So, now we know where Jason Mraz’s straw fedora went. Here’s the latest song and video from the Philadelphia folk-pop trio Good Old War, whose third album Come Back As Rain, is set to be released next week. The song’s called “Calling Me Names”, and with its sunny acoustic picking, ooh-la-la-la back-up vocals, and a chorus you’ll be singing along with before the second verse starts – callin’- callin’- callin’ me na-ee-ay-ames […]
Last Sunday, The Civil Wars made the most of 2 minutes of network airtime on the Grammy Awards as the “opening act” to Taylor Swift’s performance of “Mean.” (They’d also been awarded two trophies of their own prior to the broadcast including Best Folk Album.) This week, the duo’s debut album Barton Hollow nearly tripled it sales from the previous week, almost exactly a year after its original release. Huzzah for The […]
When we think of the kind of pop stars that thrive on periodic self-reinvention, we generally think of women. Madonna, of course, is the mother superior reinventer, but it’s basically a fact of life for even a minor female pop star that you don’t wear the same look twice and personae should be changed as often as underwear. You know – to stay fresh and stuff.
We don’t think this way about […]