Twin Cities local band, The Melismatics, have their brand spankin’ new music video for the track “Digging Deep” on the voting panel for mtvU’s Best Freshmen Video. To make your vote click here, and check out the video below! ...
60’s “Time Of The Season” The Zombies Odessey And Oracle (1968) Largely used as a song to identify the late 60’s, and famous for the usage of call and response verses. 70’s “30 Days In The Hole” Humble Pie Smokin’ (1972) With its many references to drugs, it fits right in with the album title Smokin’. This song fared well ...
This song can connect on so many different levels. At the time, one of Pink Floyd’s former band members Syd Barrett was going through serious health and mental issues due to heavy drug abuse. He visited the band in the studio while they were recording the Wish You Were Here album and they didn’t even ...
“Gimme Shelter” Rolling Stones Let It Bleed (1969) Originally the first word was spelled “Gimmie” on the album, but later it would be spelled as “Gimme” due to how other artists spelled the word. The song has an instrumental version as well that equally does the song justice. “Be My Lover” Alice Cooper Killer (1971) Mr. Cooper is one of the most ...
Hot on the Minnesota local scene, Guante & Big Cats! recently performed live in The Current’s studios for The Local Show. Combining a talented, full band with a rapping/spoken word champ/slam poet makes for a good time musically. Their album An Unwelcome Guest was released in January of this year, theming their songs after love, disaster, ...
For out special looooove edition of Outstanding Lyric, I don’t think there is a better choice than this song: Such Great Heights – The Postal Service I am thinking it’s a sign That the freckles in our eyes Are mirror images and When we kiss they’re perfectly aligned And I have to speculate That God himself did make us into Corresponding shapes like ...
Here’s some new music to check out: Sade – Soldier Of Love Massive Attack – Heligoland Josh Turner – Haywire tobyMac – Tonight Hot Chip – One Life Stand Jaheim – Another Round Fear Factory – Mechanize HIM – Love In Theory & Practice Gil-Scott Heron – I’m New Here Allison Moorer – Crows The Watson Twins – Talking To You Talking To Me Yeasayer – Odd ...
“Stand By Me” Ben E. King Stand By Me Single (1961) King had originally wrote this song for the group The Drifters, but they didn’t want to record it. So one night after recording got done early, King played the song for the producers and they liked it so much they brought the studio musicians in ...