Regina Spektor has a new single out this week—cue squeals of glee from fans and music bloggers across the Internets. “All The Rowboats” is a lot darker than what we’ve come to expect from Spektor. Of course, Spektor is a woman who can’t even bear to watch Jurassic Park because it’s too scary, so her version of dark is a bleak fantasy in which museums and art galleries become a purgatory for the masterpieces they house. Still, “All The Rowboats” has an eerie quality, a sense of menace reinforced by the track’s thunderous drums that you won’t find in her earlier hits. The song comes from Spektor’s upcoming album, What We Saw From The Cheap Seats. Out later this spring, it looks like the album could be going head-to-head with the expected new album from Fiona Apple, an artist who arguably paved the way for someone like Spektor.
NEXT: Foxy Shazam “Likes It”
Photo: Marc Broussley
The publicist handling the release of Foxy Shazam’s new album, The Church of Rock & Roll, thought we’d like the band’s “taste for theatrical flair.” Even though that reads like 1950s code for “really gay music,” the video for the first single, “I Like It,” is actually pretty awesome. And yes, there’s plenty of theatrical flair in the vein of Freddy Mercury or, you know, The Darkness’s “I Believe In a Thing Called Love.”
NEXT: From the vault—Stevie Nicks’ bestie, Sandy Stewart
Here’s a old favorite I recently rediscovered: Sandy Stewart’s “Not Like The Others” from her 1984 album, Cat Dancer. Stewart worked with Stevie Nicks on Nicks’ 1984 sophomore effort, The Wild Heart, co-writing memorable tracks like “If Anyone Falls” and “Nightbird.” Nicks returned the favor by contributing backing vocals to many of the songs on Cat Dancer (including the title track, below) and dueting with Stewart on the sub par ballad “I Pretend.”
For Nicks fans, Cat Dancer is like a disc’s worth of Wild Heart b-sides. The whole album has that great cheap coked-out’ 80s synthesizer feel, but the song that sticks in my head most is “Not Like The Others” (above). It’s a classic from that forgotten early-1980s cheeseball genre.
If Stewart wants to make a comeback on the gays’ dime, I could get behind that!
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SO COOL THAT QUEEN’S INFLUENCE AND FREDDY MERCURY’S INFLUENCE IS ALIVE AND WELL IN FOXY SHAZAM. LONG LIVE THEATER ROCK AND GLAM ROCK!!!!
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