Music Review: Jackie DeShannon - Jackie DeShannon
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Jackie DeShannon's 1963 debut album returns for a well deserved encore.
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Songs of a sartorial nature
So Quoted (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Wherein 1958 was a good year Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots, Vaughn Monroe Blue Dress, Depeche Mode Blue Skirt Waltz, Jimmy Sturr Blue Suede Shoes, Carl Perkins Boot-Leg, Booker T & the MGs Boots, Laurie Berkner Bring Your Clothes, Laurie Berkner Button Up Your Overcoat, Dick Haymes Buttons, Sia Chantilly Lace, Jerry Lee Lewis Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes, Paul Simon & Ladysmith...
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Great female singers
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
I've just watched Gladys Knight on Jools Holland's show on BBC2 and was in raptures. She's fantastic. To think that it's nearly 50 years since I first heard her sing with the Pips. Doesn't seem possible. Still. it made me think about the great female singers who I've had the pleasure of hearing and, in some cases, seeing over the years. So here is my top 50 female singers (and apologies to any I've...
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Music Review: Jackie DeShannon - Me About You/To Be Free
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
More lost gems from Jackie DeShannon.
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Tonight In Rock: Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros, The Watkins Family Hour, Pink Mountaintops, White Arrows
LAist (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros will be performing tonight at the El Rey Theatre | Photo by Koga for LAist Our Pick: Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, LA Ladies Choir, Frank Fairfield @ El Rey Theatre Tonight the famed Watkins Family Hour ( LAist Review ) will be taking place at Largo at the Coronet . Vancouver-bred psych-infused rock outfit Pink Mountaintops are poised to take on the Echo...
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Andrew Sandoval Talks LA Nuggets and the End of the Box Set...
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Andrew Sandoval is the executive producer of the LA Nuggets box set, a project that he says he essentially started working on when he was first hired by Rhino at age 17 (his first gig was writing liner notes to a Monkees reissue). Sandoval is a fount of information on Los Angeles music, and in the wide-ranging interview below, he talks not only Nuggets and Los Angeles rock, but of the reissue and...
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Week In Rock: Bon Iver, CocoRosie, Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros, Telefon Tel Aviv
LAist (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
CocoRosie will be performing Monday at the Henry Fonda Music Box | Photo by Brian Buchard via CocoRosie's Myspace This week Wisconsin-bred folk singer-songwriter Justin Vernon, otherwise known as Bon Iver ( LAist Review ), will be performing at the Wiltern with none other than Durham's own Megafaun and by himself at Hollywood Forever Cemetery . Local indie rockers Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros...
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AllMusic New Release Newsletter: 09/08/2009
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. 2 Like the original, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. 2 sets the stage with the intro, but here it’s some Raekwon history courtesy of Papa Wu. On Pt. 1 it was fictional dialog introducing a loose concept album. Besides the introductory dialog and the album’s look-alike cover [...]
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Music Review: Jackie DeShannon - New Arrangement
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Something old and something new from Jackie DeShannon.
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Music Review: Jackie DeShannon
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
A Collectors' Choice reissue of the singer/songwriter's debut album turns out to be an okay collection of folk covers.
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Needles and Pins
Suburban Guerrilla (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
Yeah, it’s a little early in the day but I have a nasty sinus headache and I need some Jackie DeShannon:
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She’ll Turn The Music On You
CreamTeam (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
My Gold Mask are a great dark pop duo from here in Chicago. Lush with references to the era of Kate Bush and Siouxsie and the Banshees, My Gold Mask pound, shake, wail and thrash through midnight melodies laced with rock noir. Vocalist Gretta Rochelle is never afraid to deviate from a chamber pop formula, [...]
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What the world needs now
Power Line (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
...is Jackie DeShannon. DeShannon celebrated her birthday this past Friday. She is of course the artist who brought the quintessential Hal David-Burt Bacharach composition "What the World Needs Now" to life (with Bacharach's production, if I'm not mistaken) in 1965. Following the form of a prayer or sermon, the song remains timely these many years later. The form recalls the style of Johnny...
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Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
stultify \STUHL-tuh-fahy\, verb: To render useless or ineffectual; cripple. To cause to appear stupid, inconsistent, or ridiculous. Law To allege or prove insane and so not legally responsible. Stultify is from Late Latin stultificre, "to make foolish." bag pipe Screwing a chick in her arm pit. Similar to a titty fuck. Damn I wish she had done a better job of shaving before I bag piped her....
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My Gold Mask - Bette Davis Eyes (Kim Carnes cover)
Sheena Beaston (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
A cover of a cover? Well, yeah, kind of. See, Kim Carnes was, in fact, not the originator of Bette Davis Eyes , and yeah, we knew that, but did you? Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon actually "collabreated" to produce a fine piece of material back in 1974. But 2009 is where the song has new life breathed into it, courtesy of our favorite Chicagoans, My Gold Mask . Pairing the inimitable chants...