One of my most diversified year-end lists yet -- rock, electronica, jamband, prog, pop, R&B. I didn't really think I'd even find 10 albums that could hold my attention start to finish, and believe me, I tried to listen to most of my fellow critics' top ten titles and could barely get through most of their selections top to bottom. Okay, so there may have been some overlapping, but very little. Here are my top tens of favorite CDs and singles in some kind of non-numerical order. (Well, actually, the number of plays on my iTunes player.)
1. Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon (Columbia)
A Mercury Prize music nominee in the U.K. and rightfully so. Slightly left of center, but accessible in a sweeping film noir soundtrack meets Nina Simone kind of way. Joyous tone poems with gorgeous vocals (and ethereal background vocals) and Gil Evans-inspired orchestral arrangements that leave you breathless.
1. Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon (Columbia)
A Mercury Prize music nominee in the U.K. and rightfully so. Slightly left of center, but accessible in a sweeping film noir soundtrack meets Nina Simone kind of way. Joyous tone poems with gorgeous vocals (and ethereal background vocals) and Gil Evans-inspired orchestral arrangements that leave you breathless.
- 12/24/2013
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
One of my most diversified year-end lists yet -- rock, electronica, jamband, prog, pop, R&B. I didn't really think I'd even find 10 albums that could hold my attention start to finish, and believe me, I tried to listen to most of my fellow critics' top ten titles and could barely get through most of their selections top to bottom. Okay, so there may have been some overlapping, but very little. Here are my top tens of favorite CDs and singles in some kind of non-numerical order. (Well, actually, the number of plays on my iTunes player.)
1. Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon (Columbia)
A Mercury Prize music nominee in the U.K. and rightfully so. Slightly left of center, but accessible in a sweeping film noir soundtrack meets Nina Simone kind of way. Joyous tone poems with gorgeous vocals (and ethereal background vocals) and Gil Evans-inspired orchestral arrangements that leave you breathless.
1. Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon (Columbia)
A Mercury Prize music nominee in the U.K. and rightfully so. Slightly left of center, but accessible in a sweeping film noir soundtrack meets Nina Simone kind of way. Joyous tone poems with gorgeous vocals (and ethereal background vocals) and Gil Evans-inspired orchestral arrangements that leave you breathless.
- 12/24/2013
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
"Supernatural's" Mark Sheppard played coy with Zap2it when we visited him on location in Vancouver.
"You don't want know when I'm going to be in it or not be in it," he says. "You just kind of want to know that I exist. The fans are very, very serious about not getting spoilered on this. So let's hope that you guys keep quiet. You shouldn't even mention that I'm here."
Oops.
Sheppard's first appearance in Season 6 is in tonight's October 15 episode, "Weekend at Bobby's," where Bobby (Jim Beaver) discovers that the demon Crowley still owns his soul. When we visited, Sheppard was shooting Episode 8, and we couldn't help but ask if Crowley was still in possession of that soul.
"What, right now? Let's see," he teased, pulling his iPhone out of his pocket. "It's the kiss I always keep." He's referring to the photo of himself and Beaver kissing,...
"You don't want know when I'm going to be in it or not be in it," he says. "You just kind of want to know that I exist. The fans are very, very serious about not getting spoilered on this. So let's hope that you guys keep quiet. You shouldn't even mention that I'm here."
Oops.
Sheppard's first appearance in Season 6 is in tonight's October 15 episode, "Weekend at Bobby's," where Bobby (Jim Beaver) discovers that the demon Crowley still owns his soul. When we visited, Sheppard was shooting Episode 8, and we couldn't help but ask if Crowley was still in possession of that soul.
"What, right now? Let's see," he teased, pulling his iPhone out of his pocket. "It's the kiss I always keep." He's referring to the photo of himself and Beaver kissing,...
- 10/15/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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