Artist Song Royal Headache Distant and Vague Flume Sleepless The Sunbirds Stone Friends When You’re With Friends Tiny Spiders Shoot The Rainbow Rays Out MV & EE Sweet Sure Gone Big Richard Insect Anatomy Azealia Banks Jumanji Elizabeth Rose Throw Me To The Stars Ride Into The Sun Drown Your Soul Peak Twins Gentleman of [...]

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David Bowie is 65 years old today. By the time you read this, he’ll be a week or two older, but I am marking the momentous event with a look at old Dave’s lyrics as he picks up his freedom pass.  When we think of Bowie we think of the fashion, the make-up, the glamour and the glitz. The ever-changing cultural chameleon: Aladdin Sane, Ziggy Stardust, The Thin White Duke. You don’t usually think of his lyrics. But in a career spanning five decades there are lashings of great lines and after some painstaking listening (and a ...

Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Precious Rose The Colourphonics – My Daydream The Little Stevies – Feel It Dereb The Ambassador – Etu Gela Super Melody – Octopus Nantes – Fly Nick Huggins – Golden Hour The Sunbirds – Scholarly Wisdom [Performed Live] The Sunbirds – I’m Not An Rebel, I’m An Artist [Performed Live] [...]

Here is another long-lost jazz-rock from Germany; despite the band name, this is definitely typical 70s fusion jazz-rock. First check out the outrageously humorous cover art of a dog wearing snoopy-style aviator sunglasses, as if he was undergoing a bizarre misfit experiment in abnormal animal psychology involving elucidating the dreams of canines under the influence of-- progressive jazz? I don't understand why this style is so reviled today and so utterly abandoned, those of us who love music will understand how our art is like plato's world of ideals offering a release from the incessant wheel of suffering ...

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Christie Watson's Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away is a formidable debut novel that cleverly portrays the political and...

Another Planet Entertainment, Superfly Presents, and Starr Hill Presents, in a partnership with the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, are proud to announce the lineup for the fourth annual Outside Lands Music && Arts Festival. The festival will once again take place in San Francisco's historic Golden Gate Park August 12 - 14, 2011. Tickets will go on sale Thursday April 14 at 12 Noon PST via www.SFOutsidelands.com . A significant portion of every ticket sold will directly benefit San Francisco's Recreation and Park Department. In its first three years, the Outside Lands Music && Arts Festival has diligently ...

Another Planet Entertainment, Superfly Presents and Starr Hill Presents, in a partnership with the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, are proud to announce the lineup for the fourth annual Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival. The festival will once again take place in San Francisco's historic Golden Gate Park August 12 - 14, 2011. Tickets will go on sale Thursday April 14 at 12 Noon PST via www.SFOutsidelands.com (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=n6thwjcab&et=1105123247887&s;=13440&e;=001KWPeDaPJ3ORL60nbI3Add23I-Bw3jlsUjDDj2_HwsZqIrlDU2hltDrIcM88EcwJqMiGTMyPHLBtdSdU-OvuAPwz1OMj6KocM6M-6jVSMEOzS-cc0JUqiYaH3W_ZsfiZz). A significant portion of every ticket sold will directly benefit San Francisco's Recreation and Park Department. In its first three years, the Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival has diligently worked its way into becoming a welcomed and beloved tradition in its hometown, as it is now known throughout the country as the event that celebrates in grand style all the things that make the ...

The Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival returns to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park for the fourth year on August 12 – 14 boasting a lineup that features headliners Fire">Arcade Fire, Muse and Phish. HT faves MGMT, Girl Talk, The Original Meters, The Warren Haynes Band and the Greyboy Allstars are also among the acts [...] The Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival returns to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park for the fourth year on August 12 – 14 boasting a lineup that features headliners Fire">Arcade Fire, Muse and Phish. HT faves MGMT, Girl Talk, The Original Meters, The Warren Haynes ...

Over the past few weeks a selection of the finest bloggers in the UK (including yours truly) has been listening to the thousands of bands who entered the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition 2011. Well the waiting is now over, the white smoke has appeared and the 123 acts who've made it to the longlist have been announced. Later this week, these 123 acts will be narrowed down to a shortlist of just 8 acts who will compete at April's live finals for a main stage slot at this year's Festival. They will be chosen by the final ...

Today I find myself in a very laid-back mood as I continue to recover from last night's Grow Up party, therefore I thought I would post this funky lounge gem " Ocean Song " by the German group Sunbirds . Sunbirds is another group that features the legendary Kraut-Rock drummer Klaus Weiss (Also See The Sounds of Niagara ). The track " Ocean Song " was originally released on the group's 1973 album Zagara and was more recently included on the Compost Records' compilation Glücklich , which consists of a solid collection of rare and funky Brazilian-flavoured German fusion tracks. Overall, " Ocean Song " is a ...

Sun-drenched, psychedelic and thoroughly uplifting, Sunbirds release the soundtrack to your summer. Having already made a big impact over the past 12 months with appearances at Glastonbury and In The City, Sunbirds release their astonishing debut single 'River Run' on Smoky Carrot...

I featured Sunbirds about a year ago and was really into their laidback jangly guitars and psych-surf sound. By now they’ve shared the stage with Best Coast and are back with some new material for their debut EP and an awesome new video. River Run sees the band’s sound developed ... — full article at bad-fotography.co.uk

I featured  Sunbirds about a year ago  and was really into their laidback jangly guitars and psych-surf sound. By now they’ve shared the stage with  Best Coast  and are back with some new material for their debut EP and an awesome new video.  River Run  sees the band’s sound developed fully – the  guitars that I  liked are still there. Its just that this time, the sunny pop goodness is shining 100 times brighter. read more

The ' River Run ' EP will be available to download on 19th July 2010 through Smoky Carrot Records Submit your email address below to get a free download of ' Sunshine ' E-mail address: — full article at sunbirds.co.uk