Nicole Atkins and her new band, The Black Sea, recently recorded a live session for the Web site of the music magazine Paste. You can watch the session on pastemagazine.com.
Nicole and The Black Sea performed the following songs in their Paste set:
You Come To Me
Hotel Plaster
Cry Cry Cry
You Belong To Me
Heavy Boots
It’s a good set, but I was a bit disappointed that Nicole didn’t perform any tunes from her stellar Neptune City album. She does have a fantastic voice. I would listen to her sing the phone book.
For more on Nicole’s Paste magazine set, click here.
My review of Nicole Atkins & The Sea’s terrific show on Friday, November 14th at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City is now online on the main Powerline A.D. site. In addition to Nicole Atkins & The Sea, Nouvellas and Salt & Samovar were also on the bill. To read the review, click here.
To watch Nicole Atkins’ video for “Neptune City,” the gorgeous title track to her debut album, click below:
To watch the TV commercial that Nicole Atkins & The Sea did for American Express last year, click below:
New Jersey’s finest young singer-songwriter, Nicole Atkins (pictured above), made a fantastic appearance this week on the BBC-TV music program Later with Jools Holland. Performing live with her band The Sea as well as a string section at the BBC Televsion Centre on Wood Lane in West London, Atkins played a few songs from her sterling debut album, NeptuneCity. (The album, released last year in America, came out over the summer in the UK.)
To watch the stunning Atkins perfom “Maybe Tonight” and “The Way It Is” with her amazing soaring vocal style on this past week’s edition of the BBC’s Later with Jools Holland, click in the appropriate places below:
My review of the spectacular show by Nicole Atkins & The Sea at Blend in Ridgewood, NJ on Saturday night, May 10th, is now online at the Powerline A.D. site at http://www.powerlinead.com/live.
Atkins, pictured above in a photo by Jennifer Tzar, and her band performed a set that mixed material from her stellar debut album, Neptune City, with older material as well as a cover of The Doors’ “The Crystal Ship.” Displaying her powerhouse vocal abilities and a great stage presence, Atkins showed the crowd why she has become a music critics’ favorite. She really is a phenomenal performer, and will probably be a household name before long.
To watch a video of Nicole Atkins & The Sea performing their song “Brooklyn’s On Fire!” at the 2008 SXSW, click below:
The latest rave article about the up-and-coming New Jersey-based singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins arrived in yesterday’s (Sunday, April 27th) edition of The Sunday Times of London. Dan Cairns’ article, titled “Nicole Atkins’s flights of fancy,” heaps priase on Atkins. In the article, Cairns states that Atkins’ latest single, “Maybe Tonight” sounds like “the Ronettes doing a residency on the Jersey Shore.” To read the article in full, go to http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3805208.ece.
Atkins’ “Maybe Tonight” single is being released in the UK on May 26th and is followed by the UK release of her Neptune City album on June 2nd.
Atkins is performing in London tomorrow night and then in Amsterdam on Friday. Following her return from Europe, she plays gigs in at Blend in Ridgewood, New Jersey on May 10th, The Delancey in New York City on May 14th, and The Stone Pony in her current place of residence, Asbury Park, New Jersey, on May 15th.
To watch Nicole Atkins perform a chilling cover of Leadbelly’s “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?” (backed by New Jersey’s The Parlor Mob) at last year’s South By Southwest (SXSW) Conference, click below:
To watch Nicole Atkins perform “Maybe Tonight” backed by her band, The Sea, at this year’s SXSW, click below:
New Jersey native Nicole Atkins continues to impress as her profile rises by leaps and bounds. Last week, she appeared on CBS-TV’s The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and delivered an amazing performance of “Neptune City,” which is the title track to her debut album. Featuring Atkins’ soaring vocals and her tight backing band, the Sea, doing their thing, “Neptune City” is a thrilling piece of music and strikes me as a song that would fit in many different eras of music.
If anyone reading this will be attending SXSW in Austin, Texas this week, Nicole Atkins & the Sea will be doing several performances at the festival. Following SXSW, Atkins will resume her nationwide tour. In June, she will be playing the Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee. On August 9th, Atkins and her band will be performing at the large All Points West festival at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, NJ.
To watch Nicole Atkins’ performance of “Neptune City” on the March 5th edition of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, click below:
“Maybe Tonight,” the latest single from the New Jersey-based singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins, is a vocal showcase for the Garden State artist that highlights her powerful pipes. Atkins, pictured above in a photo by Lucia Holm, released her debut album Neptune City last year. She is currently promoting the single and the album on her first nationwide tour.
Atkins and her band The Sea will appear on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on March 5th on CBS-TV.
To watch the video for the studio version of “Maybe Tonight,” click below:
To watch Nicole Atkins & The Sea perform “Maybe Tonight” live on NBC-TV’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien on January 7, 2008, click below:
Asbury Park, New Jersey’s Nicole Atkins performed four songs with her band The Sea and sat for an interview in a session for Musicians@Google that was recorded on January 22nd at Google’s New York City headquarters.
Interviewed by ABC executive producer David Saltz, Atkins was very forthcoming about many aspects of her life and career. Interview topics included a recent video shoot in Los Angeles, her teenage affinity for Robert Plant, having Donnie Osmond sing “Puppy Love” to her at age 7 at a show in Atlantic City, her rediscovered love for her home state of New Jersey, having drinks with Bruce Springsteen at a local bar, going to college at UNC-Charlotte and being turned on by alt-country music for the first time, going to Australia for her last year of college in part to get out of a bad relationship, painting murals at Italian restaurants at the Jersey Shore in order to pay her rent, recording an E.P. and then signing with Columbia, recording her debut album in Sweden during the winter when it is dark almost all of the time, her upcoming headlining tour, and doing an American Express TV commercial, Atkins also took some questions from the audience at the end of the session. The session runs about 55 minutes.
Atkins has a beautiful voice, and her Neptune City album is really fantastic. I will certainly make it a point to see her perform live at some point in the near future. Atkins’ first headlining tour begins next week, on February 14th in Manasquan, NJ, and concludes on March 25th in Philadelphia.
I saw the photo of Atkins above on her MySpace page and knew right away that I had to use it with this article. It’s a great photo of her, full of Jersey attitude. You gotta love it, as we say here in Jersey.
