“Red is obviously such a stimulating color, and it has so many connotations.”
- P.J. Harvey
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PJ Harvey covers Uncut magazine!
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PJ Harvey performs “On Battleship Hill” live!
1This is probably our favorite track on Let England Shake. It’s just so dreamy and multi-layered.
Adele to release live album!
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Basking in the massive success of her album 21, Adele has opted to not release the new material she has been working on immediately. Instead Adele, who has been have problems with vocal rest lately, will release a live album of a performance in Royal Albert Hall in London. It’ll be called Live At Royal Albert Hall, obviously, and will contain all her big numbers. More news will be posted as news surfaces.
Adele wins two Q Awards!
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She might not have picked up the Mercury Prize Award for her sophomore album 21, but she won not one but two Q magazine awards for her efforts. Adele’s latest album has been certified platinum 10 times in the UK. It comes as no surprise that it would get that kind of reception. It seems the throat problems that she is having with her health recently stopped her from attending the event. We hope she is OK.
PJ Harvey talks about winning the Mercury Prize!
1Well-deserved. She previously won the award in 2001 for her fifth studio album, Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea. This year she topped a short list of 11 other nominees, including mainstream it-girl Adele’s 21.
PJ Harvey wins the Mercury Prize for “Let England Shake”
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PJ Harvey has booted off all the competition, including mainstream favorite Adele, to win the prestigious Mercury Prize. The award goes out to one album a year and PJ Harvey deserved it for making her best album to date after years in the industry. It’s truly a formidable album to overcome. Let England Shake has great ditties and a beautiful concept. We are happy for her.
2011 Barclaycard Mercury Prize announced!
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Lauren Laverne has announced the Barclaycard Mercury Prize ’2011 Albums of the Year’. Addressing an expectant audience at The Hospital Club in London, Lauren revealed the twelve albums shortlisted for this year’s Barclaycard Mercury Prize. They are:
Video Premiere: “Desire” by Anna Calvi
2We never really got into her and we thought her album was a bit unpolished, to tell you the truth. But this is worth a mention.
Video Premiere: “All And Everyone” by PJ Harvey
1What would 2011 be without PJ Harvey? A loud of emptiness. Harvey’s on a roll to make videos for her great album Let England Shake. This is another in a string of videos. We better absorb everything she throws our way because she allegedly threatened to be on a decade’s hiatus. Not cool, PJ!
We have launched our sister blog Flight965.com!
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We had you thinking that we were merely music-heads, but in reality one of our other hobbies is travel. Following the success of Loft965.com we decided to launch another dimension to our interests. Flight965.com caters to our wanderlust. Head over there to see what it’s all about.
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Video Premiere: “The Colour Of The Earth” by PJ Harvey
1We can’t get enough. Let England Shake is our favorite PJ Harvey album!
Video Premiere: “Written On The Forehead” by PJ Harvey
3Video Premiere: “On Battleship Hill” by PJ Harvey
6It seems like Polly Jean Harvey is going to release a music video for every track on her new album Let England Shake. According to Wikipedia: “After seeing Seamus Murphy’s “A Darkness Visible” exhibition in London in 2008, Harvey contacted Murphy as she “wanted to speak to him more about his experiences being there in Afghanistan.” The collaboration grew, with Murphy taking promotional photographs in July 2010 before filming accompanying videos for each song on the album.”
Video Premiere: “England” by PJ Harvey
8We forgot for a little bit about PJ Harvey‘s Let England Shake, now we want to revisit it.
Video Premiere: “The Glorious Land” by PJ Harvey
5Okay, this is the third video from Let England Shake after the title number and “Maketh Death” and she is running out of ideas. it’s nice to see another video from PJ, but it would be nicer if she gave us a strong visual.
Video: “Riverside” by Agnes Obel
1PJ Harvey announces second single “The Glorious Land”
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Jessie J’s album “Who You Are” has leaked!
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Highly-touted pop act Jessie J‘s debut album has leaked all over the internet ahead of its release date. Click here to investigate the leak through another blog unaffiliated with ours.
Introducing… Agnes Obel
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On 4 October Agnes Obel is to release her debut album on [PIAS] Recordings. Called, ‘Philharmonics’, the album will be preceded by the release of the ‘Riverside’ EP on 6 September. Feeling musically related to Roy Orbison, Agnes currently lives in Berlin and possesses the rare gift of a songbird’s voice, bringing to mind Ane Brun, Joanna Newsom or even Ricki Lee Jones. Play “Just So” to anyone in Germany and they’ll tell you it’s the music from the Deutsche Telekom television advertisement. It’s the kind of exposure many an artist would die for, or the kind of publicity an independent spirit might agonise over – venturing into the commercial arena. Yet isn’t it intriguing how a few bars of music can seep into our consciousness and set us off wondering where they came from?
