Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
John Newman's Tribute
John Newman’s debut opens with a slow string section, a voice that sounds like the singer reading out great acts of ages past, and an electronically whirl-winded “Crystal,” from the AT&T Natural Voices® synthesized voice collection, reads off the decades. A breathtaking compendium of expectations summoned up — and to his credit, John Newman, his real name, age 23, crawls out from underneath this dropped asbestos curtain of talent and goes into his own not-half-bad song and dance, without breaking a sweat, or our faith. He may not be brilliant, just yet. But he’s worth hearing, and that was not something I would necessarily have given him after the icebreaker.
“Tribute” introduces what we’ll get in measures throughout: tasteful, echoed backgrounds featuring everything from martial drums to Four Tops–style baritone sax, never all at the same time, never swarming the mix, but always adroitly balanced. This could seem too polite, but thanks to the four at the control panel — Ant Whiting, Steve Booker, Mike Spencer, and Newman — it keeps building and rushing in a constant urgency.
And Newman’s own warm, laddish voice tops it all off — usually pleading, something he’s learned well from the greats. He sometimes has to holler to be heard over the mix, but that gives him extra punch. At 23, he shouldn’t be able to persuade us that his heart’s been broken, or stood in the docket, so many times. That’s a kind of magic. Modest. But building.
- Artist: John Newman
- Album: Tribute
- Label: Universal Republic
- Songs: (1) Tribute (2) Love Me Again (3) Losing Sleep (4) Easy (5) Try (6) Out of My Head (7) Cheating (8) Running (9) Gold (10) Goodnight Goodbye (11) All I Need Is You (12) Day One
Here's something you might be interested in.
John Newman's Tribute
John Newman's Tribute
John Newman’s debut opens with a slow string section, a voice that sounds like the singer reading out great acts of ages past, and an electronically whirl-winded “Crystal,” from the AT&T Natural Voices® synthesized voice collection, reads off the decades. A breathtaking compendium of expectations summoned up — and to his credit, John Newman, his real name, age 23, crawls out from underneath this dropped asbestos curtain of talent and goes into his own not-half-bad song and dance, without breaking a sweat, or our faith. He may not be brilliant, just yet. But he’s worth hearing, and that was not something I would necessarily have given him after the icebreaker.
“Tribute” introduces what we’ll get in measures throughout: tasteful, echoed backgrounds featuring everything from martial drums to Four Tops–style baritone sax, never all at the same time, never swarming the mix, but always adroitly balanced. This could seem too polite, but thanks to the four at the control panel — Ant Whiting, Steve Booker, Mike Spencer, and Newman — it keeps building and rushing in a constant urgency.
And Newman’s own warm, laddish voice tops it all off — usually pleading, something he’s learned well from the greats. He sometimes has to holler to be heard over the mix, but that gives him extra punch. At 23, he shouldn’t be able to persuade us that his heart’s been broken, or stood in the docket, so many times. That’s a kind of magic. Modest. But building.
- Artist: John Newman
- Album: Tribute
- Label: Universal Republic
- Songs: (1) Tribute (2) Love Me Again (3) Losing Sleep (4) Easy (5) Try (6) Out of My Head (7) Cheating (8) Running (9) Gold (10) Goodnight Goodbye (11) All I Need Is You (12) Day One