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

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

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

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

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

Jonnie Allen

A new discovery on Soundcloud is the Englishman Jonnie Allen; there is not a great amount of biographical information provided on his page there, nor on his Myspace page, though one Continue reading →

“Bizarre Love Triangle” Again: A Second Playlist

Some months ago I compiled a Youtube playlist of a number of covers done of the song “Bizarre Love Triangle,” perhaps the most memorable – certainly one of the most moving – of the numbers recorded

The Jasmine Thompson Playlist: A New Video

A cover of Rihanna’s “Love the Way You Lie” has been uploaded by Jasmine Thompson, and it’s as moving – and precocious – a performance as many of the other songs that this young

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”

The Cornelia and Portico Quartet Playlists: A New Video

The Portico Quartet has posted a video of a song called “Steepless,” featuring the singer Cornelia; I’ve updated the former’s playlist and added it to the latter’s.

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

A Sunday Evening Interlude: “Bizarre Love Triangle”

To chance upon an allusion to “Love Will Tear Us Apart” today was unexpected, and the encounter threw me back forcibly to the time when that number was new; it struck me, but not for

Daphne Guinness

The English heiress Daphne Guinness (she divides her time between New York, London, and Paris) is renowned for her couture, but less often recognized is the fact of her early operatic

Jasmine Thompson

Jasmine Thompson is another instance that makes one reflect upon the paradoxe sur le comédien, or rather, in her case, the paradoxe de la chanteuse, even if the word