If you don’t already know The Good Natured then “Video Voyeur” is the perfect introduction as the fledgling UK band are poised to strike the US with their infectious new wave pop on their upcoming full-length debut. Part The Buggles, part A-Ha, and all awesome, “Video Voyeur” takes everything from The Good Natured’s previous EP’s to the next level. Vocalist Sarah McIntosh is a cross between Shirley Manson, Dolores O’Riordan, and Ladytron’s Helen Marnie and is a presence you’ll want to get familiar with in 2012. […]
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The Viewfinder: Phonte’s “Dance In The Reign”
If you are a hip-hop fan, you are sleeping big time if you haven’t picked up Charity Starts At Home . The new album by former Little Brother member and occasional Foreign Exchange member Phonte is straight fire. Grown folks rap for people who want to hear about things other than cars and money. It’s been a couple of months since the album’s release, but Phonte is finally delivering a video for “Dance In The Reign,” the opening track (and one of the best […]
The Viewfinder: Julien-K “Breakfast In Berlin”
Julien-K are back after a 3 year absence with their sophomore masterpiece We’re Here With You, due at the end of January. If you can’t wait a few weeks, here’s your first taste of the electro rockers back in action with “Breakfast In Berlin”, a pulsating 4 minute slice of sing-a-long heaven. If you’re unfamiliar with the band, the video tells you everything else you need to know about Julien-K : They rock, they’re stylish, and they know how to write a […]
The Viewfinder New Year’s Special: Featuring The Fray & Foster The People
There’s always a handful of fairly generic rock bands that crop up every era and make good music-and one of the better mainstream pop/rock bands of recent times has to be The Fray. Sort of like a more grounded, American version of Coldplay, the band first made it’s name with the hooky ballads “Over My Head (Cable Car)” and the ubiquitous “How To Save A Life” (which, despite being played to death, I’ve never grown tired of. That’s the mark […]
The Viewfinder: Well, I Guess We Know What Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Are Doing For New Years Eve….
Bless their pretty little indie hearts-Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt wonder what YOU are doing New Year’s Eve?
The Viewfinder Extra: Robyn’s “SNL” Performance: Was It Live Or Memorex?
Fact #1: I’m not crazy enough about modern-day “SNL” to watch it every week. Whether I tune in or not depends on a) whether I’m even home to watch it (I don’t have DVR) and/or b) who the guest host is? Jason Segel? Totally tuned in. The lady from “Mike & Molly”? Happened to get home in time to catch the last half or so (and she was pretty funny, too.) Katy Perry? Not a chance in hell. Despite the […]
The Viewfinder: “Someday’s Gone” by All-American Rejects
Were you wondering what happened to the All-American Rejects? Me neither. Anyhow, it’s been almost four years since they last released an album. In that time, Tyson Ritter apparently still has not decided to stop looking like a Hot Topic-shopping 14 year old, and apparently the band hasn’t given up their habit of making songs that sound hella catchy on the radio for like a month and then you completely forget them. They are in the process of resurfacing-with a […]
The Viewfinder: “Woo” by Anthony Hamilton
So, after pretty much an entire year without a halfway decent R&B album (thanks Rahsaan Patterson, Raphael Saadiq and Marsha Ambrosius for providing something for soul fans earlier in 2011,) December promises to be flush with albums by some of the genre’s leading lights. Mary J. Blige has already led the way with My Life II, Trey Songz (who’s got skills) just released and EP, we’ve got Robin Thicke on deck (who has hopefully learned from his Nicki Minaj-assisted disaster) […]
The Viewfinder: “A Road Song” by Fountains Of Wayne
Man, Fountains of Wayne have been peeling videos from the Sky Full Of Holes album like no one’s business. “A Road Song” is the fourth clip to be taken from this excellent album, and while it doesn’t offer much in the way of groundbreaking visuals (it’s a fairly prototypical “on the road” video), “A Road Song”, in my humble opinion, is the album’s best song. While employing the smart-assery that is Fountains’ trademark, the song actually has a poignant strain to it. It’s a […]
The Viewfinder: Amy Winehouse’s “Our Day Will Come”
“Our Day Will Come” is the first video being released from Amy Winehouse’s posthumous album “Lioness”. Is the track worthy of her musical legacy? Read on and find out.
The Viewfinder: Scott Weiland’s “Winter Wonderland”
This is to be expected, I suppose. Thanksgiving is less than a week away, which means any number of Christmas albums are hitting the market. The Biebs got a head start, but now here’s erstwhile Stone Temple Pilots/Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland taking the holiday plunge with a new album of Christmas tunes, “Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” In the first video from the album, Weiland takes a stab at the old chestnut “Winter Wonderland,” trying to give off […]