Julie London was an American singer and actress whose career spanned more than 40 years. A torch singer noted for her sultry, languid contralto vocals, London recorded over thirty albums of pop and jazz standards between 1955 and 1969. Earlier in 1955, London was spotted singing at a jazz club in Los Angeles by record […]
Wet Leg
Wet Leg are a British indie rock band from the Isle of Wight, founded in 2019 by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers. Merseyside-born Teasdale moved from Formby to the Isle of Wight when she was eight. She performed for many years on the Isle of Wight as a local musician and pianist, and prior to […]
Pulp
Pulp are an English rock band formed in Sheffield in 1978. Their best-known line-up from their heyday (1992–1997) consisted of Jarvis Cocker (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Russell Senior (guitar, violin), Candida Doyle (keyboards), Nick Banks (drums, percussion), Steve Mackey (bass) and Mark Webber (guitar, keyboards). Throughout the 1980s the band struggled to find success, but gained […]
Sibylle Baier
Sibylle Baier is a German folk singer and actress, whose musical abilities achieved belated recognition with the 2006 release of the album Colour Green, compiled from songs she had recorded in the early 1970s. Her music is known for its plainness, emotional sincerity, and reference to mundane life in a folk style that’s been compared […]
Pizzicato Five
Pizzicato Five (formerly typeset as Pizzicato V and sometimes abbreviated to P5) was a Japanese pop band formed in Tokyo in 1979 by multi-instrumentalists Yasuharu Konishi and Keitarō Takanami. After some personnel changes in the late 1980s, the band gained international fame as a duo consisting of Konishi and vocalist Maki Nomiya. With their music […]
Wednesday (Jenna Ortega)
Wednesday is an American coming of age, supernatural comedy horror television series based on the character Wednesday Addams by Charles Addams. Created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, it stars Jenna Ortega as the titular character. Four out of the eight episodes are directed by Tim Burton, who also serves as executive producer. Wednesday premiered […]
McKenna Grace
Mckenna Grace is an American actress and singer/songwriter. She began acting professionally at the age of four, with her earliest roles including Jasmine Bernstein in the sitcom Crash & Bernstein (2012–2014) and Faith Newman in the soap opera The Young and the Restless (2013–2015). In 2018 and 2019, The Hollywood Reporter named her one of […]
Music for March
March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the second of seven months to have a length of 31 days. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March. The March equinox on the 20 or 21 marks the […]
Animal Songs – Horses 7
The last animal song post for the moment. A final visit to the corral for a further collection of songs. “High Horse” is a song written and recorded by American country music singer and songwriter Kacey Musgraves for her fourth studio album, Golden Hour (2018). Musgraves co-wrote the song with Trent Dabbs and Tom Schleiter, […]
Animal Songs – Horses 5
A further visit to the stables for yet another collection of songs about ‘Horses’ “Just Like Them Horses” is a song recorded by American country artist Reba McEntire. It was composed by Liz Hengber and Tommy Lee James. The song was issued as a single via Nash Icon Records in 2016 and was the second […]