Who wants a beige life? No one in their right mind that’s who, which is why you need to listen to artists like the ones following who chart their own course, put real thought into their artistic expression and pour it into songs so unique and vividly listenable that Continue Reading
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Gaga: Five Foot Two reveals that stardom is not always a personal nirvana
SNAPSHOT In Gaga: Five Foot Two, Lady Gaga narrates how loneliness has pervaded her life as a star. It also shows scenes of her struggling with chronic pain due to fibromyalgia, as well as a snippet of an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in which she lists a Continue Reading
Now this is music – get your groove on! Loote, Elohim and Whethan, Opia, MY, Stanaj
Let’s face it – life can be absolutely brilliant and gorgeous, unstoppably, fantastically wonderful with cherries on top; but it also be beigely uniform and onerously frantic, a thousand demands piled one on top of the other until you feel like you’re about to break. Before you reach that Continue Reading
Now this music #96: Plastic Plates, Set Mo, Viceroy, NONONO, PNAU
Life got you down? Dragging your feet everywhere you go? Need some pep in your step? More than though, do you want to groove away to music that actually means something from artists who have actually stopped and thought about life a little or, I suspect in the case Continue Reading
Now this is music: Scandipop special (Iffy Orbit, Highasakite, Peg Pavernik, Nelli Matula, MY)
Ever since ABBA seduced me with their wholesome catchy pop back in the mid-’70s, I have had a thing for the inestimable pleasures of Scandinavianpop music, often referred to as Scandipop. It’s not hard to see why it’s so catchy for me and many other people – it’s usually Continue Reading
MANAMANA! Feast your eyes and ears on the original 1969 version of the iconic song
(image via YouTube (c) Sesame Workshop) Sesame Street is justifiably famous for a great many things. Its still-necessary mission to educate the children of the world through bold and imaginative means, its hilarous parodies of all kind of pop culture moments (complete with rteachable moments) … and of course, Continue Reading
Now this is music #95: Dreamcar, JAMATAR ft. Natalie Foster, Amery, Meg Mac, Oceana
One of the best parts of listening to songs by a diverse range of artists is hearing the way each of them, in their own unique style, pour their heart and soul into their music. Investing their songs with the richness of their experience, of their struggles and the Continue Reading
El Patito: Sesame Street parodies Despacito in the sweetest Ernie and Rubber Ducky way
Ah ubiquity you are a double-edged sword. In the case of the catchiest song of the US summer, “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi (feat. Daddy Yankee), that means lots of airplay, remixes without count and the constant presence of the song on just about platform imaginable. It also means, Sesame Continue Reading
Ring Ring to The Visitors: My top 50 ABBA songs
Hi everyone! I’m Andrew, and I’ve been an ABBA fan since somewhere around 1975-ish (date is murky – blame my failing memory!). I grew up in a small town, Alstonville, just south of Byron Bay, far enough from major cities to not really be country but so far away Continue Reading
Even more Euphoria: Eurovision Asia launches
And so it begins … Eurovision is coming to Asia! While a launch date and an exact format are yet to be determined, the launch of the official site for the Asian outpost of the great Eurovision Song Contest (brand leveraging here we come!) signals that things are moving Continue Reading