Sunday Morning Soundtrack: Morcheeba, "Blood Like Lemonade"

With its mellow vibe and somewhat dark, spiritual themes, Morcheeba's "Blood Like Lemonade," from their album of the same name, proves a worthy addition to my Sunday Morning Soundtrack:

Best Catch from the Mainstream: Kings of Leon "Radioactive"

Every Saturday I'll be posting a song from the "mainstream" worth a listen. This week it is "Radioactive" from the latest Kings of Leon album Come Around Sundown.

Daily Video: Darker My Love

I'm back! The blog's not dead, I've just been busy with an out-of-state move and I have not had much free time to scour the web for interesting music. I did, however, listen to AccuRadio the other day and discovered the L.A.-based band Darker My Love. They've been compared to the Grateful Dead, and I can also detect a hint of The Rolling Stones when I listen to the tracks on their latest album, Alive As You Are. Here's an acoustic performance of "Backseat" I am really digging:

Daily Video: Jewel performs songs from "Sweet and Wild" on HSN

Honestly, I am not in cahoots with HSN to get you to purchase Jewel's latest album from them. I recently watched an episode of GAC "Origins" where Jewel discusses her album Sweet and Wild and performs acoustic versions of some of the songs (recordings of which are also available on the CD itself). I've always wanted to like Jewel, but I was never terribly impressed by her material up to this point (maybe the melodies were too mellow, or the singing too breathy - I don't really know what it was). So while the clips from "Origins" are not available online, the ones from this HSN special are, and I have included a few of the best ones below. Suffice it to say I was completely blown away by these acoustic performances, and the songs have been swirling around in my brain for the past week or so. I've already purchased this CD - if you decide to do the same, I think you will agree that this is probably her best songwriting so far. And if you purchase it from HSN, I wonder if they might cut me in on a little commission?

Update: my original videos were removed, so I uploaded some new, non-HSN ones. I found a good (though oddly-edited) video of an acoustic performance of "Ten," and I also included the music video for "No Good in Goodbye."

Daily Video: "Sick Muse" by Metric

It's Monday morning. Time to wake up!

Sunday Morning Soundtrack: "A Town Called Amen" by Jim White

I like to listen to this song while driving to church on Sunday mornings:

"Flamingo" Preview Hits the Web

I may be a bit behind the times on this, but to my exceeding delight, when I checked brandonflowersmusic.com this week, I discovered that the site had been updated to feature one of the tracks from Brandon Flowers' upcoming solo album Flamingo. You can hear the entire track, entitled "Crossfire," both at the site and here:


None of your business. by TPBSecretLeaks

Also, I found a recorded interview from BBC Radio 1, where Brandon discusses the upcoming album, as well as addresses rumors that The Killers are breaking up (he claims, to my great hope, that the rumors are false):