Year: 2008
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Pj Harvey – White Chalk Review
PJ Harvey last year turned in what was one of the best 30 minutes of music that occurred in 2007. “White Chalk” was a complete…
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Sarah Slean – The Baroness Review
Sarah Slean returns with new album “The Baroness”, 12 new songs and the long awaited follow up to “Day One”. “Hopeful Hearts” opens with guitars…
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Patrick Wolf Blogs On New Album & DVD!
I must confess I stumbled upon Patrick Wolf about a month ago and he has been my best new discovery of 2008 to date. In…
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Bjork – How Many Special Editions Do You Need?
Bjork has another special edition of Volta coming out in April! This is a 3 disc edition with remix and live cd and a bonus…
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Deborah Henson-Conant Starts Musical School
Harpist Deborah Henson-Conant is again keeping herself very busy this summer by running a musician school. As one of the forerunners in the harp world,…
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Yuki Kajiura’s “Fiction” Is Reissued
Long time Anime and Game music composer and singer Yuki Kajiura is having her first compilation album reissued. Entitled Fiction, it charts many of her…
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Live Vault – Nobuo Uematsu
Nobuo Uematsu is this friday’s live vault with an orchestrated version of his classic “Aerith’s Theme” from the game Final Fantasy VII. This is taken…
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Sigur Ros Day On YouTube
Today at youtube it appears that Sigur Ros has chosen the featured videos from their contest which has recently finished. Entitled “Meinn Heima” (My Heima)…
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Dead Can Dance – Within The Realm Of The Dying Sun Review
Dead Can Dance recorded this, their 3rd album back in 1985. In the days of LP’s and cassettes you could split a record. Lisa Gerrard…
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Secret Garden Unveils New Album 2008
Norwegian duo Secret Garden look to be releasing their latest album “I’m Singing Inside” in the second half of 2008. This album is to be…
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Hiroki Kikuta’s Latest CD “Concerto” Released
Reborn again in the last 17 months, it’s great to see Hiroki Kikuta back releasing music again. After the success of “Alphabet Planet”, this week…
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Kate Bush – Unusual Tribute Dance
While on the look out for various clips I came across this piece of ingenious fun. Four men by the name of “Chicken ala Queens”…
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Yae – Third Section: Works of Love review
Japanese folk star Yae returned at the end of last year with a three track EP entitled “Third Section: Works of Love” following off the…
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Sarah Slean – The Baroness Available to Stream!
Amazingly (not long before the release) you can listen to the entire new album of Sarah Slean’s called “The Baroness” here I’ve not listened yet…
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Sarah McLachlan Releases More B’s!
Sarah McLachlan looks set to return in 2008 with several possible releases. It’s been confirmed that twenty years after her debut album she’ll release “Rarities,…
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Loreena McKennitt – Nights From The Alhambra Review
I was blessed to discover Loreena’s celtic/arabic/alternative world fusion of music after her huge hiatus in time for her most recent album “An Ancient Muse”…
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Ayumi Hamasaki – 10 Year Anniversairy Single!
My goodness has it been that long? 10 years since Ayu broke onto the J-Pop scene with squeaky clean bubble pop and she can still…
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Goldfrapp Go #1 In UK
English duo Goldfrapp have gone #1 in the UK with their 4th album “Seventh Tree”. It’s great news for me since I only got into…
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Utada Hikaru: Heart Station Single #3
Utada Hikaru’s latest single “Heart Station/Stay Gold” has gone #3 in the Oricon charts in Japan but intrestingly the Japanese Billboard charts rank it #2…
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A New Final Fantasy XI CD!
Naoshi Mizuta’s ever compelling spread of music for Final Fantasy XI continues with it’s latest expansion pack “Final Fantasy XI ~Altana No Shinpei~ (roughly meaning…
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The Black Mages – New Album
The Black Mages release their 3rd album on March 19th entitled “The Black Mages III: Darkness & Starlight”. The rock group take tracks from Final…
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Imogen Heap: iBlog
Imogen Heap while waiting to go for album 3 (or 4 if you include Frou Frou) has a really random video blog detailing her week…
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The curse of the one hit wonder!
Poor Vanessa Carlton. Tipped for dizzy heights back when “A Thousand Miles”, when her second album “Harmonium” was released in the USA no one seemed…
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Akira Yamaoka – Silent Hill Zero OST Review
Akira Yamaoka continues to raise his profile with his latest Silent Hill soundtrack, this time for PSP game “Silent Hill Zero”, a prequel to the…
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Tori Amos – Concert Clips
Tori Amos is such a performer on the stage, she seems to take to it like a duck to water. I have been snooping for…
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Charlotte Martin – Reproductions Review
Charlotte Martin is never sitting still and this latest limited edition release “Reproductions” see’s her showcasing 12 cover songs (including the worthy separate download song)…
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PJ Harvey Starts Work With John Parish
PJ Harvey, not content with releasing the superb “White Chalk” last year is currently in the studio with old friend John Parish recording a follow…
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Sarah Slean CD/DVD News
Another tracklisting this time for Sarah Slean’s new album released on 11/03/2008! The Baroness has twelve tracks on it and are shown below. Furthermore, a…
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Utada Hikaru: Heart Station Tracklist
Hikki’s new album Heart Station, released next month has had its track names released. We have Boka Wa Kuma on there and as a bonus…
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Will Drawing Restraint 9 Ever Get A DVD Release?
Made by her partner Matthew Barney, Drawing Restraint 9 follows artistic religious rituals of the Shinto, a Japanese religion which used to be Japan’s state…
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Friday Night Live: Dead Can Dance
Every Friday there will be a live performance posted here for people to watch. The first edition comes from the fantastic Dead Can Dance with…
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Ayu! The 2007 DVD Is Coming…
Never one to actually take a day off work, Ayumi Hamasaki is not letting her deafness slow her down. The J-Pop star who recently was…
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Vienna Teng’s Live DVD Review
With 3 albums under her belt Vienna Teng has a rapidly expanding fan base and rightly so as her Live DVD showcases her talents for…
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Utada Hikaru: Heart Station/Stay Gold
Utada Hikaru is set to release her final single for the upcoming album “Heart Station” in under two weeks time. The album is to follow…
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Sarah Slean’s New Exclusive Track “Parasol” Available
Sarah Slean, the Canadian born cabaret infused songstress comes blasting back with her new album “The Baroness” which is released in March. If you pre…