Sugarland and Jennifer Nettles in particluar have continued to blow me away with their song crafting skills, performaces and incredible incredible voice…and it looks like they’ve done it again.
This is down and out going to be the #1 country song within days and I wouldn’t be too surprised if it is a crossover success as well. Well done Sugarland. Well done.
Sugarland – Stuck Like Glue
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Found these guys on Crazed Hits today. Lady Danville seems to be their name and little acousticly flaired dittys appears to be their thing. I don’t know that they’ll ever hit it big, but I do like their sound. Maybe they could do well on one of those college tours where they open up for O.A.R. Then again, John Mayer and Maroon 5 used to open up for O.A.R. so perhaps that means they have a good chance of becoming massive superstar hit makers. Perhpas.
Lady Danville – Cars from Matthew Kurtin on Vimeo.
Today we again speak with our trusty dundee, Claire Scott about some of her favorite things.
Broc: So, Claire, I’d love to hear about some of your favorite things in the world.
Claire: And I’d simply love to tell you about them sir!
Broc: Well, according to your facebook profile, one of your activities is “dimples”, please explain.
Claire: Hahahahaahaha (she actually laughed for about 17 minutes after this, but that was hard to transcribe). That actually refers back to my childhood. You see, growing up on a kangaroo farm in the suburbs of Geelong I had to make up some of my own games to play in order to keep from going crazy and hopping into a kangaroo mum’s pouch. So, what I would do is take my index fingers and push in my cheeks where I believed dimples should exist, see, I had no dimples at the time, and I would hold my fingers there for hours on end while I sang a tune in my head that went “dimples dimples they are not frimples, dimples dimples dee da dum”. I had a boring childhood.
Broc: right. that’s fucking weird. lets move on, tell us about a band you love.
Claire: Oooooooh, that’s a great one. I’ve been really into this band from Orange County, CA called Dusty Rhodes & The River Band. I think I like them mostly because of the lead singer’s mustache. It’s like, is he from the 70′s or is he from the hipster 2010′s? And how about the fact that there is a fiddle in the band? A fiddle! Hey diddle diddle! And their live performance is so outrageous! Its like The Wiggles, Men At Work and Savage Garden all on stage at once, fighting over the last cookie. You really should check out their video. They are probably the only non Aussie (oy oy oy) band that I like. Well, them and that cute little Bieber kid. he’s adorable.
Dusty Rhodes and the River Band – “All One” from Michael Tavarez on Vimeo.
So I went to see Train perform the other night (give me a break, it was only $7) and I was thinking to myself…with the huge success and bringing back of their career by the song “Hey, Soul Sister” and with the absolutely mind blowing success of Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours”, how are there not more ukelele songs?
It seems pretty clear to me that a well written balad played on a ukelele is an instant hit. You can even add John Mayer’s “Say” to this list even though its played on the guitar. It’s capo’d so high it and played only on the high strings that it may as well be a uke song.
Come on songwriters and bands, write some bad ass uke songs.
And hire this kid to be on them. Because he does with a uke what i never thought was possible….rock.
The Plain White T’s have had a few singles, but they are and will forever be known by their big huge giant single, “Hey There Delilah”. They no doubt hate the fact that they will never come out from under the shadow of this song, but hey, it was a good song.
Here is their newest try at a soft love song. It’s nice. No Delilah, but nice.
Only Kanye west can be ballsy enough to name an album “Good Ass Job”, and of course, he is naming his upcoming album just that. He’s also the only one ballsy enough to have the cover of his first single be a painting of Kanye “king of the world” West’s head chopped off with a sword stabbed through it.
The art is better than the music, but the music ain’t too bad. At least he is back to rapping again. No more of that weird autotune stuff.
Kanye West – Power
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but what we’re really waiting for is a submarine car. come on people! where is my submarine car!
I don’t think i’ve ever seen a music video that captured the insane energy of the artist it was for so well in my life.
Andrew WK is one of the most entertaining and action packed crazy performers of all time. I still have a scar on my right shin from a show of his at USC when I was smashed against the top corner of the stage as I tried to get on it to rock with him. I made it on the stage and ended up getting hit in the face with the head of his lead guitarist’s guitar. Rad.
GO WILD!
Taddy Porter.
They are one of the newest rock bands to hit the scene. Well, no doubt they have been around for quite some time, but they just released a major label debut yesterday and I’ve been pretty obsessed with it all day long. They have this old school blues rock sound that is hard to not love. Skynyrd, Joe Bonamassa for daysssss, Creedence, and maybe a bit of Kings of Leon, but the older KOL. The cd is very tightly produced, but the few raging guitar solos that exist lead me to believe that in a concert these guys don’t have anything less than a 10 minute song. I am only posting the first track of the album here and it probably isn’t the best example of their killer tunes, but hopefully it gets you to go listen to it on myspace or something and download it.
Speaking of listening to stuff, i highly recommend a new site called rdio.com If you want an invite, email me.
Taddy Porter – Whatever Haunts You
Adam Young is Owl City. Adam Young is also, sad to say, a bit of a pop music genius. The kid made one of the best albums of last year and he supposedly did it in his bedroom. on his laptop. while getting noise complaints from the neighbors.
Recently, it came out that he was in another “band” when he was even younger. That “band” was called Sky Sailing and it’s basically just Owl City with real instruments instead of synths. The reason that this has become recent news is because a major record label has actually bought this album from Adam and is planning on releasing it at some point. Kinda crazy.
Anyhow, its not nearly as good as his Owl City incarnation, but its worth a listen.
