Category: Music blogs/labels
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Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill in Early Middle English
English is a funny one, we think of it now as what is spoken either in the US or UK or indeed International English, but there was a long journey to get there, from Germanic and later French influences, and I think Norse. Here you have Kate Bush‘s Running Up That Hill in Early Middle…
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Micky Dolenz saves Shiny Happy People
Shiny Happy People is a song that even R.E.M. has disowned, so to hear Michael Stipe – the band are happy to wear their Monkees influences on their sleeves – praise this cover by Micky Dolenz is high praise indeed. And yes it works in the frame of the Monkees psych bubblegum pop, and there’s…
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New Bill McClintock – Five Finger Death Punch vs Marvin Gaye
A return to form for Bill McClintock is this just released mashup with Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ vs Five Finger Death Punch ‘The Bleeding’ with a bonus Iron Man solo from Black Sabbath. I’m not really up on 5FDP as ver kids say it (cute guitarist though) but I like how this blends.…
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It Must Change: New ANOHNI album & single
Sometimes I feel terminally behind, and that follows with the news that 13 years after the last one, there’s a new ANOHNI And The Johnsons album that was released a few days ago. And judging by the single ‘It Must Change’ released in May, it’s a good one. So many feels from that track alone,…