Salomea: "stick around" video

Watch the Salomea video for stick around, the opening track from their axxxis album: "Singer and composer Rebekka Salomea leads her band through emotional minefields, snapshots taken during night life and of course the wicked ways of love. While the subject matter has been covered umpteenth times, she has found new ways to tell the tales that need to be told."

The Gentle Spring: Down with Love

Anglo-French melancholic pop trio The Gentle Spring show off their education by quoting Shakespeare's famous line "If music be the food of love, play on" spoken by Orsino, the Duke of Illyria, in Twelfth Night at the start of the video for their new single Down with Love.

It is a nice contrast make a song sounding a tad optimistic while being seriously disappointed. Lead singer Emilie Guillaumot nailed those mixed emotions rather well. Love is likened to a game of scrabble and sometimes one might stuck with a subpar set of letters.

Cowboy Junkies: tour dates

Canadian alternative country/blues/folk rock band Cowboy Junkies will be on tour on the US East coast throughout November to promote their Open to Beauty – Best of the 21st Century album.

Live dates:

• 11/04 Wilmington, DE @ The Queen
• 11/05 Sellersville, PA @ Sellersville Theater 1894
• 11/06 Manhattan, NY @ City Winery
• 11/08 Manhattan, NY @ City Winery
• 11/09 Manhattan, NY @ City Winery
• 11/10 Manhattan, NY @ City Winery
• !1/12 Brookville, NY @ Tilles Center
• 11/12 Greenvale, NY @ Krasnoff Theater, Tilles Center, LIU Post
• 11/13 Newton, NJ @ The Newton Theater
• 11/14 Great Barrington, MA @ Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
• 11/16 Northampton, MA @ BOMBYX Center for Arts & Equity
• 11/17 Nashua, NH @ Nashua Center for the Arts
• 11/19 Beverly, MA @ The Cabot
• 11/20 Brownfield, ME @ Stone Mountain Arts Center
• 11/21 Brownfield, ME @ Stone Mountain Arts Center

» cowboyjunkies.com

Steven Wilson: "A Basket of Bees (The Village Hall Sessions)" video

Steven Wilson has shared a video for A Basket of Bees, played live (sort of) in the studio with Randy McStine (guitars, backing vocals) and Russell Holzman (drums, percussion) and Shelby Logan Warn (backing vocals), a pastoral prog rocker veering into metal at some point in order to confuse the punters. It is a track from his new album Requiem for a Village.

Coltin Thorn: It’s Time For Me To Leave

Finding closure about a relationship going on the rocks within two minutes feels a bit like rushing it. However, Coltin Thorn, an outlaw Americana singer from Salt Lake City manages this to do so with It's Time For Me To Leave, when he reaches the conclusion that moving on is the only viable option after having tried all other options.

The song falls apart in the last seconds, which is a blessing in disguise as he is obviously overcome by his emotions. Take note of his guitar playing. Sometimes a few notes can tell a whole story.