The Oedipus Project
Last year Christopher Owens abandoned his formidable band Girls.
The lead singer and songwriter is now front and center as a solo artist.
The gentle “Here We Go” enhanced with flute contains a musical theme heard throughout his debut album Lysandre.
It’s been 10 years since we have heard something new from David Bowie.
A personal inspiration and one of my favorite artists of all-time, David continues to be unpredictably innovative and charmingly provocative.
“Where Are We Now?” is from his forthcoming album The Next Day.
Crocodiles from San Diego have teamed up with our fave Dum Dum Girls for a one-off Christmas song.
(No coincidence that Brandon Welchez of Crocodiles (and former Dum Dum member) is married to front woman Dee Dee of Dum Dum Girls.)
Just in time for the holidays the amusingly titled “Merry Christmas Baby (Please Don’t Die)”.
It is exceedingly difficult to write a good Christmas song, more so to write a classic. And only a few artists have written more than one.
Sufjan Stevens has to be the most prolific composer of contemporary Christmas Songs.
In 2006 he gave us an incredible 5 volumes of holiday songs.
He follows this year 5 additional albums!
“Christmas in the Room” is from Silver & Gold: Songs for Christmas, Vols. 6-10.
Tis the season and it’s now time to drop some Christmas music onto this music blog.
Boston’s Irish punk rockers, Dropkick Murphys offer up this little Xmas gem appropriately titled “The Season’s Upon Us”.
It’s been 5 years since we last heard from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Push the Sky Away, their 15th, is expected in February.
The distinctive power and beauty of this formidable talent is once again heard in “We No Who U R”.
Once a member of Pulp and the Longpigs, Brit guitarist/singer/songwriter Richard Hawley has 7 solo albums under his belt.
His latest, Standing at the Sky’s Edge, (a Mercury Prize nominee) is stellar.
Listen here to “Down in the Woods”.
Shades of New Wave. Mix electronica alternative dance with David Bowie and we have Diamond Rings.
Canadian John O’Regan is Diamond Rings; Free Dimensional his newly released 2nd album.
“’I’m Just Me” the single.
Mission of Burma is one of the most influential bands to ever come out of Boston. Post-punk, vitally intense, uncannily discordant and blazingly modern the band turned rock over in 1979 and exposed its dark underbelly.
Mission of Burma disbanded in 1983 due to guitarist Roger Miller’s tinnitus, but in 2002 famously reunited and have since recorded 4 albums, the most recent Unsound released this past summer.
Learn How: The Essential Mission of Burma is a greatest hits compilation scheduled for December.
“Second Television” from Unsound will be included.
Punk rock provocateurs Titus Andronicus have launched their 3rd album Local Business.
New Jersey born and bred, their birthplace permeates their music as we heard previously in The Monitor and now in their latest “In a Big City”.
Cajsa Siik’s first song debuted in Stockholm in August.
Expect the album Plastic House in December.
Singer, songwriter, cellist, “Was I Supposed to?” is delicious infectious pure pop.
We featured the song “Paradise” by Wild Nothing back in September.
It’s one of my favorite songs of the year and the video has just been released starring the actress Michelle Williams.
As an added bonus she reads from The Word Child by the great novelist Iris Murdoch, a beautiful enhancement to the song.
