An album, that I’ve dragged around for some weeks in San Francisco now is Born to Die by Lana Del Rey. First I was introduced to her by Ieva, but I didn’t really look beyond the song I liked (I better should have back then).

That I like female vocalists may not come as a surprise to any of you, but this one is a little different. The lyrics tell many stories and the mixture of this silk like sweet voice collides with the bloody truth of the words, leaving the audience with a cracked world, that quivers in its spin.

What musically sounds like easy listening, soft rhythms and samples is a masterpiece, which still is soothing after twentieth time.

Some of my favourite passages from this album:

Come and take a walk on the wild side
Let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain
You like your girls insane
Choose your last words
This is the last time
Cause you and I, we were born to die

Born to Die

My old man is a tough man
But he got a soul as sweet as blood red jam
And he shows me, he knows me
Every inch of my tar black soul

Off to the Races

But he headed out on Sunday, said he’d come home Monday
I stayed up waitin’, anticipatin’ and pacin’ but he was
Chasing paper
“Caught up in the game” that was the last I heard

Blue Jeans

Carmen, Carmen
Staying up till morning
Only 17, but she walks the streets so mean
It’s alarming truly
How disarming you can be

Carmen

I’m not the most experimental listener, but I have a somewhat split taste in music, but what unites my favourite artists on last.fm is that their music is very vocal driven. I’ve been using last.fm for a long time, so the records are quite accurate. So, now let’s hit one of my new discoveries, which I was introduced to by my girlfriend and Trond. Dubstep is the word. I’ve picked some of my favourite Dubstep songs for now and I recommend you look into them, if you’re interested in music in general or just need something driving for your morning playlist

Modestep – Sunlight

This music video is great, typical UK humor, hard party like in The Prodigy – Smack my Bitch up and the vocals actually come from the artist.

Skrillex – Kill Everybody

Skrillex – Rock n Roll (Will Take You to the Mountain)

This is where I want to attach a quote from Skrillex facebook page, I was told about when I was asked by Trond what I like the most about Skrillex. I said I just liked the guy and he seemed like a really nice person, so he showed me the quote, it fitted perfectly.

Im not “cool”. I’m a normal person who decided to make music. I never sought out to be anything. I just made songs on my laptop. BUT I appreciate every bit of support you all give me more than you know. Like I said. At this point, my music means more than what it “means to me” It means what it “means to us”.

Skrillex on facebook

Adele – Rolling in The Deep Dubstep remix

This is just a Dubstep remix of one of my favourite songs by Adele.

Your turn, recommend something!

What is it?

wearehunted.com is a little like an online char radio, that allows simple user interaction. The DISCOVERY feature plays a couple of songs for you, which you can like, dislike or skip. From these results a playlist is generated for you. While listening to music, you can still browse songs and artists on the site, without discontinuing your current playlist. The player is inconspicuously positioned at the top of the browser window, with common controls like back, forward, pause and stop. Also a integration to share the songs through twitter, facebook and myspace is available and a link to buy the specific song.

If you chose to stay on a page. It will highlight the song you currently are listening to, including a picture of the artist for a more visual impression.

What I found

I’ve found a couple of cool songs and so far even a band. For example I found acoustic versions of Bulletproof and Pokerface. Furthermore I’ve discovered Paramore. A good example for young pop punk with a female vocalist, that reminded me a little of Garbage.

If you find something nice in this appealingly designed music cloud, let me know

Clementine right now is a ported Amarok 1.4 (which right now is at version 2.4) and it happened to become my audio player of choice a couple of days ago. Before that I’ve been using Songbird on Mac OS X but as I consider it slow I was looking for an alternative, because iTunes certainly is NOT an option for me. iTunes does not support my favourite formats and the way Clementine and Amarok handle the music library and playlists is much more what I like. The library at the side and the main window is the playlist.$

Clementine is right now at 0.6 and there is also a Windows binary available for download. I’m mentioning it for Mac OS because there’s just not that much variety on this platform as on Windows or Linux.

Features i value most:

• clean and fast interface and library
• last.fm connection support
• Growl integration (notifications)
• support for many audio formats like MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC

Es stand bei ihrem großartigen musilaischem Gesamtwerk außer Frage, dass Subway to Sally etwas herausstechendes auf die Bühne bringen würden. Nackt II lässt weder musikalische Qualität, noch die gewohnt vielfältige und intime Live-Atmossphäre vermissen. Für 16.99€ bekommt man ein Konzert, dass eine Altersgruppe von gefühlt neun bis 90 Jahren bedient und durch den Verzicht auf elektronische Instrumente einen ruhigeren und erzählerischen Ton anschlägt. Bonusmaterial gibt es auch, in dem sich die Künstler, ihre Funktion innerhalb der Band und ihre Instrumente für die Akustiktour vorstellen. Auch die zur Unterstützung hinzu gezogenen Musiker Herr b.deutung und Nora Thiele präsentieren sich dort. Die Crew wird von schwedischem Busfahrer auf Inlinern über Tontechniker bis zum Backstagebereich beleuchtet. Danke an Moni fürs Zeigen übrigens

Wenn ihr Subway to Sally mögt und euch und euren Verwandten und bekannten 154 besinnliche Minuten schenken wollt, seht euch diese wundervollen Akustiktourmitschnitte an, folgende Lieder sind dabei: