5 modern stevie nicks disciples

[kak125]

Check out the link below for video for each artist.

Hive Five: Modern Stevie Nicks Disciples

Stevie Nicks twirled back into the spotlight this week with In Your Dreams — her first album since 2001 — but her indie-rock revaluation has been underway for years. Like Bruce Springsteen with Gaslight Anthem or Paul Simon with Vampire Weekend, Nicks has inspired a new generation of artists. Amid this landslide of recent Stevie love, Hive compiled a list of her five best disciples.

1. Florence Welch, Florence and the Machine

Slightly gothy, extremely foxy and blessed with a big, emotive voice, Welch comes closer than anyone to capturing Nicks’ mystique. Check her out here, flouncing around in black showgirl-sorceress outfit:


2. Jenny Lewis

Ever since she broke off from Rilo Kiley and started making her own albums, Lewis has fancied herself the modern-day Queen of Laurel Canyon. While she’s a more snarky Gen-Xer than ethereal ‘70s SoCal bohemian, she’s certainly got Nicks’ knack for songwriting. Plus, she formed a band with her boyfriend, Johnathan Rice. What could be more Fleetwood Mac than that?

Here she is with Rilo Kiley and Gillian Welch covering “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” Nicks’ 1981 Tom Petty team-up:


3. Lykke Li

Within the first 30 seconds of her excellent new album Wounded Rhymes, Li goes full-on Stevie, making “Youth Knows No Pain” sound like an update of “Edge of Seventeen.” In the video for “Get Some,” Lykke Li is part Nicks, part warrior princes and according to the lyrics, part prostitute:


4. Uh Huh Her

This Los Angeles duo plays fizzy electro-pop and cites Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd as their primary rock ‘n’ roll influences, but “Black and Blue,” the title track from their new EP, owes more than a little to early-‘80s Stevie.


5. Early Winters

Before forming this alt-country group, singer Carina Round channed more PJ Harvey than Nicks. Now, she and the Winters are in Rumours mode — hopefully without all the drugs and partner swapping. Here she performs “Spanish Burn,” one of the first Early Winters songs to surface.


http://read.mtvhive.com/2011/05/04/h...cks-disciples/

[mikebise]

Except for the dull and massively overrated Flo, this is very interesting and exciting!!!!!

[tabruns]

But wait, I thought Nicks was "irrelevant" (to quote a recent comment on this board by a supposed Stevie Nicks fan). :P

[10milestereo]

As much as I like some of the artists they mentioned, I disagree with most of those choices. I think Rilo Kiley is the closest we've come in this generation to seeing another Fleetwood Mac.

[tbaker3]

Originally Posted by tabruns

But wait, I thought Nicks was "irrelevant" (to quote a recent comment on this board by a supposed Stevie Nicks fan). :P

IKR!!!? That thread still gets my blood boiling.

[MikeInNV]

The new issue of Rolling Stone (with Clooney on the cover) has an article on Florence Welch, and they call her the Stevie Nicks of the Twilight generation. I told my friend I have mixed feelings about that. I love the acknowledgement, but on the other hand, STEVIE is the Stevie Nicks of ALL generations.

[Sleepless-Child]

Well, for those who think that Florence is "too much", just take a look at Lykke Li. She was the opening act of a show i went to 2 weeks ago, and though Stevie Nicks surely is one of her influences, i can't stand this girl. She acts like a diva, and her songs are just all the same. It's an insult to Stevie, seriously.

[WildHearted]

I guess if they meant this as purely like, these people follow Stevie and are influenced by her, than sure..

But there's only 1 Stevie of this modern era.. and that's Stevie.

[beccamorrisfift]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

I guess if they meant this as purely like, these people follow Stevie and are influenced by her, than sure..

But there's only 1 Stevie of this modern era.. and that's Stevie.

HALLELUJAH.

[TrueFaith77]

Flo isn't too much. She's just awful. I'll take An Pierle over her ANYday.

[StandbackStevie]

I can't get into the new artists of today to me there will only be one the only Stevie Nicks no one will ever be like her and ever have her presence as her. I am old school. Don't care for the new artists of today.

[Artemis]

Lykke Li is more like Bjork than Stevie, I think. Only no where near as good, obviously.