Archive for November, 2010
American Songwriter March/April 2011 Amateur Lyric Contest
Enter for your chance to have your lyrics printed in American Songwriter magazine. One of the four finalists will also be chosen for American Songwriter’s one-page Q&A feature in the coinciding issue. The First Place winner also receives a Martin DCX1E acoustic-electric cutaway guitar and a legendary Shure SM58 Microphone, and four sets of Elixir® [...]
Nashville Songwriter Series: Cary Barlowe
Countless artists and songwriters come to Nashville with great expectations, and North Carolina native Cary Barlowe has far exceeded his. After only a couple years in town, Barlowe signed a publishing deal with TobyMac’s Emack publishing company, while at the same time working with his older brother, Nathan, in modern rock band Luna Halo. Luna [...]
Inside The 2010 SongCircle Contest Finals
Playing to packed houses at City Winery, SongCircle (formerly the New York Songwriters’ Circle), wrapped up their fifth annual songwriting contest this past Friday night. The two evening gala event featured 12 finalists each performing their qualifying song as well as a lineup of special guests. It was quite fitting that SongCircle, celebrating what will [...]
Exclusive Video: Megan McCormick, “Honest Words”
Raised in Wasilla, Alaska, Megan McCormick made her way to Nashville a few years back to share her talents with the world. In this new live video, filmed at Atlantic Studios in New York, the singer-songwriter straps on an electric guitar to perform the poignant “Honest Words,” the title track to her 2010 debut album. [...]
William Tyler’s Behold The Spirit Casts A Mighty Spell
For this shortened week’s blog, we look at one record. Photo: Rebecca Gillespie STREAM: It’s hard to glean a lot off the internet about the man who, in Nashville, they call Willy T. (Good luck finding his MySpace page, though if you want a hint, try “historyismystery”.) But despite the set of common names, William [...]
Sting: Live In Berlin
Sting Featuring The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra Live In Berlin Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Rating: The confidence and star quality that makes Sting Sting are as vibrant as ever on Live In Berlin, a recording taken from the ambitious Symphonicity tour that saw Sting present a symphonic career retrospective to sellout crowds worldwide. Only a handful of [...]
Nine Inch Nails: Pretty Hate Machine (Remastered Edition)
Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine (Remastered Edition) UMe/The Bicycle Company Rating: With this remastered reissue of Nine Inch Nails’ groundbreaking debut, Pretty Hate Machine, dropping Thanksgiving week, Black Friday promises to be even darker than usual this year. To call Pretty Hate Machine a seminal record is an understatement. Originally released in 1989, it’s [...]
Brian Wilson Songwriter 1962 – 1969
Brian Wilson Songwriter 1962 – 1969 Sexy Intellectual Rating: Face taught with seriousness, the most reclusive and behind-the-scenes Beach Boy is shown on the cover of the documentary, hard at work on one of the most renowned and groundbreaking albums of his career, Pet Sounds. Stretched over two discs and clocking in at three hours, [...]
Smashing Pumpkins: Teargarden By Kaleidyscope Vol. II, The Solstice Bare
Smashing Pumpkins Teargarden By Kaleidyscope, Vol. II The Solstice Bare Rocket Science Rating: There is really no question as to who the Smashing Pumpkins are. Loyal but long disaffected and disappointed fans that argue that the proto-Aughts version of the band) the one that included the “original” line up of James Iha, D’arcy, and Jimmy [...]
Wanda Jackson: A Queen Of Rock From The Age Of Innocence
Buy current issue. “It’s always strange to be in Nashville and hear all these British accents,” says Wanda Jackson, who is sitting for a photographer at the Third Man Records studio. “You’ve heard of the singing nun?” she jokes, modestly pulling up her gray cardigan as it starts to slip below her shoulders. Wanda’s husband [...]
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