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Short Cuts: The Best Songs Heard On December 23, 2017 From The Indie World

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Young Sierra, “Dream On”
Fans of Charli XCX, Muna, and The 1975 should check out the London-based group. It’s a grower that cannot be denied. Band member Ben says of the track, “It’s about falling for someone you know will reject you. Almost like a love letter to doomed romance.”

DJ moe, “Dat Kitty”
DJ Moe is the youngest DJ who has performed at ULTRA EUROPE in Croatia, ULTRA JAPAN and other festivals at the age of 18. Earlier this year, she started her own radio show “mtmt_talk” on block.fm and her sense of music and fashion made her one of NYLON’s official blogger, and she will be starting her own clothing line “Neon Mafia” later this year. This is the track that will bring her music to the front of it all, with a fuller sound that will be familiar to fans of EDM.

Birdyhop
On the Street Where You Live
(Andy Williams cover)
This is Birdyhop’s version of the Broadway musical classic ‘On the Street Where You Live, like you’ve never heard it before. It’s easy to hear why it’s one of the band’s favourite songs, and the comparison of Elbow and Radiohead gets somewhere close to the classic sound of Williams. It’s the honesty, the warmth, the vulnerability that shines here.

Melanie Edwards
Daniel’s Lane
Melanie Edwards is an award-winning singer, songwriter, pianist, violinist, and was recently named DC’s #1 singer/songwriter by The Deli Magazine. In addition, Melanie was chosen as a panelist for the prestigious DC Mayor’s Arts Awards and is a huge advocate for local artists. Crammed with melodies and lush harmonies like fans Damien Rice, Tori Amos, will delight for, and echoing the brilliance of Alanis Morrisette and Adele, too.

Lee Smythe
Waste Away With Me
Lee says, “You haven’t heard a song like this today!” Ha, oh, Lee, you have no ide…wait…are those kazoos? At once compelling and strange, the song sweet sweetly along without being overly sugary, nudging along until you want to hit repeat. Which I did.

Cortel
First Snow
An early taste of the upcoming album Find Your Soul by the Russian band. Vocalist Sergei says: “Development excepts stability. Stability excepts development.” Both make strong appearances here, making the song a late-night banger. Relax your mind and float downstream.

Blyne
Water
Jan Hammele, 26, and Andreas Huber, 25, are two ambitious and experienced producers, multi-instrumentalists, DJs and live-acts who have been making music together for six years. On their debut EP Blyne collaborates with international vocalists like James Chatburn, L Devine and B O K E H, and is a musical journey you can take in your own home. A fuller sound based on the influences, you’ll immediately fall in loce with this hook-laden song. The rest are waiting for you.

Zenzero
Ordinary illusions
Tim Kellett (The Durutti Column, Simply Red, Olive) and Rosie Doonan (Birdy, Peter Gabriel, Coldplay) join forces to create the first single from Zenzero’s debut album Ordinary Illusions. These bands + this song = have a deep thought or two about the slacker the rest of us are. Dig this cool psych jam and dive into the rest of the the solid album.

The New Ravis
Everywhere
(Fleetwood Mac cover)
From Ireland, the duo put their own spin on one of my favourite Mac songs. Let them indulge you, it sounds like something from a dream full of heartbreak, then hope, you won’t want to wake up from.

Rizk
Something
There’s no shifting here, nothing that is going to confuse you on the chill dancefloor, but it’s nudging towards your brain with passion and honesty. A great use of space where words don’t need to fit.

Steven Blane
I Confess
The Steven Blane Band has completed a new album, Motel Blue, to be released in March 2018. It features Nashville recording artist Rachel Horter on vocals. He married the love of his life and became an audio-book producer. If that wasn’t cool enough, he also became a Cantor and a Rabbi. It’s time his original music hits front and centre, with this wonderful sounding song that is as good as anything else in the Americana genre on AAA radio right now.

Here are the most Shazam’d tracks of 2017

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Here are the most Shazam’d tracks of 2017, from information supplied by the company.

1. Ed Sheeran, “Shape of You”
2. Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber, “Despacito”
3. Clean Bandit featuring Sean Paul & Anne-Marie, “Rockabye”
4. Charlie Puth, “Attention”
5. The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk, “I Feel It Coming”
6. J Balvin & Willy William featuring Beyonce, “Mi Gente”
7. Kygo & Selena Gomez, “It Ain’t Me”
8. The Chainsmokers & Coldplay, “Something Just Like This”
9. Harry Styles, “Sign of The Times”
10. Burak Yeter featuring Danelle Sandoval, “Tuesday”
11. Ofenbach, “Be Mine”
12. Calvin Harris featuring Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big Sean, “Feels”
13. Portugal. The Man, “Feel It Still”
14. Imagine Dragons, “Believer”
15. Kaleo, “Way Down We Go”

And the inevitable category list follows:

Pop: Ed Sheeran, “Shape of You”
Hip Hop: French Montana featuring Swae Lee, “Unforgettable”
Rock: Imagine Dragons, “Believer”
Dance: The Chainsmokers & Coldplay, “Something Just Like This”
Country: Sam Hunt, “Body Like A Back Road”
R&B/Soul: The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk, “I Feel It Coming”

One Shot. One Idea. One Drone. This Brilliant Idea For A Music Video.

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One Shot. One Idea. One Drone. This Brilliant Idea For A Music Video.

Directors Greg&Lio shot this video for French musician OrelSan, and deftly managing a host of other people lining up for the track. Oh, and there’s a drone filming the entire thing, swooping in and out of the action.

Shania Twain’s “You’re Still the One” Cover Turned Into R&B Song

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Shania Twain’s “You’re Still the One” Cover Turned Into R&B Song

Saxophone 4tet The Side Project and vocalist Akie Bermiss teamed up for a cover of Shania Twain’s 1997 hit You’re Still the One, turning it into an anthem for the R&B and soul world.

Mike Peters on The Power Of The Community, Having Leukemia, And Empire Strikes Back

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Mike Peters on The Power Of The Community, Having Leukemia, And Empire Strikes Back

Mike Peters, the frontman for U.K. bands the Alarm and Big Country, has been fighting cancer for 18 years. In the mid-’90s he went into spontaneous remission after being diagnosed with lymphoma. Ten years later he was diagnosed with leukemia.
“My ambition is to stay alive as long as I possibly can with the drugs I’ve got until the drugs that have the cure come along,” says Peters, who undergoes chemotherapy every two months while on tour with Big Country.

In the meantime, Peters is working to help save the lives of other cancer patients through the Love Hope Strength foundation, an organization he co-founded in 2006 with fellow cancer survivor James Chippendale, executive VP of entertainment insurance company Doodson. LHS has partnered with numerous tours and music festivals to set up on-site bone marrow registration drives where volunteers collect cheek-swab samples from concertgoers in an effort to find potential donors.

Eric: So, how are you feeling these days?
Mike Peters: Really good, thanks!
Eric: Tell me about having leukemia while being on the road. Are there things you have to do specifically with having his, over any other form of cancer?
Mike: Well, I only know really how it works in my own life and I know I live in a pretty unusual approach to it. I resolved to not have it allow to take a second away from the life I wanted to have. I’ve been fortunate to have a great medical team and group of people around me. Every now and again, every three months or so, I go to the needed therapy session as I’m either to spend the day in and hospital, but I consider myself lucky.
There’s still a few challenging moments. The only thing I have to be careful of is getting sick because I already have a compromised immune system.
Eric: Tell me more about the Love Hope Strength Foundation, I’m sure when you’re diagnosed with this cancer, you want to take care of yourself first, but you never really thought that way – you wanted to help.
Mike: I was inspired by the staff that helped me when I was very ill. I wanted to ensure they could help as many people as well, and maybe play a concert and give all the money to them, and in a sense, that was what got me back on the road. The Alarm community…they were right there on the front line with me. They helped people to get them back on the road to recovery, to their jobs, to their families. They’ve also helped get more people onto the national registry to become matches for the people who need blood transfusion, at the very least, in order to have a second life, and it’s been a very successful campaign.
We’ve had over 3,000 life-saving matches, so it’s really made a difference a lot of people’s lives, and it’s just that community and audience, because of them, we’ve been able to turn this potential problems into life-saving events in families.

Eric: Love Hope Strength Foundation is based in Denver, Colorado, and you’ve got a special relationship with that city. You were playing Red Rocks in 1983, when you were playing the U.S. for the first time, with U2. You were supposed to be in the U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky film— but the weather was so bad with rain, they canceled the opening set – yours. But the next day, that was a pretty fun day. What happened?
Mike: We had the day off, so we went to see Return of the Jedi at a cinema there. The owners there couldn’t believe that a British band, who looked like us, wanted to just go see a movie. They gave us the once over, and while inside, our van’s battery had died. We talked to the manager of the cinema, who invited us in and we ended up staying there for some time. He took us back to his house all night and his mum made us all breakfast on the porch and it was a great way to see that hospitality of the city, and of America. That showed us a really nice side of America. It made us feel welcome and home all at the same time, since we had that culture shock of coming from Britain to North America.
Since the concert with U2 was cancelled, they arranged for a free concert the next day, and the band invited us to come back – that’s actually The Edge playing my guitar on the song 40. My guitar made it into music history, but I didn’t. (laughs)

Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy with Will Ferrell & John C. Reilly

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Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy with Will Ferrell & John C. Reilly

David Bowie (Will Ferrell) visits Bing Crosby (John C. Reilly) during the holidays to sing a duet of two Christmas classics, Peace on Earth & The Little Drummer Boy.

Billabong Announces Exclusive Collaboration With Iggy Pop

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Billabong Announces Exclusive Collaboration With Iggy Pop

Billabong today released the Iggy Pop x Billabong LAB collection, an exclusive apparel and accessory collaboration with one of the world’s most legendary and iconic musicians.

Once a streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of Napalm, these days Iggy’s more notorious for lounging all day at the beach or pool in boardshorts. “I usually wake up and stay nude for three or four hours,” Iggy says. “And when I feel like getting formal, I’ll put on boardshorts. Life is better in boardshorts.”

The collaboration with Billabong, whose Spring ‘18 collection is inspired by the punk soundtrack of the late ’80s and ’90s is fitting as Iggy’s presence is laced throughout every surf and skate session of that era. Scott Hargraves, VP of Global Marketing at Billabong, elaborates on the relationship, “We are honored to be working so closely with Iggy on this curated men’s and women’s collection. He’s a true cultural icon, and we hope to pay homage to this living legend through our collaboration.”

The Iggy Pop x Billabong LAB collection was largely inspired by Iggy’s gig posters that appeared in the music venue halls of the ‘80s and ‘90s. These prints are an authentic tribute and a graphic history of Iggy’s legendary lust for life and thread the entire collection of boardshorts, graphic tees and pullovers. The wetsuit top titled, “Wild Thing Glide Skin,” cross-pollinates Billabong’s surf DNA with Iggy’s proto-punk attitude. This memorable tiger print leather jacket from the seminal album, Raw Power, has been redesigned and is now waterproof and ocean ready.

The Iggy Pop x Billabong LAB collection is a personal, fun and truly original collaboration that authentically reflects Iggy’s attitude towards life and art. It comes through Billabong LAB, a division of the company that supports artists, musicians, designers, photographers and surf icons and is available globally at select specialty retailers and online at www.billabong.com.

IGGY POP SUNDAYS BIGGY POP LO TIDES BOARDSHORTS

IGGY POP FIFTY50 POSTER X BOARDSHORTS

IGGY POP SUNDAYS POSTER LO TIDES BOARDSHORTS

IGGY POP IGGY STACK TEE

IGGY POP RAW POWER TEE

IGGY POP IGUANA TEE

How The Cast Of Star Wars Trained For “The Last Jedi” Movie

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How The Cast Of Star Wars Trained For “The Last Jedi” Movie

The cast of Star Wars: The Last Jedi prepare for their very physical roles in the Skywalker saga’s latest chapter.

Early Footage Of Elton John Working Out The Harmony For “Tiny Dancer” In 1970

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Early Footage Of Elton John Working Out The Harmony For “Tiny Dancer” In 1970

Tiny Dancer’s song’s lyrics were written by Bernie Taupin to capture the spirit of California in 1970 encapsulated by the many beautiful women he met there. The song was dedicated to Maxine Feibelman—Taupin’s first wife. Here’s some behind-the-scenes footage of Elton John working out the harmony for Bernie’s words.

There’s A Feature Doc Coming In 2018 About Fred Rogers From Focus Features

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There’s A Feature Doc Coming In 2018 About Fred Rogers From Focus Features

There’s going to be a feature documentary about Mister Rogers coming out on June 8, 2018. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? will showcase “the lessons, ethics and legacy of iconic children’s television host, Fred Rogers.” The film will be directed by Morgan Neville, who won an Academy Award for 20 Feet From Stardom.

Fred Rogers led a singular life. He was a puppeteer. A minister. A musician. An educator. A father, a husband, and a neighbor. Fred Rogers spent 50 years on children’s television beseeching us to love and to allow ourselves to be loved. With television as his pulpit, he helped transform the very concept of childhood. He used puppets and play to explore the most complicated issues of the day—race, disability, equality and tragedy. He spoke directly to children and they responded by forging a lifelong bond with him—by the millions. And yet today his impact is unclear. WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? explores the question of whether or not we have lived up to Fred’s ideal. Are we all good neighbors?

“Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is produced by Neville, Caryn Capotosto and Nicholas Ma and is a production of Tremolo Productions in association with Impact Partners and Independent Lens/PBS.

“Morgan once again avoids making a traditional biodoc and instead takes us behind the curtain to see how Fred Rogers navigated the cultural and social issues of the second half of the twentieth century with his own brand of forward-thinking, compassionate wisdom far beyond his time,” said Focus chairman Peter Kujawski. “Mister Rogers makes us all want to be better people, and we couldn’t be more proud to be a part of telling his story today.”

Neville said, “The Fred Rogers I discovered making this film is at once comfortably familiar and completely surprising. I believe Mister Rogers is the kind of voice we need to hear right now. I am thrilled to work with Focus Features on taking this film out into the world, along with my collaborators at Impact Partners and Independent Lens.