Month: May 2008
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Rikki – “Suteki Da Ne” Review
“Suteki Da Ne” is the vocal theme of Final Fantasy X and is sung by Rikki. The song is a ballad with a swaying beat,…
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Hannah Fury – “The Thing That Feels” Falls Away
Eight years after its release cult singer songwriter Hannah Fury will be placing her début album “The Thing That Feels” out of print. The print…
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Visa Roster – Commodore 64 Vocally Review
The Commodore 64 has such a huge fanbase of people whom grew up loving the tunes made on the little console that tribute bands pop…
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Live Vault – Qntal
Qntal are hosts to this weeks Live Vault with fan favourite and one of the finest examples of how to do Gothic music without going…
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The Black Mages – “Darkness and Starlight” Review
Back for their third outing, The Black Mages return with their stadium rock anthemic arrangements of Final Fantasy songs with “Darkness and Starlight”. The main…
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Live Vault – Loreena Mckennitt
This weeks live vault comes from the live DVD released last year from world music queen Loreena Mckennitt entitled “Nights In the Alhambra”. The song…
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Cara Winter – “Butterfly” Review
Cara Winter is coming back into the spotlight with the release of her new album “Peter and the Whale” so before we can buy that…
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Lauren Hoffman – Going To Be A Mum!
Completely missed by me (and news before the site was running) is that Lauren Hoffman will be a mum soon. Lauren is also in the…
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Vienna Teng – New Album Coming On Strong
Vienna Teng’s blog posts indicate that her new album is coming together quite nicely. It looks to be perhaps a more heavier album too judging…
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Shiina Ringo – 10th Year Anniversary Releases!
Shiina Ringo celebrates 10 years of music and to mark the event she’s releasing several new items. The first is a DVD with all her…
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Natalie Imbruglia – White Lillies Island Review
Natalie’s second album “White Lillies Album” is generally considered her most non-commercial and for that is to date her least successful of the three albums…
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Tori Amos Get’s Pic-tori-al!
Tori Amos was meant to be having a year off but obviously not as out of the blue a 480 page comic book entitled “Comic…
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Live Vault – Fiona Apple
This weeks Live Vault is a powerful angry performance by Fiona Apple with the fantastic “Not About Love” which lets Fiona belly shout it all…
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Utada Hikaru – 1 Million Albums Shipped For “Heart Station”
Congrats to Utada Hikaru whom crossed the 1 million mark with her 5th album “Heart Station” which is quite a huge feat given today’s music…
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Aoi Teshima – New Album Unveiled
Aoi Teshima, the vocalist whom rose to fame by taking the lead female role in Studio Ghibli film “Tales From Earthsea” has a new album…
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Charlotte Martin – Congratulations
A hearty congratulations from Higher Plain Music to Charlotte Martin who has given birth to a baby boy named Ronen Joseph Andrews. At 8 pounds…
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Cocteau Twins – “Garlands” Review
The Cocteau Twins burst onto the scene with their debut album “Garlands” way back in 1982. The 8 track record is both accurate and misguiding…
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The Star Onions – Music From the Otherside of Vana’diel Review
The Star Onions are three of our old composers from the Square stable: Kumi Tanioka, Naoshi Mizuta & Tsuyoshi Sekito joined with Hidenori Iwasaki. Together…
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Kate Bush – The Kick Inside Review
30 Years on and it still feels fresh, relevant and imaginative, Kate Bush’s début “The Kick Inside” is a CD that doesn’t fade with time.…
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Live Vault – Bat For Lashes
This weeks Live Vault comes from the excellent Bat For Lashes with a non album song I’d not heard until I found this clip. Performed…
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Ayumi Hamasaki – 2007/2008 Countdown DVD Announced
Oh yes, the queen of catalogues is adding to hers AGAIN! The annual year countdown show returns and performs a few new songs from her…
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Chitose Hajime – New Single
Chitose Hajime has a new single out and a new album to follow! After a quiet spell the unique Japanese singer returns with a song…
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Returned!
Hello everyone, Just a quick note to say I’ve returned from Holiday (it was very nice and very overdue!) and I shall be back to…