Lana Del Rey’s Video Games released this week after already securing over 2 million YouTube hits. The song was named “Best New Track” by Pitchfork and was featured on The CW TV-Series Ringer. Tickets for Grant’s show in London sold out in half an hour.

Her voice is so captivating. It’s so unique and never heard a voice like that.

Video Games

More about Lana Del Ray on here.

This is the full song

And it’s used on the Twinings advert, just out this weekend in the UK – lovely animation not to forget to mention.

I’m sure they have some kind of Maltese blood in their body – I wish to research about them but it’s not part of my dissertation – so it will have to be on hold i’m afraid.

Apparently their new album is coming out around 6th February. Looking forward to that.

Till then… Enjoy!

Next week, at 8pm on Wednesday 1st December, we are releasing a new song called Christmas Lights http://cldp.ly/xmslghts

Looking forward to that!

And since this is a music blog, I’m going to skip the “leaving the dog in the cold” controversy out of this and let you enjoy the song!

This year’s song is Your Song by Ellie Goulding originally by Elton John. Somehow they always manage to put me right in the mood for Christmas.

I think John Lewis is making a habit out of this, taking a modern singer to cover an old song and play it during the Christmas session, and possibly making the Top 10 in the charts as well. I’m all for this - so much much better than last year’s christmas number 1.

The best thing about this song is it’s sincerity. It doesn’t try to appeal to a large market, nor is it an obvious attempt at sounding current; it presents itself with honesty. Amongst all the Christmas cash-in re-releases; the gimmick Christmas singles; the X Factor Winner’s Single; and the countless number of Facebook campaigns, Ellie Goulding’s cover of ‘Your Song’, whilst being part of a re-release itself, creates a sense of sincerity, like you know Ellie’s releasing it because she wants to, rather than because she wants some big sales over the Christmas period.

http://unrealityshout.com/

Enjoy!

This is how he got discovered, both musically and from the girls.

First audition on X Factor 2009

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CECQ1zLtokk

Semi-Finals at the X Factor with Robbie Williams

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iksr3PO0ZKM

Some performances at the X-Factor.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iksr3PO0ZKM

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZAc-Ht7xr0

Now this is his first solo single “Please Don’t Let Me Go” which has a very retro feel (something he showed frequently on X Factor)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4S9gQb9PjM

and this is the acoustic version of it, which I find it more contemporary, and on the same lines of Jason Mraz.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeSDZTtw860

The Phenomenal Handclap Band (PHB) is a tightly knit group of musicians and artists from Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. The band started to take shape when DJ and production partners Daniel Collás and Sean Marquand began writing songs together in their studio while simultaneously producing other artists’ records. With their involvement in the thriving nightlife scene, the partners had an almost encyclopedic knowledge of esoteric music ranging from Brazilian soul to vintage psych-rock & proto-disco, along with a wide range of musician friends to help them cultivate their vision for their own album.

This Phenomenal Handclap Band album did not come to life in the most traditional of ways. During the recording process, Collás and Marquand called upon various friends from the indie rock and underground soul scene to perform on the album. As the band itself progressed, PHB was distilled into an eight-member harmonious collective. The self-titled debut PHB album was released in the summer of 2009 and their first single, 15 to 20 hit the radio and controlled the dance floor instantaneously. (Youtube)

BBC Music described them as “Unremarkable psychedelic retro soul from New York” and really there isn’t another way of describing them.

15 to 20

Their latest single is;

Baby

Off to continue listening to their album.

Their myspace page is http://www.myspace.com/phenomenalhandclap

Such a beautiful song, don’t like the overall image of ”the woman” in the advert, it’s like she has no other thing to do than taking care of her family. But that’s my opinion, and it really doesn’t matter.

Enjoy

A song I really enjoy from his album – New Shoes

and…
heard another song from Nutini named – Caledonia (and obviously I was intrigued)

The best part:
Let me tell you that i love you
That I think about you all the time
Caledonia you’re calling me
Now i’m going home
And if i shall become a stranger
You know that it would make me more than sad
Caledonia’s the best friend i’ve ever had

Caledonia is similar to Cladonia, right?

This is officially my song now