LAUREL is releasing new album "PALPITATIONS" on June 14th!
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Monday, February 26, 2024
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Saturday, February 24, 2024
Friday, February 23, 2024
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Bel Canto - Grass Mint Crisp
We haven't heard from Bel Canto in quite some time! They're releasing new album "Radiant Green" on April 26th!
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Monday, February 19, 2024
Sunday, February 18, 2024
Saturday, February 17, 2024
U2 - Love Is Blindness
Rockyboo's Xmas gift this year was tickets to see U2 at the Sphere! While I'm not their biggest fan, "Achtung Baby" is a great album and this should be an awesome experience! My favorite song of theirs is this beauty!
Friday, February 16, 2024
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Beth Gibbons - Floating on a Moment
A voice one can never tire of, the wonderful Beth Gibbons is releasing a new solo album "Lives Outgrown" on May 17th!
Monday, February 12, 2024
Sia and Kylie - Dance Alone
It's here! Sia and Kylie's new dancefloor jam! It will feature on Sia's new album "Reasonable Woman", out May 3rd!
Sunday, February 11, 2024
Saturday, February 10, 2024
Flashback 2000: Belle and Sebastian - There's Too Much Love
Belle and Sebastian released their wonderful "Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant" in 2000 and it featured one of the band's best songs in their entire catalog. It was a wonderful joy to hear it featured in one of the best scenes of the FANTASTIC 2014 film "The Way He Looks", which you can see some clips of in the video I'm sharing!
Friday, February 9, 2024
TR/ST - Being Boring
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Kita Alexander - All Night (feat. LAUREL)
Very nice from Kita Alexander with the help of LAUREL! Her debut album "Young in Love" will be out March 22nd!
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Red Sleeping Beauty - Free Cake for Every Creature
Returning with their monthly single series, here is Red Sleeping Beauty with a mantra I can truly stand behind!
Monday, February 5, 2024
Sunday, February 4, 2024
The Decline and Fall of Heavenly
On Friday, Heavenly released the next of their re-issues of ALL their albums! Released in 1994, "The Decline and Fall of Heavenly" was Heavenly's shortest album and packed the most punch...thanks to the riot grrrl influences found during their stint in the US.
The album starts with a bang as "Me and My Madness" shows a whole new side to the band (more writers/more instruments/more harmonizing), and it continues for 6 more tracks until finally closing with the softer tale of unexpressed love in "She and Me". There's even a frollicking instrumental thrown in the middle. "Sacramento" is what I like to call their Dick Dale moment.
This album also holds some special memories in my life. I'll always remember one of my sister's early e-mail addresses was "meandmymadness@...com". This was the album I used to introduce her to Heavenly. The wonderfully titled "Sperm Meets Egg, So What?" was featured as the opening track on one of my all-time favorite mix CDs, "An Exploration of the Human Body - From Conception to Death", which I realize I need to un-earth and share here!
Topping off the awesomeoness, they've attached the entire "Atta Girl" EP featuring some of the band's most beloved tracks including "P.U.N.K Girl" & "Hearts and Crosses". The EP is pretty much perfect and further shows the band hitting its stride to the fullest!
These two releases show the band growing in all the right ways and they only get better from there! Later in 2024, we'll see the re-issue of the band's final album "Operation Heavenly". So excited my sister and I will be seeing them AGAIN in June, this time in NY! Life is good!
The album starts with a bang as "Me and My Madness" shows a whole new side to the band (more writers/more instruments/more harmonizing), and it continues for 6 more tracks until finally closing with the softer tale of unexpressed love in "She and Me". There's even a frollicking instrumental thrown in the middle. "Sacramento" is what I like to call their Dick Dale moment.
This album also holds some special memories in my life. I'll always remember one of my sister's early e-mail addresses was "meandmymadness@...com". This was the album I used to introduce her to Heavenly. The wonderfully titled "Sperm Meets Egg, So What?" was featured as the opening track on one of my all-time favorite mix CDs, "An Exploration of the Human Body - From Conception to Death", which I realize I need to un-earth and share here!
Topping off the awesomeoness, they've attached the entire "Atta Girl" EP featuring some of the band's most beloved tracks including "P.U.N.K Girl" & "Hearts and Crosses". The EP is pretty much perfect and further shows the band hitting its stride to the fullest!
These two releases show the band growing in all the right ways and they only get better from there! Later in 2024, we'll see the re-issue of the band's final album "Operation Heavenly". So excited my sister and I will be seeing them AGAIN in June, this time in NY! Life is good!
Saturday, February 3, 2024
Friday, February 2, 2024
Camera Obscura - Big Love
YAY! Camera Obscura are back! They have a new album, "Look to the East, Look to the West" out May 3rd and I'm very excited!
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Pet Shop Boys - Loneliness
Pet Shop Boys return with their latest single and news of upcoming album "Nonetheless", out April 26th!