Music

The Parlour Suite

Tuesday 10 April, 2012 / Music / Comments { 2 }

The Parlour Suite sent me an email to tell me about their new album Everyone’s Looking which is dropping this coming weekend. i can’t tell you how flattered i am to be approached by talented people making good music.

The Parlour Suite is the surf-pop project, formed by Mpls (Minneapolis) husband-wife team, Joel and Inga Roberts, and supported on drums by Joshua Perez. The stories in the album are reflective of the cityscapes & sun soaked beaches that our tours have brought us to. Skateboarding on the boardwalk in Venice Beach & flipping thru CD’s at Earwax Records in Brooklyn. The songs are a bit of an escape from the winters in Mpls. We are set to hit the road with the album in April… bringing the songs back to the cities & places that are woven throughout the record.

a lovely album to listen to on a spring day – since the northern hemisphere is starting to thaw and flowers are beginning to bloom… i’m sure you guys are going to enjoy this. listen to it here or press play below.

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Beatenberg

Tuesday 14 February, 2012 / Music / Comments { 14 }

couldn’t find a great pic of them so i just made this up

continuing with my music sharing, i thought i’d introduce you to Beatenberg – a band from good ol’ Cape Town, South Africa. if you’re a local you have probably heard of these guys and may have been lucky enough to see them live. if you are one of my international readers perhaps you haven’t heard of them, in which case – enjoy. if you’re into a paul simonesque / vampire weekendy / john mayerish (minus the douchebaginess) sorta sound then this is for you.

check out Beatenberg on soundcloud, twitter, facebook, youtube and buy their album Farm Photos too.

[for those of you reading via RSS there are some tunes embedded below. click through to listen]

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Decorated Playlists

Tuesday 30 August, 2011 / Design, Music / Comments { 10 }

okay, it’s official, i have found my favourite website in the world. Simon Foster is a designer and former DJ who has rolled his love of design and music into the magically epic Decorated Playlists. i have already made my way through Run For Cover Part One and Part Two featuring cover songs 99% of which i didn’t even know existed. not only is the music selection superb (and highly educational) – the site is an absolute dream to use.

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Wild Horses

Friday 1 July, 2011 / Music / Comments { 50 }

i have to thank everyone for all your wonderful emails, comments and tweets in the past month regarding the music mixes. i didn’t realise how much they meant to so many of you (a fact that makes my heart explode in double rainbows) and i’m really happy to know that the playlists encouraged you to go out and buy albums, see concerts and support the artists who you came to love just from hearing a couple of their songs.

so – here it is. a new music mix that’s been one month in the making. thanks for waiting! there are some treats in here for you, including new songs from beirut, best coast, dent may, clap your hands say yeah and the middle east, as well as my favourite track from the new bon iver album. caveman is also an exciting new band who i’m keen to hear more from.

i hope this sets off your weekend on a good note. have a great one.

Wild Horses. playlist:

  1. Atlas Genius – Trojans
  2. Beirut – East Harlem
  3. Best Coast – Gone Again
  4. Dent May – Fun
  5. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Same Mistake
  6. Caveman – December 25th
  7. Bon Iver – Towers
  8. The Middle East – Hunger Song
  9. Mister Heavenly – Pineapple Girl
  10. Holiday Shores – Spells
  11. Light Vibes – Wish We Had
  12. High Highs – Open Season
  13. Wintercoats – Windmill

all music is for sampling purposes only – please go out and buy the artists’ records & support them at their shows!

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Kiki Dee

Monday 27 June, 2011 / Vintage / Comments { 12 }

i admittedly don’t know anything about kiki dee apart from the fact that she makes up the other half in elton john’s fabulous don’t go breaking my heart. yep, fabulous. i’m unsure how to explain why this was happening in the first place… but today i was going down a weird rabbit hole of elton john image search results in google (some of which are horrifying by the way) and happened upon these press photos of miss dee looking like a fox.

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