In session fifty-seven of A cosy soundtrack for weekend while singer-songwriter folk Cat Power and her band return to the playlist show to perform emotional songs and cathartic vocals a live music set. The Cosy weekend playlist brings together exclusive live music from our favourite bands cosy sound throughout the Quiet night life of weekend.
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—Cat Power Cat Power, is an American singer/songwriter. She is known for her minimalist style, sparse guitar and piano playing, and breathy vocals. By the Soundtrack Weekend inaugural music guideline, with exclusive live music from Portastudio's playlist, so conclude+Live music performing at the perfect way and welcome to your life join with the cosy music performs a set of songs on your cosy weekend night!
{01} 'The Greatest' |{02} 'Lived in Bars'| {03} 'Lost Someone' {04} 'Maybe Not'| {05} 'Metal Heart'
{06} 'Living proof' |{07} 'Still In Love'| {08} 'I Love You' | {09} 'Make Me Feel So Bad' | {10} 'Sing One For Me'
*{11} 'Paths of victory' | {12} 'Sea Of Love'| {13} 'Song to Bobby' |{14} 'I don't blame you'|{15} 'New York, New York' *+Cover Bob Dylan .........................................................................................
—RECENT +live SESSION ARCHIVES Catch up with previous +live sessions of A COSY SOUNDTRACK FOR WEEKEND Series
+LIVE SESSION 56 19 February 2011 ...................................................................................
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+LIVE SESSION 54 5 February 2011 ...................................................................................
In 2010, the Portastudio Playlist proud to presents A Cosy Soundtrack For Weekend+live Session, Is a cosy music smart playlist and feature interviews. From our panel which also includes selected by the Portastylistic. We focus on the inaugural music guideline, Our favourite musical talent with exclusive live music from around the world to the week ahead.
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“Raised on drive-time radio and in holiday discos!”
Monarchy Monarchy (2010) ...is a tad too calculated!
With that monolithic name and a press release packed with words like "widescreen", Monarchy have you braced for a yawn-a-thon.
And indeed, the opening tracks of their debut recall horrible turn-of-the-1980s MOR angst such as Ph.D. Before long, however, the duo strike gold by applying 21st-century synths to 1980s pop principles, shimmering like a reborn Heaven 17. They'll play well with the Keane/Feeling demographic, but they probably deserve better.
Their self-titled debut really triumphs when it comes to catchy, clubby choruses, as proved by Black, The Colour Of My Heart and Love Get Out Of My Way.
It’s such a tightly sequenced collection that each track practically jostles for attention, yet the showy disco moves and shimmering synths can’t completely disguise the rather pedestrian vocals.
It’s also a tad too calculated, as though Monarchy’s image was styled before their tunes really kicked in.
They might be paying homage to the 1980s high concepts of Art Of Noise, yet they’re a bit insipid, like a half-fat Godley & Creme.
All about Monarchy
Hometown: London.
The lineup: Edward Nigma (vocals), Peter Uzzle (music).
The background: One of the biggest mysteries of the moment – apart, of course, from why New Band of the Day only got runner-up last night at the Record of the Day awards – is: who are Monarchy? They're a duo from London whose two songs thus far (Gold in the Fire and Black, the Colour of My Heart) are a little bit synth-pop, a little bit electro-funk, a little bit French disco, and a little bit Yacht Rock – some wag has suggested they'd sound great at a club played inbetween Daft Punk and Scissor Sisters, and that's not a bad call. There have been a few of these wannabe slick, sleek 80s-fetishising types of late, creating soundtracks for imaginary remakes of Miami Vice, and Monarchy already deserve to take their place alongside the best of them – Tigercity, Private et al.
But the question remains: who are Monarchy?! They will apparently be formally announcing themselves to the world in January 2010 but until then they have chosen to remain anonymous and keep their identities a closely guarded secret, which has caused some speculation among bloggers who have suggested it might be Starsmith or Paul Epworth or a couple of members of Hot Chip under a pseudonym. But Starsmith is already busy producing Ellie Goulding, Epworth's got his own album to do, and Hot Chip will have their fourth album, One Life Stand, to promote in February. Meanwhile, the pair are giving nothing away: their MySpace contains precious little in the way of information, and their only interview to date comprised a series of pithy epigrams such as "We swim with currents and stand like rocks". Cheers for that. In fact, all we really know about them is that they will be releasing their debut single on Neon Gold, one-time home of Passion Pit and Ellie Goulding, and that they have done remixes for Penguin Prison and Fyfe Dangerfield, the founder member of the Guillemots.
Their own tracks are fine: Gold in the Fire starts out like a typical electro jam with spacey synth bloops and starry twinkles and some lovely 10cc-circa-I'm Not in Love aahs before the singing starts, low at first but rising to a falsetto as the music builds to a cosmic disco peak. We can't decide whether the lyrics - "crimson drops upon the ground" and "while the angels gently weep", to cite two purple examples – are poetic marvels or plain terrible, but at least they're trying. Black, the Colour of My Heart is slower and reminds us of recent moody NBOTD alumni – and 2010 hopefuls – Hurts. If anything, their remixes are even better. We have no idea what the original version of Dangerfield's Need the Money was like, but Monarchy have turned it into a near-classic of the retro-80s genus, all swelling strings and a euphoric chorus worthy of ELO or David Essex. If they can harness some of that cheesy energy and apply it to their own music, with overloaded tunes and OTT productions, they could indeed do a Scissor Sisters. Fred Falke and Stuart Price, is that you?
We're pleased to announce the arrival of Mr Porter, the man version of luxury shopping site Net-A-Porter. The layout is really crisp and streamlined, involving minimal brain-usage when it comes to picking out a button-down: the clothes are organized into lists, articles, and expertly curated sets of three, among other forms of easy consumption. Also, as we learned in the latest issue of GQ, Mr Porter founder Natalie Massenet has the right mindset to make the site work. In other words, she thinks kinda like a dude: "It's all about gratification intersecting with vanity and inertia." How'd you know?
Happy 42nd Birthday Mr Bradfield! - taken from the deluxe edition of Postcards From A Young Man. Wire telling about his 42nd birthday and the resolutions he was thinking of ;o) And James singing Happy Birthday for him.
"Yesterday I was 42. So I was in my hotelroom, looking in the mirror .... I'm gonna change, I'm gonna be nice to everyone, I'm gonna love other bands ... and then I just thought of me, James and Mr. Richard Edwards practising this very song in the middle of nowhere and I just thought F*** that."
The video is a First video i found the Manics and falling in Love from now on. the Video with Steven Wells as partner in GOBTV. There were loads of interesting and fun ideas for this video that Sony gradually knocked on the head. Then the band said they didn't want to be in it (Bored with videos). So there was just James, and we got a bunch of Manics fans who had their own band, the Dead End Dolls to be the Manics....better looking I reckon. Especially the red head in the secretary glasses. Traci Lords was unavailable, so we got model Blanche to lipsync her bit. Lots of high school political gestures in this vid...most of which you'd never see as they are slogans on the backdrop, and also on the kids' T shirts. "Keep Warm, Make Trouble" was my fave. Anyway, Swells wrote a very funny piece about making this vidfor the Guardian. I personally do love James's voice so powerful Enjoy the video and go buy the album wich is pretty good - and don't forget to stay beautiful!
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Here are some editorial shots showcasing Thom Browne’s Spring/Summer 2011 collection. What we love about these styled looks are the pleasantries of the models. Nothing neutral with these: it’s all smiles and shine.
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{01} 'The Greatest' | {02} 'Lived in Bars' | {03} 'Lost Someone'
{06} 'Living proof' | {07} 'Still In Love' | {08} 'I Love You'
*{11} 'Paths of victory' | {12} 'Sea Of Love' | {13} 'Song to Bobby'
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