The camera bit was a disaster at this show for me. I did not get any good pics once Far East Movement took the stage. The treat was the guest spots...fellow Cherrytree Artists Vincent Frank and Colette Carr came out and did renditions of "Fighting for Air" and "Go Ape".…
It had been a long time since I had been in New York City so when the opportunity arose, I jumped at the chance to be in the Big Apple again. The setting was the Cherrytree Times Square release party for the new CDs by Die Antwoord and Far East Movement. I stood in the middle of Times Square in a daze...…
There's an enjoyable interview with Tom in the Culture section of today's Sunday Times newspaper, here in the UK. You can read it in full on the Times' website, by clicking here.
" When La Roux concluded her last song, a triumphant rendition of the I-will-survive-esque anthem "Bullet Proof," the boy in front of me looked at his friend and said, "Good call, man."
The Times Online have just published the list of their top 100 albums of 2009, placing Noah and the Whales new album "The First Days of Spring" at an outstanding 9th place.
Check out the full Top 100 list at the TimeOnline.co.uk and you can re-read The Times Online's 5-star review of The First Days of Spring… Continue
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"The title song of its current album - "The First Days of Spring" (Cherrytree), a promise of renewal based only on "hoping that one day you may come back" - the coda rang with piano chords like a buildup by Bruce Springstreen's E Street Band."
Check out the full interview online here, or in print below (click picture for larger image)…
Check out the New York Times' review of La Roux's live performance in NYC earlier this week.
"The self-titled La Roux debut album, released in the United States last month (it was a hit in England this summer), is dizzying fun. Ms. Jackson, who recalls early Madonna, or even Neneh Cherry, sounds coy even when she's mad, but thanks to the lush, throbbing arrangements, she is never chilly, never off-putting"…
'As musical heir to Ziggy Stardust, U2, and Tears for Fears, this German glam-rock band brings its androgynous yearnings to songs steeped in science fiction and bubble gum rock, and it already has a stadium-scale following in Europe. Its second album, "Humanoid," aims for arena singalongs here too. Oct. 6, Cherrytree/Interscope' - The New York Times, Sep. 14, 2009