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Meilyr Jones shares "Strange/Emotional" video, played London with Girl Ray @ Moth Club (pics)

3125 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — Former Race Horses frontman Meilyr Jones recently released his excellent debut solo album, 2013, and he's just put out a video for one of the poppier/rockier songs on the album, "Strange/Emotional." (Much of the record is baroque pop more akin t... more info

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Brussels duo Robbing Milliions ready debut LP (listen to "8 Is The Figure That I like The Most")

3128 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — There aren't a whole lot of internationally-known musical acts who list Brussels as their hometown. Among those who do (or did) are Jacques Brel. Plastic Bertrand, and...did Jean Claude Van Damme ever make an album... Continue reading… more info

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Speaking the same language – with song

3134 days ago

Guardian Music — From Curragh of Kildare to Last Boat Leaving â€¦ Irish singer and actor Camille Oâ€™Sullivan on a concert to mark the Easter Rising centenary that taps the rich musical connection between England and IrelandI was born in London and raised in... more info

Kildare Claude Debussy Deep Purple The Rolling Stones The Beatles Jacques Brel

Review: For Chita Rivera, Life Is Still a Merry-Go-Round

3140 days ago

New York Times — At the age of 83, Ms. Rivera makes her debut at CafÃ© Carlyle, singing her favorite songs, including tunes by Jacques Brel and Kander and Ebb. more info

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Nina Simone :: The Desperate Ones

3646 days ago

Aquarium Drunkard — Nina Simone’s work, eclectic and nuanced, continually surprises. Her rendition of Jacques Brel’s “The Desperate Ones” is one of countless such displays. A delicate and poetic gem (which appeared on our November mix), the tune closes out Simo... more info

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Scott Walker: Brother beyond

4385 days ago

Guardian Music — He made his name as a crooner with the Walker Brothers, then disappeared. Back with a new avant-garde album, Scott Walker says the darkness has always been thereWhatever happened to the great 20th-century crooner Scott Walker? Simple really. He di... more info

David Bowie Nick Cave Jarvis Cocker Brian Eno Julian Cope The Walker Brothers Jacques Brel

What's the cheesiest love song?

4477 days ago

Guardian Music — According to a poll of Guardian Soulmates users, Chris de Burgh's Lady in Red is the cheesiest love song of all time. What would you nominate?Forget Byron's poetry, Jacques Brel's lyricism and Serge Gainsbourg's lasciviousness; when it comes to conve... more info

Chris de Burgh Jacques Brel Serge Gainsbourg Whitney Houston Lionel Richie Stevie Wonder Bryan Adams Mariah Carey Adele Elvis Presley Bon Jovi

Camille O'Sullivan: From cabaret to chaos

4487 days ago

Guardian Music — Camille O'Sullivan made her name singing sultry songs in fishnets. Now she's playing a rapist and his victim in a musical version of Shakespeare's Rape of LucreceCamille O'Sullivan is standing in front of a full-length mirror being fitted into her ne... more info

Camille O'Sullivan Leonard Cohen Tom Waits David Bowie Jacques Brel

Diamanda Galás – review

4498 days ago

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonSomewhere out there is a parallel universe in which Diamanda Galás has a perfectly conventional, dazzling career as a mezzo-soprano. And another in which she is a reasonably straightforward blues-rock star: Tina Turner and... more info

Tina Turner Patti Smith Jacques Brel

No Regrets: Writings on Scott Walker, edited by Rob Young - review

4504 days ago

Guardian Music — Brian Dillon on Scott Walker's manic pop stardom and long vanishing actHas there been a pop singer more flagrantly reticent than Scott Walker? Summon the YouTube spectre of him in his 1960s pomp and you'll discover a performer seemingly cold-stored a... more info

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Meilyr Jones shares "Strange/Emotional" video, played London with Girl Ray @ Moth Club (pics)

Brussels duo Robbing Milliions ready debut LP (listen to "8 Is The Figure That I like The Most")

Speaking the same language – with song

Review: For Chita Rivera, Life Is Still a Merry-Go-Round

Nina Simone :: The Desperate Ones

Scott Walker: Brother beyond

What's the cheesiest love song?

Camille O'Sullivan: From cabaret to chaos

Diamanda Galás – review

No Regrets: Writings on Scott Walker, edited by Rob Young - review

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