Lady Gaga
September 10, 2006 Posted by Al Castle
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While writing my post about Carbon Leaf I stumbled onto Lady Gaga at a site called PureVolume. She has a retro pop sound that made me first think of Pink. I listened to “Beautiful, Dirty, Rich”, you can hear the attitude in her voice and lyrics, with the rhythms flowing around you and the piano she plays - brings it all up a level. You realize that this kid has sweet skills.
She has ears made of classic-rock, a voice of the 60s, the moves of a Brit-Disco queen, and a heart made of doo-wop and strawberry milkshakes. -from her MySpace page
With “Shake Ure Kitty” playing I started searching for where to buy her album and ran into Rebecca G. Jones of Audio Intercourse and her take on Lady Gaga. She hasn’t posted anything recently, but I like her review.
I’ve listened to all of Lady Gagas music that I can find, on MySpace and PureVolume. There’s very little information about her online, most of the pages refer to the sites already mentioned. One of which states she’s signed with Sony, but I’d assume the music already online could be purchased somewhere, so far no luck finding it.
She’s playing Tuesday in New York and I’m wishing I could be there to check her out live.
Carbon Leaf
September 10, 2006 Posted by Al Castle
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A must listen to band is Carbon Leaf. An exuberant friend of mine introduced me to them a few months ago and I’ve been listening to them ever since. Open this link up to Toy Soldiers (from Echo Echo) and listen while you read the rest.
Apparently they’ve been about for some years as an indie band, in 2002 the band won an American Music Award (Coca Cola New Music Award) for their independent album Echo Echo. A bit of a Celtic rock, (’lord of the dance’ as I call it) sound is what I first heard from them and I surprised myself by how much I “dug it”. I seriously never thought an electric mandolin would sound good. The talent of the band goes beyond just being able to come up with a rhythmically catchy tune and some good studio magic. The lyrics are refreshing, several songs evoke a shared imagery of having “been there”, while the lead singer Barry Privett puts emotional content behind them - the composition is sublime.
Their first major label album Indian Summer (2004) proved that they have a wide breadth of talent and that the Celtic rock sound I heard is only one aspect in their repertoire of auditory delights. “Grey Sky” and “When I’m alone” (both from Indian Summer) for example proved the band was capable of much more. I’ve seen their albums classified as Folk, Alternative, Rock, Bluegrass, and Blues - trying to pigeon-hole these guys is focusing on the wrong thing, just buy the albums and enjoy the music.
Their latest album Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat is available for pre-order on Amazon due September 12th 2006.
Their schedule of performance dates is available on their MySpace site.
A few websites I’ve found:
The Official Site, The Official Blog, Their MySpace site, Carbon Leaf on Wikipedia, and more images of Carbon Leaf. You can find and buy their music on Amazon and the iTunes Music Store.
If by chance the members or friends of Carbon Leaf read this, get in touch with me by leaving a comment. I’d love it if you guys used PRWeb for your press releases.
Screaming Penguin
September 10, 2006 Posted by Al Castle
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The imagery of a screaming penguin is absurdly funny. I stumbled upon a site titled “temple of the screaming-penguin“.
The site itself is a mostly pointless “multi-personality weblog”. Really it’s just a collection of other peoples headlines. I give him points for the name only.
