I highly recommend buying this album as soon as possible.
I first heard her last week a Carnegie Hall with Gretchen Parlato and Lionel Loueke, and she’s amazing. Includes interesting arrangements of songs by The Smiths, Animal Collective, and Seal’s Kiss From a Rose. Yes, please.
I highly recommend dropping everything and buying this album right now. It’s only $8.99 and it will fill your life with joy.
(It’s not on Spotify, so you have no choice. Do it.)
Nice video from nice boys that I like.
I don’t think that would work. She’s not that into music.
My first encounters with Indian music came from George Harrison when I was on a strong Beatles kick in 6th grade. At the time, I wanted to move on to explore more from Ravi Shankar, but when I went to the Sam Goody record store to ask for it, they didn’t have any in stock, and didn’t know what I was talking about enough to even special order it.
My how times have changed! CR invited me out to dinner tonight to Branded Saloon in our neighborhood after reading that they had good burgers, and we ended up in the back room where two great acts were about to perform. The first was Adnan Sabir, who was excellent and dreamy, the second was a group with bansuri, tabla, and sitar. I love that we can just go out looking for beef, and end up with an impromptu evening of great music.
It was also topical, since this week I’ve been getting into Vijay Iyer’s latest record, which includes Indian-flavored guitar and tabla.
cruel // st. vincent
download: amazon mp3 | itunes
To celebrate the release of St. Vincent’s new album Strange Mercy, Amazon has the entire album on SALE for only $3.99. Go get it here.
Yeah, I’m paying for Spotify and buying MP3s, too. I’m CRAZZZYY!!!
X5’s Stockholm-based staff of 10 producers has churned out more than 5,000 classical compilations, creating as many as 400 in a week. The producers often rely on sales data to determine, for instance, what should go into compilations like “The 99 Most Essential Chopin Masterpieces,” which was ranked No. 1 Tuesday on Amazon MP3’s classical best-sellers chart. Priced at $1.29, the collection has ranked among the site’s 100 top-selling classical albums for 20 months.
The Internet’s $10 Million [Classical] Mix Tapes (WSJ)
Most of me is strongly to opposed to all of this, as I’m so firmly rooted in the tradition that certain elite artistic directors, musicians, and musicologists should be determining what the “most essential Chopin masterpieces” are.
On the other hand, it works, and it’s getting this music into people’s ears. I’m not surprised that Naxos is the first US record label to licence their catalog to them, as their missions are not dissimilar, with focus on a low price.
"Anything but Country": applying factor analysis to musical taste
When it comes to a “this” vs. “that” distinction in musical taste, it doesn’t come down to “country” vs. “everything else” – it comes down to “sophisticated” vs. “everything else.” If someone really wants to give an all-or-nothing response to the favorite music question, it would probably be more accurate for him to say he likes anything but the high-brow stuff. Or, conversely, anything but the low-brow stuff.
Very interesting read.
Anybody who tells you to have a fall back plan are people who had a fallback plan, didn’t follow their dreams, and don’t want you to either…Anybody who’s made it will tell you, you can make it. Anyone who hasn’t made it will tell you, you can’t.
John Mayer, in a discussion at the Berklee College of Music about resisting social media to focus on artistry and myths about being a musician (Read it…it’s all good stuff: Berklee blog).
Thanks for sharing, Greg. I’m glad that I always had support from my family to pursue music school followed by music jobs, and am glad that I’ve “made it” as far as I’m concerned, doing exactly what I want in NYC at this point in my career. I was just reading Betty Ford’s Wikipedia page, and was saddened to see that her mother wasn’t as supportive of her pursuits in the arts—she danced with Martha Graham in NYC before being forced to move home to Grand Rapids in 1936. She ended up a First Lady, so things worked out in a different way, but I wonder how her life may have been if she had stayed in New York.
A great read, something that I have been thinking about a lot as I write and record this next round of songs.
Pringles is capitalizing on the music festival season in the UK and Sweden by creating an Air Guitar app for iPhone.
One feature that I really love in the app, is the ability to unlock additional instruments by scanning Pringles product bar-codes. Nicely done.
“The Pringles app, known as Crunch Band, uses the phone’s accelerometer to trigger musical tones. Every time the user shakes the phone, the app emits a guitar (or bass, or drum) sound. Hence by holding the phone in his “strumming” hand, the user can actually produce chords while pretending to play the guitar.”
(via For Those About to Pop, Pringles Provides an App | ClickZ)
Ditto on liking the integration with the barcode on the can.
Eisley.
I completely forgot about Eisley until a few weeks ago when I visited their website and listened to some things. Yeah, they still remind me of college (and Jay Alton), and I still love them.
Apparently they have a new album out with Equal Vision Records. Remember them?!
