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New Music Tuesday...

New Releases.

Alicia Keys - Alicia Keys – Girl On Fire
Review: Washington Post
I don't really have a lot to say about this album, except that I don't hate it. I feel the three songs listed in the 'Tracks' section really are the best of this album and I'd like you to notice "Girl On Fire" is not one of them. Probably the most annoying tracks released this year. A feeling that was compounded when AMEX decided to use it in a commercial this Fall. Why is it, you always hear the songs you hate, be it on TV, movies, radio? It never fails. On a whole, the album is average. Mind not blown...

Tracks: When It's All Over, Tears Always Win, 101

MISC.
As we approach the end of the year, the release schedule gets thinner and thinner. So I thought I would take this opportunity to feature some tracks I have found over the last few years from random artists unknown to me at the time, that are out of this world...


~ Natalie Hart "Jezebel" - Free EP on Noisetrade


~ Natalie Prass & Among Savages "When I Am Alone" - Free Download "When I Am Alone - Single"

~ Matthew Perryman Jones "Poisoning the Well" - Matthew Perryman Jones – Land of the Living

~ Chris Stills - "Landslide" - Chris Stills - self titled album available on Amazon

~ Jherek Bischoff "Eyes featuring David Byrne" - Jherek Bischoff – Composed

 

~ In the new year, New Music Tuesday will get a facelift! Maybe a nose job and some botox... Looking forward to bringing you more music and new shoes in 2013! And in celebration of the upcoming holiday, here is my 2012 Holiday Playlist on Spotify: This Christmas - 2012 

If you missed last year's playlist, well...here's that one too! Jingle Belling - 2011

Anticipation.

Bruno Mars - 12/11

Winter Wonderland

Boutique 9

Up on the Housetop

Marni

Aspenglow

UGG

Santa Baby

KORS Michael Kors

Silver Bells

Jimmy Choo

Blackbird

Manolo Blahnik

New Music Tuesday!

Every Tuesday is an exciting new day for music! Here are a few selections worth checking out (or avoiding), with links to articles, reviews, videos and anything else the Internet could provide...Happy Listening!

New Releases.

Soundgarden - 11/13
Spotify: Soundgarden – King Animal
Review: MTV.com

Is it 1992? Sadly, it is not. But the sound of Chris Cornell's voice takes me back to a time when my ears were ruled by rock n' roll. Pure and simple. I do enough nostalgia ranting so I will spare you my hostile bitching about the music (if you can call it that) of today. What I am more than happy to write about is the fact that it's 2012 and Soundgarden has released their first album in 16 years, King Animal. And it's fucking good. I wouldn't say it's their best, but I think it absolutely has the right to exist and is an album Soundgarden can be very proud of (No Doubt/Green Day, I hope you're taking notes). At almost 50, Cornell sounds completely amazing. I close my eyes and see a 20 year old kid with long hair, no shirt, long shorts, wearing Docs rocking out on stage in the movie Singles. It's as if time has left his voice unchanged.

In addition to Cornell. Matt Cameron. Kim Thayil. Ben Shepard. After 28 years as a band, the members have remained relatively unchanged, going through some growing pains early on. The lineup that gave us Badmotorfinger and Superunknown, is the lineup that gave us King Animal. So it should come as no surprise that this album is rockin. There is no mistaking this album for anyone but Soundgarden. The album feels neither old nor new. It simply feels like Soundgarden. And I have to say, it's good to have them back...

Tracks: By Crooked Steps, Bones of Birds, Attrition, Halfway There


Anticipation.
Rihanna - 11/20
Alicia Keyes - 11/27
Solange - 11/27

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

ModCloth

Veronica

Steve Madden

Brighter

Ivanka Trump

Petals

ModCloth

Oxford Comma

Sole Society

How You Can Help: Hurricane Sandy

In light of the recent storm and it's subsequent devastation, DCILY posts will be suspended. I simply cannot in good conscience post pictures of expensive (albeit beautiful) shoes while so many are without the simplest of necessities.

Instead, here is a list of ways you can help if you are near or far...

I pray the road to recovery is a short one.
Best,
PL

NYC:
Food and Water Distribution Sites
Overnight Warm Shelter Locations
Disaster Assistance Service Centers
MTA Subway Recovery Map
MTA LIRR Recovery Map

How You Can Help NYC:
NYC Service

NJ:
NJ Office of Emergency Management
NJ Transit - Updates
PATH Train Updates

How You Can Help NJ:
NJ Food Bank

How You Can Help EVERYONE:
Donate to the American Red Cross