Alamy
Ever since the category for Best Original Song was introduced at the 7th Academy Awards ceremony in 1934, the award has celebrated some of the most heartrending music ever to be put onscreen. The award has honoured some of the most well-loved tracks from movie musicals, most recognizable romantic themes and most powerful montage songs in existence.
Original songs can come to...read more
Cara Robbins
Cold War Kids, 'Dear Miss Lonelyhearts' Album Teaser -- Video Premiere
Posted on Feb 22nd 2013 12:30PM
California indie rockers Cold War Kids have dropped a teaser for Dear Miss Lonelyhearts, the followup to their more pop-leaning 2011 album, Mine Is Yours. We've got the exclusive premiere of the teaser video -- check it out below!
The band enlisted guitarist Dann Gallucci (Murder City Devils, Modest Mouse) for Dear Miss, in the interest of changing up their sound a bit. "We...read more
Rounder Records
Son Volt, 'Bakersfield' -- Song Premiere
Posted on Feb 22nd 2013 12:00PM
Rejoice, lovers of cow punk! Son Volt has returned to put a bit of country-fried rock 'n' roll in your life. The band's upcoming album Honky Tonk is coming to record stores on March 6, and you can hear their new single "Bakersfield" right here.
"I wanted to acknowledge and pay homage to the country music that came out of Bakersfield -- Wynn Stewart, Buck Owens and Merle...read more
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Hail From: Hamburg, Germany
Song: 'Little Numbers'
Album: Mutual Friends [iTunes]
Sounds Like: Feist, Regina Spektor
In Their Words: "'Little Numbers' was the last song we wrote for our debut album, and it was really the easiest one to write. It kind of flew to us, like a present in the end. We wrote it during a time where we had sent out our songs to several record companies and were waiting for them to call us back, so that was the initial inspiration for the song. But most people hear it as a love song, which is perfectly fine as well!" -- Valeska Steiner
Boy, 'Little Numbers' -- Free MP3 Download
Posted on Feb 22nd 2013 10:00AM Artist: BoyHail From: Hamburg, Germany
Song: 'Little Numbers'
Album: Mutual Friends [iTunes]
Sounds Like: Feist, Regina Spektor
In Their Words: "'Little Numbers' was the last song we wrote for our debut album, and it was really the easiest one to write. It kind of flew to us, like a present in the end. We wrote it during a time where we had sent out our songs to several record companies and were waiting for them to call us back, so that was the initial inspiration for the song. But most people hear it as a love song, which is perfectly fine as well!" -- Valeska Steiner
Charles Paul Harris, Michael Ochs Archives
Magic Slim Dead: Legendary Bluesman Dies at 75
Posted on Feb 21st 2013 6:47PM
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Magic Slim, a contemporary of blues greats Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf who helped shape the sound of Chicago's electric blues, has died at age 75.
His manager Marty Salzman says Slim died shortly after midnight Thursday at a Philadelphia hospital. Salzman says Slim had health problems that worsened while he was on tour several weeks ago in ...read more
Amazon
Mazes, 'Ores & Minerals' -- 47 Second Album Review
Posted on Feb 21st 2013 5:00PM
We all made mazes as kids -- we even enjoyed a few of them, walking through rows of corn on the first grade trip to the pumpkin patch. By the time you got back on the bus, the apples started falling in the orchard next door. Fall turned to summer in a blink. Did we leave the maze at the wrong spot?
You got older without realizing it. Your sweaters don't fit any more. The...read more