Category Archives: British

Top Drops 2014

January 13, 2015 by snapshotsandneedledrops

It’s been a scarce couple of musical months, guys and dolls. Life has taken on a new kind of intensity after starting my new job– which I love– but unfortunately leaves me with little time for musical exploration or blogging. However, missing out on listing Snapshots and Needle Drops’ top ten drops and shots for 2014 was never an option… even if it is late. Once again, I plan on posting last year’s photography on the Snapshots and Needle Drops […]

Categories: Alternative, Australian, British, Canadian, Dance, Electronic, Experimental, Folk, Indie, Irish, Jazz, Lists, Playlists, Pop, Remix, Rock, singer-songwriter, Soul • Tags: 2014 music, best of, Canadian, indie, jazz, music, photography, pop, Rock, top ten

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SS&ND Reviews: This is All Yours – Alt-J

November 4, 2014 by snapshotsandneedledrops

They say a band’s sophomore album is the hardest. In this age of music, if your first release flops– that’s it. In Greg Kot’s book Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music— my all time favourite book about music– he references Joni Mitchell’s remarks on how, when she was signed, record companies offered multi-album deals. Joni’s first contract gave her something like eight albums. Mitchell claims this allowed her to grow naturally as an artist, hone her writing and musicality. […]

Categories: Album Review, Alternative, art rock, British, Dreamwave, Electronic, Experimental, folktronica, Indie, indietronica, New Wave, Rock, Sample, synth rock • Tags: album review, Alt-J, art rock, Indie Rock, music, photography, Rock, This is All Yours

Beats on Repeat

June 30, 2014 by snapshotsandneedledrops

We’re branching into something a little different at Snapshots and Needle Drops today. Beats on Repeat will be the periodic (re: whenever I feel like it) publication of my weekly musical obsessions. These are songs that I just can’t stop hitting replay on; the tracks I can’t get out of my head and, for whatever reason, will not get a Doodledrop of their own. Beats on Repeat will be featured pretty much solely on Snapshots and Needle Drops’ facebook page. So get […]

Categories: Alternative, British, Electronic, Indie, Playlists, Pop, Soul • Tags: British Music, electronic, indie, music, playlist, pop, remix, Rudi Zygadlo, sam smith, soul

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Man stands alone on beach, Kangaroo Island, South Australia

Sam Smith, so hot right now

May 26, 2014 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Secret beach at Stokes Bay, Kangaroo Island, South Australia Ah! I’ve been meaning to write about Sam Smith for the past couple of months, but I’ve been humming and hawing about his high level of notoriety– yes… I am a music blogging snob, and?… But then, I had the same internal debate last August with sharing Lorde– and it turns out she was still pretty under the radar. Once again, like I mentioned in the RAC post from last month, […]

Categories: Ballad, British, Indie, Jazz, Pop, singer-songwriter, Soul, Unreleased • Tags: Australia, beach, British, music, new music, new release, photography, sam smith, travel

Osheaga Playlist 2014

March 11, 2014 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Three fans mourn the end of Metric’s set while The Black Keys rock out 50ft to their left. As Canadians outside Montreal are becoming increasingly aware, for the August long-weekend there is nowhere else to be but Parc Jean-Drapeau. Starting the year before I moved to Montreal in 2006, the Osheaga Festival Musique et Arts has really exploded in the last few years, reaching 135,000 attendees in 2013 (apparently 70% from outside Québec)- practically busting out into the Saint Lawrence […]

Categories: Alternative, Australian, British, Canadian, Dance, Dreamwave, Electronic, Electropop, Experimental, Folk, House, Indie, Kiwi, Lists, Playlists, Pop, Rock, singer-songwriter, Soul, Swedish, Synthpop, World • Tags: 2014, Canadian, Concerts, convert, dance, festicals, festival, Montreal, music, Osheaga, Osheaga 2014, Osheaga 2014 playlist, Osheaga Festival Musique et Arts, osheaga music festival, Parc Jean-Drapeau, photography, Rock, world

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Blades of Gold

February 24, 2014 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Olympic Rings in Whistler for Vancouver 2010 Where were you when the puck dropped? On Sunday night at 11pm I was sitting on my couch, wine in hand- ready to chug the bottle if things turned blue and yellow. Obviously hockey is huge for us Canadians and the Olympics are a time when all the enormous talent we rent out to every American NHL team (seriously, 53.3% of players are Canadian with Americans contributing only 23.9% of their own homegrown […]

Categories: Alternative, British, Electronic, Electropop • Tags: alternative, British, electronic, electropop, Gold, Gold Medal, gold medal game, Goldfrapp, Hockey, music, Olympics, photography, Soch 2014, Vancouver 2010, Winter Olympics

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Okie Sochi

February 3, 2014 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Panels of colour at MoMA, New York YOU GUYS. The Winter Olympics start this week and I’m suck in this damn sun-infested country! I adore the Winter Olympics. I will watch anything and everything during the games: hockey, ski jumping, curling, hockey, luge, speed skating, snowboarding, skiing, biathlon, figure skating, hockey… S, I might actually manage to push our internet streaming to the limit this month. Of course, the big controversy with these games started in June 2013 when […]

Categories: Alternative, British, Cause, Indie, Pop • Tags: alternative, art, Autoheart, British, cause, gay-rights, indie, LGBT, MoMA, music, Olympics, photography, pop, Protest, Russia, Sochi 2014, Winter Olympics

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Top Drops 2013

January 7, 2014 by snapshotsandneedledrops

As promised in last week’s Top Shots 2013, I have painstakingly culled my precious music selections from the past year and whittled down a top ten list for 2013’s Needle Drops. It was no simple task. I hummed and hawed, listened and relistened, made lists and reversed them and eventually came up with the following. Am I obsessive? Probably. Did I put too much time into this? Most likely. Am I happy with the results? Yes… I think so… Yeah…………. […]

Categories: 80s, Acoustic, Alternative, art rock, Australian, British, Canadian, Cover, Dance, Dreamwave, Electronic, Electropop, Experimental, Folk, Indie, Kiwi, Lists, Playlists, Pop, Rock, singer-songwriter, Soul, Synthpop • Tags: alternative, Australian, best of, Canadian, indie, Kiwi, music, music lovers, photography, top ten

Slow Blow

December 4, 2013 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Sydney reflections Sorry guys and gals, Snapshots and Needle Drops has been taking a brief and unintentional hiatus. Fortunately, I’ve been taking loads of Snapshots-worthy pics and Emily is on deck waiting to publish another stellar post next week. The photo above was taken the night I ran Sydney’s City2Surf. To read about my amazing time in that that epic race, click here. Wolf Alice is a relatively new north-London band who released their debut EP this past October. This song […]

Categories: Alternative, art rock, British, Dreamwave, Experimental, Indie, Post-Punk, Unreleased • Tags: album release, alternative, art rock, British, dreamwave, experimental, indie, music, photography, Sydney, travel

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