Right out funky soul, from Mary C and The Stellars! There’s no need to go into a lot of detail, just listen to Get Me Through from the long-player Right On Time, due out sometime this Summer and you decide. You can find information on Mary C and The Stellars from their web site, which includes purchase links to the 2010 long-player Off The Line, social links, live performance schedules and more. Rock out to Mary C and The…
Read MoreKrissy Krissy doesn’t break any new ground with styles here, on this straightforward pop number, Dream, but what she does do is channel the current anthem-like pop romp into something all her own. It’s the spirit, it’s the delivery and it’s the Dream shared. Krissy Krissy’s dream of pop stardom and the path that this takes is echoed throughout, and since reality doesn’t echo the video, exactly, it shows a dichotomy between the dream and the reality. Make no mistake: Krissy Krissy is…
Read MoreUK singer, Jon Allen adds just a dash of gravel to his voice, but it isn’t at all unpleasing, as the tuneful (and funny) Dead Man’s Suit from the June 2009 album by the same name suggests. This up-beat romp on death is, yes, a little dark, but the toe-tapping kind of dark, and the “I can’t believe I’m laughing” kind of dark. Jon Allen’s words don’t get lost in the mix, and that’s always a good thing, and the mix…
Read MoreSinger-songwriter and cat lover, Sam Hart has a beautiful tenor voice and plays a great lick on his acoustic guitar here on The Snowman from 2011. While the track does not appear on his new EP Ink, the EP features six great songs with the same pleasing melodic style and at a digital download price of just a dollar (or more) from his bandcamp site. That site links to his Facebook, YouTube channel and Twitter accounts as well. You can pick up…
Read MoreEva & Manu I’ve posted twice on this blog-there is a third post coming in October-about Eva & Manu and their self-titled long-player. As one of my purchases this cycle, I was excited to get my copy of their debut CD from Helsinki and placed it in the player almost immediately. Now I don’t want you to get the wrong impression, the CD is absolutely stunning; a folk-pop musical masterpiece. That said, there were some questionable omissions and some subtle changes from the original releases of Feet in the Water and In Montreal. These changes were not nasty-they were arrangement tweaks…
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