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Ana Prada

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

[myspace] [blip]

Yael Naim

Monday, June 9th, 2008

[www.yaelweb.com][myspace.com] first seen on 13East RTL 102.5 WPvideo 1.10 With thanks Photo by Môsieur J.

Missy Higgins

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

[website] [myspace] [wiki] first heard on KGRL radio via a PSPradio WPvideo 1.10

Julie’s Aching Is So Soothing

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

[web][myspace][youtube] Thanks to a newsletter e-mail from Duke Special, advertising a show on BBC Radio Ulster, I discovered Julie Feeney, a wonderful Irish singer/songwriter. She opened the show with a (I’m beginning to hate this over-used descriptive) haunting song called Aching. She holds the note on the ‘A’ for around 30 seconds or so while [...]

auto de fe – all is yellow (hot hot hot) 1985 live

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

WPvideo 1.10

Brilliant Talant

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

[MYSPACE] the brilliant trees – talent. these guys play their last gig on April 7th in dublin. I worked for a radio station I ran a radio station and DJ’ed on it, and there was no playlists or anything. So If I wanted to I could waltz in and play a whole album back to [...]

the grates

Monday, December 4th, 2006

[myspace] [song: science is golden] [web] Patience Hodgson (sings) Alana Skyring (plays drums) John Patterson (plays guitar) WPvideo 1.10

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

[myspace] [website] [iTunes] Charlotte Gainsbourg – One of the greatest stars of modern French cinema – resumes her recording career with the release of 5:55, an album created in collaboration with such luminaries as Jarvis Cocker, the French duo Air and The Divine Comedys Neil Hannon. The album is released by ‘Because Music’ on Monday [...]

The Puppini Sisters

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

[myspace] [website] first seen by me on Le Mag Euronews a few weeks back, got their CD “betcha bottom dollar” and put it into high personal rotation in my fav list. they list influences like The Andrews Sisters, The Boswell Sisters, Belleville Rendez-vous, Marlene Dietrich, Fred & Ginger, Kate Bush, Mike Flowers, Joan Crawford, Duckie, [...]