Les hablo de una nueva serie, sí, otra en mi haber, no voy a dar a basto.
Se trata de Bored To Death, la nueva serie de Jason Schwartzman, sí, aquel chavalito de Academia Rushmore que Wes Anderson utilizaría también en los Tenembaums o Viaje a Darjeling. También aparece Zach Galifianakis, el barbudo loco de la sobrevalorada, aunque muy divertida, Resacón en Las Vegas (The Hangover).
La crítica la ha puesto a parir, con el típico discurso de que es otro producto indie, al igual que lo utilizan para las pelis de Anderson. Yo creo que parte de una premisa muy trillada, eso sí, típico escritor hecho polvo que se encuentra enfrente a un bloqueo creativo (extraña coincidencia con Californication, o es que las historias de creativos encharcados venden?). Decisión: montar una agencia de detectives privados. A partir de ahí creo que ya es mejor que la vean ustedes, y no se dejen llevar por la serie de clichés que contiene el primer episodio, la serie levanta el vuelo cosa fina. Ah, y muy interesante también que se desarrolle en Brooklyn y no en Manhattan.
Les dejo aquí uno de los trailers que se utilizaron para la promo.
Como se ha terminado la quinta temporada me he puesto a ver capítulos sueltos que me gustaban, encontrándome de nuevo con uno de los mejores finales de la gran Nancy Botwin. Pobre mujer, le pasa de todo.
Hoy nos ponemos un poco más moñas de lo normal, por que sí, por que yo lo valgo. No es que me guste demasiado la señorita Vega, pero este tema en concreto me ha perseguido allí a donde he ido. Así que no está de más sacarlo a relucir.
Suzanne Vega was the first major figure in the bumper crop of female singer/songwriters who rose to prominence during the late ’80s and ’90s. Her hushed, restrained folk-pop and highly literate lyrics (inspired chiefly by Leonard Cohen, as well as Lou Reed and Bob Dylan) laid the initial musical groundwork for what later became the trademark sound of Lilith Fair (a tour on which she was a regular). Moreover, her left-field hit single “Luka” helped convince record companies that folk-styled singer/songwriters were not a thing of the past after all, paving the way for breakthroughs by Tracy Chapman, Michelle Shocked, Shawn Colvin, Edie Brickell, the Indigo Girls, Sinéad O’Connor… Read More…
Centered around the prolific songwriting skills of singer/guitarist Tim Rogers, pop group You Am I is one of the most successful and internationally admired Australian bands of the ’90s. At home, they’ve scored three number one albums, Sonic Youth and Soundgarden are counted among their admirers, and Silverchair even named themselves after a You Am I song. Their influences combine the Who, the Small Faces, the Jam, the Clash, and the Replacements.
Rogers formed his first band while studying arts/law at the Australian National University in Canberra, before forming the first version of You Am I with his school friend Nick Tischler and … Read More…
Originally called Meow, the band released the six-song EPI Ruv Me Too on the small independent label Twist Like This in 1995. They later adopted the Maow spelling, and released the full length album The Unforgiving Sounds of Maow on Mint Records in 1996. Read more…
Los pelos como escarpias se me ponen cada vez que escucho este tema, en cualquiera de sus versiones…
Townes Van Zandt’s music doesn’t jump up and down, wear fancy clothes, or beat around the bush. Whether he was singing a quiet, introspective country-folk song or a driving, hungry blues, Van Zandt’s lyrics and melodies were filled with the kind of haunting truth and beauty that you knew instinctively. His music came straight from his soul by way of a kind heart, an honest mind, and a keen ear for the gentle blend of words and melody. He could bring you down to a place so sad that you felt like you were scraping bottom, but just as quickly he could lift your spirits and make you smile at the sparkle of a summer morning or a loved one’s eyes — or raise a chuckle with a quick and funny talking blues. The magic of his songs is that they never leave you alone.<… Read More…
Emulating American doo wop groups such as the Platters and Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers while incorporating bossa nova and calypso rhythms proved a unique and successful combination for the Cuban quartet los Zafiros. Recording between 1962 and 1967, los Zafiros (translated as “the Sapphires”) gained relative fame in Cuba and in Europe, once performing a live show in Paris with the Beatles in attendance.
Their singing is classic doo wop; Ignacio Elejaide’s tenor leads and the competent vocals of Miguel Cancio, Leoncio “Kike” Morua, and Eduardo Elio Hernandez follow. Manuel Galban’s minimal guitar and piano accompaniment gives the music much of its distinctly Cuban element. … Read More…
THE LOVE ME NOTS formed in the hot Phoenix summer of 2006, originally as a side project for its members other bands. The band was heavily influenced by bands like The Animals, The Ventures, The Sonics, The Gun Club, The Dead Kennedys, The Seeds, The Detroit Cobras, April March and The White Stripes, as well as 60s RandB. The Love Me Nots dubbed their sound spy-surf-fuzz-gogo and posted a scratchy rehearsal recording on Myspace.com in June of 2006.
