It appears Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon are ready to make beautiful music together.
A source close to Mariah has confirmed to Access Hollywood that the music diva is engaged to Nick Cannon.
Reps for…
[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Us Weekly reports in its latest issue (on newsstands now) that Jessica Simpson is calling Tony Romo her “future husband.”
Now, she tells the June issue of Glamour, that she is “in…
[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Heading the list of PEOPLE’s 100 Most Beautiful People is a 29-year-old mother remarkably short on her beauty sleep – for which she lovingly credits her active 4-year-old son.
The beautiful,…
[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Who: Miami’s Black Tide, a foursome of headbanging, Iron Maiden-loving underagers led by 15-year-old metal prodigy Gabriel Garcia.
Sounds Like: Everything you love about Eighties metal gods like Judas Priest and Guns n’ Roses without all the irony. In a town dominated by rap and reggaeton, Black Tide began making their mark with blistering all-ages shows, eventually grabbing the attention of major labels like Interscope, who released the band’s debut Light From Above.
Vital Stats:
Since we last checked in with Brooklyn-based BTW Inlets, aka singer/multi-instrumentalist Sebastian Krueger, he backed Feist for her SNL “1234″ and played on My Brightest Diamond’s forthcoming A Thousand Shark’s Teeth (remember “Inside A Boy“?). Stepping out of those shadows, he’s in the midst of recording a new album. There’s no release date just yet, but we do have one fragile, classically inflected track, “Your Good Arm,” which features the venerable Francis Condon on trumpet and Krueger on just about everything else. Fronted and guided by Krueger’s falsetto, it’s fleshed out with piano, marching drums, escalating harmonies, and lyrical phrases both emotional (”now, don’t make that face at me”) and intellectual (”the critical architecture of this city…”). These layers build, and redouble, toward a flourishing outro. This is a pretty awesome song.
Inlets - “Your Good Arm” (MP3)
Kick it, Francis. Inlets play Union Hall 5/14. Stay informed at his MySpace.
[...]
Veteran Canadian outfit Sloan are set to release their tenth studio full-length (discounting the Peppermint EP, including Recorded Live At A Sloan Party which was not recorded at a party, etc.) in 16 years. Prolific. That’s what happens when you have four songwriters, though, and that’s how they came upon the name for the new record: Parallel Play, as in that developmental psych term you learned while misdiagnosing yourself with every affliction in your Psych 101 book in high school. “I’m Not A Kid Anymore” comes from bassist/singer Chris Murphy, who explains the track’s title like so:
I wanted to write a song about how we’re old now and we think we have this pain in the ass job but in the scheme of things it’s pretty awesome. We work 9 to 5 but it’s the other 9 to 5 as in 9 pm to 5 am. It’s really not that [...]
Unless you were born with one of those silver spoons, you likely work a day job, sneaking time for your own business when not taking care of someone else’s. You’re not alone. Brandon Stosuy finds out how our favorite indie artists make ends meet…
Port O’Brien started three years ago as the duo (and couple) of Van Pierszalowski and Cambria Goodwin. The Bay Area band’s currently a quintet, but the two remain at the group’s core. It’s a highly autobiographical project, connected to where they travel and how they opt to live while doing it. For instance, they have a song called “Fisherman’s Son” and it’s not just one of those indie-rock seafaring metaphors: Vocalist and guitarist Van Pierszalowski actually is the son of a commercial fisherman. He’s a fisherman himself, too. As any number of tracks like “Stuck On A Boat” suggest, when Port O’Brien sing about heading to sea, [...]
I admit it: I watch entirely too much TV. At least I don’t watch stuff like *American Idol*, *America’s Top Model* or anything involving *Rachael Ray*. My tastes run more towards the esoteric side; I can get sucked into shows like *Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern*, *Destination Truth*, *Survivorman*, the entire “Adult Swim” oeuvre, and before I know it, there goes my entire evening.
Stephen Colbert is a god to me. John Stewart, not so much. But lately, the show that’s been cracking me up the most is something called *Cheap Seats*.
Poised in front of a rapturous packed house, Goldfrapp transformed New York City’s Beacon Theater from an art-deco relic into the entertainment bridge aboard the Starship Enterprise last night (April 29) with an extravagant light show, as the Brit fivesome plucked out a set heavy in whimsical tunes from their latest set, Seventh Tree.
And though she complained of suffering from a cold, Alison Goldfrapp’s voice still managed to hit all of the dog-whistle highs, notably on the bubbly “Happiness” and sweeping, orchestral “Clown,” as well as Supernature’s “Satin Chic,” as she sang “he’s my man, you don’t understand” simultaneously ghastly and sexy. The songstress and her tunes moved with a fanciful strut, and it seemed, if only for a moment, as if we were whisked away to a surreal English countryside with only Goldfrapp as our guide and $9 beer as our sustenance.
After an unexpected violin solo and a [...]
Paul Weller needs no introduction, but maybe his ninth solo album does. The ex-Jam and Style Councilor’s releasing 22 Dreams 7/22 on Yep Roc. The two-disc, 21-track, 70-minute shaggy-dog epic cycles soul, rock, folk, jazz, spoken word, Moog weirdness, etc. That’s what makes it shaggy. Guests on the album include Graham Coxon, Ocean Colour Scene’s Steve Cradock, Little Barrie, ex-Stone Roses guitarist Aziz Ibrahim, and Oasis’ Gem Archer and Noel Gallagher. This is a lot to absorb, so for now, forget the other 20 songs and dive headfirst into “Echoes Round The Sun.” The noisy, over-driven psych-rocker — laced with strings and blips — was co-written with Gallagher and is this week’s Drop. Click here to read Weller’s thoughts on the first ever Gallagher/Weller collaboration and to take a listen.
[Photo by Lawrence Watson]
This week’s ‘Gum Drop also offered the chance to win an Epiphone DR-100 acoustic guitar.