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Suzanne Vega Enters the Post Racial Age With Song Preview on the New York Times -
In a combination blog post/guest editorial/song launch, Suzanne Vega has previewed her new song "Daddy Is White" via the New York Times. It's a rough but interesting demo, decidedly lo-fi, complete with reverbed vocals. It's plain, clean and neat.
She waxes on the notion of tribes (somebody's been reading...
Beauty & Crime - The most impressive songwriters write lyrics that when read alone can be considered brilliant poetry and when sung are wise and mature songs. Suzanne Vega definitely accomplishes this in Beauty & Crime, twisting words about romantic events and nostalgic memories into beautiful poetry. Similar to the way Leonard Cohen would...
Beauty and Crime - Suzanne Vega's seventh album Beauty and Crime develops the theme of New York life, and has its roots in her seminal debut album Tom's Diner. The ingenue of Tom's Diner has grown up and gained a whole lot of sophistication along the way. Vega has grown into a musical force...
Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep -
Though it’s possibly a bit mean to suggest that Natalie Merchant has the hallmarks of a reformed junkie, it’s true to say that while strident-bordering-on preachy in her 10,000 Maniacs years, these days she seems to have gone cold turkey from her own words.
Her last solo release was 2003’s...
Duffy - ‘Warwick Avenue’ Music Video Review | Transporting Me Back To The 1960s - Duffy is back, releasing her second single, Warwick Avenue, as a follow up to the huge hit that was Mercy. And even more than her dbut, this song transports me back in time to the 1960s. Not that I was ever alive in the 60s, I'm old but not that old,...
Aimee Mann As Scrooge -
Aimee Mann's second annual comedic Christmas video is out, and it's a Tim Heidecker-directed Dickens spoof. Aimee plays Ebenezer Scrooge; Grant-Lee Phillips is Bob Cratchit; Michael Penn is Jacob Marley; Paul F. Tompkins, John Krasinki, and John C. Reilly are the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future; and...
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