Without further ado, I give you volume II of the You Oughta Know Artists Playlist...cheers to a mix of nostalgia and revelations!
And as always, what's a Curateur playlist without a few Fun Facts...
This song from Gotan Project is featured in my favorite scene from a not-a-great-remake Shall We Dance with Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez. This scene is great though and made me want to try ballroom dancing (I did, at Dance With Me Soho...a really fun non-intimidating studio with instructors that make you feel like you don't have two left feet when it comes to ballroom dancing.)
Melody Gardot has one of the most intriguing paths to a music career, as a result of music therapy, following a near fatal car-bike accident that left her bed-ridden for almost a year and with ongoing challenges. Even beyond the incredibility of her history, I am absolutely in love with her voice and phrasing style, and this is one of my favorite albums of the past few years.
Taj Mahal is one of the greats of blues. Surprising to discover that this very talented dirty old man was actually born in Harlem and raised in Springfield, Mass. and not Down South as his music would insinuate.
Mumford & Sons are the one of few bands that killed it with their performance at this year's Grammys. And admittedly, seeing a Glassnote Records artist (a small label that up until a few years ago had only 1-2 artists) on stage with a [disappointing] Bob Dylan at the Grammys was a shining moment for new music.
"Home" by Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros is the cool kids' wedding song of the year; evidenced by two very cool kids who used it for their wedding site theme song and were married yesterday. Congrats my sweet friends Stephy & Jeff!
Local Natives and this album are one of the best finds I've discovered in years. And I still love that I got Jess from MVY Radio (one of my favorite radio stations) hooked on them.
Clare & the Reasons were the special guests during a talk given by a McGill professor last month at the 92STY who wrote the book "This is Your Brain on Music". The talk was something of a disappointment (poorly structured), but the band was an absolute highlight.
Rosi Golan was featured during the music placement panel moderated by Josh Rabinowitz of Grey WorldWide at Billboard's Music & Advertising Conference 2 years ago. I fell in love with her album, and then turns out, ended up sitting next to her manager at another dear friend's wedding brunch last summer who thought I was pulling his chain when I gushed on her/her album (she is unsigned).
One eskimO is Ellen Degeneres' favorite band. But I swear I liked them first.
Citizen Cope is an artist I have a very long history with from having been around for his very first show at Sin-E...he plays a 3-night residency this week at City Winery and Sheryl Crow recently covered one of his songs on a duet with him on her album.
K'Naan opened on Lenny Kravitz's recent tour and blew people away. Somehow I'd already heard this track and bought the album. Don't ask me how.
Adele was introduced around the same time as Lily Allen a few years ago, and frankly I think she got lost in the UK girl-power explosion. Adele is in the same camp for me as Alice Russell, another phenomenal voice from the UK, that until recently has been overlooked. She doesn't look like a lot of other artists, and so her presence in music videos has been [in my mind] somewhat marginalized. I'd like whoever has a say in that to stop. Take your stage woman!
My Dear Disco's "Replaceable" is perpetually stuck in my head (and a great song for the gym). It is also the theme for MKG's online office tour. The band just signed with the management team of one of my favorite live bands of the past 10 years (Mute Math). So all signs suggest you should pay attention (unsigned).
Ah Diplo, oh how I adore everything you do. Though I have to admit I prefer your own projects to your artist productions, though everyone else seems to love them (Santigold and MIA to name-drop a few). Nicely done on the Blackberry Torch sponsorship, though I hear they switched agencies shortly after they ran. Something you said?
And as always, what's a Curateur playlist without a few Fun Facts...
This song from Gotan Project is featured in my favorite scene from a not-a-great-remake Shall We Dance with Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez. This scene is great though and made me want to try ballroom dancing (I did, at Dance With Me Soho...a really fun non-intimidating studio with instructors that make you feel like you don't have two left feet when it comes to ballroom dancing.)
Melody Gardot has one of the most intriguing paths to a music career, as a result of music therapy, following a near fatal car-bike accident that left her bed-ridden for almost a year and with ongoing challenges. Even beyond the incredibility of her history, I am absolutely in love with her voice and phrasing style, and this is one of my favorite albums of the past few years.
Taj Mahal is one of the greats of blues. Surprising to discover that this very talented dirty old man was actually born in Harlem and raised in Springfield, Mass. and not Down South as his music would insinuate.
Mumford & Sons are the one of few bands that killed it with their performance at this year's Grammys. And admittedly, seeing a Glassnote Records artist (a small label that up until a few years ago had only 1-2 artists) on stage with a [disappointing] Bob Dylan at the Grammys was a shining moment for new music.
"Home" by Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros is the cool kids' wedding song of the year; evidenced by two very cool kids who used it for their wedding site theme song and were married yesterday. Congrats my sweet friends Stephy & Jeff!
Local Natives and this album are one of the best finds I've discovered in years. And I still love that I got Jess from MVY Radio (one of my favorite radio stations) hooked on them.
Clare & the Reasons were the special guests during a talk given by a McGill professor last month at the 92STY who wrote the book "This is Your Brain on Music". The talk was something of a disappointment (poorly structured), but the band was an absolute highlight.
Rosi Golan was featured during the music placement panel moderated by Josh Rabinowitz of Grey WorldWide at Billboard's Music & Advertising Conference 2 years ago. I fell in love with her album, and then turns out, ended up sitting next to her manager at another dear friend's wedding brunch last summer who thought I was pulling his chain when I gushed on her/her album (she is unsigned).
One eskimO is Ellen Degeneres' favorite band. But I swear I liked them first.
Citizen Cope is an artist I have a very long history with from having been around for his very first show at Sin-E...he plays a 3-night residency this week at City Winery and Sheryl Crow recently covered one of his songs on a duet with him on her album.
K'Naan opened on Lenny Kravitz's recent tour and blew people away. Somehow I'd already heard this track and bought the album. Don't ask me how.
Adele was introduced around the same time as Lily Allen a few years ago, and frankly I think she got lost in the UK girl-power explosion. Adele is in the same camp for me as Alice Russell, another phenomenal voice from the UK, that until recently has been overlooked. She doesn't look like a lot of other artists, and so her presence in music videos has been [in my mind] somewhat marginalized. I'd like whoever has a say in that to stop. Take your stage woman!
My Dear Disco's "Replaceable" is perpetually stuck in my head (and a great song for the gym). It is also the theme for MKG's online office tour. The band just signed with the management team of one of my favorite live bands of the past 10 years (Mute Math). So all signs suggest you should pay attention (unsigned).
Ah Diplo, oh how I adore everything you do. Though I have to admit I prefer your own projects to your artist productions, though everyone else seems to love them (Santigold and MIA to name-drop a few). Nicely done on the Blackberry Torch sponsorship, though I hear they switched agencies shortly after they ran. Something you said?
1 comment:
Great play lists :)
Hope you're well.
Lucas
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