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Breakthrough singer/songwriter Yuna has just released her new album Nocturnal on Verve Records.

The new album marks Yuna's first full-length follow-up to her critically acclaimed self-titled debut from last year. Nocturnal features Yuna's distinctive blend of organic pop, R&B soul and acoustic folk while also "digging deeper into her huge bag of pop star potential". (okayplayer)

http://www.yunamusic.com

Down the rabbit hole he left you alone
You call that love?
This was a guard and grown when no care was shown
You call that love?
Did you think that you could live your life?
There’s no one left in paradise
Just a pack of cards without the hearts
YOU CAN’T CALL THAT LOVE



“Alice” is the debut single from the gifted Liverpool-based singer/songwriter Mononoke. Her EP, Jack, is slated for release in 2014.

Manou - "Sadie"


Manou is a 16-year-old songtress who is currently working with producer PNUT (Amy Winehouse, Eliza Doolittle, Sparks, Foxes, Dido). This is her first single.


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Watch David Bowie's new creepy visual for his song "Love Is Lost," from his album The Next Day.

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Stream M.I.A.'s new album Matangi.

Matangi Tracklisting:

01. “Karmageddon”
02. “Matangi”
03. “Only 1 U”
04. “Warriors”
05. “Come Walk with Me”
06. “aTENTion”
07. “Exodus” (feat. The Weeknd)
8. “Bad Girls”
09. “Boom Skit”
10. “Double Bubble Trouble”
11. “Y.A.L.A.”
12. “Bring the Noize”
13. “Lights”
14. “Know It Ain’t Right”
15. “Sexodus” (feat. The Weeknd)



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ID her Single drops Friday. Snippets here: http://www.amazon.com/Lon...ly+Ira+May

Lonely Ira May

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Is there any news on her album, and how its progressing?

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Nothing on her facebook about it (She only writes in German).

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Gloria Estefan The Dutch Collection

Christopher Cross A Night In Paris

Katie Melua The Love I’m Frightened of

Michelle Williams If We Had Your Eyes

Elliphant A Good Idea

Could It Be and Music Is Life. Like these songs and think she will blowup: http://www.youtube.com/us...phantMusic

Maria Mena Weapon in Mind

Shirley Caesar Good God

Yuna Nocturnal

All Coming soon or out already!

Tomita Lab feat. Yuko Hara, Shiina Ringo, Ken Yokoyama, Yu Sakai ~ Kono Yo Wa Fushigi

Here's Mary J. Blige's video of her rendition of the holiday standard "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas."

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NONONO - "Scared"


A synth-driven groove from the Swedish trio NONONO, featuring lead vocalist and former psychology major Stina Wappling.

The band is currently finishing their debut album, described as '‘dark and beat-orientated'’.

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JoeBala said:

ID her Single drops Friday. Snippets here: http://www.amazon.com/Lon...ly+Ira+May

Lonely Ira May

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Stream: http://www.joiz.ch/frisch/noiz/Ira+May/

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band - ''Bad Dancer'' (New Video)


From the new album, Take Me to the Land of Hell.


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Walking on Thin Ice: A Career-Spanning Conversation With Yoko Ono

November 2013


Yoko Ono is the muse. Not just for John Lennon, whose love and devotion for her resulted in some of the most beautiful, and most interesting, music of his career. A pioneering artist, musician, activist, and feminist, Ono has influenced immeasurably those artists daring enough to push at and experiment with the imaginary boundaries between art forms and media. Without Ono, who knows whether the work of firebrands ranging from Lady Gaga to Kim Gordon would exist, or how differently we might see it? Her force is such that even in the face of her husband's murder, the vilification of misogynists and racists, of the government warmongers who would oppose and profile her, she refused to be deterred. Ono's talent is formidable, but perhaps her most prominent quality is her spirit.


Ono, who recently turned 80, was born in Tokyo in 1933 and first came to New York City to attend Sarah Lawrence College. There, she began her first forays into the art world (along with her friends, Johns Cale and Cage) and by the 1960s was exploring her work with the Fluxus movement. One of Ono's most important performances, 1964's Buddhism-influenced "Cut Piece," invited the audience to approach her with silver scissors and snip off pieces of her dress. The artist statement for the piece read: "People went on cutting the parts they do not like of me finally there was only the stone remained of me that was in me but they were still not satisfied and wanted to know what it's like in the stone. P.S. If the butterflies in your stomach die, send yellow death announcements to your friends."

From the beginning, death, giving, and living have been Ono's major themes. After Lennon was killed in 1980, her art became more acute, more emotional, more powerful. The photograph on the cover of Season of Glass, the solo album she released in 1981, features Lennon's bloodied glasses next to a half-empty/half-full glass of water, with the New York skyline standing in the background. The album's "No, No, No" is a funereal dance song, beginning with four gunshots and a peal of Ono's heartbroken wails. It's also the ne plus ultraof what some people find so objectionable about Ono's music: the screeching, the screaming, the unbridled emotion. But more than that, the song is proof of her gift. There's a purity of intention that, over the course of so many years, remains unmatched.


While Ono was touring the world, SPIN exchanged emails with the artist about her process, how she experiences art, and Take Me to the Land of Hell, the new album.


How does the process of performing your artworks connect with performing your music? Does the feeling of performing differ based on medium, or are you more focused on the end result? Each work is different.

It all depends on what type of piece it has been conceived as. It could be a piece with just one piano. It could be a piece with an orchestra. The original intention can change too. The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper. Sometimes I just get the idea of the song at the studio and write it down at the studio. Of course, there are one-liner songs I just do without putting it on paper, hoping that the musicians can follow me.

I must add that there is a total excitement I feel once I come up with a song — and [it lasts] until the song is done to the point that it can be mixed, strung with the other songs, and mastered. My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds — a totally different dimension from the daily life.

Do you consider the act of performing with your band a form of performance art?

Not really. Each work of mine is already defined as to what form it will take when it is conceived — the medium very rarely changes.

Some of your early art has dealt with the impermanence of objects and the ritual of eliminating them. Does songwriting fit into that vision?

Actually, it doesn't. Every note or passages of notes even made in rehearsals are usually saved as material I could use later. Well, that's probably an unusual thing to do. It comes from the idea of keeping unused bits and pieces of negatives when I make films.

I've read that you think of your art as a part of your lived experience. Is that true? How much comes from pure emotion? Does it differ depending on the medium, song, or piece?

It may come from my life experience, in a sense that it could be inspired by a certain incident in my life, but they then get refined into symbolic and/or surrealistic poetry. You will have a hard time to match it with what happened in my life.

Earlier this year, Opening Ceremony produced some of your clothing designs, and they included awesome functional style elements, like the incense holder on the boot, or, you know, clear butts. You also showed up to the line's debut wearing a cool top hat decorated with monkeys. A lot of fashion designers try to think of their clothing as objets d'art. Where do you fit on that continuum? How do you think about your designs?

I did fashion design as early as what was put in my book, A Book of Instructions: Grapefruit(1964), with the idea that the combination of clothes and human body made great sculptures with movements. Of course, it was meant to be "far-out clothes to wear" as well. I was into dispensing with borderlines of art in general.

So much of your work is about woman power and so much of it feels imbued with hope. Do you think the two are connected?

Let's face it: What most women were forced to be by social convention was to be slaves without financial independence. In a situation like that, was there anything other than hope we could rely on?

A lot of high-profile musicians are involved with performance art on a gallery level now. Jay Z interpolating Marina Abramovic's "The Artist is Present" for his "Picasso Baby" video, for instance.

Do you have any thoughts on why commercial artists might be interested in more avant-garde avenues at this point in time? Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

Earlier this year, you chose Peaches to perform your famous "Cut Piece"— you've never selected someone to do it before. Why was she the right person?

She was extremely right, as she is a highly established performance-art artist. Sure enough, her performance of "Cut Piece" elated all of us who were watching. It was a very spiritual experience for all of us. Of course, you are taking a chance on how the performance would be like — similar to the situation when you assign a pianist to play your song. But the piece itself has a protective measure, if you can call it that, to keep the various symbolism of the work intact, whatever is done to it by the performer.

You new song "Bad Dancer" feels like a take on the strip club anthems of Atlanta, while its video is a reclamation of "bad" dancing. Can you tell me about that song?

I love to dance. Any dance movement is interesting and ends up being great as it reminds you of our natural body and it's movements. I say "reminds you" because we are losing our natural body movements every day by forcing ourselves to become part of the social ritual. Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements. Dance is fun. I am proud of what we did in the "Bad Dancer" video. We rocked!

ARISING, your upcoming installation in Venice, invites women "from all over the world to send a testament of harm done to you for being a woman." It seems very rare that women are invited to talk about harm that has been done to us. How did you conceive of the project?

My uncontrollable anger made that piece, hoping that women's plight, the very subject you are mentioning here, would get some attention.

Was there one art piece or experience that you've done that made you grow the most as a person?

Each time I create a work, I get so much energy and awareness I grow rapidly. People think it is the other way around — that I have energy and therefore things get created with that energy. No. I create, and therefore, I get the energy. I want to address this to artists who are feeling a bit low. Just start creating something, without consulting your critical eyes, ears, and brain. Keep creating even if you are laughed at. Good luck and I love you with all my heart!


Source: Spin.com

Check out Yuna's new interview with Exclaim

Daley's North America Gig Dates:

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Watch Timberlake's live cover of Bell Biv DeVoe's ''Poison'' @ the Barclays Center.

Released today! Each CD, newly remastered, will be housed in a mini-LP replica jacket, faithfully replicating the original LP sleeves. They will be packed in a casemade slipcase which will also hold a 40-page booklet with a brand-new essay. This is the true genius of Miles Davis as most people first heard it, the way it was intended to be heard: in mono.

Albums-

'Round About Midnight
Miles Ahead
Milestones
Jazz Track
Porgy And Bess
Kind Of Blue
Sketches Of Spain
Someday My Prince Will Come
Miles And Monk At Newport

Out today!

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CD Out November 25, 2013

Billie Joe Armstrong has been expanding his artistic horizons recently. He landed a role in the movie ‘Like Sunday, Like Rain,’ and now the Green Day frontman has recorded an album with singer/songwriter Norah Jones.

‘Foreverly,’ which will be released Nov. 25, is based on the 1958 Everly Brothers album ‘Songs Our Daddy Taught Us, ‘ a collection of traditional Americana songs.

The mellow harmonies and retro songs are a departure for Armstrong. You can stream one of the songs from the album, ‘Long Time Gone,’ here.

“I’ve been a big fan of The Everly Brothers since I was a little boy,” Armstrong says. “A couple of years ago, I discovered ‘Songs Our Daddy Taught Us’ for the first time, and I fell in love with it. I was playing it every day and thought it would be a cool idea to re-do the record, but with a female singer.”

“I thought of Norah because she can sing anything, from rock to jazz to blues, and I knew her harmonies would be amazing,” Armstrong continues. “I thought the songs would take on a different meaning working with her, and she has a really good ear for arrangements. I was mainly intrigued by these old traditionals, country songs, and hymns. When we were done with the album, Norah looked at me and said, ‘I bet you didn’t think you were going to make a country record, huh?’”

Armstrong and Jones recorded the album in New York with bassist Tim Luntzel and drummer Dan Rieser. Armstrong and Jones played guitar and piano. Charlie Burnham on fiddle and Johnny Lam on pedal steel guitar rounded out the band.

“It was super fun and experimental,” Jones says. “I loved that the original was completely stripped down and a little more obscure. There was a lot of room to interpret the songs in our own way.”

In addition to star power, Armstrong and Jones have a lot of trophies on their mantles. Between Green Day and Jones, they have a combined 35 Grammy nominations and 14 wins.

Billie Joe + Norah – ‘Foreverly’ Track Listing

‘Roving Gambler’
‘Long Time Gone’
‘Lightning Express’
‘That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine’
‘Down In The Willow Garden’
‘Who’s Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet’
‘Oh So Many Years’
‘Barbara Allen’
‘Rockin’ Alone (In An Old Rockin’ Chair’
‘I’m Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail’
‘Kentucky’
‘Put My Little Shoes Away’

In 1994, The Beatles' Live at the BBC was released to worldwide acclaim - hitting number one in the U.K. and number three in the U.S. and selling more than five million copies within six weeks. Now comes a new companion to The Beatles' first BBC collection, On Air Live at the BBC Volume 2. On Air's 63 tracks, none of which overlaps with The Beatles' first BBC release, include 37 previously unreleased performances and 23 previously unreleased recordings of in-studio banter and conversation between the band's members and their BBC radio hosts.

In the studios of the British Broadcasting Corporation, The Beatles performed music for a variety of radio shows. Live At The BBC and On Air - Live at the BBC Volume 2 presents the sound of The Beatles seizing their moment to play for the nation. Thrilled to hear these exciting recordings again, Paul McCartney said, 'There's a lot of energy and spirit. We are going for it, not holding back at all, trying to put in the best performance of our lifetimes.'

Between March 1962 and June 1965, no fewer than 275 unique musical performances by The Beatles were broadcast by the BBC in the U.K. The group played songs on 39 radio shows in 1963 alone. Ringo Starr said in 1994, 'You tend to forget that we were a working band. It's that mono sound. There were usually no overdubs. We were in at the count-in and that was it. I get excited listening to them.' On their busiest BBC day, 16 July 1963, The Beatles recorded 18 songs for three editions of their Pop Go The Beatles series in fewer than seven hours.

Packaging Slipcase includes:
The Beatles Live at The BBC -
2 CDs packaged in soft pack, 56 songs (plus 13 intros) recorded live by the Beatles in the BBC studios between 1962 and 1965, 48 page booklet. /
The Beatles on Air-Live at The BBC Volume 2 - 2 CDs packaged in soft pack, 63 tracks total, 37 unreleased performances, 23 tracks of in-studio banter, 48 page booklet with rare photos and an introduction by Paul McCartney, Compiled and researched by producers Kevin Howlett and Mike Heatley.

What a very catchy song. Prior to this thread, I'd never heard of Tina A. Now, I'm really getting into her latest single.


Thanks, Joe.

Welcome. She has an amazing range. She's had a couple of hits you may have heard. One with Marc Anthony I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You" (duet with Marc Anthony)

LoLo's new song(Filmed In Brooklyn)

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CD Out November 25, 2013

“Christmas, With Love” is the first Christmas album and fourth studio album by British recording artist Leona Lewis.

It is set to be released on 29 November, by Syco Music and RCA Records.

Tracklist:

1. “One More Sleep” (Original Track) | Leona Lewis, Richard ‘Biff’ Stannard, Iain James, Jez Ashurst, Bradford Ellis
2. “Winter Wonderland” | Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith
3. “White Christmas” | Irving Berlin
4. “Your Hallelujah” (Original Track) | Leona Lewis, Jon Levine, Autumn Rowe, Lauren Christy
5. “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” | Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector
6. “Mr. Right” (Original Track) | Leona Lewis, Richard ‘Biff’ Stannard, Camille Purcell, Jez Ashurst, Ash Howes
7. “O Holy Night” | Adolphe Adam
8. “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday” | Roy Wood
9. “Ave Maria” | Franz Schubert
10. “Silent Night” | Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr
    
    
    
    
    
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Peter Gabriel Covers Album

November 15, 2013

We won't have to wait too much longer to get our hands on And I'll Scratch Yours, the new album that features covers of Peter Gabriel songs by artists including Paul Simon, Lou Reed and ex-Talking Heads frontman David Byrne. While the release was originally slated to arrive in September, it's now set to hit stores on January 7.

The 12-track collection is a companion piece to Gabriel's 2010 studio effort, Scratch My Back, which features the legendary musician's renditions of tunes by most of the same artists who contributed tracks to And I'll Scratch Yours.

Among the songs on the new record are Simon's acoustic take on "Biko," the late Reed's gritty, noisy reimagining of "Solsbury Hill" and Byrne's funky and quirky rendition of "I Don't Remember." Other artists who appear on And I'll Scratch Yours include Brian Eno, Randy Newman, Arcade Fire and Bon Iver.

And I'll Scratch Yours will be available as a single stand-alone CD, and as part of a two-disc set packaged with Scratch My Back. Digital versions of both releases also will be sold.

Here's the full track list for And I'll Scratch Yours:

"I Don't Remember" -- David Byrne
"Come Talk to Me" -- Bon Iver
"Blood of Eden" -- Regina Spektor
"Not One of Us" -- Stephin Merritt
"Shock the Monkey" -- Joseph Arthur
"Big Time" -- Randy Newman
"Games Without Frontiers" -- Arcade Fire
"Mercy Street" -- Elbow
"Mother of Violence" -- Brian Eno
"Don't Give Up" -- Feist featuring Timber Timbre
"Solsbury Hill" -- Lou Reed
"Biko" -- Paul Simon

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Artist: Gems
Album: Medusa

The single Ephemera feels like a drug: moody, spacious, ethereal and generous.






Soundcloud link


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