Here’s the new video from Nippertown singer-songwriter-loopmaster Jared Funari. The song, “I Am the Moon,” is featured on his debut full-length album, “You Are the Sun”:
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Song of the Week: Jared Funari’s “I Am the Moon”
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010Song of the Week: Behind The Wall Of Sleep
Monday, August 16th, 2010Okay, we can’t be the only ones excited about seeing the Smithereens at the Plaza Food Festival on Wednesday:
Song of the Week: Thank You For Your Love
Monday, August 9th, 2010
Antony and the Johnsons’ new album, Swanlights, is coming out in October, but in the meanwhile, they’re releasing “Thank You For Your Love,” a five-song EP that includes that covers of John Lennon’s “Imagine” as well as Bob Dylan’s “Pressing on.”
“Thank You For your Love,” is slated to come out on August 24, but you can download the title track for right now, for free when you sign up for their mailing list.
Song of the Week: “Basin Street Blues”
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010To honor and celebrate the 99th anniversary of the birth of the great Louis Armstrong, we offer his rendition of the classic “Basin Street Blues,” filmed live in Stuttgart, Germany in 1959:
Song Of The Week: Ghoul Poon’s VCR Forest
Friday, July 30th, 2010Ghoul Poon was just awarded “Best Band Name” in Metroland’s “Best of 2010.” Let’s pile on the honors, shall we?
Song of the Week: “Summertime”
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Yup, it’s another scorcher out there, boys and girls.
So we thought we’d pay tribute to the season with a brand new video by our own homegrown funkateers the Ill Funk Ensemble offering up their new summer jam from their just-released debut album, “Catching Wreck”:
Read Nippertown.com’s review of the “Catching Wreck” album.
Song of the Week: Mercy on Broadway
Thursday, July 1st, 2010We’ve been singing it all day…in honor of the new month, here’s Laura Nyro’s “Mercy On Broadway:”
Once, I lived under the city in my sweet July…
July, mercy on Broadway!
Song of the Week: Sifting Through the Dust
Thursday, June 24th, 2010Here’s Alta Mira performing “Sifting Through the Dust” off their “Fables and Fabrications” EP, recorded live last year at WRPI:
Alta Mira will be bringing their tasty mix of indie, progressive, alternative and art rock to Red Square in Albany at 8pm Saturday, June 26. Also on the bill: The Emerald City Lights (folk/rock/alternative), The Tins (indie/pop/rock) and Boyish Good Looks (power pop/punk). Tix are $8.
Song of the Week: Wide Open Wide
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010Railroad Earth is performing at the Clearwater Festival in Croton-on-Hudson this Saturday, but frontman Todd Sheaffer used to front a little outfit called From Good Homes that played Nippertown quite a bit back in the day. Here they are performing “Wide Open Wide” at Bogies in 1992:
Song of the Week: Babylon
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Bryan Thomas’s Babylon video, shot at Tess’ Lark Tavern. The song rocks and the video embodies the creative agony and ecstasy that any singer/songwriter has encountered. If you haven’t seen it before, and even if you have, make sure you play it through to the amazing shot at the end. Once you watch this, you’re going to also see the “making of” video, which you can watch on Bryan’s website.
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