Mobidextrous

A few months ago I featured in the Sunday evening round-up a collaboration of the English DJ Mobidextrous (earlier a resident of Beijing, he now lives 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

Early Bird

Alongside the band Forestears, the producers Tom Peterson and Owen Crouch have recently launched a venture into the realm of experimental hip-hop, under the name Early Bird, and

Spring Is Here, Today

And it’s about time, too – this winter has dragged on and on. Well, on the occasion and to put some sprightliness into everyone’s step, here are three vivacious tracks found on

Pop Noir

An up-and-coming band based in Huntington Beach, though this fraternal duo, the lead singer Luke and the lead guitarist and producer Joe McGarry, hails from Manchester

A Late Winter’s Night’s Tour Around Soundcloud

After nearly a week in which it seemed the new season was at last arriving in these parts, the winter returned in force during the day and is striking back now in the form of a hailstorm – and

The Sunday Round-Up on Soundcloud

This Sunday, for a change, the Soundcloud round-up is occurring early, very early in the morning; I have a lot on at the moment and may as well send it forth now. First up, thanks to a kind

Landon Gadoci: “Tie Me Up”

On the Austin singer’s Youtube channel, Landon Gadoci – having announced the release some weeks ago – has uploaded the audio of a single, “Tie Me Up,” one which

The Sunday Evening Round-Up on Soundcloud

Sunday evening has rolled around again, and so it’s time once more for a Soundcloud round-up – though not, I hope, of any by now usual suspects. An older project of the London singer, songwriter

Sunday Evening Wrap-Up on Soundcloud: Nature’s Jokes (Birmingham), Floating Admiral (Lille), and Hess Is More (Copenhagen and New York)

Sunday evening is arrived, and so it’s time once more for what may (or may not) become something of a regular feature on this site, namely, a round-up of some music I’ve encountered on

Daft Beatles

It stands to reason that from a city where many of today’s and tomorrow’s new genres in popular music are invented or hybridized into being, some of the most accomplished mash-ups – and

“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

Tracks to Travel by: A Playlist for the Road

While I am traveling, what could be better, in lieu of a more regular schedule of posts on this site, than an international playlist of twenty-five tracks meant to fill those empty

In Homage to Depeche Mode’s “Strangelove”: A Playlist

It’s late and time for something fun – in the shape of a playlist devoted to several covers, remixes, and mash-ups of Depeche Mode’s “Strangelove,” which is another of the songs from the

Jennifer Left

A present-day blues singer and a songwriter across the Channel in Brighton who’s beginning to attract notice widely in the UK, is Jennifer Dalby, who goes by the nom d’artiste Continue reading →

The Jasmine Thompson Playlist: “The Power of Love”

On her Youtube channel, Jasmine Thompson has uploaded a new cover, a bittersweet rendition of Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “The Power of Love,” and I’ve added it to the playlist.

T-Michael

Sometimes one comes across an image that is indeed more eloquent than any number of words (or even of notes?) could possibly be, and the convocation of beautiful people that just took

Through Rooms of Music: Heidi Locher and Frederick Paxton’s “Hotel Kalifornia”

The year coming to an end conduces to thoughts about transience – and about the zones wherein whatever comes and goes might abide for awhile. Pieces of music can provide the

Three Pieces for the End of the Year: A Playlist

As we all get ready to leave 2012 behind (or for it to take its leave of us) it occurred to me that the event might call for a short, a very short playlist, and some tracks recently uploaded on