YOWSA.  Our boy Zimmer really nailed it on this one.  There are plenty of solid mixtapes floating around right now but Zimmer’s “Sage Paradis | May Tape” is TOP NOTCH.  For anyone into slo-mo, deep, sexy disco + house, this mix is like a handbook of everything new & good over the last few months... Continue + Comment

Artist: Rachael Sage Album: Haunted By You Released: 2012 Style: Folk Pop Format: MP3 320Kbps Size: 123 Mb Tracklist: 01 – Invisible Light 02 – Abby Would You Wait 03 – California 04 – The Sequin Song 05 – Performance Art 06 – Everything 07 – Ready 08 – Haunted By You 09 – Birthday 10 – Hey Nah 11 – Confession 12 – Soulstice 13 – Invisible Light (Reprise) (feat. Dar [...]

Mumford & Sons have recorded brand new track 'Learn Me Right' for Pixar film 'Brave'. Critically reviled, maybe, but right now Mumford & Sons are laughing all the way to the bank. Debut album 'Sigh No More' remains on the charts, continuing to win new fans with its sturdy folk derived songwriting. Massive in the United States, Mumford & Sons will return to the UK this summer for the Gentlemen of the Road shows. The band could be set to unveil new material at the dates, if recent reports are anything to go by. NME reports that Mumford & Sons have recorded a new ...

Spoken wrd piece filmed at the Abbey Pub in Chicago, IL in 2007

Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Doe Paoro: "Born Whole" [mp3] from Slow to Love search for more Doe...

Ray Davies has opened the sale of tickets for his Autumn tour by selling his camera. Ray Davies' back catalogue is - for want of a better phrase - a national treasure. Carving out truly English rock 'n' roll, his work with The Kinks is enough to seal his a place on any songwriting list. Heading back out on tour, Ray Davies is set to play a handful of shows this summer. Announcing a number of Autumn shows, tickets for the Kinks icon went on sale this morning (May 18th). Ray Davies welcomed the sale with an upbeat message on his Facebook ...

Today's Stuff = Silversun Pickups, Summer Camp, Lana Del Rey remixed, rare Robyn Hitchcock, Antibalas, Rachael Sage, Crystal Shipss, Elite Gymnastics Daily Disclaimer: We get sent stuff. We're sharing it. This isn't an endorsement. There's so much we can't always keep up with it all, but rather than just let it sit in our inbox, we're putting it out there for you to judge. Give a listen and tell us what you think. ---------- Silversun Pickups - Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings) ---------- Summer Camp - Life Summer Camp Tour Dates 28 May London Palladium - supporting St Etienne 2 June ...

By Zachary Swickey One of our favorite female voices in music, Pink, has been out of the spotlight for a while because she has been busy with her beautiful baby daughter at home with husband Carey Hart. In a new interview with Cosmopolitan, the singer opens up about how motherhood has changed her. Willow Sage [...]

Rachael Sage - Abby Would You Wait

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Dir. John Madden [Fox Searchlight; 2012] by Alex Peterson Rating: Although it’s almost entirely inconsequential, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel maintains throughout its lackluster runtime precisely one stirring aspect, even if it stirs in exactly the wrong direction. The movie uses the entire country of India as its own Magical Negro , bypassing the worthy aim of capturing (photographically or script-wise) the beauty and culture of the subcontinent in favor of using it to guide a passel of bored English gentlefolk towards some peace in their twilight years. The Magical Negro, a cinematic trope identified ...

Country music has created its fair share of superstars, icons and tragic figures, from Brooks & Dunn to Hank Williams to Patsy Cline; charlatans and chanteuses; white-hatted good guys like George Strait and black-clad firebrands like Johnny Cash. But it’s also the lone American musical genre to also produce a sage among its ranks: Willie [...]

I love old skool rap. I love beards. I love VHS tapes. I love *Sage Francis* and I love *B.Dolan*. But, more than that, I adore this mix of all the above.* Sage Francis* came to my attention a couple of years ago, thanks to the tweeting of my hero *Scroobius Pip*, since then I have followed Sage...

Directed by Mason Johnson. Sage Francis and B. Dolan release the first song under the EBM moniker and pay tribute to the graveyard of crumbs, trainwrecks and also-rans that have come and gone through the years. Look for this to live on Dolan’s upcoming House of Bees v.2 project, dropping June 12th. Pre-orders available now [...]

Previously available in limited form, here’s the full Mother’s Day rap from a young Sage Francis recorded circa ’89.

Out of Focus We all know that famous saying ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’. Nowhere has it been more true than at Out of Focus, the new photography exhibition at the Saatchi – wall to wall of mounted stories, each enclosed within four-sides. Containing works by an assortment of artists, it’s a walk-in wardrobe of colourful tales – all ready and waiting for you to slip out of your daily life and into something a bit more intriguing. Here are a few multi-coloured stories from the exhibition that I tried on for size….: Katy Grannan’s polished portraiture of ...