Elise LeGrow is a Canadian recording artist and songwriter. Elise was offered a publishing deal from Sony Music following a live performance at the 2009 NXNE music festival in Toronto. Elise’s first release, “No Good Woman,” was the most added single on adult comtempoary radio in Canada the week of April 7, 2012. The single […]
Be Good Tanyas
The Be Good Tanyas are a Canadian folk music group formed in 1999 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Original members Frazey Ford, Trish Klein, and Sam Parton first played together at open mics and tree planting camps in the Kootenays region of British Columbia. Texas native Jolie Holland is also one of the band’s original members […]
Bob Dylan – Gospel Songs
Unusually for this blog I am returning for a seconf day to the same artist. Yesterday I concentrated on the general outline of Dylan’s musical career, but today being Sunday I want to focus on his series of gospel songs which he produced in the late 1970’s. Slow Train Coming was his 19th studio album, […]
Bob Dylan
In honour of Bob Dylan celebrating his 80th birthday this week, I have selected some of my favourite pieces of his music for this blog post. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career spanning nearly 60 years. Much of […]
Oh Wonder
Oh Wonder are an English, London based alt-pop duo, consisting of Anthony West and Josephine Vander Gucht. Before the duo was formed, Vander Gucht was a solo artist, first going by her own name and then later under the alias of “LAYLA”. Anthony West was originally part of the groups Tonight Is Goodbye, Futures, and […]
Pyrolysis
Pyrolysis was born in 2012, when Laurens Krah and Stan Eimers, decided to begin a metal band, together with Sven Schipper, their guitar player at that time. The band’s name still stems from this time of electrical guitars, drum kit and keyboard. “Pyrolysis” is a chemical reaction where warmth and energy are created through decomposition. […]
The Andrews Sisters
Today we are really travelling back in time. Looking through YouTube you will find that many modern groups will cover songs orginally made famous by the Andrews Sisters, so today we shall clebrate the originals. The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie woogie eras. The group consisted […]
Joe Brown
A trip back to the 1960’s today to showcase the music of Joe Brown. As a rock and roll singer and guitarist, he has performed for more than six decades. He was a stage and television performer in the late 1950s and has been a UK recording star since the early 1960s. He has made […]
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
“I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” is a song by Irish band U2 It is the second track from their 1987 album The Joshua Tree and was released as the album’s second single in May 1987. The song was a hit, becoming the band’s second consecutive number-one single on the US Billboard while […]
Rainbow
Rainbow are a South Korean girl group formed in 2009 by DSP Media. The group is composed of seven members: Woori, Seungah, Jaekyung, Noeul, Yoonhye, Jisook and Hyunyoung. During late October and early November 2009, DSP Media released daily teasers in the form of pictures of Rainbow, and then a music video for “Gossip Girl” […]