Spinnerette

I actually wrote this post about two years ago and never hit Publish. But Spinnerette have some cool songs, so I've got to put it up now.

Have you heard of Spinnerette? They first crossed my radar a few months ago when I saw the video for "Ghetto Love". Great song. Great simple video. So I bought the EP on emusic.

Now they've released their full-length, self-titled album. It's available from iTunes.

It's quite a departure from Brody Dalle and Tony Bevilacqua's old band The Distillers, but it happens to be more up my alley, so to speak. Check out Ghetto Love below and tell me it doesn't stick in your head for days. The rest of the album sounds really good but isn't quite as immediate as the first single. Although I'm certainly getting something close to immediate gratification coming "Baptized by Fire". I'm sure to have more to say about the rest of the album as it gets into more frequent rotation on my iPod.

Here's the video for "Ghetto Love"


And the video for "Baptized by Fire"

Scarlett, Spinnerette, Stereophonics and Other Cool Stuff!

I read a number of RSS feeds on my Blackberry on my way to work every day. I save the one's I want to follow up on, either because they have some content I want to see or hear that doesn't come through on the Blackberry, or the feed is truncated and I want to read the rest of the article (I actively dislike it when feeds are truncated). Here are a few of the articles or posts I found interesting over the last while.

Scarlett Johansson is singing again. While the few songs I heard from her Tom Waits cover album didn't grab me, this new song with Scarlett and Pete Yorn sounds quite good. Spin has posted the video and has a brief article here.



Stereophonics are coming out with a new album called Keep Calm and Carry On. I've never been super into them, but I seem to have a lot of their music in my collection. I think that if I just spent some more time with their albums, they could really become a favourite. Guardian has an article on their pending release and about Ronseal records in general. Ronseal records are those albums that let the listener what they are via the album title.

NPR.org has a cool article on the Posies and how bands make money these days. Interesting that they never pocketed any money from their major-label albums. It's no wonder that the record business is in the tank and the music business seems to be going strong. When will those record company's realize that they are dinosaurs and that they're extinct?

Julian Plenti, also known as Paul Banks from Interpol, has released an album called Julian Plenti Is... Skyscraper. I really like Interpol and after giving this album a spin, I give it a thumbs up. It is available from emusic.

Spinnerette were on Letterman, sounding decidedly less keyboardy and poppy than they do on their latest, self-titled album.

More to come!