If you've out-played the new Adele record, try a little Yuna. Even in this live performance, this woman possesses one of the smoothest most beautiful voices I've heard.
The latest kick ass track from personal brit-rock icon Allison Mosshart and Jamie Hince of The Kills. Something to start your week off to, plus the video is full of vintage cars and an homage to new-wave french cinema. #win.
Though you may scoff at Amy Wino's bat-wing-liquid-liner or her fondness for day drinking, when it comes to love, the girl's got soul. Look no further than some of the lyrics off her hugely popular Back To Black and you'll find a lady with her share of man troubles. "Self-professed, profound, til the chips were down. Though you're a gambling man, love is a losing hand." And although she may be temporarily AWOL from the mainstream music scene, there are always talented and semi-tormented artists to take her place and pick up the soul/blues slack. Which brings me to (her doppleganger, of course) Cee-Lo Green, whose latest ablum: The Lady Killer, is actually full of fantastic tracks that aren't featured on Glee or sung by Gwenyth Paltrow. (yuck). Both these soulful singers turn the cards they are dealt in love and life into something palpable; digestible; visceral for their audience to relate to. I hope these hyms heal your heartache, your backache, or maybe just quell your Winehouse cravings for now. (I can't be the only one having those, right?) The uncensored, incredible, non-commercialized Cee-Lo we know and love:
Amy's raw-as-sushi rendition of "Love is a Losing Game."
Off of Radiohead's highly anticpated "The King Of Limbs." Radiohead - Lotus Flower Slowly we unfurl As lotus flowers Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick Just to see what it is Just to see what it is I can't kick your habit Just to feed your fast ballooning head Listen to your heart Go do a little dance.♥
A mashup of ThePixies and Girls, Grouplove deliver multi-dimensional musical bliss on Colours, the runaway hit from their debut EP, which dropped only a few short weeks ago and is already garnering radio play on the current and vociferous declarations of love from indie fans across the nation. Colours caught my eardrums the other night and had me instantly turn the dial up without hesitation. Delivering unmatchably wry and beautiful lyricism and one of the catchier hooks I've heard in a while, Grouplove showers its listeners in indie-rock ear-nirvana.
So I pull the switch, the switch, the switch inside my head
And I see black, black, green,and brown, brown, brown and blue, yellow, violets, red And suddenly a light appears inside my brain And I think of my ways, I think of my days and know that I have changed.
It's the colors you have No need to be sad. It really ain't that bad.