words & photos by Dominick Mastrangelo A small group huddled around Kenny McKeeve and Gavin Dunbar not long after Camera Obscura's sold-out show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Sunday night (11/22). One globe-trotting fan from Toronto had recently...
Camera Obscura have had an amazing year, with their album My Maudlin Career garnering praise from all around. A huge UK tour was followed by a six-week stretch in North America and Mexico then a summer full of festival appearances. In between these, they recorded many radio sessions in the UK, and made their US TV debut on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson HERE . After being afforded a short...
Here are the top five IFOCE winning percentages according to the eatfeats database. The list was inspired by Joey Chestnut’s claim that he did not know his winning percentage. The first column is the number of victories, the second the total number of contest results and the third is the ratio of wins to contests. 20 26 0.7692 Takeru [...]
Here are several radio spots promoting the 1962 observance of National Country Music Week. I must admit I was a bit surprised to see that they found room for Connie Francis and the Kingston Trio, performers not generally associated with...
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive With the holidays fast approaching, it's inevitable that bands will be rolling out a Christmas carol or two. Count Scottish indie-poppers Camera Obscura in this year, but don't think they will be singing about Rudolph or Santa or anything happy and festive. Instead, they'll release a cover version of Jim Reeves ' 'The Blizzard,' where they take the downtrodden,...
Horse prices are "ugly…terrible," says Diane Givan, office manager of Kist Livestock, Mandan, N.D. Colts are bringing as little as $10-$50 per head. They used to sell for $200 to $500. Working horses are selling for about half of what they used to. Owners of older horses sometimes can't sell their horses at all or end up in the hole after paying the auction house's commission and other...
Cheryl Cole … pumpkin launch damages scoreboard … interesting read on the generational rift at the NY Times … Xavier McDaniel and Shawn Kemp would want you to watch this … in some cases, we endorse strategic defaults … drunk man drives lawnmower into back of stopped school bus … sponsoring the implosion of Texas [...]
Longtime Fort Worth Star-Telegram writer and columnist Jim Reeves is retiring. Ray Buck has the story up at the S-T. It isn't clear when Reeves' retirement date is effective, but regardless, we've got one less long-time sports voice out there in D/FW.
Pictures — like music — have a powerful ability to coax memories out of hiding, even for those of us who might have misplaced the combination to our mental vault. That would certainly be the case for a picture I ran into recently, a deceptively simple one of an old house — but one that [...]
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Camera Obscura – “The Blizzard” b/w “Swans” 7″ Out 12/8 on 4AD A cover of the Jim Reeves’ classic “The Blizzard” backed with “Swans,” from My Maudlin Career.
By Terra Bradford We have reviews of some movies listed below. To find movie downloads do a search. You can find good results with by searching "Music Movie Download", "Hindi Movie Rentals" and "Top 100 Movie Rentals". Kimberley Jim: Little musical of 2 carefree gamblers who win a fortune in a fixed poker game, and then have a change of heart. Cast includes Jim Reeves,...