Lee Clayton has died and no one knows about it. Well, except for a handful of older fans who still know him from his album Naked Child. According to Josie Kuhn, Nashville singer and friend, the countryrock singer died by suicide in a motel room in White House, Tennessee.
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Rain Tree Crow was a onetime continuation of the successful ’80s band Japan. In collaboration with David Sylvian, singer of both groups, record company Universal has started a series of vinyl re-releases.
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A few years ago Solange made herself heard with a truly great album. Since then it has been a bit quiet around her. So let’s look back on When I Get Home. Solange is wearing a futuristic eyelid piece on the album cover. The jewellery designs by Keren Wolf are often worn by celebrities, but the look of the American singer is anything but glamorous. Rather vulnerable and stoic.
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“I don’t have a clue,” he says. “It’s about nothing. It happened so long ago, I wasn’t even born.” Bob Dylan, talking about a series of concerts he gave at the end of 1975, is trying to add flavour to the Netflix documentary directed by Martin Scorsese, a project which appears to have made a partly fictional reconstruction of the notorious tour called Rolling Thunder Revue.
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Lana Del Reys fifth album is her most gloomy so far. It is her most personal, dark, vulnerable and intimate album. Lots of lyrics, lots of piano and almost all of the songs are ballads. Despite a few languid beats, the music is mainly played in a minor key and, even more so than on her previous albums, she sings from a high to low voice to emphasise emotion and meaning. On a recent press photo the songstress looks as if she is having a lot of fun, smiling and wearing a striking winged eyeliner – but all is not what it seems.
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