WE HEART JESSIE WARE!: jessie ware - what you won't do for love (bobby caldwell cover) / wildest moments (black cab sessions)

just having a jessie ware day with these live performances below. she's just great and i can't wait to see her in concert next month!


jessie ware - what you won't do for love (bobby caldwell cover)
yeah, her voice is buttah!!


jessie ware - wildest moments (black cab sessions)

LIVE WONGIE: solange - bad girls (live @ black cab sessions)

solange - bad girls (live @ black cab sessions)
the hipper of the knowles sisters gets into the black cab and gives us a stripped down version of her very prince-like number 'bad girls'. i love these sessions and am so happy to see our gal solange fitting in very comfortably within it's four door confines (can you imagine bey here?)

LIVE WONGIE: feist - undiscovered first (live @ black cab sessions)

feist - undiscovered first (live @ black cab sessions)
[check out this awesome (and crowded) one take performance of the song 'undiscovered first' from feists' latest album 'metals'. as always, she is amazing!]

LIVE WONGIE: holly miranda - waves / lover you should've come over (jeff buckley cover) (live @ yours truly) / ex-factor (lauren hill cover) (live @ black cab sessions)

[what started as a search for holly miranda's latest video to showcase as a 'wongie discovery' turned into a plethora of AMAZING live performances by the brooklyn based singer songwriter. the following three live videos definitely showcase the depths of her talents and has immediately bumped her on to the top of my buzz list of female singers to watch out for in 2010 (even though she's been around for a good decade, better late than never right?)!]


holly miranda - waves (live @ yours truly)

holly miranda - waves (studio version)


holly miranda - lover you should've come over (jeff buckley cover)(live @ yours truly)


holly miranda - ex-factor (lauren hill cover) (live @ black cab sessions)

WONGIE VIDEO OF THE WEEK: vv brown - shark in the water (yellow cab sessions)

vv brown - shark in the water (yellow cab sessions)
[with an ode to the iconic black cab sessions (which we are major fans of), vv brown and her crew do their version in a ny 'yellow' cab. we've been massive fans of VV for a good year and it's so lovely to see her gain the kind of respect she deserves on via our neck of the woods. great performance!]

LIVE WONGIE: laura marling - ramblin man (live @ black cab sessions)

laura marling - ramblin man (live @ black cab sessions)
[simple, lovely and haunting. i'm really liking this song these days. wish laura came through NY on her back from sxsw, but this will do for now.]

lykke li - so far so gone (the black cab sessions / acoustic live version / new video)

lykke li - i'm good, i'm gone [link 2]
[as you know i'm a big fan of the blogotheque take away concert series, and recently a friend tipped me on yet another spontaneous concert series called the black cab sessions in which artists perform songs in the back seat of a london black cab (everyone from spoon to the kooks have done one song on this series). this time, they got swedish hipster lykke li to give a rousing performance of her latest single. gosh, i just love these flash gig-type performances!]


[like that? now check out this acoustic live version of the song recorded back in january with guests robyn (!!!), adam & bebban (shout out louds), daniel (the concretes), lars (laakso) and mikael (hjalmar). further proving that everyone in sweden seems to know each other!]


[and since i'm showing every version of this awesome song, i might as well offer up the great new video in which our lykke coughs up some fine dance moves!]