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Today brings the debut album from Nasvhille all-girl
country-rockers Those
Darlins (it rules), the newest from Def Jux rapper
Cage, heartbreaking
rock from Scots Broken
Records, and some classic jazz from the
Matt Wilson
Quartet!
Today we've got a new J Dilla
collection that Rolling Stone calls "possibly the best
posthumous rap record since the final releases of 2Pac and Biggie,"
along with new music from Baltimore's The Seldon
Plan, Dave Allen from Gang of Four's new band
Faux
Hoax, a free track and $5 album from Butterfly
Boucher, and more!
In the golden age of Hollywood just about everyone knew that the
score to a motion picture is what really set it in motion. The
Movie, the debut from Clare & The
Reasons, is a bright and colorful cabaret, powered by
the ripe plucking of strings, sweet toots on flutes and a wide
ensemble of other jazz instrumentation. Dramatic highs and lows by
leading lady Clare Muldaur polish off their cutesy-tootsie 1920s
sound.
Chris over at Les Enfants Terribles just posted
a great review of Chuck
Brown's latest, Timeless, in which he calls
the Godfather of Go-Go's voice "like caramel coming to a slow
boil."
Read the full writeup after the break, and enjoy this
silky-smooth album.
"Becca
Stevens, 24, is still something of a best-kept secret,
known mainly among her fellow musicians. But since graduating last
year from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, she has
established a strong identity for those who have paid attention.
The songs on Tea Bye Sea introduce a sound both wistful
and determined, reflecting her training in classical guitar; jazz
and pop singing; and the dramatic, Celtic side of Appalachian folk
music."
In addition to bringing you this week's featured releases from
Gramercy
Arms, Belle &
Sebastian, The Kin and more,
we're kicking off an effort to help fight hunger as the
Thanksgiving holiday approaches.
We've teamed up with Food Bank For New York City to raise money
for New Yorkers in need, and for the next week Amie Street will be
donating 50% of proceeds from sales of all Cheap Lullaby artists
to the Food Bank!
By blending elements of jazz music with the European classical
tradition, George Gershwin managed to create the first
widely-accepted and uniquely American art music before his early
death in 1937, at the age of thirty-eight. The three pieces
featured on this recording are some of the most frequently
performed and culturally referenced of his oeuvre, passionately
performed by Australian pianist Kathryn Selby and the combined
forces of the Slovak Philharmonic and the Slovak Radio Symphony,
under the direction of Richard Hayman.
She may be making waves in the world of today's folk pop, but
Erin
Mckeown's sound is one from another era -- that of crooners
dressed to the nines in fedoras and tuxedos, serenading an audience
seated around a big open dancefloor (that's just begging for
attention), while a full ensemble of big band brass plays in the
background.
