The Raconteurs – “Together”
I went back and rediscovered this album. There’s so much more to this than “Steady, As She Goes.”
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Exclusive Interview with Peter Oren, A Folk Singer With A Twist
Exclusive Interview with Peter Oren, A Folk Singer With A Twist
Very few 23-year-old folk singers are ever compared to Bill Callahan, but Peter Oren is not like most folk singers.
With a calming, deep voice that is matched by his observant and direct lyrics, Oren follows in the footsteps of the politically-minded protest folk singer-songwriters who came before him (Dylan in his Greenwich days, Phil Ochs, etc) while making his own way with his atmospheric…
Headphone Nation’s Year In Review: 2014
Headphone Nation’s Year In Review: 2014
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What better way to end 2014 than to give out some superlatives? As with any sort of end-of-year review, these awards reflect my personal taste and shouldn’t be taken as the final say on the year. Really my hope is that you’ll check out some new music that that you’d otherwise miss.
Also, make sure to click on the album cover for a link to a song off that album.
Alright, let’s begin.
There Is A Song By The White Stripes That Directly Steals From Citizen Kane
In the song “The Union Forever”, off my favorite White Stripes album White Blood Cells, the lyrics are almost entirely taken from certain lines from the classic movie Citizen Kane, which was directed by and starring one of Jack White’s beloved heroes Orson Welles.
The verses contain a few lines that are either directly taken from the movie or reflect certain aspects of Welles’s character (C.F.K.…
Four Things I Didn’t Expect To Happen In 2014 (From Someone Who Missed It All)
Four Things I Didn’t Expect To Happen In 2014 (From Someone Who Missed It All)
Five months is a long time to be away. Without a working cellphone or laptop, I was blissfully out of touch with the world of music save the few english music magazines I managed to find. Our reliance on the Internet for most of our news is bittersweet; it’s bitter because it feels like at times you either have too much information or none of it at all, but it’s sweet because I can google all the…