Diego Stocco takes apart a piano and guitar and makes an interesting, imperfect instrument, but a perfect song.

Gloria Jones records a song Tainted love which gets popularized by Soft Cell and eventually gets covered by Marilyn Manson and sampled for a Riihanna track.

The Staple singers get covered by The Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones get covered by Andrew Oldham (and The Who). Andrew Oldham gets sampled by The Verve (who end up getting sued). The Verve gets sampled by Mark van Dalen. Irony?

How to Destroy Angels releases their first (free) EP.

In this week’s Origin of Samples-post a classic case of who’s stealing from who. In 1991 a relatively unknown Seattle band Pearl Jam released an album entitled ‘Ten‘. One track from that album would go on to be one of the anthems of its generation at the explosion of the grunge hype: ‘Alive‘. Only a […]

Led Zeppelin covers When the Levee Breaks from Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie and a drum loop from the Led Zeppelin version gets sampled in many many tracks.

An interesting story surrounds the soundtrack of the otherwise rightfully forgotten film The Adventurers (1970). The music for the soundtrack is by Antonio Carlos Jobim and is arranged and conducted by Eumir Deodato (remember this name!).  In the same year famous producer/composer  Quincy Jones decided to re-score the whole thing and produced his own funked […]

EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP Not specifically music related, but certainly DYI: Graffiti artists Banksy’s film project. When will this be realeased in the Netherlands? Interesting story about this film is that he offered a piece of art to a band named Exit Through The Gift Shop Door to change their name so he could […]

Some great songs lean on samples of even better songs. One example is Labi Siffre’s I got the (blues). It’s a great summer night soul song, you can put on and hang back. Until about halfway through the song there’s a small break and something familiar starts up. And then you realise you’re listening to […]

More than a year ago, I already praised what the Brett Domino Trio was doing in my personal blog. He did an excellent cover of Michael Jackson’s Beat It, before Michael Jackson had even died. I’ll repeat it: the nerdy act may secretly all be a gimmick, but regardless Brett Domino & friends prove that […]