The Soundcloud Round-Up: Some Hours Earlier Than Usual

This time around, the Soundcloud round-up will be more of a brief and a belatedly weekend affair. First off is a new instrumental track, “Saturday Morning Blues,” by a guitarist in

The Sunday Soundcloud – Dash?

As regards this and the other Musicuratum website, the last week has largely been absorbed by the work after the work, which proved to be somewhat less protracted than the former but

A New Video from The Shures – “Halo”

Though I’m still in the midst of bringing this site up to grade, a video just crossed my path that’s remarkable, a rendition of Beyoncé’s “Halo” which, as Gabriel Cabrera and

The Shures Cover Whitney Houston

Gabriel Cabrera and Chris Kennedy of The Shures, though once again without Sophie, the group’s newest member, have ventured an impromptu cover of Whitney Houston’s

“I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)” – Revisited by The Shures

A cover of “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)” by The Four Tops has been uploaded on the Youtube channel of The Shures, and though the group’s newest member Sophie is absent from it

A Concert at the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ: Seth Josel, Raphael Vanoli, Ben Frost, and Their Friends

Last Friday evening at the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ here in Amsterdam, under the auspices of the Amsterdam Electric Guitar Heaven festival, and in co-operation with the Bimhuis and that

The Stephen Carmichael Playlist: A New Video

On his Youtube channel, Stephen Carmichael has posted a video of a new cover of Ke$ha’s “Die Young” that is also in part an homage to Cyndi Lauper, in part a mash-up

The Shures: A New Member and a New Video

The “Internet band” The Shures has a new member, the Welsh singer Sophie, and is thus once again a trio; to kick things off, they’ve uploaded a cover of Nicki Minaj’s “Pound the Alarm”

Matthew Shlomowitz

A young Australian composer who lives and works in London, and who’s already quite accomplished (with Joanna Bailie he leads the Plus Minus Ensemble, and he is also engaged as a teacher at a

Garçon Garçon

August is coming to an end and tonight a nearly tropical thunderstorm is sweeping over Amsterdam – and on the Internet I just came across a duo from Down Under called

Dirtmusic

While assembling the playlist featuring Nico I came across a cover of “All Tomorrow’s Parties” by Dirtmusic, which I included in it, and the character of that number convinced me to compile a

“My Heart” (Stephen Carmichael)

Stephen Carmichael has updated his Soundcloud page, and one of the new tracks is entitled “My Heart”

Ben Carey

Ben Carey is a saxophonist, a composer, and a wizard of technology – the specifics of this side of his activity, I must admit, go over my head, though I can still admire

The Stephen Carmichael Playlist: A New Video

There’s a new video that Stephen Carmichael has posted on his Youtube channel, a cover of Katy Perry’s “Wide Awake,” and it’s good; I’ve added it to the playlist. Here it is

Stephen Carmichael

Stephen Carmichael, a young singer and musician in Brisbane, Australia, with a striking performance persona, has been reviving the pop music of the early 1980s for the last couple of

The Shures

Currently a duo (a trio up until early this year), the “Internet band” The Shures now comprises Gabriel Cabrera, from Sydney, and Chris Kennedy, from London (with, in a recent