Just today people were talking about big money bets coming in for Speech Debelle to win the Mercury Prize, and what do you know, the British rapper rode Ladbrokes' 4/1 odds and the votes of the Mercury High Council Of... CONTINUE READING SPEECH DEBELLE WINS 2009 MERCURY PRIZE»
Posted on September 8, 2009 in , , , (23 comments)
Tags: Bat For Lashes | Friendly Fires | Jools Holland | Kasabian | Lisa Hannigan | Mercury Prize | Micachu And The Shapes | Ryan Adams | Speech Debelle | The Gossip
Earlier this morning, British DJ/television presenter Lauren Laverne announced the dozen 2009 Mercury nominees at London's Hospital Club. The prize, of course, is for the UK's album of the year award. First things first: In order to be eligible, the... CONTINUE READING MERCURY PRIZE 2009 NOMINEES»
Posted on July 21, 2009 in (65 comments)
Tags: Bat For Lashes | Florence And The Machine | Friendly Fires | Girls | Glasvegas | Kasabian | La Roux | Led Bib | Lisa Hannigan | Mercury Prize | Speech Debelle | Sweet Billy Pilgrim | The Horrors | The Invisible
Last week we took a listen at Lisa Hannigan's solo demo work with "Lille": lilting, fragile, fingerpicked. While distanced enough from her work with Damo, it wasn't the upbeat soundtrack to cute home movies of Lisa with kids and in... CONTINUE READING NEW LISA HANNIGAN VIDEO - "MY PIRATE DISCO (DEMO)"»
Posted on January 23, 2008 in (3 comments)
Tags: Lisa Hannigan
Stereogum's favorite former-Damien-Rice-accompanist is finally starting to show us a little solo love, now that she's off by her lonesome. "Lille"'s billed a demo, but to these ears it's good to go and a promising peek at her songwriting, a lilting fingerpicker with trilling glockenspiel, slight percussion, and a starring role for Lisa's char-burned voice. Finally. (Thanks, Aoife)
Posted on January 17, 2008 (4 comments)
Next in line for the Starbucks set: Stereogum reader Nathan M. expressed his dismay at this announcement on damienrice.com:Band update - 25 Mar 2007 After much thought and discussion Damien has decided that his professional relationship with Lisa Hannigan has... CONTINUE READING LISA HANNIGAN AND DAMIEN RICE PART WAYS»
Posted on March 26, 2007 (51 comments)
Tags: Damien Rice | Lisa Hannigan
Seems like we're incapable of mentioning Damien Rice without fawning over his accompanying vocalist, Lisa Hannigan. Her hand-wringing and char-burned vocal charm slay us, and aside from bootlegs and radio rips of Lisa performing covers, there really isn't much out... CONTINUE READING FINALLY, LISA HANNIGAN SOLO»
Posted on March 2, 2007 (23 comments)
Tags: Damien Rice | Lisa Hannigan
You probably won't see this clip on P4K, but here's the new vid from our sad, sad friend Damien Rice. Worth a watch 'cause Lisa Hannigan is mesmerizing, even as a floating head balloon. (Okay, especially as a floating head... CONTINUE READING NEW DAMIEN RICE VIDEO - "9 CRIMES"»
Posted on December 5, 2006 in (10 comments)
Tags: Damien Rice | Lisa Hannigan
