Music
Series of 10k charity races taking place globally on August 31st, followed by huge post-race concerts
Posted by: Paul Little • August 27, 2008 @ 5:28am
Normally we don't post press releases here on ShowbizMonkeys.com (we receive so many, this would turn into a freakin' PR website!) but we do occasionally make exceptions -- whether it's something cool or something worthwhile. Well in this case, it's both!
This Sunday, August 31st, Nike is putting on the Nike+ Human Race, a massive global one-day running event.
The Hotel Café, for those unaware, is a club in L.A. that started as a small coffee shop and has grown into one of the premiere launching grounds for singer-songwriters.
What grabs you first about Toronto songstress Emma-Lee's debut full-length album Never Just a Dream? The dulcet tones of her voice and the mellow vibe, for starters.
As an avid fan of 80s hair bands for a number of reasons including the emotional highs of power ballads, the bombastic choruses, and, most importantly, clean, high male vocals (the cleaner and higher the better, at least for this subgenre of metal), I was quite anxious to see what the newest Night Ranger album, Hole in the Sun held.
Album Review: John Mellencamp - Life, Death, Love and Freedom
Posted by: Ariana • July 16, 2008 @ 1:28am
The prolific John Mellencamp returns with his 20th studio album as a man with a lot on his mind and a heavy heart. Fortunately for all of us the world over with heavy hearts, there is such a thing as blues music.
Here, the former Mr. Cougar has mastered all manner of blues styles, from Southern blues, to folky blues, to blues rock.
For diehard fans of Fox's So You Think You Can Dance, Italian singer/songwriter Elisa is nothing new – the title track of her North American release, Dancing, was featured prominently on the third season's Top 20 episode in a Mia Michaels-choreographed piece.
Teddy Geiger takes different approach to choosing new album's songs
Posted by: Paul Little • July 3, 2008 @ 4:25am
Teddy Geiger is a young singer-songwriter I first encountered through the short-lived TV show Love Monkey, where he played a (big stretch) young singer-songwriter alongside Tom Cavanagh, Judy Greer, and Jason Priestley.
This issue of Top Fives is brought to you by wishful thinking and procrastination. We live in a land where summer is short-lived and sunshine is just a memory for eight or nine months of the year. Please enjoy.
Top 5 Songs About Summer by Ariana Heppner
5. Cruel Summer, Bananarama (*)
Jakob Dylan Seeing Things (Amazon)
This is the first solo album from ex-Wallflowers frontman Jakob Dylan. It was produced and recorded by Rick Rubin in a home studio throughout 2007.
Ashanti The Declaration (Amazon)
For her fourth studio album, Ashanti teamed up with some of the best producers in the biz. The Declaration features tracks produced by Jermaine Dupri, LT Hutton, Babyface and Pharrell Williams.
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