Al Jahom's Final Word (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
I don’t know why. I don’t like Martha Wainwright’s songs or music. This is an understatement. I don’t like Edith Piaf’s voice. This is an understatement. But this is my favourite album of the moment: It just works. The title comes from track 6 on the download (CD, whatever), Les Grognards. In this context, it seems grognard means ‘old [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Marks & Sparks's Xmas sarnies and eBay's new mag go down a treat. Unlike fishnets, manicures and pantos Going up M&S Christmas sandwiches Stuffing in a sarnie is so wrong, it's right David Koma Hot new designer who dresses Beyoncé and Cheryl Cole The Inside Source eBay's online mag. Our new great hope for finding an affordable vintage Chanel 2.55 Singing in French Martha Wainwright...
I Am Fuel, You Are Friends (Free subscription) | yesterday
... include National bandmates the Dessner brothers and Bryan Devendorf, as well as Beth Orton, Martha Wainwright, Nico Muhly ( of this ) and Glen Hansard of The Frames/Swell Season (who I see tonight). It packs a pretty immense punch. This living room performance with string quartet, trumpets, and guest appearances by Sean Lennon and Bryce Dessner was from the album release party last...
Nö Music (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
a-ha has waved their last goodbye and from their ashes rises all-star project Apparatjik. Featuring Jonas Bjerre (Mew), Guy Berryman (Coldplay), Magne Furuholmen (a-ha) and producer Martin Terefe (Martha Wainwright, Jason Mraz), the band has revealed through their Radioheadesque-cryptic website that their new single “Electric Eye” will be available digitally 30th November....
CBC Radio 3 (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... Charlies Manitoba/ Chantal Kreviazuk / Waskada Ontario/ Hawksley Workman / Algonquin Park Quebec/ Martha Wainwright / The Black Sheep Inn New Brunswick/ David Myles / Hopewell Rocks Nova Scotia/ Joel Plaskett / Cabot Trail Prince Edward Island/ Catherine MacLellan / Singing Sands Beach Newfoundland & Labrador/ Hey Rosetta! / Gros Morne National Park Yukon/ Kim Barlow / Dawson...
Brew Wales (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... Beneath the Planet of the Apes and both versions of The Day the Earth Stood Still. All that plus Martha Wainwright, who joins Lauren in the bar to sing a song from her new album - a tribute to Edith Piaf called Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, a Paris. Not a mention of the Vulcan in the BBC write-up . Broadcast times are: Thu 26 Nov 2009 19:00 BBC Two (England, Wales only) Thu 26 Nov 2009...
e-clecticism (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... and Cheryl Cole singing Set The Fire To The Third Bar which the former originally performed with Martha Wainwright . Lovely. The second is Lily Allen performing her song Who'd Have Known whilst being joined by Take That performing Shine . It is like they were meant to fit together. Finally. I couldn't not feature Bono from U2 singing with The Corrs. His voice and that of the beautiful...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , UK 'Gavin and Stacey' writer and actor James Corden has followed in the footsteps of Martha Wainwright and Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole by becoming the third vocalist to sing with Snow Patrol for 'Set The Fire to The Third Bar'. He joined the band for the song at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Tuesday night (Nov. 24) after Snow Patrol front...
The Guardian - TV & Radio blog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... series' best moments have come from back and forths between the teams: N-Dubz's Dappy confusing Martha Wainwright with Cerys Matthews; the Donal MacIntyre in disguise as an undercover banana gags; Jamelia being the most surprisingly brilliant guest since Josh Groban last year; Dappy in general. There's definitely still plenty to make Buzzcocks worth keeping up with. It, like all panel...
wears the trousers magazine (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Following on from last year’s well publicised Arctic expedition by a gaggle of artistic types who included Laurie Anderson, Martha Wainwright, Feist, Jarvis Cocker and Robyn Hitchcock, organised by climate change organisation Cape Farewell to “instigate a cultural response to climate change”, comes the Shift Festival, a week-long series of events to run in late [...]...
