David Emery OnlineDepartment of Eagles - No One Does It Like You
A simply lovely video for one of the best tracks of last year.
I particularly like the singing ghosts:
Visit ➔The Dead Weather - Hand You From The Heavens
Jack White + Alison Mosshart (from The Kills) – it sounds as good as you might think it would.
More information here: http://www.thedeadweather.com/
And you can buy the track on iTunes as well: http://tinyurl.com/deadweatheritunes
The Dead Weather – Hand You From The Heavens
Visit ➔Pitchfork Redesigns
Obviously nicer then their previous old-school design, but it’s all a little generic, isn’t it? Take away the logo and you’d have no clue that it’s Pitchfork – it looks like a slightly inferior Drowned In Sound.
Also, they’ve taken the nicely designed pitchfork.tv and genericised that too, taking their embeded video player – which was my favourite embeded video player, due to its simplicity (yes, I have favourite embeded video players…) – and ruining it in the process (it even autoplays if you embed it!). Oh well…
Visit ➔"I never felt magic crazy as this..."
I spent a large chunk of Tuesday in a car with a friend driving up to Manchester. He and I were at the University there in the 80s and we were driving up to spec out a project for later this year. He’s a record exec (of course! which of your so-called friends aren’t? I hear you crow). His job requires him to be constantly in contact with people who work with and for him and so I sat in the passenger listening to his speakerphone conversations: lawyers telling him how he was “their guy” and how and they honestly wanted to sign to him, American executives telling him how genuinely excited about their projects they were , new employees telling him how sincerely they were looking forward to their job… It was a veritable sea of love and sincerity. It reminded of my A&R days and how so much of what got people out of bed depended on passion.
Not linked to for any massive ‘point’ that it makes, but because it’s just a nice read.
Also, I feel duty bound to point out that Adele isn’t on a major, and doesn’t have wads of cash behind her (well, she does now but that’s because she’s earned it).
Visit ➔The Big Pink: Velvet
This is the most exciting new song I’ve heard in so very long; The Big Pink are – finally – a proper, interesting, innovative British band, which it feels like we haven’t seen in ages:
Play it again and again and again until it gets under your skin.
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