The Living End – Raise The Alarm
Here is the latest single taken from The Living End’s album “White Noise” The track is called “Raise the Alarm” You can listen to it using the player below, and if you really like it you can Download the track here.
Amos Lee “Street Corner Preacher”
Zach Gill – Beautiful Reasons
Zach Gill is notable for the fluid motion he exhibits while playing. An animated pianist, he rarely stops moving in his trademark jellylike, swaying way. His piano stylings ranges from haunting (Shapeshifter) to upbeat and controlled-substance induced (Wasting Time) to mythic sounding (Barbeque).
He is a notable accordion player. On Jack Johnson’s DVD release A Weekend at the Greek, Gill joined Johnson onstage during the song Belle. That song, combined with another song, Banana Pancakes, are part of what is referred to as The Accordion Set.
Gill also plays the melodica. He played one during Jack Johnson’s Live Earth set.
He is currently featured on a song with Jack Johnson and Matt Costa called Let It Be Sung and he recently collaborated with singer/songwriter Aimee Mann on a song called At the Edge of the World. This song is the opening track for the Paramount Pictures release Arctic Tale He also wrote The Sharing Song in the Imagine Entertainment, David Kirschner Productions’ animated film “Curious George” featuring the the voice of Will Ferrel, Drew Barrymore and the music of Jack Johnson.
Gill’s latest album with ALO called “Roses and Clover” is available on Brushfire records and the band is touring in North and South America, Europe, Japan and in support of it.
Gill’s solo debut, Stuff, was released July 28, 2008 via Brushfire Records. The album features guest appearances by Steve Adams from ALO, Tristan Prettyman, Merlo and Adam (his Jack Johnson bandmates). The first single from the album, Family, features Jack Johnson on drums and appeared in the movie “Baby Mama” with Amy Poehler, Tina Fey and Greg Kinnear.
New Augie March single "Watch Me Disappear" Listen & Download
‘Watch Me Disappear’ is the title track from the follow up to the bands 2006 breakthrough, Moo, You Bloody Choir. Which of course spawned the all-encompassing single ‘One Crowded Hour’. Recorded in New Zealand with US producer Joe Chiccarelli (The Shins, White Stripes, Beck) and mixed in LA, Watch Me Disappear is set for release October 11.
Springing largely from a driving bassline, the five minute track is uncharacteristically bare for the band. Not to mention positioned amongst their "best set of songs to date". Explains Glenn Richards on the band’s site:
"Funny track, wholly written with bass and drums not unlike a lot of the Dark Satanic Mills EP. Quite distinct from the rest of the album structurally. Thematically a return to the Eden subject previously explored in the Sunset Studies track ‘There is no Such Place’.
However, in place of trembling dilettante, now find shivering buccaneer on last voyage, minus sea legs. Driving on Paradise? Or one way ticket to Narragonia? You decide, (or don’t!)"
- Augie March songwriter Glenn Richards
Bird Automatic – "Suburbs" Mp3
Apologies for not posting much new music lately but here is a song that I have been really enjoying lately, Feel free to download it, the link is below.
Emerging in late 2006, Bird Automatic began to play shows and record homemade demos. Since then, they’ve sure been busy, touring with the likes of The Shout Out Louds, Art Brut and The 1990s! Bird Automatic’s sound is a marriage of Light Electronica with elements of Post Rock and Indie-Pop.
Roz Savage, Rows solo across the Pacific Ocean – Podcast
June 23, 2008 by Kevin
Filed under Information, Kevin, Podcast
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This is the latest podcast to be released from Leo Laporte’s TWIT Network. “Roz rows the Pacific” is a series of regular interviews with Ocean Adventurer Roz Savage as she rows solo across the Pacific Ocean from the USA to Australia. The Podcast is updated three times a week.
Roz admits that she is an unlikely adventurer. An office-bound salary slave for most of her adult life, it wasn’t until her mid-thirties that she decided that there had to be more to life than four grey walls.
She took her first foray into the world of adventure in 2003, with a three month exploration of Peru. Her confidence boosted, she then looked around for her next big project. It had to be:
- environmentally friendly (to make amends for 11 years’ of business travel)
- solo (so she could test her capabilities without relying on someone else)
- challenging (so she could grow as a person)
- unusual (so she could make a living from writing and talking about it)
- physical (so she could shed a few pounds).
Ocean rowing seemed to tick all the boxes, and eight years of rowing on the River Thames was enough to give Roz the happy delusion that this was something she was vaguely qualified to do. So the choice was made.
In 2005-6 Roz rowed across the Atlantic Ocean as the only solo female competitor in the 3000-mile Atlantic Rowing Race from the Canaries to Antigua.
And in Summer 2008 she will set out on a three stage, three year project to row solo across the Pacific – 7600 miles from the United States to Australia.
Noosa Holiday Photo’s turned into Music Video
Recently I have discovered a great new website called Animoto. The site makes it very easy to turn your favourite photo collections into music videos. All you do is upload your photo’s and music, and the website will do the rest. Below is an example of what you can achieve, these photo’s were taken on our holiday last year to Noosa and Dreamworld on the Gold Coast. The music is a song called “A little bit of feel good” by Jamie Lidell.
Jim Bianco – Belong Mp3
Here’s one of my new favourite tracks:- Jim Bianco, Belong
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Jim Bianco – “I write songs. Sometimes about love, sometimes about sex, sometimes about stalkers, or music or folly or the Devil. I notice that most songs around are about love, which reminds me of another quote, by Frank Zappa:”
“There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something, we’d all love one another.”
Donkey Courtroom – Tony Martin’s Get This
Here is the famous Donkey Courtroom sketch, starring Ed Kavalee, Tony Martin & Richard Marsland. It originally aired on Tony Martin’s “Get This” program on Triple M in 2007.
Gabriella Cilmi – Sweet about me mp3
She is young, attractive and highly talented, how annoying…This is a great track from Gabriella Cilmi. "Sweet about me"
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