Sandie's Music Minute

Jesse Ruins is a mysterious electro-ambient act from Tokyo, Japan that debuted in 2011 with the dreamy electronica track, “Dream Analysis”. It is signed to Cuz Me Pain Records and Brooklyn label Captured Tracks. Last FM

Soda Stereo were an Argentine rock band that achieved fame and international success throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s. They were a power trio made up of Gustavo Cerati on vocals and guitar, Héctor "Zeta" Bosio on bass, and drummer Charly Alberti. The band is widely considered as the forerunners of the Latin American / Ibero-America / Rock En Español movement that emerged during the mid-1980’s. Soda’s early sound was influenced by new wave bands such as The Police. The band gradually evolved into a heavier sounding alternative rock band, eventually drawing influences from classic rock, progressive rock, shoegaze, neo-psychedelia, britpop, and electronic music.
Soda played an important role in the development and diffusion of Latin American / Ibero-America rock. They were the first Latin rock group to achieve mainstream success in South and Central America and helped popularize the Rock En Español scene of the 1980’s.


The band established what would become the template for Spanish-speaking rock music groups and in the process broke numerous ticket and sales records, especially in their native Argentina. They are considered by critics to be one of the best Latin American /Ibero-America rock bands of all time. Soda has sold over 7 million of albums in Latin America and their back catalog continues to sell to this day. In 2002 Soda Stereo was awarded the "Legend Prize" by MTV Latin America, the first prize to be awarded of its kind.


References:
http://sodastereo.com/
http://www.last.fm/music/Soda+Stereo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_Stereo


Image Source:
http://www.last.fm/music/Soda+Stereo/+images/25391051

Tennis is Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore, a husband/wife duo. Last FM
Here is the track where you can hear her voice a lot better. From the new album out on February 14, 2011 called "Young and Old".

Tennis Petition by garrettsorrels

Frightened Rabbit are an indie rock band which formed in 2003 in Glasgow, Scotland. I saw this amazing band on May 9, 2010.  Last FM

This is one of my favorite songs by The Smiths. It's one of those songs that every time I listen I have to loop the song for an hour straight. The lyrics from the song soothe me through personal pain.

New song from her album called: Narrow out Feb. 13, 2012


Favorite songs from her the last album:




Soap&Skin is the experimental musical project of Austrian artist Anja Plaschg (born 5 April 1990). Plaschg grew up in a small village called Gnas in south east Styria, where her parents have a farm. She has played piano since she was six. At the age of 14 she began violin studies and developed an interest in electronic music. She attended the Graz Polytechnic for Graphic Design, but dropped out at 16 and moved to Vienna shortly afterwards. 


Her first album, called Lovetune for Vacuum, was released in March 2009. It received excellent reviews and placed in the Austrian Top 10. The album also achieved chart positions in Germany, Belgium and France. Music journalists have already claimed to see in her a new star of Austrian pop. MTV Iggy describes it as music inspired by singer/songwriters like Regina Spektor as well as Electronica mavens like Aphex Twin.




References:
http://soundcloud.com/solfoafp
http://www.last.fm/music/Soap%2526Skin?ac=Soap
http://www.youtube.com/user/PBruxelle
http://www.facebook.com/soapandskinofficial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap%26Skin
http://soundcloud.com/solfoafp
http://www.mtviggy.com/videos/soap-skin-thanatos/


Image source:
http://www.last.fm/music/Soap%2526Skin/+images/43748447

About Fado Music:


The most widely recognized music of Portugal is fado, and it's been an extremely popular form among the Portuguese for nearly two centuries. Fado is a bluesy music that began to gain popularity among the urban poor of Lisbon in the 19th century. Brazilian and North African influences helped shape fado, as did Portuguese poetry and modinha ballads. The roots of Fado are frequently traced to Brazilian immigrants who brought their fofa and lundu dance music to Portugal in the early 1800s. Similar to Tango, Fado was initially perceived by the bourgeoisie as a disreputable, lower-class music.


The crucial instrument of Fado, the guitarra Portuguesa, is a 12-string guitar derived from a lute common to the Congo region of Africa. This lute was carried by Africans to the Portuguese colony of Brazil during the 15th century during the early years of the slave trade. The instrument, having undergone some significant alterations over time, eventually made its way to Portugal. Africans and Afro-Brazilians had favored their lute as an accompaniment to dance, but in Portugal musicians began to use the modified version of the instrument to accompany ballad singers, and this is the particular milieu in which Fado was born. National Geographic