Archive for January, 2011
A Q&A With Over The Rhine
For twenty years, the singing, songwriting husband-and-wife duo Over the Rhine has had a high quality recording career just below the radar. Ohio’s Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler are known for lyric writing of a literary, sensual and spiritual variety. Over the course of eight albums—not counting those with a holiday theme—their sound has passed [...]
New Tools For February’s Album Writing Month
A Carnegie Mellon post-doctoral fellow named Burr Settles has come up with two new web-based tools to help participants in February’s Album Writing Month, or FAWM, which challenges songwriters to compose 14 songs in 28 days. The new tools are now featured on FAWM’s The Muse website. Typing a word into Settles’ LyriCloud will produce [...]
Single File: Destroyer, Panda Bear, Peter Bjorn and John
Destroyer – Kaputt – “Kaputt” Dan Bejar talks of chasing girls and cocaine in a dream-like state with a bobbing bass line and retro jazz appeal. Though the percussion and beautiful saxophone solos paired together are befitting for an ’80s perfume commercial, it’s breezy, clean and calming. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My Halo [...]
Steve Earle Readies New Album, Novel: I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
On April 26, New West Records will release I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive, the new, T Bone Burnett-produced studio album from Steve Earle. The album, which derives its name from a Hank Williams song, is the first collection of new material from Earle since 2007′s Grammy-winning Washington Square Serenade. “They are all, [...]
Caroline
Caroline Caroline Lufkin’s voice is capable of aching highs and breathy immediacy, and it’s not hard to imagine why the Japanese music industry wanted to groom her into something like her sister, the pop star OLIVIA. But unlike her older sister, Caroline Lufkin walked away from all that, and for the past few years the [...]
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