These past few months, I've grown weary trying to find albums that engage me from start to finish. In fact, I've yet to find one album in the past few months I can listen to top to bottom. I truly believe that we are back in the land of "singles." Not saying that a Blood on the Tracks, Dark Side of the Moon, Ok Computer, or (What's The Story) Morning Glory? isn't lurking in the shadows, but.... I'm old enough to have bought 45s back in the '60s when I was a young pup; my first was The Beatles' "Rain"/"Paperback Writer." In the land of digital, I'm happy to download one song from some new noteworthy act and let it fall into my enormous random shuffle playlist (over 8,700 songs and counting). And that "single" is not always the band or label's choice; in the age of iTunes, we...
- 7/3/2013
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
"On The Road" - Houndmouth: From The City Below the City (Roughtrade)
This is damn fine single in a ragged roots-rock, stripped-down-version-of-The-Band-kinda way from this New Albany, Indiana quartet. The dual vocals of keyboardist Katie Toupin and guitarist Matt Myers frame the proceedings with just right amount of tension along with stabbing piano and a tasteful, economical guitar hook. Worth keeping an ear and eye on; new 12-track album was just released a few weeks ago.
This is damn fine single in a ragged roots-rock, stripped-down-version-of-The-Band-kinda way from this New Albany, Indiana quartet. The dual vocals of keyboardist Katie Toupin and guitarist Matt Myers frame the proceedings with just right amount of tension along with stabbing piano and a tasteful, economical guitar hook. Worth keeping an ear and eye on; new 12-track album was just released a few weeks ago.
- 6/29/2013
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
Anti-smoking protesters have taken aim at pop star Kelly Clarkson for lighting up a fuming feud in Indonesia by appearing in billboard ads for cigarette company Djarum. The tobacco firm's bosses are sponsoring the "Since U Been Gone" hitmaker's April 29 concert in Jakarta - and they've splashed their L.A. Lights brand logo all over posters advertising the show.
The marketing ploy comes two years after Alicia Keys objected to a similar tobacco-fueled sponsorship deal in Indonesia. The "No One" singer insisted the cigarette logo was removed from all ads promoting her Jakarta concert, and U.S.-based anti-smoking groups want Clarkson to do the same.
Matt Myers, the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, tells the Associated Press, "If Kelly Clarkson goes ahead with the concert, she is by choice being a spokesman for the tobacco industry and helping them to market to children."
"She has the power...
The marketing ploy comes two years after Alicia Keys objected to a similar tobacco-fueled sponsorship deal in Indonesia. The "No One" singer insisted the cigarette logo was removed from all ads promoting her Jakarta concert, and U.S.-based anti-smoking groups want Clarkson to do the same.
Matt Myers, the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, tells the Associated Press, "If Kelly Clarkson goes ahead with the concert, she is by choice being a spokesman for the tobacco industry and helping them to market to children."
"She has the power...
- 4/21/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Maybe the promoters think Kelly Clarkson's concert will suck without cigarettes. Antismoking activists are fired up after learning that billboards and TV ads promoting the singer's upcoming concert in Jakarta are sponsored by L.A. Lights, an Indonesian cigarette brand that is using the opportunity to plaster its logo all over the Clarkson promos. "If Kelly Clarkson goes ahead with the concert, she is by choice being a spokesman for the tobacco industry and helping them to market to children," said Matt Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. "She has the power now to turn this situation around and to send a clear message to Indonesian young people and, frankly, to the...
- 4/21/2010
- E! Online
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