To my ears this sounds like a soul ballad delivery and structure with bluesy guitar licks. So it doesn’t strike me as especially modern: You could well have heard something like this in the late sixties while driving in your car on a muggy summer’s night. Atmospheric and charming, but will it sound as good …
NPR has a great interview with Booker T. Jones, go here.
In this video for the Psychedelic Furs’ classic “Into You Like A Train,” brothers Tim and Richard Butler recreate the post-punk magic of their early days. In my interview on my website Intermittent Signals, Tim discusses the creation of the Furs’ landmark Talk Talk Talk, the album that spawned “Pretty in Pink.” Here’s the link …
http://youtu.be/R4vkVHijdQk
http://youtu.be/U62stubaal4
Love the Manta Ray hat: http://youtu.be/Wiatp6m_Sgo
As an antidote to the awful Miley Cyrus video, here is something worthy of your time. She seems to have impressed everyone who saw her at SXSW or indeed anywhere else. – Mike Hughes (Catshoegazing) [Beware, there’s a prominent breast in this video.] . AUSTRA "Beat and the Pulse" by domino .
Thanks to Mike Hughes of catshoegazing.blogspot.com for this:
No announcement yet, but it sure looks like she has… Go here. . . The new Bristol looks a little like actress Sarah Chalke, formerly of Scrubs: . . .
http://youtu.be/iEN-kHe5o_Y
“Jesus wept.” – John 11:35 . “Lady Gaga is Madonna with diarrhea.” – Charo . .
This fits in with the standing joke, about how most United fans are from nowhere near Manchester (the locals tend to support City). So people are warned to watch out for traffic queues on the motorways leading back down south at the end of big home games… – Mike Hughes (Catshoegazing)
A full 13 years before The Stranglers‘ debut LP, ca. 1964, a young Hugh Cornwell [far left] joined his first band, at the behest of schoolboy chum Richard Thompson [far right], who taught him to play the bass in order to complete "Emil and the Detectives"! In 2008, quite randomly, they were reunited, 38 years …