Posts Tagged ‘photo’

Th**k You, Cee Lo Green

September 7th, 2010 Posted by J Frazzetta
Have you ever been a relationship that ended and, before your tissues dry, you see that ex-flame with a new piece of arm candy?  You know that feeling: the couple really looks happy and in some weird way you feel happy for them but you are too upset to admit it. How do you express these feelings?  For anyone that thought soul music and R&B were dead, well, Cee Lo Green has two words for you: f*** you. Those two words are not only the best way to express your feelings in the scenario above, they are also the title...

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How To Choose a Karaoke Version

September 2nd, 2010 Posted by Jason Lightner
Imagine, if you will: You're sitting at the bar waiting for your go, thumbing aimlessly through the karaoke jockey's songbook when you finally find the song you want to sing. "This is it!" you say to yourself, "Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley is the exact song I want to sing!" You grab the song slip to fill it out and as you're doing so you're confused by something. At first it seems like a silly thing, but then it dawns on you... there are multiple versions of the song. "Oh, it's no big deal. I'm...

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Flying Lotus, Cosmogramma, 5/6/10

August 31st, 2010 Posted by J Frazzetta
When you are the great-nephew of Alice Coltrane, chances are music runs in your blood.  Steven Ellison, aka Flying Lotus, has been making music for a while, just not where you’d think.  He has done ad work for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programming and released a few albums but this record is cool in a whole new way.  His expertise is experimental electronics, underground hip hop and some Indie type music and you can hear all of those influences right here. With guests like Thom Yorke, Thundercat, Laura Darlington and his cousin Ravi Coltrane, this makes for some fun listening. ...

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Gipsy Kings

August 26th, 2010 Posted by Bea
I cannot believe that I have not written about the Gipsy Kings yet! If I had to pick a favorite musical group, I think that my all-time favorite would be them. I do not know what it is about their sound; I could just listen to them all day and on repeat. Their music is the only music that I can listen to while I am studying and they are the ones who I put on when I just need something to distract me from my thoughts. The Gipsy Kings are a Spanish-language group from Arles and Montpellier, France. I...

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Arcade Fire, The Suburbs, 8/3/10

August 24th, 2010 Posted by J Frazzetta
Very few albums grab a feeling or place in time and pull it off really well.  With that said, even fewer bands really try to capture ideas or mentalities to share with a mass audience.  Somehow, Arcade Fire manage to capture life in the suburbs of America, alienation by a younger crowd and a rising up of a collective conscience better than many bands of the last decade.  On their third album, the band tackles that gray area that isn’t quite the city but isn’t really the countryside in The Suburbs. I started listening to these guys a year or so...

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