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Music with expressionArchive for May 17, 2008
Now That’s What I Call Dancing!
I’ve just watched tonights episode of Britain’s Got Talent, the current Simon Cowell extravaganza.
Now let’s be honest, most of us who watch such stuff are usually looking for a laugh at the raft of no-hopers who are convinced that they are God’s gift to entertainment. I put my hands up and admit that I love to watch the dross as much as the performers who deserve a chance.
However, tonights show had these guys FLAVA who seemed like a nice group of kids as well as being brilliant dancers.
Bear in mind that they have not not been professionally trained and they are choreographed by the Mum of one of the dancers. Brilliant!
Watch FLAVA – Britain’s Got Talent TV Show:
Coldplay: Violet Hill Video
The official video for ‘Violet Hill’ the latest single from Coldplay and taken from their new album “Viva La Vida”, has been released.Watch the video for ‘Violet Hill’:
On a slightly lighter and tongue in cheek note, I also spotted this version during my travels. Very well crafted and with several messages in there….
Watch Violet Hill (Dancing Politicians):
The Zutons: New ablum & single
After a two year gap since their last release, The Zutons are back with a new album “You Can Do Anything” which is to be released on 2nd June.
The first track to be released as a single is ‘Always Right Behind You’ and is a set to be another winner.
Watch the video for ‘Always Right Behind You’
Beth Rowley: Little Dreamer
With soul singers such as Duffy and Adele being very much the vogue right now, don’t overlook Beth Rowley who releases her new album “Little Dreamers” on 19th May.Coming from Bristol (UK) she has served her time in the local music scene, and whilst still a schoolgirl, she performed as a backing singer for both Ronan Keating and Enrique Inglesias.
Her new album is a mix of pop-blues-jazz, very much akin to Jamie Cullum’s style of music.
I for one am looking forward to the release, I think we’ll be hearing more of this young lady.
Watch the video for ‘So Sublime’
Watch the video for ‘Oh My Life’
Here’s a track from her 2006 album “Sweet Hours”. Her cover of ‘Be My Baby’
- Beth Rowley – Be My Baby (album: Sweet Hours)
Visit her Website [here]
Visit her Myspace [here]
Highlights of the week
This weeks light at the end of the tunnel:
- Kickin’ The Peanuts Posted a brief review of The Submarines pending the release of their forthcoming album “Honeysuckle Weeks” on 13th May. Two tracks were posted to sample. Read the post [here]. They also posted two tracks from the new Weezer album, “Weezer (Red Album)” which is due for release on June 24th. Read the post [here]. And if you want to download and sample the latest Ratatat single, ‘Shiller’, read the post [here]. Coldplay’s new Album “Viva La Vida” gets a quick review and there are 3 tracks to try. Read the post [here]
- a PLAGUE OF ANGELS continued with their review of rock legends, The Who. read part 2 [here] and part 3 [here]. A rather blunt (but honest) post on Jason Mraz whose album (which I already have) called “We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things” was released 13th May. I have to say I agree with the review, but there are still some good songs to sample here. Read the post [here]
- Bag Of Songs put together a nice Mothers Day mix with plenty of downloads. (Mothers Day in UK was back in March btw). Read the post [here]
- Music Is Art posted a nice collection of cover songs which can be downloaded as individual tracks or as a zip file of the full mix. Read the post [here]
- The World Of Wingrove did quick reviews of 12 newly released albums with a sample track to download for most of them. Artists include, Death Cab For Cutie, The Black Angels, Santogold & Martha Wainwright. Read the post [here]
- Who Killed The Mixtape? produced a brilliant collection of tracks all of which feature hand claps of some sort/length. Read the post & download [here]
- If you’re a Jazz fan (and if not, why not???), Glorious Noise had a fantastic post titled “A History of Jazz for Rock Fans”. Nothing to download but a whole wealth of information about jazz music and the Gods artists who perform it. Read the post [here]
- Indie Launchpad Introduced P.Hux (Parthenon Huxley) who offers a rather nice blend of Power Pop with a download of the track ‘Perfect’ from his latest album “Kiss The Monster”. Well worth a listen. Read the post [here]
- Muzzle of Bees posted three Radiohead sample tracks from their VH-1 basement session. Read the post [here]. The new Shearwater album “Rook” was covered and a free legal download of the first single ‘Rooks’ was provided as well as an older track. Read the post [here]
- All Things Go reviewed the new Ratatat single, ‘Shiller’, with a download to sample. Read the post [here]
- Remix lovers will find this post at Pretty Much Amazing! to be useful. Download remixes of Estelle ft. Kanye West, Britney Spears, Radiohead, Usher, N.E.R.D., and Santogold. Read and download [here]
- The Pop Cop discusses the state of playlists on our radio stations and points us in the direction of ASDA FM, the supermarket channel, and posts two The Pigeon Detective tracks for sampling. read the post [here]
- Captain Obvious reviewed the new Death Cab For Cutie album, “Narrow Stairs”, with 2 tracks to try. Read the post [here]
- Lost In Your Inbox had quite a deep and searching post titled Past Imperfect and posted 4 rather poignant tracks, Read the post [here]
