April 06, 2016
February 05, 2016
Radio Hannibal new music Friday highlights
It's been a few years since we hit the dance floor with these Canadian purveyors of electronic grooves.
Wonderful chamber pop in the best of the UK tradition.
Brooklyn-based young upstarts bring the psych rock and pop with a female model fronting the band.
Sunflower Bean - Human Ceremony
The UK's Mercury Prize winner releases the album stateside.
Heavy house music.
It's not a masterpiece but it's good to see Elton isn't resting on his laurels.
Elton John - Wonderful Crazy Night
February 03, 2016
January 29, 2016
January 28, 2016
Radio Hannibal Best of 1983
Still counting backwards through time as reach 1983 and the best songs of that year. I kept noticing how much great music came out in 1982. I look forward to putting that together.
January 27, 2016
Cool music videos of the week with La Sera, Underworld, Chemical Bros. & more
First single video from LaSera debut out in March. Album was produced by Ryan Adams.
Going for that Hee-Haw cheese.
Four years out of the scene The Big Pink is back with this lush track.
The new Tortoise single features Georgia from Yo La Tengo on vocals.
It seems like a comeback of sorts for 90s techno. Here's a new one from Underworld.
And the latest single from The Chemical Brothers featuring Beck.
January 26, 2016
24 hours of zen music
About a year ago I began to practice yoga. It coincided with my fundamental change in diet. In other words, my 2015 new year's resolution was a major success through discipline and a strong mindset. I can't wait for the 2016 resolution to reap rewards.
Yoga is very much about music. Music that's sometimes maligned by the music snobs. The new age genre elicits plenty of snide comments on it's lack of true musicality, whatever that might be. It was announced that Yanni is coming to Cleveland this summer and, sure enough, the comments popped up on Facebook.
I used to be one of those who derided spiritual music of this sort. With maturity comes wisdom. This sort of music can be good for the soul. It's not so much about listening as it is creating a vibe in your environment.
I've been using SiriusXM's Krishna Das Yoga Radio for my yoga sessions but it tends to be more about chanting and meditation. I decided to create my own Spotify playlist. All I did was google search for articles on the best yoga music. I ended up with 24 hours of bliss. Enjoy.
Namaste - 24 hours of yoga music
January 22, 2016
January 20, 2016
Cool music videos of the week including new Grimes, Elton and a Bowie parade
The new Elton John album, due next month is produced by T-Bone Burnett. That's promising.
Here's the first magical video from it.
Grimes album was near the top of my list last year. Here's the latest single and video.
Last year Ryan Adams taped two episodes of Austin City Limits. They just debuted the second, an acoustic set, spanning his career.
SNL payed tribute to Bowie last week and showed a clip of this performance. Here's the song in its entirety.
On Saturday afternoon members of Arcade Fire and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band held a parade on Bourbon St. to celebrate the life of David Bowie. Here's some footage.
January 19, 2016
A tough start to 2016 for music fans
2016 has started on a somber note for music fans. In the past few weeks we've seen the passing of Lemmy, David Bowie, Stevie Wright (lead singer on The Easybeats' "Friday On My Mind"), Gary Loizzo (lead singer on The American Breed's "Bend Me, Shape Me"), Kevin Junior of The Chamber Strings, Mic Gillette, trumpeter for Tower Of Power, Dale "Buffin" Griffin, drummer of Mott The Hoople and Glenn Frey of The Eagles. All of these musicians were under 70 years old which makes it all the more painful.
Some people grouse at my insistent posting of musician obituaries on social media. I'm certainly not part of some dead pool. I only wish to have people remember what music they've left for us. Songs that will live on in their absence. I enjoyed the quote that was making the rounds last week, "the earth is 4.6 billion years old and I was lucky enough to exist when David Bowie was here".
The sobering fact is that our musical icons are aging. These milestone deaths will become more frequent. Certainly this round of premature passings is an anomaly and a stunning one at that.
I tend to pull out all of the albums I have by an artist when they pass and play them in honor. It's cathartic. I was just putting away my Bowie collection when I got word that, local artist, Kevin Junior died. Out came The Chamber Strings albums which I bought at the turn of the century when the band caught a cult wave. At that time I had no idea Junior was from Akron or that I'd end up meeting him and have good friends playing music with him.
24 hours later and I get a text that says Glenn Frey has died. A quick google search confirmed the breaking news and out came my Eagles collection. Oh, and those that have come to find it hip to dis The Eagles are way off base. Overplayed? Perhaps, but so are The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.
I hate to ponder who's next but I did hear rumor that Glenn Campbell has been moved to hospice. Sigh.
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