Art is the music we make from the bewildered cry of being alive. ~Maria Popova
15 Feb 2017 Leave a comment
in Video of the Week Tags: born this way, lady gaga
15 Feb 2017 Leave a comment
in Video of the Week Tags: in-q, the only reason we're alive
Spoken word poet IN-Q dedicates this piece to everyone in love and for everyone looking for love.
08 Feb 2017 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: blue rodeo, long hard life
Blue Rodeo: “Long Hard Life” (2016)
From 1000 Arms, the 2016 release by this Canadian roots-rock institution and multiple Juno Award-winning band.
Blue Rodeo’s two main singers and songwriters, Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor have been playing together since 1977.
08 Feb 2017 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: grammy award, record of the year
(via msn entertainment)
Grammy Record of the Year, one of the most prestigious musical awards, honors artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence.
For 2017, Adele, Beyoncé, Lukas Graham, Twenty One Pilots and Rihanna have received the nomination, and one of them will win the award on Feb. 12. Let’s take a look at the songs that have won the honor in the past.
28 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: ogallala, trapper shoepp
Trapper Schoepp: “Ogallala” (2016)
Trapper Schoepp calls his latest album “a reflection of my record collection” as opposed to an album that reflects any particular genre. He also acknowledges it’s his inevitable road album, since he was fresh off of a couple years’ touring when he recorded it.
According to Shoepp, “Ogallala” was a song he dreamed up when he used NyQuil to get to sleep while suffering from a chest cold.
28 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: paul mccartney, ram
(via CultureSonar) by Ken Hymes
In early 1971, with The Beatles involved in some bitter legal disputes with each other and with their own management, Paul McCartney recorded Ram with his wife Linda and three hired guns, guitarists David Spinozza and Hugh McCracken, and drummer Denny Seiwell. The album was eviscerated by critics on its release, with Jon Landau and Robert Christgau particularly vicious in their assault on both the album and McCartney’s general reputation relative to John Lennon. Some writers were grudgingly complimentary about McCartney’s sheer mastery of the craft of production, but almost no one could be heard to support the material itself.
There has certainly been a reappraisal, with some glimmering that Ram represents not a failure to live up to The Beatles (or to the expectations of Village Voice writers), but rather a beginning of something new. Perhaps AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine is correct that “in retrospect it looks like nothing so much as the first indie pop album, a record that celebrates small pleasures with big melodies.”
Read more: http://www.culturesonar.com/ram-paul-mccartney/
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