CD Review
Liz Stringer
Pendulum
(one little indian enterprises)
Liz Stringer has a really distinctive voice that tends towards the bass-end of the scale. And although first impressions suggest it is a really strong voice, repeated listens reveal a certain vulnerability. Sometimes she sounds to me like she is struggling. Still, that isn’t necessarily a [...]
Little tribute to the Boss, I’d guess you’d call this. Dark Daze Cafe is on a mission to sell me on Patty Griffin (mission accomplished?), so he sent me this clip of Patti doing Springsteen’s song, ‘Stolen Car’. Of course, YouTube being YouTube, one thing led to another, including a very nice live rendition by [...]
In Part One of the interview, I talked to Genevieve Maynard about her career, about the problems of being an independent artist, and about Twitter.
In this section we talk about genre and other annoying labelling that critics do, as well as her influences and who makes her list of heroes. As you’ll see, my take [...]
I’m shamelessly ripping this idea off No Depression, but it appealed to me.
So here’s the game: you can bring back from the dead one musician or songwriter so that they have another 25 years of productive work. Whom do you resurrect?
Genevieve Maynard and the Tallboys are Sydney based band whose recent release, The Hollow Way, has proved to be one of my favourite albums of the year.
I spoke to Genevieve recently about her work, and the new album, and as you’ll see, a lot of my presumptions about the music were wrong. Always good to [...]
Suitably apocalyptic fascia above the Virgin store in Union Square. Looks like smoke issuing from the middle of a magnified vinyl LP. The store has closed down.
Anyone else tried Amie Street? I just set up an account so that I could try it out and haven’t really got too far with it, but here’s the basic idea:
On Amie Street, the community determines the price of music. Every song starts cheap (or even free!) and increases in price up to 98 cents [...]
CD Review
Eilen Jewell
Sea of Tears
(Signature Sounds through Shock Records)
Yes, I thought her name was Eileen too, the first twenty times I saw the name in print. My eyes just didn’t register the missing “e”.
It raises an interesting point: if your eyes can be fooled in this way — where the habit of reading [...]
I’ve shied away from discussion of the fortieth anniversary of Woodstock. Largely this is because the topic has become ubiquitous throughout the media so there are plenty of other articles that you can read. And partly it is because, as much as I enjoy talking about the music of that period and the [...]
As music companies struggle with what appears to be a declining market, one of the models being pursued — with some enthusiasm it seems — is the idea of streaming music.
Under such a system, instead of buying CDs or downloading songs from iTunes or wherever, you would instead subscribe to a music streaming service in [...]
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