Sedera Ranaivoarinosy
SHE & HIM’S VOLUME TWO
Merge Records
By Sedera Ranaivoarinosy
When actresses suddenly decide they want to sing, there are legitimate reasons to worry. It’s easy to try to make profit off a prominent personality, even by having them do something they might not be great at.
Zooey Deschanel has always sang; her goal when studying drama in college was to do musical [...]
INDIE MUSICIANS AND MUSIC VIDEOS: A LOVE STORY
By Sedera Ranaivoarinosy
The release of Lady Gaga’s video for Telephone, her second collaboration with R&B golden girl Beyoncé, was an event like we rarely see anymore: the video is more than 9 minutes long, and the next day, everyone seemed to be talking about how cool it was that she used Coke cans as rollers [...]
ADAM GREEN’S MINOR LOVE
FAT POSSUM RECORDS
By Sedera Ranaivoarinosy
Adam Green’s latest release, Minor Love, is an odd combination of kitsch 70s pop, folk, blues and DIY rock. And it’s wonderful.
The New York based singer-songwriter goes from writing Simon and Garfunkel-like tunes in “Don’t Call Me Uncle” to singing to compositions influenced by African music in “Goblin” while also incorporating [...]
JOHNNY CASH’S AMERICAN VI: AIN’T NO GRAVE
American Recordings/Lost Highway
By Sedera Ranaivoarinosy
American VI: Ain’t No Grave compiles the last leg of recordings Johnny Cash made with bearded super-producer Rick Rubin before his death in September 2003. Released a few days before what would have been his 78th birthday, the songs in this record are particularly relevant in a posthumous album.
Most of the [...]
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