Saturday, February 27, 2010

Rachel!

Please go see this band!

http://www.myspace.com/sleighbellsmusic

They will be at the Notting Hill Arts Club in March.

I heard "Infinity Guitars" on XMU today and it is amazing. I guess they are playing with Major Lazer right now??

Also-

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/festivals-series/ether

I want to go to this.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010










Wednesday, February 17, 2010



lurve you so much

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

did you add that countdown thing to samchel? i set it for april 24th. 67 days from today AGHHH i don't think i can take it. i miss you tooooo much, i keep pretended you are hanging out with me on the tube. i hope you are having fun in las vegas!!! i am officially hooked on bbc1, it is so easy to listen to it on the internet, i put it on every time i turn on my computer! i haven't gotten your package yet, i am hoping it comes tomorrow though you said it should have gotten here today. maybe the tracking thing was 8 hours behind as well. who knows? i wuv you.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Letter From the Editor

Hello Readers,

Today is a special day for Samchel. One of our major contributors, Rachel Ferrell, has turned 21. Since Samchel's creation, Rachel has always been the one keeping us at the forefront of pop culture. She's the one who pushed us to move our small college newsletter to the internet. And now two years later, Samchel is a world wide phenomenon, with over 50 million subscribers worldwide. And somehow, Rachel finds the time to still produce over 90% of our content. In 2010, we are launching our first television network, and Rachel will be right there in front, leading the way.


Please join all of us here at Samchel in wishing Ms. Ferrell a happy birthday.

Sincerely,
Sam G. Sitar
Editor-in-Chief
Samchel Corporation
1000 W Burrito St
Salt Lake City, Utah

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Amazing: The Bird & The Bee have got a new album coming out and it's all covers of Hall & Oates songs (except for one track which is brand new).

THE BIRD & THE BEE IN BRIEF: A 'chanteuse' called Inara George along with a chap by the name of Greg Kurstin who's basically one of the world's Top 10 pop inventors. The pair first bonded over a shared passion for jazz NO WAIT COME BACK then went on to do some songs that weren't in fact jazz and actually sound like big pop, like last year's 'Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future' album and the single 'Love Letter To Japan' which could quite easily have been a fairly popular Little Boots or Lily Allen song.

ANYWAY the new album is called 'Interpreting The Masters Vol 1: A Tribute To Daryl Hall And John Oates' and it's out towards the end of March.

The first song, 'Heard It On The Radio', isn't a Hall & Oates song at all. Instead it's a warm and brilliantly observed 'Yesterday Once More'-style 'homage' to Tunes Of The Past and for that reason is a very good song to kick off this tribute album. You'll already have guessed this if you're familiar with Greg's work but 'Interpreting The Masters...' isn't one of those terrible 'LOL remember the 80s' efforts; instead it's a passionate fan latter to the greatest songwriting duo of the 1980s whose names weren't Tennant & Lowe or Morrissey & Marr or Stock & Aitken or (GET ON WITH IT - ED)

Tracklisting:

1. Heard It On The Radio
2. I Can’t Go For That
3. Rich Girl
4. Sara Smile
5. Kiss On My List
6. Maneater
7. She’s Gone
8. Private Eyes
9. One on One

We have listened to this album approximately three times so far and are currently on the fourth lesson. It's rating quite high in the listenableometer.