Mad, Mad Love is the newest album by an acclaimed singer/songwriter Lisa Richards. It features some acoustic tracks and some full-band tracks, two covers and many more originals. Her mesmerizing voice and heartfelt lyrics will surely captivate you.
Lisa Richards Mad Mad love has been selected the featured download album of this week in FrostWire. Read More »
Happy Elf is the performing name of Dutch multi-instrumentalist Jeroen Elfferich. As Happy Elf, Elfferich has released more than ten albums since 1999. He considers his music "electropopmusic," but the truth is that it is a good mix of various styles thrown together with a nice electronic beat. His latest release is "Sexmachine," a five-track mini-album that's all about dreams, sex, love, and relationships. Don't expect a thoughtful and introspective album, though; as the release information says, "[D]on’t take it too seriously: it’s Happy Elf!" Read More »
Delicious acoustic and piano ballads characterize The Dada Weatherman’s second offering, “EarthQuakes and Failed Mutations”. The album is an interesting mix of blues, folk, and pop rock with soothing melodies. It’s perfect for easy, laid-back listening on gloomy days when you just don’t want to think about the rest of the world. Influences range from Bob Dylan, Arthur Rimbault, Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Nick Drake, Django Reinhardt, and newer artists like like Devendra Banhart, Conor Oberst and Elliott Smith. Read More »
Vocalist, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, engineer, producer and arranger - Allison Crowe is all the above. She lives & creates in Canada, but tours steadily, earning a reputation for exciting live shows that stir together her original songs with much-loved interpretations in an organic blend of rock, jazz, folk, Broadway, gospel and soul. "I love singing for people," says Allison Crowe. "It's a way to connect and share with others. Communication is crucial. Just being able to do what I do, to write and sing and perform, makes me feel not only alive, but incredibly lucky. Knowing at any moment everything could change, I don't take one second for granted." Read More »
Tiara has been singing since she was a child and it seems like she can't imagine her life any other way. She grew up in Pittsburgh, PA singing in a choir and on her own until her senior year of high school, but her career really took of when she moved to Washington D.C. to attend Howard University. She started meeting like-minded people who loved music as much as she did, giving her the confidence to work even harder towards her dream. Not much later Tiara met her current manager, Mic Sean, at one of D.C. music venues and everything started falling into its right place. Read More »
Why the name?
Nobody can deny that it's a title of a very famous song by Johnny Lee Hooker. According to Dazie Mae though, with a different spelling, it is also the "femme fatale" hero from a comic strip by Li'l Abner from the forties and fifties. "And indication of how retro we are..." says the band on their Jamendo.com page.
Dazie Mae says they don't really fall under one genre.
"Well that’s a hard one!"- they write. "Just about a mix of everything (folk, blues, jazz & bossa) At first that was mainly covers from anglo-saxon folk/rock from the 60/70. Then some original materials came along. In 2008, the band took a new turn towards “unexpected” arrangements of pop standards.
We are now actively working on new original materials, songs with a center theme, the imaginary life of DM."
Dan and Brett are both purists when it comes to songwriting. Through their mixed style of bluesy classic pop music they capture everyday thoughts and expressions everyone can relate to. Drawn by inspiration to bring back “music into music”, clever melody has always been their key ingredient to a catchy tune as well as their use of down to earth lyrics. Read More »