I updated my artist page for piano music by Brian Crain. Individual songs have been grouped into a single playlist, which makes listening to them easier. It has been included here as well for convenience.
See my Brian Crain artist page for more of his albums, videos, and links. This playlist has been included there as well.
Photo credit: Life Is… @ Amazon (album cover).
I updated my original post for solo piano music by Christine Brown from January 18, 2015. Individual songs have been grouped into a single playlist, which makes listening to them easier. It has been included here as well for convenience.
Playlist
Christine Brown (Playlist) – 8 songs, 34 min
See my Christine Brown post for more of her albums, videos, and links. This playlist has been included there as well.
Photo credit: Souvenirs @ Amazon (album cover).
I updated my original music post for Michael Logozar from January 19, 2015. Individual songs have been grouped into a single playlist, which makes listening to them easier. It has been included here as well for convenience.
Playlist
Michael Logozar (Playlist) – 8 songs, 31 min
See my Michael Logozar post for more of his albums, videos, and links. This playlist has been included there as well.
Photo credit: Dreams From Afar @ Amazon (album cover).
I updated my original post with piano and violin music by Secret Garden from September 25, 2014. Individual songs have been grouped into a single playlist, which makes listening to them easier. It has been included here as well for convenience.
Last month the violinist, Fionnuala, had a serious fall while walking her dog back home, which broke several bones in her right wrist (bowing arm) and her left elbow was severely broken as well. After emergency surgery, her doctors hope for a complete recovery with rehab and therapy after several months.
Playlist
Secret Garden (Playlist) – 8 songs, 32 min
See my Secret Garden post for more of their albums, videos, and links. This playlist has been included there as well.
Photo credit: Just The Two Of Us @ Amazon (album cover).
I updated my original music post for indie pop band Fun. from September 22, 2014. Individual songs have been grouped into a single playlist, which makes listening to them easier. It has been included here as well for convenience. Also videos and links were added.
Playlist
Fun. (Playlist) – 8 songs, 32 min
[spotify http://open.spotify.com/user/dpw67/playlist/06PNJFmieZL1tQcVhmOGkX]
See my Fun. post for more of their albums, videos, and links. This playlist has been included there as well.
I updated my original music post for Josh Ritter from September 23, 2014. Individual songs have been grouped into a single playlist, which makes listening to them easier. It has been included here as well for convenience. I also added an acoustic album.
Playlist
Josh Ritter (Playlist) – 8 songs, 32 min
See my Josh Ritter post for more of his albums, videos, and links. This playlist has been included there as well.
Photo credit: Acoustic Live, Vol. 1 @ Amazon (album cover).
Check out this article at NPR Music by Stephen Thompson. He has hand-picked 100 songs for artists appearing at South by Southwest Music Festival here in Austin this month. It includes the complete playlist with artist links and the ability to play each song, if you want to just browse through the list. However, I think you will like trying out their interactive web app (see below).
The Austin 100: A SXSW 2015 Mix
A really cool feature is a fully interactive multimedia web application. For each one, there is information about the artist and song, with hometown and brief description. There are links to download the MP3 song, stream that artist on Spotify or Rdio, or access iTunes or Amazon music stores
It offers shuffle play of all 100 songs, including the ability to pause, as well as skip forward or backward. You can click the heart to mark specific songs as a favorite, and you can later just click on a button to play your favorites. That makes it extremely easy to skim through all the songs and pick those that you like (and eliminate those you don’t).
Launch the The Austin 100 App by NPR Music.
Earlier there was a download available with all 100 MP3 songs as a single 795 MB zip file (over 6 hours of music), but that NPR download link is no longer active after SXSW. If you were lucky and downloaded it earlier, then you probably imported it into iTunes and made a playlist for it. However, the interactive web application on the “launch” link above still works and you can listen to all the songs.
Enjoy the music!
Brandi Carlile released her new album The Firewatcher’s Daughter today, and it’s available for listening on Spotify. Also, I created a playlist for her more popular songs.
Playlist
Brandi Carlile (Playlist) – 8 songs, 28 min
New Album
“The Firewatcher’s Daughter” by Brandi Carlile (2015) – 12 songs, 42 min
See my original music post on Brandi Carlile if you want to listen to more of her music, view her videos, or access related links. This new album and playlist has also be incorporated directly into that post.
Photo credit: The Firewatcher’s Daughter @ Amazon
I updated my original music post for Mother Falcon from September 21, 2014. Individual songs have been grouped into a single playlist, which makes listening to them easier. It has been included here as well for convenience. Also I have added additional albums, lots of videos, and related links. They will be playing at South by Southwest later this month.
Playlist
Mother Falcon (Playlist) – 8 songs, 26 min
Videos
Here is a sample of their videos.
“Marigold, Marfa, and Dirty Summer” by Mother Falcon – Live at NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert – 12 min 18 sec
See my Mother Falcon post for more of their albums, videos, and links. This playlist has been included there as well.
I updated my original music post for Wild Child from September 21, 2014. Individual songs have been grouped into a single playlist, which makes listening to them easier. It has been included here as well for convenience. They will have a show at Mohawk in Austin on March 7, and also play at South by Southwest later this month.
Playlist
Wild Child (Playlist) – 8 songs, 29 min
See my Wild Child post for more of their albums, videos, and links. This playlist has been included there as well.