1. Sunny Daze
2. BluePrint
3. Com Coraçao
4. In Love With Love
5. Batucada Bonde
6. Fluorescent
8. 8 Measures
9. Amandinha
10. Vanilla Vs Barcelona
11. Tango Noir
12. Mama África
13. Hang on.
For more than two decades, Counting Crows have enchanted listeners worldwide with their intensely soulful and intricate take on timeless rock & roll. Now, on Somewhere Under Wonderland —their seventh studio album, the Bay Area-bred alt-rock band push into new terrain with a revamped songwriting approach that’s adventurous and visionary but still rooted in raw emotion.
Propelled by the same earthy passion that’s instilled their songs since 1993’s multiplatinum August and Everything After, Counting Crows (vocalist Adam Duritz; guitarists David Bryson, David Immergluck, and Dan Vickrey; bassist Millard Powers; keyboardist Charlie Gillingham; and drummer Jim Bogios) build each of Somewhere Under Wonderland’s sprawling songs around rich sonic tapestries and a storytelling-esque lyricism that yields some of their most grandiose yet intimate songs so far.
Official Site – http://countingcrows.com/
Official buy – https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/somewhere-under-wonderland/id893448765.
“It’s a word that looks and sounds beautiful,” says Luke Pritchard. “I love the roundness of it, the simplicity of it.” The word the Kooks singer is extolling is “Listen” – which also happens to be the title of the band’s new album. Luke’s reasons for choosing that title become clear the moment you dive into the new record – as they do when he starts to describe its genesis, and the personal and emotional transformation he experienced while making it. “To me,” Luke continues, “this album is about pure expression. Even the way we made the album felt fresh. Rather than us just being a band in a room, playing our guitars with the vocal over the top, which is what we’d always done before, we were really listening to what was going on around us, picking up ideas. The whole thing was much more natural.”
Official Site – http://thekooks.com/
Official buy – https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/listen/id860944640.
DEBUT ALBUM RELEASE ‘BE IMPRESSIVE’ LEADING SINGLE ‘BEWARE THE DOG’
Melbourne 25-Sep The Corner Ballarat 26-Sep Karova Lounge Canberra 27-Sep Zierholz @ UC Live Wollongong 4-Oct Yours and Owls Newcastle 9-Oct Small Ballroom Sydney 11-Oct The Metro Adelaide 17-Oct Jive Perth 18-Oct Amplifier Bar Brisbane 23-Oct The Brightside Maroochydore24-Oct Sol Bar
When he was 18 years old, Sam Smith wrote his first truthful song, a flashbulb moment for the brilliant blue-eyed soul singer. Three years later and the song has long since been discarded as a naive folly. Like all singer songwriters that are rich in emotion, knee-deep in their own small personal complications and dependent on their precociously youthful talent to engage with the world, Sam resolved never to write a song again that didn’t connect straight from the heart. The first set of results, delivered with breathtaking vocal depth and range, will be put to the litmus test of public opinion when his debut album drops in 2014.
When he reached number one on the singles chart this year, collaborating with London production wizard Naughty Boy, on the insanely catchy global smash La, La, La, Sam Smith didn’t feel triumphant. He felt relief. ‘It’s almost like a little gift,’ he says. ‘Now I’ve had a number one I don’t feel that pressure. Of course I want the songs to do well but it’s about making an artistic statement. The focus is more selfish now. I’ve ticked that box off, it was lovely, amazing in a way, but I can concentrate on other things.’
Australia’s beloved Marcia Hines returns to the recording studio for her first album of original songs in 20 years. Having recently reunited with independent record label head Robert Rigby of Ambition Music Group and becoming the face of Foxtel’s SmoothTV Channel, 2014 is shaping up to be a truly AMAZING year for one of Australia’s most respected music treasures.
Amazing
Line In The Sand
Coldest Winter Nights
Chase That Feeling
Remedy (With Russell Crowe)
Hung Up
Rain
Equals Three (Featuring Diesel)
Heartache
Silent Tears
Holla
The Change
Let Love Flow
Imagine
With our last edition being volume 40 – Ruby Anniversary edition, saw the end of the previous compilation format. This edition see’s the roll out of the new format and with new years and new formats comes good things!
Kicking off the new format of our Autumn 2014 compilation, here is the lucky ones who made it on:
1. Georgia Fair – Are We Not Alive
2. Lloyd Cole – Period Piece
3. The Black Sorrows – Certified Blue
4. The Baker Suite – Evidence of Love
5. Luka Bloom – Liffeyside
7. Fiona Joy Hawkins – Tango on Wednesday
8. Urban Chiefs – Little Town
9. Daniel Dawes – Listen To The Radio
10. Bitzer – Sunshine
11. Bob Pigott – Spirits (The Cumberland Plain)
12. Natasha Duarte – He Kissed Me
13. Throwing Shapes – Zero Days feat. Tiana
14. B-Tham – Free Your Mind.
Just in time for Easter our lucky cafe’s are about to receive this great album, courtesy of inertia distribution.
Kelis (yes, of ‘Milkshake’ fame) describes her sixth album as “a kind of unspoken lovefest,” produced by Dave Sitek of TV On The Radio. It mints a sound that’s rootsy without ever being self-consciously retro, that pitches live horns and gospel-y organ against electronics, that for all its classic soul and funk influences, couldn’t have been made any time but now. The Cordon Bleu trained chef has a deep passion for food and cooking — as you may have gathered from the title,and indeed the tracks Jerk Ribs, Friday Fish Fry, Biscuits N’ Gravy and Cobbler.
1. Breakfast
2. Jerk Ribs
3. Forever Be
4. Floyd
5. Runnin’
6. Hooch
7. Cobbler
8. Bless the Telephone
9. Friday Fish Fry
10. Change
11. Rumble
12. Biscuits ‘n’ Gravy
13. Dreamer
Half Moon Run are a Canadian indie rock band based in Montreal. The band members, who previously lived in British Columbia and in Ottawa, include singer Devon Portielje on vocals, guitar and percussion; Conner Molander on vocals, guitar and keyboard; Dylan Phillips on vocals, drums and keyboard; and Isaac Symonds on vocals, percussions, mandolin, keyboard and guitar.
They have played South by Southwest, Osheaga, Canadian Music Week and Glastonbury Festival 2013, and have opened for such artists as Metric, Patrick Watson[1] and Mumford & Sons. They are currently supporting Of Monsters and Men on their North American Tour. Their debut album, Dark Eyes, was released in 2013, and was co-produced with Daniel Lagacé and Nygel Asselin. They have toured Europe and Australia. Critical acclaim has included praise for their three-part harmonies.
In August 2013, Ubisoft launched a new Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag trailer featuring their song Full Circle. The official video on YouTube passed 1 million views overnight.
Half Moon Run are touring Australia: Click Here for tour dates
1. Full Circle
2. Call Me in the Afternoon
3. No More Losing the War
4. She Wants to Know
5. Need It
6. Give Up
7. Judgement
8. Drug You
9. Nerve
10. Fire Escape
11. 21 Gun Salute
Grammy Award winner and multi-platinum recording artist Kelly Clarkson release her first Christmas album, Wrapped in Red. The album features brand new instant classics such as the first single, “Underneath The Tree,” and title track, “Wrapped In Red” as well as Christmas favorites, “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”, “Blue Christmas”, “Run Run Rudolph,” “Please Come Home For Christmas” and many more.
The album’s first single, “Underneath The Tree,” was written by Kelly and hit songwriter/producer Greg Kurstin as well as produced by Kurstin. Kelly enlisted Kurstin who was one of her partner’s on the Grammy Award winning album Stronger. Together, Kelly and Greg bring a fresh, contemporary sound to this new holiday music ensuring the songs are big hits and evergreen holiday favorites.
Kelly states, “I’m super excited to put out my first Christmas record. I absolutely love Christmas music and have had a total blast recording and writing for it. I can’t wait for y’all to hear it.”
1. Wrapped in Red
2. Underneath the Tree
3. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
4. Run Run Rudolph
5. Please Come Home for Christmas (Bells Will Be Ringing)
6. Every Christmas
7. Blue Christmas
8. Baby, It’s Cold Outside feat. Ronnie Dunn
9. Winter Dreams (Brandon’s Song)
10. White Christmas
11. My Favorite Things
12. 4 Carats
13. Just for Now
14. Silent Night
15. I’ll Be Home for Christmas
