Let’s just not talk about the state of the world in 2019. We can safely assume it’s burning. Neil Young had something to stay about that, but probably not in this context. Rather, let’s focus on the music that’s being created despite it.
Through careful research and data collection, our team at The East have been able to scientifically catalogue, dissect, and distill every tasty little earful to arrive at this: our list for The Best Music of 2019 (so far).
“Is there really people living on Mars? Is it even real if I can’t see it?” As far as choruses go, it sounds like something David Bowie might have asked of Stanley Kubrick – the spaceman to the filmmaker. Rather it’s Prince Edward Island’s Calm Baretta daydreaming of a life in the make-believe world that exists somewhere between the two, with their latest single, “Silver Screens.” Continue reading Single: Calm Baretta Dream of Hollywood and the ‘Silver Screens’
Taken from the recording sessions for Bob Dylan’s 1962 debut solo self-titled studio album (though first seeing release in 2001, with a limited edition of Love and Theft) Thomas Stajcer has committed to posterity a recording of his own version of, “I Was Young When I Left Home.” It’s a drawn out version on the classic, swapping those bright finger-picked rolls for some sorrowful country crooning. Continue reading Single: Thomas Stajcer Covers Bob Dylan’s ‘I Was Young When I Left Home’
Since the dawn of the music industry it has been declared that June would be a month of singles being released just in time to hype music festivals and tours. Uncoincidently, it also corresponds to the spawning of a sufficient number of mosquitos to dampen any enthusiasm for the former. This is a necessary step in the circle of life: music festivals beget mosquitos, which in turn travel up the food chain until your heart gets broken in the fourth grade, leaving a void that can only be filled through a lifelong addiction to music. Thus, the cycle is completed.
Famously, science has proven that soda exists independently of this cycle, and yet arrives at the same results, but at least no one gets hurt. Life is a curious thing.
Here’s everything we saw in June, 2019.
History does have a tendency to repeat itself, and so, unsurprisingly, 53 years later we’re hearing echoes of Nancy Sinatra’s “Bang Bang” reverberating in the new single from Daughter of the Moon, “Casanova.” Cher did it first, Nancy Sinatra gave it that tremolo guitar twist, and now Natalie Ramsay has given it all a good shake up and used the pieces to rebuild it to suit her purposes. The lyrical matter of an unfaithful lover matter is a perennial one. Continue reading Music Video: Daughter of the Moon Turns Failed Romance Into Freedom With ‘Casanova’
