I Wish I Were This Talented…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yj38VPXl1w I also wish I were this cute. I can dream though. – Jean Wan
Telephone
I’ve been awaiting the music video of “Telephone” by Lady Gaga and Beyonce. It’s one of my favorite songs right now, and you can always count on Gaga to bring some crazy originality to her videos. It was finally released on Thursday, and has since been banned on MTV. There’s a lesbian kiss, partial nudity,…
Music to My Ears
One of my favourite guilty pleasures is a set of gentle romances from the 60s and 70s by Iris Bromige. Her heroines are gentle, firm and optimistic, her heroes are domineering and loving, and the couples never really fall in love – they just grow to love. One thing they always seem to do is…
Life's Soundtrack
I tend to associate particular songs or soundtracks to special moments in my life. Most of the associations are purely volumetric – I mean, if you listen to something at least twice a day, then it’s bound to stick. So when I think of the Chicago soundtrack, I think of the long bus trips between…
Lady GaGa brings more than just crazy
I am a huge Lady GaGa fan. Yeah, she wears weird clothes and does strange things. I love it. My friends are sick of me talking about her freaky (but amazing) Bad Romance video. But she’s more than just the creation of Haus of GaGa (her stylist/set designer/etc). Thanks to Perez Hilton, some vintage clips…
Hallelujah
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v22NMAG1k18&feature=related It is my untested and unscientific observation that Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is the most covered song I’ve ever heard. It’s also one of my favorites. It’s interesting to listen to, and compare, different versions. As much as I love Regina Spektor, her version disappointed me. Rufus Wainwright’s is undeniably fabulous, and Brandi Carlile’s voice…
With a little head-banging…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNc5o9TU0t0 …You can make awesome music, like guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela, from Mexico City. They have a trash metal background, and turned it to the acoustic guitar; he does the picky bits, she does the bass/strumming/percussion – all on guitar. Here they cover Stairway to Heaven. It’s a bit slow at the beginning, but…
Musicians I Love
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T88NfxVJdc Occasionally I blog about musicians I’ve been listening to lately, and today’s installment is Ingrid Michaelson. Thank God for Pandora, who introduced me to such a beautiful singer.
More Music
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eujMNVdpCTU To follow up on my entry about Regina Spektor, here is another blog about Musicians I’m Crazy About. This installment: Brandi Carlile. You may recognize her song The Story from the GM commercials last summer during the Olympics. Not going to lie, that’s how I found her. Apparently some of her music has been…
The Most Exclusive Piano in the World
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v3d6SFcDys Steinways may be the most well-known pianos in the world. But Faziolis are probably the most exclusive. They’re family-owned. They’re entirely individually hand-crafted, by request, in a tiny village northeast of Venice. They make both classic beauties and modern jewels. And they turn out less than 150 pianos a year. (Steinway makes around 4000 a…
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