Month: July 2008
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Happy 50th Birthday Kate Bush!!!
Who’d have thought Kate is now 50! Her music is still gold and shiny and here’s to a new year with perhaps a little bit…
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Ayumi Hamasaki – CD Japan Present Campaign
CD Japan is a great site to order VGM and Japanese artist’s music and with Ayu’s 10th Anniversary release they’ve got a new present giveaway.…
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Deborah Henson-Conant – New Musical
She’s at it again! Deborah is back with a new show that’ll be lasting for two weeks at Central Square Theatre, MA starting on the…
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Live Vault – Yasmin Levy
This weeks Live vault comes from Spanish/Latin/Arabic crossover artist Yasmin Levy. Spanish guitars and ethnic percussion combined with Yasmin’s rich, deep and flowing voice make…
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Gackt – Returns With “Nine”
Gackt returns to the musical plains with an excellent sounding live boxset called “Nine”. I’m new to Gackt to be honest, although I’ve got a…
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Live Vault – Lamb
This weeks Live Vault comes from English duo Lamb. Criminally underrated and responsible for making some of most emotive club orientated music ever made. Here…
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Ayumi Hamasaki – Mass Singles Collection Release!
Ayu is never off the release calender and this time she hits back with “A Complete ~All Singles~” which is to include all 43 singles…
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Beth Orton Reissues “Trailer Park”
Beth Orton bounces back after a quiet spell with the announcement of a reissue of Trailer Park, her début album. What’s best is that it…
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Tori Amos Bootlegs To Get International Release
If you’ve not been living in America (like me), you must be feeling the pain I have being unable to get Tori’s Bootlegs from the…
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Doug Laurent – “Half-Life” Remix Album Review
Half-Life had music? That was the response I got when I told a friend of mine I’d bought the Half-Life Soundtrack! I must admit after…
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Taro Hakase – “Final Fantasy XII Symphonic Suite” Review
The first real release of Final Fantasy XII music comes courtesy of Taro Hakase whom has apparently not been releasing music for many years and…
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Sigur Ros – “Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust” Review
Sigur Ros has really seemed to garner a lot of publicity and break into a more mainstream music world with their latest album which translates…
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Jesper Kyd – “Hitman Contracts Soundtrack” Review
Jesper Kyd has performed some excellence in his game soundtracks with some very stirring performances and renditions. “Hitman: Contracts” see’s him return to a series…
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Live Vault – Tsukiko Amano
This weeks live vault performance comes from J-Rocker Tsukiko Amano. Due a new album maybe in 2009, she first came to be noticed outside Japan…
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Motoi Sakuraba – Releases First “Tales Of…” Arranged CD
Looooong overdue is the release of the first “Tales of…” arrangement CD. Taking only one song from each game, Motoi Sakuraba will be at the…
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Patrick Wolf – “Careless Talk” New Song
Patrick Wolf has uploaded a new song onto his myspace page. Entitled “Careless Talk” this is done in a 1950’s style light jazz and kind…
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New Features: A Poll For What You’d Like!
Just a quickie basically. This site is taking off and getting a lot of hits a day. This is really spurring me to make the…
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Live Vault – Mediaeval Baebes
I’m relatively new the this magical group. Mediaeval Baebes have been around for a while with an ever changing line up but the core of…
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Tori Amos – “Me and You” Unreleased Gem
Artists sometimes have some of their best work hidden in b-sides and Tori Amos is one of those artists that seem to have songs almost…
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Hiroki Kikuta – Secret of Mana + Review
Sometimes people break the mould, do something different, something original, something inspired. Medley’s of songs have always been a staple of video game arrangements, maybe…
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Shiina Ringo – New DVD
Good old Shiina is enjoying her 10 year anniversary a lot! Her latest release this year will be “Zazen Extasy”, a live dvd to Shiina’s…