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DJ Akhu's Daily Shuffle: 'Sunday Drive' by Ladyhawke (2012)

Artist: Ladyhawke
Song: Sunday Drive
Year: 2012

Today's Song = 'Dusk Til' Dawn' by Ladyhawke

Today's featured song is Dusk Til' Dawn, by New Zealand artist Ladyhawke. Ladyhawke is a singer/song-writer/multi-instrumentalist who is now a solo artist, but who used to be a member of a Wellington-based band called Two Lane Blacktop. This song certainly is not new, as it is over 2 years old already, and it comes off of her September 2008 release self-titled album. This album peaked at #16 on the Australian albums chart, #1 on the New Zealand albums chart and #41 on the US Billboard Top Heatseekers chart, although Ladyhawke doesn't receive much airtime here in the USA, which is a bit of shame in my opinion. Well, enjoy yourself some good Kiwi-music!

VJ Samsonite's "Hot New Music" song of the day is....

...Embrace, by Australian dance duo Pnau. This song really isn't that new (2 frickin yrs old all-bloody-ready), but I guess they start to fall behind a lot when I am only doing "one a day," and time just passes that quickly. Pnau are from Sydney, and consist of  Nick Littlemore and Peter Mayes. This song reached #12 on the Triple J Hottest 100 in 2008, and it features vocals by New Zealand artist Ladyhawke. Could write a lot more but don't fell like it at the moment so enjoy the song, you may be familiar with it.

VJ Samsonite's "New Music Song of the Day and Debut" is...

So, this is my blog, and I have essentially made a Vlog (that is video web-log) already, so I figured that I am so into music and have a strong to desire to share music I like (who doesn't), along with the fact that radio stations in the USA just don't play any real diversity of artists or new music (plus or minus 5 years) that Americans have really been missing out on. So Doctor Evil has prescribed us Yanks a daily injection of high quality new music, and thats just a start! I am going to start doing some posts as my alter ego "DJ Samsonite" (daily if possible) of new artists and songs that I think deserve some extra coverage. Also note that I will still be posting multiple topics on my vlog, not just exclusively music or anything else. Seeing that youtube has the music videos, this is the format I will be using on my posts. So here goes...
*****This first post is a song called "Magic," by New Zealand artist Ladyhawke. For those of you who haven't heard of her, yes there was an 80's movie with Matthew Broderick called Ladyhawke, and no I don't know if that is where she got her name. This chick rocks! She won an ARIA music award in 2009 for best breakthrough single and self-titled album, but I really don't have lots of facts for you. In fact for all these artists I post, and for all those obsessive critics out there, if you really want to know "stats and facts" about about them just check them out on wikipedia. Now there is one remix of this song that I like called the "Swiss Remix," but I like the original better, and yes, I have created a wonderful movie-mash with this song as well, but keep that on the DL... Check it out*****




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