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This Valentine’s Day singer-songwriter Dillon Hodges will release his debut single “Bullet For A Broken Heart”, as well as “Feel Good Inc.”, a unique cover of the Gorillaz lead single from their second studio album Demon Days. Dillon hopes his folk version of their popular song will open people up to his brand of Old-Time music.
“I think I can get Old-Time music to people who would never in a million year listen to it,” says Hodges.
Hodges’ song depicts the story of a love affair gone wrong, leading one to commit double homicide. Although the storyline is dark, Hodges’ fresh approach with old-time music is sure to make listeners feel good.
Unlike the character in his song, Hodges plans to spend this Valentine’s Day with his fiancé Elise. In addition to getting married soon, this ambitious 20-something plans to graduate from college and launch his debut album Rumspringa by the end of the year. Dillon hopes to reach new audiences with his blend of pop, folk, and bluegrass, and catch the ears of longtime listeners of roots music.
Dillon’s guitar playing ability has already attracted much attention in the bluegrass community, even winning him endorsements from the likes of Benedetto Guitars and DHR Music. Bob Workman of Gibson Guitars was quoted as saying,
“He’s in a very select group of young musicians.”
Listen for yourself at www.dillonhodges.com and discover Modern Old-Time Music.This Valentine’s Day singer-songwriter Dillon Hodges will release his debut... more
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Singer, hip-hop pioneer Sylvia Robinson dies
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 7:49 PM EST, Thu September 29, 2011
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Singer-songwriter and music entrepreneur dies at 76
She was most known for single "Pillow Talk"
Sylvia Robinson helped start Sugar Hill Records
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(CNN) -- Sylvia Robinson, a singer-songwriter who went on to become a pioneer in the hip-hop music business, introducing the seminal "Rapper's Delight," died Thursday in New Jersey of congestive heart failure. She was 76.
Best known as an artist for 1973's sultry "Pillow Talk," Robinson was a "trendsetter" in music, publicist Lynn K. Hobson told CNN.
"She was known as the founder of hip-hop," Hobson said. "She was vibrant, with an over-the-top personality."
Robinson's singing, producing and songwriting career dated back to the 1950s, when she recorded as "Little Sylvia" and later as one half of the duo "Mickey & Sylvia." The team's hit "Love Is Strange," which hit the pop charts in early 1957 and reached No. 1 on the rhythm-and-blues chart, found new life three decades later in the 1987 movie "Dirty Dancing." She also produced "Love On a Two-Way Street" for the Moments in 1970.
Born Sylvia Vanterpool, Robinson and her late husband, Joe, founded Sugar Hill Records in 1979 and released the early hip hop hit, "Rapper's Delight," performed by the Sugar Hill Gang. Her eldest son, Joey, was a member of the group she formed.
The song, which adapted the musical track of Chic's "Good Times," began with the familiar lines, "I said a hip hop, a hippie, a hippie to the hip hip hop, you don't stop to rock it."
The label also signed Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, which had success in the 1980s, including the hit "The Message."
Kanye West and Alicia Keys are among the artists who sampled songs associated with Robinson, Hobson said.
The funeral is scheduled for October 11 at Community Baptist Church in Englewood, New Jersey.
"RIP to my grandmother," MTV personality Darnell Robinson, the entrepreneur's grandson, wrote on his Twitter account Thursday. "We lost Mommy Sylvia this morning but she will never be forgotten!"
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One of the most influential names in the Folk Music movement of the early 1960's. Never heard of him? Shame.One of the most influential names in the Folk Music movement of the early 1960's.... more
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A taste of Soul/Funk for Summer.
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Tuesday night with Smog (Bill Callahan) - best way to spend Hump Day Eve.
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Interview with Synth Pop artist, Alphanaut: "From Moonbase Alpha"
Combining modern ambient and electro tones with a touch of retro synth-pop of the mid-80’s, comes Mark Alan of Alphanaut.
The best way to describe the listening experience of Alphanaut is like traveling through a space-time continuum with visualizations through music. Some may refer to this as psychedelic rock or even avant-garde synth, music that was popular among artists like Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Art of Noise, and Enigma. Creatively, Alphanaut is much more complex and combines some of each to create a whole new style.
Listen here at http://thegreatunknowns.podomatic.com/entry/2011-04-01T10_50_24-07_00
and on All Indie Magazine at http://www.allindiemagazine.net/2011/04/interview-with-alphanaut-from-moonbase.html
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Next week, we are doing something different. To line up with a CD release, we are broadcasting on Tuesday instead of Friday, so stay tuned for a special interview with Asking Alexandria.Interview with Synth Pop artist, Alphanaut: "From Moonbase Alpha"... more
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Introducing the very sexy and extremely talented pop singer/songwriter, Katie Owen of Chichester, England.
Initially, Katie Owen came to The Great Unknowns Presents with one of her music videos, “Wrong All Along”. Vocally, Katie compares to the likes of Christina Aquilera with a dash of Kylie Minogue, as she combines her big voice with an electronica flare.
Listen to my interview with Katie Owen on The Great Unknowns Presents:
http://thegreatunknowns.podomatic.com/entry/2011-03-25T05_00_26-07_00
Listen to our interview and read the CD reviews here at All Indie Magazine: http://www.allindiemagazine.net/2011/03/interview-with-pop-singersongwriter.html
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I have a busy weekend, starting RIGHT NOW! I'll be heading to Fontana this morning to interview NASCAR drivers at Auto Club Speedway, this Friday and Saturday exclusively for The Pit Pass radio show on audio8ball.com.
Plus, I have an exclusive interview with Asking Alexandria tonight at The Glass House in Pomona. Stay tuned where you'll be able to see where the interviews will be published.
Don't forget, but this Sunday is my Live Indie Showcase. I'll be hosting an awesome concert from 7 to 9pm at The Mezz inside Hotel Alexandria in Los Angeles. You'll get to see performances by:
Confirm invite: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=142569135809383&index=1
9pm Johanna Chase
8pm Nobody Gets Killed
7:30pm Huck Walton at 7:30pm (Acoustic)
7pm Isaac Sturtevant & Co (Acoustic)
Come early! Doors open at 6pm
NO COVER (2 drink minimum)
Age: 18+
Get your FREE tickets at: http://indieshowcase.mogotix.com/
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o Nikki Forova is a Pop singer/songwriter that compares to the likes of Vanessa Carlton, Tori Amos, and Michelle Branch.
In October of 2010, Nikki entered and won the MTV Duets contest out of thousands of entries. After a private visit from a representative of MTV, Nikki was flown out to New York for a rare opportunity engagement to perform the song, “A Thousand Miles” with Vanessa Carlton herself and was aired on the MTV television show, "MTV Duets".
To listen to my live audio interview and music preview, go to http://www.allindiemagazine.net/2011/03/interview-with-nikki-forova-skylines-in.html
If you have a smartphone, download this episode with this link:
http://thegreatunknowns.podomatic.com/entry/2011-03-04T11_21_51-08_00
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On Sunday, March 27 is another Indie LIVE Showcase hosted by yours truely. Come out to The Mezz inside Hotel Alexandria in downtown LA from 7pm to 10pm and see full band performances by:
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o Nikki Forova is a Pop singer/songwriter that compares to the likes of Vanessa Carlton, Tori Amos, and Michelle Branch.
In October of 2010, Nikki entered and won the MTV Duets contest out of thousands of entries. After a private visit from a representative of MTV, Nikki was flown out to New York for a rare opportunity engagement to perform the song, “A Thousand Miles” with Vanessa Carlton herself and was aired on the MTV television show, "MTV Duets".
To listen to my live audio interview and music preview, go to http://www.allindiemagazine.net/2011/03/interview-with-nikki-forova-skylines-in.html
If you have a smartphone, download this episode with this link:
http://thegreatunknowns.podomatic.com/entry/2011-03-04T11_21_51-08_00
News update:
On Sunday, March 27 is another Indie LIVE Showcase hosted by yours truely. Come out to The Mezz inside Hotel Alexandria in downtown LA from 7pm to 10pm and see full band performances by:
Johanna Chase
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Nobody Gets Killed
Also Acoustic performances from 7 to 8pm with:
[BREN]
Huck Walton
and Isaac Sturtevant & Co
Ages 18+ and NO COVER!
Watch the official commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mjeUGHkqvQo Nikki Forova is a Pop singer/songwriter that compares to the likes of Vanessa... more
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January 4, 2011
Gerry Rafferty, Songwriter, Dies at 63
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Gerry Rafferty, a Scottish singer and songwriter who combined a gift for melody, a distinctive voice and a fatalistic worldview to produce 1970s hits like “Stuck in the Middle With You” and “Baker Street,” died Tuesday in Dorset, England. He was 63.
His death was confirmed by Michael Gray, his former manager, in an obituary he wrote for the London newspaper The Guardian, and later by his agent, Paul Charles, in a report by The Associated Press. Various news reports said Mr. Rafferty had been hospitalized for severe liver and kidney problems.
Mr. Rafferty’s 1978 album, “City to City,” reached No. 1 in the United States. One track, “Baker Street,” made the Top 10 in both Britain and the United States. So did “Stuck in the Middle With You,” a song Mr. Rafferty and Joe Egan recorded with their group Stealers Wheel in 1972. That song reached a new generation of listeners when Quentin Tarantino used it in the notorious ear-slicing scene in his 1992 movie “Reservoir Dogs.”
In all, Mr. Rafferty sold more than 10 million albums over three decades.
But Mr. Gray, writing in The Guardian, said Mr. Rafferty’s success was a shadow of what it might have been. At the peak of his popularity, Mr. Rafferty declined to tour the United States and turned down chances to play with Eric Clapton and Paul McCartney. In his later years his output declined, then stopped altogether as he “spiraled into alcoholism,” Mr. Gray said. Mr. Rafferty himself said in a rare interview in 2009 with The Sunday Express that he suffered from depression.
But at his peak Mr. Rafferty drew rave reviews for his synthesis of country, folk and rock music. Reviewing “City to City” in Rolling Stone, Ken Emerson said Mr. Rafferty “writes with the sweet melodiousness of Paul McCartney and sings with John Lennon’s weary huskiness.”
Mr. Emerson discerned “a prayerful quality” in Mr. Rafferty’s voice, reminiscent of “the dim dawn after a dark night of the soul.”
Almost from his birth in Paisley, Scotland, on April 16, 1947, Gerald Rafferty knew plenty about life’s dark side. He and his mother would hide from his father to avoid being beaten when he stumbled home drunk, Mr. Gray wrote. But music pervaded the family’s life, as young Gerry assimilated Roman Catholic hymns, traditional folk music, 1950s pop and even the Irish rebel tunes his deaf father bellowed.
Mr. Rafferty dropped out of school at 15 and went to work in a butcher shop. On weekends he and a friend, Mr. Egan, played in a local group, the Mavericks. After bouncing about a bit, Mr. Rafferty and Mr. Egan reunited in Stealers Wheel, whose debut album included “Stuck in the Middle.”
“Stuck in the Middle,” written as a parody of many of Bob Dylan’s songs, ridiculed a music industry cocktail party, complaining, “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you.”
By 1975, Stealers Wheel had broken up after recording three albums, and Mr. Rafferty spent the next three years in legal disputes over contracts. Finally, in 1978, he was free to record again and signed with United Artists. “City to City,” a solo effort, was his first album for the label. Its centerpiece song, “Baker Street,” featured a saxophone solo by Raphael Ravenscroft that became so popular it was said to spark a global increase in saxophone sales.
Mr. Rafferty went on to record several more albums, including “Night Owl,” which made it to the Top Five in England and the Top 20 in the United States in 1979. Other albums followed, some of which garnered good reviews but none of which approached Mr. Rafferty’s earlier success.
He contributed a vocal to the soundtrack of the 1983 film “Local Hero,” and produced the Proclaimers’ 1987 hit “Letter From America.”
Mr. Rafferty’s marriage to Carla Ventilla ended in divorce. He is survived by his daughter, Martha, a brother and a granddaughter.
In the 2009 interview, Mr. Rafferty called the music industry “something I loathe and detest.” Nevertheless, he earned nearly $125,000 a year in royalties for “Baker Street” alone.http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/01/05/arts/RAFFERTY-obit/RAFFERTY-obit-article... more
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The singer of "Cop Killer" had some words for the singer of "Save Me." Aimee Mann criticized Ice T's acting skills. He told her to eat a "hot bowl of Dicks!"
Apparently they have resolved their conflict.The singer of "Cop Killer" had some words for the singer of "Save... more
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Today on Current Music, you can watch an exclusive clip from Jason Mraz's new live CD/DVD, "Beautiful Mess," filmed during his most recent stop in Chicago.
Jason is a performer who's gone from tiny coffeehouses in San Diego to headlining sold-out shows at the Hollywood Bowl. He's toured nearly non-stop for what seems like the past five years straight. (Next he's off to South America.)
His shows pack in a lot of things at once—radio hits, rarer b-sides, Jason-as-band director leading the audience in massive, extended singalongs. And not to sound like a total hippie about it, but they've got this vibe to them that even I—who will only ever set foot in jam band-land if dragged there by my wife—can't help but be all moved by. Plus he's got a hell of a voice that never quite shines as much in his studio takes as it does on a big stage he makes feel just like one of those tiny cafes where he got his start.
Check out jasonmraz.com for more music, tour dates and one of the best—and oldest—tour blogs from any musician in the business of spending life on the road.
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Laura Goldhamer and the Silvernail most frequently performs as a trio of musicians using banjo, guitar, some drums (Tyler Ludwick), keys (Griff Snyder), voice and video projections of stop-frame animations that Laura creates and that illustrate her song lyrics. "The Silvernail" has been composed of: Macon Terry (upright bass), Matt Case (pedal steel), Griff Snyder (aka Gryph, piano), Stelth Ulvang (accordion), Tyler Ludwick (guitar, banjo, drums), and Paul DeHaven (percussion)............ Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, Laura Goldhamer (banjo, guitar and vocal) is now living back in her birthplace of Denver, performing, touring and booking arts events. After graduating from Wesleyan University with degrees in music and religion, Laura moved around for the better part of a year before settling into Denver, and opening and running a DIY art space called Brooks Center Arts: Underground Tea House, which was open for two years. The space was closed in the spring of 2009, and Goldhamer has since focused more whole-heartedly on her own musical projects and travels (including playing in bands called Dovekins, New Denver Orchestra, and Harpoontang)............. At Wesleyan University, Goldhamer participated in various musical ensembles, including conglomerations of the talented Joaquin Cotler (keys), Owen Roberts (of "Boy Crisis", drums), Greg Donahue (of "Andy Friedman and the other Failures", bass), and Caley Monahon-Ward (of "Extra Life", fiddle), as well as Cassye Dunkhase (of "New Denver Orchestra" and "Orelia String Quartet", cello), Chris McDonald (of "PdL" and "Mirror Boyz", computer knobs and levers), Daniela Gesundheit (of "Snowblink"), George Blake (flute), and with Ashraf Rijal (of "Galaklang Noise Party", clap stomp composition on "No Ability").............. Q: One might ask, why only one "M" in Goldhamer? Why not Laura GoldhamMer? A: At the risk of confusing my family with just any old Goldhammer family, my grandfather took one M away. A2: A small elven man offered to turn straw into gold for me if I gave him my first born "M". I was desperate, needed the gold, BAD, couldn't guess his name and so that is how I came to be Laura Goldhamer.
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In the hands of a lesser, more ordinary artist, a set of mostly soft, piano-driven songs played in front of a completely unadorned stage would probably come across as tasking and fairly lifeless for any onlookers. But in the hands of Aimee Mann and her two accomplices, no over-the-top theatrics, insane costumes or pyrotechnics were necessary. The audience last Friday evening at Campbell Hall was in for a rollicking good time, thanks to Mann’s trademark self-deprecating sense of humor and her willingness to play virtually any song the audience requested, whether she remembered exactly how to play it or not.
Mann spent the first third of the nearly two-hour-long performance playing a traditional set list, which included a number of her most well-known songs from the “Magnolia” soundtrack (“Save Me” and “Wise Up”) as well as from 2002’s Lost in Space. Mann even managed to slip in a number of songs most of the audience probably wasn’t expecting, including “Nightmare Girl,” a fairly obscure B-side, as well as songs from older albums like “Amateur.”
But it was the show’s request portion that truly showcased Mann’s talent as a performer: What could have felt messy and overly casual instead felt dynamic and exciting, as Mann and her fellow musicians showed off their musical prowess and dedication to improvisation, forgoing the canned, over-rehearsed feel of many a touring acts who get too comfortable reading directly off of a set list.
While sometimes this meant there would be a pause where the band would try to remember chords or figure out who was going to play what (leaving Mann to remark that she felt she should be making David Letterman jokes in the interim periods), more often than not, this led to the audience feeling as if they were witnessing the artist creating new meaning from old songs that have been out of the touring rotation for a while now.
Much credit is due to Mann’s dexterous backing performers, Jebin and Jamie, both excellent musicians who were up for anything, whether it was joining Mann for a three-part recorder intro to “Red Vines” (yes, I do mean the requisite third-grade instrument), scrambling all over the stage trading instruments or looking at each other with bemusement trying to figure out which song Mann had spontaneously begun to play.
After the audience gave the trio a thundering round of applause, Mann and her band returned to the stage to play an brief but impressive two-song encore, ending with “Voices Carry,” a number Mann wrote when she was a part of ’80s new wave act, ‘Til Tuesday, and one of her most well-known tracks, “One” (which is actually a cover that appeared in “Magnolia).
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On this edition of the Daily Fix Backstage, we sit down with Kentucky-born, Folk singer-songwriter, Daniel Martin Moore to get the details on his debut album, "Stray Age." Moore discusses life coming out of the Peace Corps and how he began his career in music. Find out how The Shins inspired him to put his demo in the mail, and how that landed him a deal with major recording label, Sub Pop Records. Not lucky enough, Moore fills us in on how Joe Chiccarelli came to produce his album, and what it was like working with the acclaimed music professional.
The Daily Fix is the first music blog on TV airing on Current TV. The 2-minute daily music news show delivers cutting edge music news and insightful opinion in compelling short doses, utilizing MP3's and user-generated video from all over the web. Hosted by Douglas Caballero, the show airs daily at 9:31am, 1:31pm, 5:31pm, 8:31pm, 12:31am, 4:31am Eastern Time and can be found online at current.com/dailyfix.On this edition of the Daily Fix Backstage, we sit down with Kentucky-born, Folk... more
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Massachusetts-born singer-songwriter, Matt Nathanson, sits in on the Daily Fix to give us the details on his latest album, Some Mad Hope. Find out what inspired his writing on this album, and how it documents events in his life. We give you a look at Matt's music video, Come On Get Higher, and a peek at an intimate live performance. Find out what band Matt originally wanted to be a part of, and who inspired him to go solo. Plus, Matt introduces us to a fan that has impacted his career and life even more so than he has hers.
The Daily Fix is the first music blog on TV airing on Current TV. The 2-minute daily music news show delivers cutting edge music news and insightful opinion in compelling short doses, utilizing MP3's and user-generated video from all over the web. Hosted by Douglas Caballero, the show airs daily at 9:31am, 1:31pm, 5:31pm, 8:31pm, 12:31am, 4:31am Eastern Time and can be found online at current.com/dailyfix.Massachusetts-born singer-songwriter, Matt Nathanson, sits in on the Daily Fix to give... more
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