There's a time in life for Hoagy Carmichael. There's a time in life for Claude Debussy. There's a time in life for Jerry Lee Lewis. There's a time in life for Destiny's Child. All these things have their moment. ~Elvis Costello
27 Sep 2014 Leave a comment
in Wedding related Tags: bridal party dresses, mismatched dresses
Image: Emily Harris Photography
It’s the trend that’s dominating Pinterest wedding boards everywhere: “mismatched” bridesmaid dresses. They’re a creative departure from the more traditional, matchy-matchy color schemes we see at weddings, and a welcome opportunity for your girls to pick a cut and color that works for them…
19 Sep 2014 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: erlend oye, remind me, roksopp
Röyksopp: “Remind Me” (2001)
If you don’t know Norwegian duo Röyksopp but their collaboration with Erlend Øye (of another Norwegian duo, Kings of Convenience) sounds familiar, it’s probably thanks to a certain Geico TV ad (see below). Known throughout…um, Scandinavia at least, for their lush downbeat electronica, they pop their heads up into a realm of greater notoriety on occasions such as the aforementioned commercial–or their recent collaboration with Swedish dance diva Robyn.
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09 Sep 2014 Leave a comment
in Video of the Week Tags: 99 red balloons
03 Sep 2014 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: cloud player, digital music
(via The New Yorker)
by Alex Ross
Recently, while moving my CD collection to new shelving, I struggled with feelings of obsolescence and futility. Why bother with space-devouring, planet-harming plastic objects when so much music can be had at the touch of a trackpad—on Spotify, Pandora, Beats Music, and other streaming services that rain sonic data from the virtual entity known as the Cloud? What is the point of having amassed, say, the complete symphonies of the Estonian composer Eduard Tubin (1905-82) when all eleven of them pop up on Spotify, albeit in random order? (When I searched for “Tubin” on the service, I was offered two movements of his Fourth Symphony, with the others appearing far down a list.) The tide has turned against the collector of recordings, not to mention the collector of books: what was once known as building a library is now considered hoarding. One is expected to banish all clutter and consume culture in a gleaming, empty room…
03 Sep 2014 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: guardians of the galaxy
(via Rolling Stone)
by Kory Grow
When Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn began assembling the soundtrack for his Marvel superhero flick, he wanted familiar hits but not overplayed radio staples. In the movie, now officially the biggest film of the year, these songs would connect lead character Peter “Star-Lord” Quill – who was abducted by aliens just after his mother’s death in 1988 – to his old life and the era his mother grew up in.
“The tape is really the character of Quill’s mother,” Gunn tells Rolling Stone. “The Walkman and the compilation tape inside of it is the heart of the film.”
As he worked, the director compiled a playlist of tunes, most from the Seventies, that he thought the character would have liked. David Bowie, the Runaways and the Jackson 5 all make appearances, complemented by tracks from lesser known acts like the Raspberries (“Go All the Way”) and Blue Swede (“Hooked on a Feeling”). “I think most of the songs, although slight hits, never truly had their day in the sun,” Gunn says. “That time is now. I also think people are hungry for good, old-fashioned, well-crafted pop songs that exist outside of any sort of imposed hipness or irony.”
It turns out, he was onto something. A week after its release, Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 topped the album charts, becoming the first soundtrack ever to do so without having a single original song…
Every Moment Has A Song 