(via Shutterstock) Want some fast songs, then a shwostopper slow one that sparkle with beauty and emotion and possibility and then a couple of mid-fi electronic numbers that keep the energy up while subtlely also dialling it down? You’ve got it! It’s a surprising mix of curated sounds but it Continue Reading
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Songs, songs and more songs #116: New songs from Eurovision’s class of 2024 – Nemo, Angelina Mango, Silvester Belt, Raiven + Baby Lasagna
(via Shutterstock) Some 163 million people around the world watched the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest. That’s a lot of eager viewers and a brilliant way for any artist to get their name out there and raise their profile worldwide. But all of the personal brand building can come to nothing Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #115: Łaszewo, Orla Gartland, Bea and her Business, Lauren Mayberry + King Princess
(via Shutterstock) Do you like your upbeat songs with a side order of intensely personal lyrics? Or perhaps you just want some effervescent fun to light up your day? Whatever is floating your musical boat, it’s wroth diving into these five songs which give you infinitely repeatable music, cleverly incisive Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #114: Charli XCX, Tobtok & Hanne Mjøen, Jamie xx and The Avalanches, BOVIY + Meg Smith
(via Shutterstock) We are always in motion; it’s the nature of being alive. But how often do we truly cut loose, surrender ourselves to beat and lyrics and just let our heart and feet take us where they will? Not often enough; there’s usually too much motion of the humdrum Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #113: Hollow Coves, KAZIMI, flowerovlove, Tears For Fears, FAUN + Eurovision 2025 update!
(via Shutterstock) Life is fast … and noisy … and unceasing in its demands and challenges. No news flashes there, of couse. So, in amongst all the tumult and chaos and cacophony of everything seemingly happening all at once, we need moment, many moments in fact, where we just slow Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #112: Lemonade Baby, SOFI TUKKER, Merry Lamb Lamb, St. Lucia and Jude York + Eurovision 2025 update
(via Shutterstock) Had a big week?! Haven’t we all so what we all need now, and needs lots of, is music that feels something, says something and makes us sense that maybe, just maybe, things might get better. Or at least feel better for a few minutes … These five Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #111: Yannis & the Yaw, Skeleton, Ellur, Lodet and The Blessed Madonna & Kylie Minogue
(via Shutterstock) INTRO “Rain Can’t Reach Us” by Yannis & the Yaw (courtesy Yannis & the Yaw official Facebook page) One of the things that songs capture almost better than anything are emotions so intense they feel as if no vessel, human or otherwise, can contain them. In the songs Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #110: Sycco, Toro y Moi, LUPO.THEBOY, KUČKA and Anna Lunoe & Y U QT + Top 20 Eurovision songs for July
(via Shutterstock) Music by itself is wonderfully good, true, but how much better is it with some real emotional vocal power and insight added to it? Very, very good, indeed, and that is borne out in these five superlatively great songs which not only deliver a musical adrenaline hit but Continue Reading
What makes things so Wicked? New featurette pulls back the curtain …
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTWicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, stars Emmy, Grammy, Tony winning powerhouse Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power, and Grammy-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and global superstar Ariana Grande Continue Reading
Because we need more Christmas in July music! Thoughts on Mark Tremonti, Kate Rusby, Samara Joy, Chloe Flower + Bing Crosby
(via Shutterstock) Christmas music in July? What, what, WHAT are you even thinking?! Well, I’m thinking that the world is a dumpster fire of climate change and fascistic chaos and listening to music that is dedicated to conjuring up a warm-and-fuzzy winter wonderland of loveliness is no bad thing (and Continue Reading