Besides the album from Mrs. Magician all of this week’s Spotifriday records are side projects, bands from members we know of other bands. But, just to be clear, a lot of times those records are even more creative compared to the original bands from where they belong to. Moonface - With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery You can [...]
[Spotifriday] Your weekend soundtrack – Week 17
April 20, 2012
DAN ACKROYD & JOHN BELUSHI TAKE BRIAN WILSON SURFING 1976
December 9, 2009
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Special: Brian Wilson: Black Cab Session (1 of 5)
May 18, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mv69Sz7TSA&feature=player_embedded] This week our special will be about the great idea called Black Cab Sessions: One cab, one song, one take. Blackcabsessions.com: “Dear Black Cabs,” the email began, “would you please consider filming a session with Brian Wilson (of the Beach Boys).” They really didn’t need to add that last bit about the Beach Boys. [...]
Klaus Nomi's Space opera
May 7, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuSrsGzhD9U&feature=player_embedded] Klaus Nomi was an 80′s artist known for blending opera, popmusic and vaudeville into a spaced out glam thing. David Bowie had him as a backing singer, and Nomi (real name Sperber) released three albums before dying of AIDS in 1983. The Walrus writes about his unfinished Space opera “Za Bakdaz”: “Every musical genius [...]
Phil Spector
October 26, 2008
[youtube=http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=sVrDQQIiweE] Yesterday BBC did a rare interview with Phil Spector. He changed the sound of pop music in only 10 years! He was dissing Tony Bennett, Bill Cosby, Brian Wilson and many more, comparing himself to Leonardo. Great tv. Hope it will be available in The Netherlands soon.
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[Spotifriday] Your weekend soundtrack – Week 21
May 25, 2012
Exitmusic – Passage This duo consists of husband and wife Devon Church en Aleska Palladino, from (Shit, again?!) Brooklyn, New York. With EP From Silence, which they released a year ago Exitmusic showed us their first sign of life.. Passage, their debutalbum, is a bit more bombastic, but still got the sultry sound. Next to this sultry [...]