Not content with getting (Tiger) Suited up for a North American tour, TMS’ favourite St Andrean songsmith is getting ready to share the love with everyone who can’t make it along to her current set of dates. Later this month KT will be performing at London’s HMV Forum, and the performance on the 8th March will be recorded and made available for sale via Sandbag. CD and Digital pre-orders for the gig are being taken, and they’ll also be available for purchase on the night.
You have to hand it to Miss Tunstall, who’s shown a pretty savvy approach to maximising the revenue from her recorded work. As well as the three studio records (four if you count both versions of Eye to the Telescope with their differing performances of “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree”), there’s been 2006’s KT Tunstall’s Acoustic Extravaganza and 2007’s Have Yourself a Very KT Christmas/The KT Tunstall Holiday Collection (with its unforgettable version of “Mele Kalikimaka (Christmas in Hawaii)” and its forgettable version of “Fairytale of New York”). That’s in addition to the various flavours of live EPs which have made their way into the world via iTunes. Say what you like about KT, but the lady knows how to get her work out there.
Lucky North Americanites! TMS fave KT Tunstall is taking her Tiger Suit out on the road in April, visiting a whole bunch of exciting places. It’s a long way from the student’s union in St Andrews, eh KT!
Tickets will be going on sale this weekend, and apparently there’s also the prospect of further dates to be announced… click through for the dates and a KT bootleg.
It is of course Burns Night this evening. And as a wee accompaniment to the haggis, the recitation of Tam O’Shanter and the innumerable toasts to the Immortal Memory, here’s something from another Scottish institution: Camera Obscura’s version of Ae Fond Kiss (“Ae Fond Kiss and then we slever” as we always knew it back in the Hebrides).
Christmas songs coming fast and furious on the interwebs in the weeks coming up to the holiday. This entry is from Banjo or Freakout, otherwise known as the Italian Londoner Alessio Natalizia. XA2010 is Natalizia’s second Christmas album and he is offering the entire thing as a free download via BandCamp (free for the first 1,000 downloads, if you miss that shoot us an email). Now don’t be fooled, this is not your typical album full of covers, it is a strange journey through the classics, including Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas.’
Banjo or Freakout will release its first official full-length album, which is self-titled, on Rare Book Room in the US in Feb. 2011 and via Memphis Industries in the UK.
Brooklyn based duo Tanlines have just put out a limited edition, two cd compilation of their past oeuvre called Volume On that includes all those songs that will miss their debut full-length (out next year), such as ep tracks, remixes and previously unreleased material.
To stream the compilation, check out the track listing and download a new song featuring Luke Jenner from The Rapture… (Read the article)
Edward Sharpe isn’t a real person, though I kinda wish he were. Created by lead singer Alex Ebert for a book he was writing about a messianic figure who “was sent down to Earth to kinda heal and save mankind…but he kept getting distracted by girls and falling in love” this mythical figure now leads Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, a band of ten strong whose break-out hit ‘Home’ propelled their first full-length album Up from Below.
The band have just released a new iTunes session which includes the previously unrecorded song ‘Fire & Water.’ You can stream that song below and download three more songs from the session after the jump. Purchase the full iTunes Session here and a deluxe version of their album for only $7.99 here.
30 Rock has just released a soundtrack that encompasses all four years of the show that includes not only the original score but all the hilarious songs that have peppered the show with that special, ironical magic. For example, the classic ‘Werewolf Bar Mitzvah’ from the 2007 episode Jack Gets in the Game… Which we happen to have a download of below.
The soundtrack also includes a coffee table book. Just in time for Christmas! Composer Jeff Richmond, Tina Fey and various other members of the cast will be signing the set tomorrow in New York City at, yep, 30 Rock.
Saturday November 20 at 11:00 a.m.
NBC Experience Store
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
Back when we started this blog, Jay-Z’s ’99 Problems’ was my JAM. Strutting my way through St. Andrews, Jay-Z screaming through my ipod
as I made my way to the Art History department. Gangster.
That was, gulp, five years ago but that song still blows minds. And The Prodigy seem to agree, they’ve just released a very palatable remix of the song. The Prodigy will be on tour next year in the US with Linkin Park… uh, yeah. Jay-Z meanwhile is on a book tour with his recent memoir, Decoded, “detailing the story of a man who was born in a Brooklyn housing project, spent his teen years dealing drugs on the streets of Trenton, New Jersey, and grew up to be one of his generation’s most successful artists and businessmen.”
Earlier this month, we announced that Patrick Wolf will be releasing a limited-edition 7″ for the song ‘Time of my life.’ Now as an accompaniment, Wolf is putting out a limited edition 12″ in December with remixes of the song by DFA’s Still Going, Leo Zero and Ceephax (Acid Crew). Can’t wait for December? Grab all three of the remixes after the jump. (Read the article)
