Even late night gets a case of the Mondays. While the musical performers seem to get better throughout the week, we usually get off on the wrong foot with Fallon, Letterman and all the rest, especially since half of the shows decide to use Mondays exclusively for reruns (I'm looking at you, Kimmel). Regardless, there were still a few minor treats for music fans last night. First off, David G...
David Gray...remember him? The British Dave Matthews? Yuppies went crazy over his 1998 album White Ladder that included the couples-anthem "Babylon." But these days his music is reportedly making terrorist detainees in Iraq and on US military bases go nuts. US interrogators have reportedly been using "Babylon," which hit Number Eight on the US Adult Top 40 chart, as a form of torture."What we'r...
"we tried to make it work, you in a cocktail skirt, and me in a suit...it just wasn't me..."I will never wear a tie again...ever...June 9th 20007...cubicles have sucked my will to live for far too long...August can not come quick enough...i have no job now, so be warned! I am a full time music blogger until i get to California...I may set records for number of posts!
According to Wired, the American rights organisation ASCAP wants to collect royalties from the US Government for music played over and over to wear down detainees at the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison. The song of choice has been David Gray's "Babylon", a choice about which Gray has been very upset.There is a precedent in that some collection agencies deem nursing homes, hospitals and prisons ...
MUSIC NEWS -British singer/songwriter, David Gray's new album (his eighth) is out today, called Draw The Line (via Downtown Records). It's being being featured as an Amazon Daily Deal. This week only you can purchase the full album MP3 for only $3.99, see ad below for details, and the LA TImes "Pop & Hiss" review of the album. David also starts a tour this week, and if you'r
I love this song, which I know probably makes me a little girlish....but I already have a girl's name, so I can deal. But my love of this song has been somewhat tainted by Joey and Pacey. Yes...from Dawson's Creek(wow, it wasn't my intention to sound like a 13yr old girl in this post, but I sure am doing a good job of it).A couple of years ago I was working third shift and every day when I woul...
David Gray’s seventh album “Life in Slow Motion” climbed all the way into the top 20 of Billboard’s 200 chart back in 2005. David told Billboard that he decided to try something different on his new and soon to be released record “Draw the Line”“I knew I was gonna change things even as far [...]
David Gray’s new album Draw the Line is out September 22 on Downtown Records. David will be performing his single ”Fugitive” on David Letterman on September 25 and will also be performing a special acoustic session at the Borders in Columbus Circle on record release day (9/22).Get the single “Fugitive” or pre-order Draw The Line on [...]
I used to be a member of a music club at work, and from time to time, we'd come up with questions to discover the sounds of our individual music tastes. One of my favorites is, what is the opening theme song to the film that is yr life? Pick a song that best describes the opening scene, that you imagine would be the motion picture that is yr vida.Shine from David Gray is my theme song. For me w...
I love David Gray [Official]. You can blame it on his indie hit, “Babylon,” or you can blame it on my first fall in NYC where the wife got me front row seats to see him at Radio City. Maybe it’s that the previously mentioned song’s video playing in an infinite loop at [...]
The new video for David Gray's forthcoming single 'Fugitive' from the new album Draw The Line out in September. Related Extensive Line-Up for Guinness 250 Anniversary
ladies and gents, sometimes i just want to hear a simple song. p.s. i'm kind of nervous for the new ac/dc album coming out in october. i'm a little scared that it's gonna totally bomb... and i don't want it to. i want it to rock my face off.
While waiting for MOM to churm through my apple lossless files, I've been listening to a fantastic live show by David Gray downloaded from "archive.org":http://www.archive.org/details/dgray2000-11-08This is CD quality sound, at least in FLAC, and you can get true gapless playback on OSX via the freeware "COG audio player":http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/This is Gray circa White Ladder, so the pas...
Sometimes we experience a certain moment when everything just fall right in to place. We feel more than just satisfaction for all of our pain and fears suddenly disappear... even if it means for just a second.Today is a dark grey, rainy morning. And when I look outside my window, there is a big, massive wall blocking every potential beauty I could see outside from within these four walls. The w...