TORRES is the stage name of US-American singer and songwriter Mackenzie Scott. And boy, like a bull charges at red cloth, Scott surely charges at gender stereotypes. She – amongst others like St. Vincent – belong to the female artists in 2017, who’ve released albums challenging rock stereotypes. Lyrically, musically, visually. Vulture published an excellent article on the matter, I highly recommend it.
‘What would you do if you could walk on water?’
Hey guys, I hope another week has found you in a harmonious place. I’ve come to a sudden realization – the world is constantly force feeding us negative events, commentary, war, destruction, racism, and sometimes even deception. We never focus on the positive – we are too busy fixating on the negative.
Seasoned British soul singer Omar Lye-fook has been making music for over 30 years and comes from a highly accomplished musical family, notably his younger brother, Scratch Professor. “Ordinary Day” is a groovy soul track with heavy Brazilian percussion, and a ridiculously funky bass line from the great Stuart Zender, best known as Jamiroquai ‘s bassist.
Hace mucho tiempo que ninguna banda toca este género, en la actualidad todo se está volviendo electrónico, sin embargo, Wolf Alice nos hace recordar sobre la energía e inspiración que puede transmitir una banda de Rock Alternativo, justo como era en los 90’s,…
Radiohead had a pretty good 2017 by any standards. They headlined Glastonbury and Coachella as part of a tour of the world (which begins again in South America this year) and they re-released their hugely successful album OK Computer to mark its 20th anniversary. But this song goes back even further, to their very first record, Pablo Honey.
We jellyfish change form a few times over the course of a lifetime. We call these phases in our life cycle. We are born as a planula or larva. We find a solid enough base and plant ourselves as a polyp. We eat and eat and form colonies of polyps until we are ready to float away as an ephyra. Finally we grow into an adult medusa — the jellyfish you know and love.
I gotta be honest I probably wouldn’t have put the original track on the turntable, but I also wouldn’t have turned it off…
I can only imagine putting yourself out there as an artist must be one tough act to follow …. pardon the pun… Harder again, pulling off a cover of a track that swept the planet, went platinum… and since been listed on a Rolling Stone’s top 100 songs of the Decade and furthermore their Top 500 songs of all time….
In 2012 Iggy Pop released a covers album, Après, translated to, After in English. In his own words, Iggy wanted to bring some of the feeling he felt as a listener to us, the listeners.
Feel like screaming just for something different to do? When the voice in your head is louder than the voices around you, it is time for a break. It can feel so constant, the things we tell ourselves we have to do, or even, the things others tell us we should be doing. Do, do, do, do, do….AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!
This is a track about the celebration of life – particularly about coming of age, letting loose and having fun- as is the event of transitioning to adulthood.
I had a lot of time to think of the holidays. My phone broke and I saw it as a perfect opportunity to take a social media break. I had always thought to myself that it was something I could never do because I was so addicted to everyone else’s social life. But in the end it wasn’t hard at all…
Melis Danişmend yıllardır çok severek dinlediğim bir sanatçı. Müziğinde gerçekten özel bir şeyler var. Daha Az Renk ve Biraz Gülmek İstiyordum gibi muhteşem albümlerden sonra ne gelecek çok merak ediyordum. 2016’da epey güzel bir iş ortaya çıktı, dolu dolu bir albüm: Ve Ev. Tam anlamıyla klasik bir Melis Danişmend albümü, tarzında en ufak bir değişiklik yok; hala çok basit ve etkileyici. Bütün albüm şöyle bir gözden geçirin, bittiğinde şarkı listelerinize bir sürü yeni şarkı girmiş olacak. “Bugünler Parlak?” ise geçen yıla şöyle bir göz atıp, yeni yıla başlamak için isabetli bir şarkı.
I so don’t want to write this. I’m not ready. I’m still decompressing from a gnarly 2017 and yet – if I don’t write – if I don’t publish – then nothing happens – and I sooooo want something to happen.