Category: videos

Lou Rhodes set to release One Good Thing

Ex-Lamb vocalist Lou Rhodes will release her third solo CD on March 14. It’s not fair to say that Rhodes has matured since her time in Lamb – that duo’s electronic-fused trip-hop was mature sounding – but on One Good Thing she’s traded computer-assisted noise for acoustic guitars and other assorted strings. It’s two-steps beyond coffee shop fare, but imaginably would sound fantastic stripped-down to just Rhodes and a guitar played in an intimate setting.

You can download “There for the Taking” from One Good Thing in exchange for your e-mail address. Pretty fair trade it you ask me.

Gabriella Cilmi – what a difference a year makes!

I caught a performance by Gabriella Cilmi last year at the Aussie BBQ at SXSW. Here’s what I wrote:

Gabriella Cilmi is in a league all her own and I think the Aussie BBQ organizers scored a coup getting her to perform. I’m pretty sure she’s already got a U.S. record deal and is poised to go onto really big things. Because Amy Winehouse was really the first to gain popularity with this type of music, that would be the easiest/simplist reference point.

Here’s a video from the Aussie BBQ.

Cilmi has a new CD coming out in March and as you can hear for yourself, she’s got a totally different sound in 2010 – one that is likely to sell tons of digital downloads.

Check out her new single, “On a Mission” (is it just me or does it borrow from Joe Jackson’s “Steppin’ Out”?)

Retro video: Gigantic – “Disenchanted”

I was digging through a box of old CDs today and ran across one by a band called Gigantic called Disenchanted. I’m sure this was a CD that the Sony college rep in Columbus gave me back in the mid-90s but I can’t remember ever listening to it … until today. Doing a Google search, I discovered that Gigantic was essentially Flesh for Lulu with a new name (same singer, Nick Marsh, and drummer, Rocco Barker) but a heavier, more alt-rock sound. Originally released in 1996, Disenchanted didn’t go anywhere, despite Gigantic’s appearance as the opening act on a Bush/Goo Goo Dolls tour that same year, and the band broke up two years later. In 2007, Corporate Risk reissued the CD under the Flesh for Lulu name and titled it Gigantic.