Very surprising and very sad news. They were
a wholehearted, perfervid and committed
rock-pop force getting better and better
with every album.
They’ll say goodbye soon with an EP,
named Machine Starts To Sing.
Margolin: “Porridge Radio are breaking up. The one-time Band To Watch announced the bummer news today while sharing “Don’t Want To Dance,” the lead single from one final EP. That project, titled Machine Starts To Sing, will be out in about a month, and Porridge Radio
will play out their final run of tour dates early this year.”
This is the last new music from Porridge Radio and marks the end of the band. The songs on this EP are an important part of Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me, and mean a lot to us. We are excited for you to hear them. This band has been our life, we’re family now. These tours will be our last. Thanks so much for listening.”
Along with the bad news comes the first track from that planned EP.
In the light of the split-up DON’T WANNA DANCE is a most gripping,
goosebumps pearl. An emotive power ballad. A heartbreaking tearjerker.
Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me
.
I’m gonna miss you, very much, on record and on stage!
Artist: T BONE BURNETT Who: Legendary American songsmith and lauded producer who worked
with many greats (Elvis Costello, Robert Plant, John Mellencamp and many
more) and scored movie soundtracks all through his long career.
LET THE FLOWERS GROW
The song was originally written by Boy George with its initial message being
“one of
personal acceptance about being gay. As the song developed, it took on a more expansive and universal scope with its lyrics extending beyond sexuality and embracing race, gender, creed and religion.”
Epic.
Boy George – Peter Murphy
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Artist: PETER PERRETT Who: Former frontman of legendary British new
wavers The Only Ones (1976–1982, 2007–2017)
“The song incorporates themes of longing and desperation I felt in my own
life at the time that found a home in anecdotes of the desert and its characters
experiencing these feelings for reasons far removed from my reality.”
Artists: THE GLASS HOURS Who: American songwriters Brad Armstrong and Megan Barbera.
Their music blurs between Sunday afternoon country-folk and
the golden age of the 1970s.
“It’s about that someone you’ll never be with and that you allow to remain
inside you as a perfect unspoiled thing, yet still you measure and hold your
real relationship up against it. It’s a dream, an illusion, an unfair fantasy.
Nothing and therefore able to be perfect.”
78-year-old American singer/songwriter and highly respected producer T Bone Burnett released his 15th LP, named The Other Side a couple of
weeks ago featuring this heavyhearted beauty, called Waiting For You.
Mellow and compassionate romanticism at its candlelight best.
Hohlbrugger: “It’s about that someone you’ll never be with and that you allow to remain
inside you as a perfect unspoiled thing, yet still you measure and hold your real relationship up against it. It’s a dream, an illusion, an unfair fantasy. Nothing and therefore able to be perfect.”
A yearning and gripping reverie for the midnight hours. Think murder ballad
duo Nick Cave/Kylie Minogue, but also legendary 60s duo’s Nancy Sinatra/Lee
Hazlewood and Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg.
Time Alone is another glamourous musing by Berlin-based songstress Kat Koan
and her befriended collaborator Freddie Dickson on guitar. It’s a whispering, sexy,
and revealing story about a secret love.
So you’re dimming down the light I should be leaving now I guess
But then, when you touch me right It’s such a beautiful mess
Should be calling it a night It’s better if we don’t
but then you kiss me where my husband wont
Let go it’s alright let go it’s alright
Akron‘s blues brothers The Black Keys have their 12th LP, titled Ohio Players out.
It’s their best, without a shadow of a doubt, with this glowing gem on.
After being part for 17 years of the duo The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer, Canadian songsmith Shawn Hall goes his own way as The Harpoonist.
His debut solo LP, baptized ‘Did We Come Here To Dance‘ comes out this
summer, featuring Canadian blues-rock legend, Big Sugar’s Gordie Johnson.
Taster Good People reveals, for all who haven’t heard (like me) of Hall, the unique voice he’s blessed with. The song is a pondering blues jam – did we come here to dance or to die? – spiced with some of The Harpoonist‘s retro harmonica play and a warm-hearted organ.
1. Any light, simple song, especially one of sentimental
or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all
sung to the same melody. 2. A simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed
in short stanzas and adapted for singing. 3. Any poem written in a similar style. 4. A sentimental or romantic popular song.
Okay, I just wanted to check if I picked the right songs here.
Below you find TUTV’s Ballads Of 2021 Spotify playlist with
a total of 30 beauties that I picked from the past 12 months.
The late Suicide legend had a lost album out this year
called Mutator. One of those rare lost albums that are
actually really good. Samurai is one of the dark
highlights.
The passion-driven Danish outfit finally hit the bull’s eye
with their fifth longplayer Seek Shelter. A near-perfect
opus with this slow-burning torch…
Stand out track from these young Texans’ debut album Survivors.
The lyrics are crystal clear. America is not what Hollywood tells you. It has become
a dangerously divided country where racism and far-right rebirth stimulated by
charlatan Trump and his ruthless entourage are frighteningly realistic (again).
Alarming feelings expressed with heavy-heartedness…
A brave and affecting pop pearl. An inspiring encouragement for
the countless girls/women and boys/men worldwide, struggling with
the looks of their body when it doesn’t correspond with society’s
everlasting sexist perception of how a body should look like, as
we all know.
Singer/songwriter Chrisy Hurn sounds as if she’s
related to The Sundays‘ grand voice Harriet Wheeler.
8. ‘Weeping Willow’ by MODERN MOXIE (South-Carolina)
This nostalgic gem has that melancholic and magical feel we, adults,
are familiar with. Looking back at good times gone. This wistful lullaby
brings tears to your eyes.
1. I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself To You by BOB DYLAN
Talking about growing old in bewitching style. From his
highly praised Rough And Rowdy Ways longplayer.
I’m sitting on my terrace, lost in the stars
Listening to the sounds of the sad guitars
Been thinking it all over and I’ve thought it all through
I’ve made up my mind to give myself to you
