http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/ Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:35:23 -0800 Yahoo! http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/betterlivingthroughmp3/768/mp3s-top-ten-downloads/ According to IODA’s Promonet, the tool many (legal) MP3 bloggers use to spread love, hope and new music to the masses, these are the top ten jazz downloads as of today. Check ‘em out, let me know what you think of their rating system. Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:35:23 -0800 Ken Micallef http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/betterlivingthroughmp3/744/mp3s-seu-jorge-is-back-toninho-hortas-birthday-bash/ Jorge hit the international radar as good guy Knockout Ned in 2002's volatile, multi-Academy Award nominated film, City Of God. Who knew Jorge could also croon? Now Jorge returns with América Brasil, his first album of original material since "Cru" in early 2005. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:11:21 -0800 Ken Micallef http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/betterlivingthroughmp3/737/mp3s-female-vocalists-friday/ Young women espousing complex harmonies and sprightly rhythms are seemingly on the rise. Here’s a few of the new, a few of the best. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:13:21 -0800 Ken Micallef http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/betterlivingthroughmp3/734/mp3s-eliza-carthy-follows-the-dollar-incredible-string-band-returns/ A few years ago Mojo magazine went gaga for Eliza Carthy’s 1998 release, Red Rice. Eliza is a rather traditional English folk singer--perhaps fuzzy folk tunes performed on even fuzzier instruments. But Eliza Carthy is an artist deserving of greater international coverage, as her 1999 Mercury Prize made clear. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:49:52 -0800 Ken Micallef http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/betterlivingthroughmp3/728/mp3s-vanessa-daou-from-the-world-di-johnson-from-shanghai/ Sultry, sleek, and at times overtly sexual, Vanessa Daou sings for adults. Daou has been featured in The New York Times, Billboard, TIME Magazine, VIBE, URB, Mixer, Wire, ELLE France, and Vogue Homme. Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:41:45 -0800 Ken Micallef http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/betterlivingthroughmp3/718/mp3s-heavy-circles-lift-our-eyes-tim-fites-freak-out/ She--the wife of Paul Simon and former face of the platinum selling New Bohemians; he--the son of Paul Simon, and thus, her stepson. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:31:50 -0800 Ken Micallef http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/betterlivingthroughmp3/716/mp3s-feral-children-bite-back-the-lodger-goes-warm-and-fuzzy/ Sloppy-energetic like Seattle’s Love Battery, melodic, ferocious and experimental like English master shoegazers Swervedriver, Feral Children find a missing niche and fill it. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:37:38 -0800 Ken Micallef http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/betterlivingthroughmp3/707/mp3s-odd-nosdam-explodes-becks-almost-back-the-chaps-bangers-and-mash/ Like a fine wine spillage between Herbie Hancock (Mwandishi), Keith Emerson (Nice era), Dangermouse and Kraftwerk (Radioactivity), Odd Nosdam raises the bar of electronic profundity while remaining inexplicably below the radar. If you enjoy crazy sound collage, do enter here. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:19:11 -0800 Ken Micallef http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/betterlivingthroughmp3/700/mp3s-a-journey-through-sound-twine-the-pinker-tones-return/ Greg Malcolm and Chad Mossholder comprise Twine. And if the album cover doesn't give you a clue, with its peeling paint and look of abandoned brownstone real estate, then we can spell it out: Twine inhabits a musical no man's land, an ethereal, ghostly plane where a reverb box, dulcet female vocal and chasm like, yawning atmospheres make for truly head spinning tunes. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:35:08 -0800 Ken Micallef http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/betterlivingthroughmp3/646/mp3s-pascals-mod-pop-don-cavallis-heart-attack-rock/ PAS/CAL hails from Detroit, the land of Motown, dying urban industries and deer walking deserted downtown streets. Rebirth arrives in strange ways, indeed. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:54:11 -0800 Ken Micallef