 's solo cut ...

On this Day in 1973, Roberta Flack had her second U.S. no. 1 when "Killing Me Softly with His Song," started a five-week run at the top

On this Day in 1973, Roberta Flack had her second U.S. no. 1 when "Killing Me Softly with His Song," started a five-week run at the top

Flack's new album, the latest in a hit-heavy career, is the Beatles tribute Let It Be Roberta .