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CD Review: The Bedsit Poets Rendezvous

2008-10-09 22:58:27 by delarue in Lucid Culture
 
...Bedsit Poets 2006 debut The Summer That Changed was a gorgeously summery collection of soaring, harmony-driven, Britfolk-flavored anthems and mellower pop numbers. By contrast, this is their autumn album, pensive, jazzier and more stylistically diverse. The charming harmonies of Amanda Thorpe and Edward Rogers (both of whom have released...
 
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New York City Live Music Calendar October-November 2008 Plus Other Events

2008-10-01 20:59:08 by delarue in Lucid Culture
 
...Bedsit Poets frontwomans solo material is far darker and perhaps deeper than that bands irresistably sunny retro Britpop, delving into such disparate styles as noir cabaret and 70s Britfolk with equally rewarding results Also Weds Oct 1, sets at 8:30 and 11 PM the Lou Donaldson Quartet with Dr. Lonnie Smith on B3 organ play Birdland, gen adm...
 
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Gig Chatter - Yeasayer Live In Dublin

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2008-05-14 11:36:41 by FluxCapacitor of MOG in MOG - Editor's Picks
...bedsit, do you live in a bedsit, too We abscond to the furthest corner of the venue Guy we know spots us. Thinks Im committing the cardinal sin for an Irishman Guy: Are you drinking water Me: Jesus Christ. Everybody asks me that! Its pear cider Guy: Is it Me: Taste it if you dont believe me Yeasayer take the stage Me: I thought the singer...
 
Tags: richie, yeasayer, guy, gig, guy wobbles past, lost boys, live, hair, short hair
 
 
 
 
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Concert Review: Amanda Thorpe and Serena Jost at Banjo Jims, NYC 10/1/08

2008-10-03 21:48:22 by delarue in Lucid Culture
 
...Bedsit Poets frontwoman Amanda Thorpe and Serena Jost are two of New Yorks top tunesmiths. Oops, theyre not on some huge corporate record label. Better to get Justin Timberlake and John Mayer instead. J-Ti (was that Lou Perlmans pet name for the moppet?) can play Chopsticks while Mayer noodles innocuously in the background between...
 
Tags: jost, serena jost, thorpe, thorpes songs, songs, british expat thorpe, thorpes, josts songs, yorks top tunesmiths
 
 
 
 
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Madonnas humble beginnings

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2007-06-10 15:46:14 by Music Blogger in
...bedsit in Earls Court while I was away It was a hell-hole. There were prostitutes upstairs, junkies downstairs, and it was a bare room with a bed, nylon sheets, and a kitchenette with dirty plates and a lamp Ive always felt ashamed that she stayed in such a pit. If Id known in 1983 how huge shed become, Id have cut up the sheets and sold them...
 
Tags: nylon sheets, sheets, record sleeve designer, london apartment, music business, madonna, huge shed, promotional tour, junkies downstairs
 
 
 
 
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New Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - "Glue Girls" (Stereogum Premiere)

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2008-01-14 17:48:24 by Stereogum in stereogum
 
...bedsit sound, we figured "Half-Awake (Deb)" to be a sure sign of slightly mathier things to come. "Glue Girls" doesn't fully flesh out that prognostication, although the grooves do ceaselessly shift; instead it's the vocals that bear signs of evolution here, and then when the Yeltsins power up their pop (as in around 3:10), it's almost like...
 
Tags: boris yeltsin, glue girls, beatles bedsit sound, abbadon -style injection, ceaselessly shift, awesome broom, permanent hiatus, loves, slightly mathier
 
 
 
 
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New Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - "Think I Wanna Die"

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2008-03-04 12:44:16 by Stereogum in stereogum
...bedsit indie pop Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, who landed a sweet slot in our three-day SXSW fiesta (between Kaki King and Letterman-beloved Liam Finn), offer up another track to remind you that the repeat-worthy Pershing drops just a few weeks after we all get back from Austin. The last cut " Glue Girls " gave us some shifty grooved...
 
Tags: wanna die, boris yeltsin, bright eyed sweet, bedsit indie pop, three-day sxsw fiesta, broom ing, glue girls, drop dead, sweet slot
 
 
 
 
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MARILLION: " CHELSEA MONDAY " and " FUGAZI ".

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2008-03-12 22:00:09 by tangerman of MOG in MOG - Editor's Picks
...bedsit queen She's playing the actress in this bedroom scene She's learning her lines from glossy magazines Stringing all her pearls from her childhood dreams Auditioning for the leading role on the silver screen Patience my tinsel angel Patience my perfumed child One day they really love you You'll charm them with that smile But for now it's...
 
Tags: chelsea monday, acoustic guitars, guitars, marillion, additional guitars, bass guitars, fugazi, replacement steve hogarth, steve hogarth
 
 
 
 
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Highlights of Make Music NY, Upcoming on June 21

2008-06-17 03:49:25 by delarue in Lucid Culture
 
...Bedsit Poets play the Murray Hill Greenmarket, 33rd Street and 2nd Ave. Then they go off to play 3-4 PM at Castle Clinton in Battery Park N um & the New Reggae Underground play jazz-inflected roots reggae at their home base, the front garden at Nums Place, 58 West 127th Street, Harlem Self-explanatory hip-hop artist No Police State Girl...
 
Tags: street, grand street, 8th street, music, street performers whove, west 127th street, ave, 5th ave, bedford ave