“Thieves in the Temple” – Prince. Stirs my blood more than his other songs. My band covers this acoustically on YouTube. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWi2XEXXNYA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxlBIx1rqhc
“Joy” – Lucinda WIlliams. A gritty, foot-stomping, soul-searing manifesto. If you don’t have enough joy, go get some!! – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days Here’s a Youtube sample of the studio version: Here’s a live version:
http://youtu.be/BnwJ5KIcKX4
This is the most important clip I’ve ever passed along. Please watch. This is the best evidence I’ve ever seen which tends to suggest that music fans are doing something important when they choose and organize the music of their lives.
These were all so good… I can still sing along to most of them. 🙂 Does any network continue to show them on Saturday mornings? Or anything similiar, I wonder? – Lisa Sundell Olsen http://youtu.be/VaBCwwgrgoA
“Set Your Arms Down” – Warpaint. What will happen when you fall into this swirling fever-dream? Will you love better? – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
It’s safe to say that Karmin has jumped the shark. This ridiculous cover of “Pumped Up Kicks” doesn’t border on self-parody, it IS self-parody, unknowing self-parody, the most delicious kind.
Here’s Remembering Mike Wallace at CBS.com and here’s a nice photo gallery.
Here’s the latest in a rising trend of Russian language music videos which make their way into the daily lists of most popular vids in the US:
Happy pills make happy kids in this Norah Jones cover:
Listed at No. 6 on RIAA’s Songs of the (20th) Century list, this ditty is interesting in that it perfectly suited it’s time, representing the war years of the early forties as no other song can, while prefiguring the uptempo jump blues of the fifties and containing a hint of the teasing sensuality of the …
Vikram Bhatt’s upcoming thriller Dangerous Ishhq sports the tag line, “Searching for love, through many lives…” For more info, go here.
I learned of this band when I lived in Seattle and was selling off some compact discs cheaply to a young woman whom was going to open a used cd shop. She told me to watch for the Detroit Cobras in 2001. – James Bresnahan
“Feeling of Gaze” – The Twilight Singers. Rousing, tender, sexy and blue. Bless the wounded healer that is Greg Dulli. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days Here’s an entry for Feeling of Gaze at Whosampled.com. And here’s a live version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKvvkrMWcno
Nine years ago, I gave a copy of The Message bible to my in-laws. I don’t know if they liked it. When we’re visiting, I will usually read a few passages out of it. Then eight years after I gave it to them, the same copy I gave them became a prop in this video …
I watched this video twice and as far as I can tell it’s about disaffected youth. When I can understand the words, it sounds like Jack White is singing about kids home alone without parental supervision getting into trouble because there’s little else for them to do. However, I don’t see the real point of …
“The Magic” – Joan As Police Woman. Punk + RnB, slippery and sweet, twisting + turning till it feels just right. Illuminates. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
“Dracula Moon” – Joan Osborne. Bite down on it! – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
This is the latest from Porter Harp. It was produced by Built to Spill recordist, Phil Ek, and and Porter himself says of this, “It is best viewed full screen and with a glassy stare…” Porter Harp | Papa Said from Will Alan on Vimeo.
Thanks to Cory Davis: BONE PUGZ from Bone Pugz on Vimeo.
This is a popular MSN link in the Philippines today. Go here.