We love long hiatuses on this Blog, it makes the first post after a while so much more fun.
Lets kick this summer season of with a new song by Shura. And this 7 minute long wonderful track is a perfect starter to a summer that is about to start. Enjoy..dance away
It’s been almost a year since we last heard of Ben Khan. 1000 is his first new track since the release of his EP 1992. And after a first couple of listens it seems like the time between the releases has paid of and Ben Khan is back with new material that picks up where he had left of. Listen to the great 1000 and watch out for whats to come from this really talented musician.
If you live in Europe you will also have the chance to see Ben Khan on his Solo Tour. Check out the dates below and maybe you are lucky enough to see him live. Continue reading
The New York City subway has always been a almost mystical place. So many different life’s running next to each other. Everyone just rushing along in the City that apparently never sleeps. So it comes with no surprise that many photographers, amateurs or professional, have been going underground to capture this beast that is the New York underground.
One Song every month. That’s the promise Oh Wonder (previously Wonder Wonder) made to their, back then, small group of fans and followers. By now every Song has thousands of listens and the fan base has grown substantially. Technicolour Beat is the new Song this March and it follows in the footsteps of great harmonic Pop music. Listen below and wait patiently for the next one in April.
The two british young talents Oceaán and Låpsley recently got together at Maida Vale Studios to record a song for BBC Radio 1. The two paired up to create a live cover of “This Woman’s Work” mixed up with “Need U.” The outcome is another stellar showing from both of them. Between the beautiful violins, the mix of both of these strong voices makes up for a great live recording and a really strong song. Listen to it below.
If you are into music, have some sort of working Internet connection and or have used any social media outlet in the last couple of days, you probably have heard Kendrick Lamars new Song The Blacker The Berry. It is a truly great song by arguably one of the best music artist around these days. This Song is everything music can inspire to, an incisive piece of cultural critique in form of something that can reach the masses.
Michael Chabon the author of books like The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, and Pulitzer-Prize winner The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, has writen a little piece, on the community annotation database Genius, analysing The Blacker The Berry. The analysis is only concerned with the last 3 lines of the Song, but Chabon views them as the crucial insight into the whole Song. Read Chabons words below and listen to Kendrick Lamars latest work. Continue reading
With the 87th Academy Awards looming on the horizon, the yearly batch of funny movie parodies are trickling in. While everyone in Hollywood is still campaigning for the last votes, artists all over the Internet have taken different kinds of creative measures to poke a little fun at the annual madness.
Gordi is a 21 year old Singer/-Songwriter from Australia. Her latest Song Taken Blame is another teaser for her upcoming first EP and it’s a wonderful reminder of her talent. The song slowly builds up, with guitars, synths and percussions coming in and together with a busy background presenting a great carpet of sound for Gordi’s beautiful voice. Let yourself fall and forget the world around you, even if its just for a short while.
A lot of people in the western world think they know what cold is, what it feels like, how is looks, what it does to the world around you. Most westerners have also never set foot anywhere near real cold. A cold that is unforgiving that pierces through you and leaves you tired and well..cold. Amos Chapple, a photographer from New Zealand has taken it upon himself to visit the Cold. And he traveled not just anywhere, he decided to visit what is commonly known as the coldest places on earth: Yakutsk and Oymyakon. About 6 timezones away from Moscow, in the middle of Siberia, lie these two frozen Citys.
Here is the thing about Mashups, to be honest most of them aren’t good or even decent. So there is a good reason why so many people hate Mashups. They are the less talented brother of remixes. But from time to time, there are these rare moments, when one finds a good mashup, and if that happens its like finding diamonds. Continue reading
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