Random Sounds of Goodness

A Marching Song, Unmorph
The Light at the End of My Tunnel, An Army of Tiny Purple Dinosaurs
...and ever. Part II, we all inherit the moon

What's With Today, Today?

Hide and Seek, Imogen Heap
OkiiRobo Navigation System, Henry Homesweet
Simple Pleasures, Henry Homesweet
Small Splashes, I Am Not Lefthanded
When I Grow Up (The Knife Cutter), First Aid Kit
You Are The Ocean, Phantogram
Quiet Little Voices, We Were Promised Jetpacks

You know who this is about? I do.

Well said Sir, well said.

Random Sounds of Goodness.

this is a collection of random artists that sounded good at the moment. if i'm still in that moment, who knows, but i know that i will eventually be back if i did leave. enjoy.
*click the song title (the words after the numbers) to listen*

1. Little Toy Gun-HoneyHoney

2. Naked and Red-Colour Revolt

3. Counting Back to One-Beautiful Small Machines
4. Robots in Love-Beautiful Small Machines

5. Old Number 7-The Devil Makes Three

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour

1. The Golden Age

2. Around the Bend

*The Asteroids Galaxy Tour are an alternative dance band from Copenhagen, Denmark which formed in 2006. They consist of Mette Lindberg (vocals), Lars Iversen (bass, keyboards), Miloud Carl Sabri (trumpet), Sven Meinild (sax), Mads Brinch Nielsen (guitar, keyboards) and Jesper Elnegaard (drums).

And they are musicians on a mission. The band and their unique style of psychedelic pop are heading for fame at a speed even they didn’t expect.

Their debut gig saw them support Amy Winehouse at the biggest venue in their native Copenhagen. In London, a demo found its way to industry veterans David Enthoven and Tim Clark. Within half an hour of hearing it, Enthoven was on the phone to band founder Lars Iversen. Within days, he was on his way to Copenhagen to thrash out a deal.

Things have moved unnaturally fast for The Asteroids Galaxy Tour. But Lars, who composes most of the music and plays bass, spent a long time planning the sound.

In the summer of 2007, Lars met up with former band mate and singer Mette to play her some demos. She went home with a CD and returned the day after with lots of ideas of her own. The pair immediately started working, spending last summer practically living, recording, eating, composing and sleeping in Lars’ self-built studio in his one room flat in Copenhagen. Every night after a hard day’s work, they would end up drunk on Lars’ balcony until early morning.

Sounds fun, right?

Blood Red Shoes

1. It's Getting Boring By The Sea

2. You Bring Me Down

*consisting of steven ansell (vocals and drums) and laura-mary carter (vocals and guitar), Blood Red Shoes was formed in 2005 after their previous bands had broken up and they decided to “have a jam”.

they have performed many, many live shows to date and initially released four 7” records on different independent labels (Jonson Family, Try Harder, Abeano/XL, Drowned in Sound). they were signed to V2 with whom they released the singles "It’s Getting Boring By The Sea" and "I Wish I Was Someone Better."

with a sound that seems to invite all to hopping around the room, Blood Red Shoes’ demeanor mimics their passion and young talent to a tee.

their debut album Box of Secrets was finally released in april 2008.

Chicago's own....I FIGHT DRAGONS!

*i fight dragons is chicago's finest (and quite possibly only) nes(nintendo entertinment system)-rock band. they have very detailed delusions of grandeur, most of which include gross misuses of nintendo products in combination with music in the popular rock genre.

they sold out chicago's elbo room as they self-released their debut ep, "cool is just a number," which has since gone on to chart nationally at 169 on the cmj college radio charts, and been featured across commercial radio formats in chicago, on Q101, 101.9 The Mix and 93 XRT.

they use a talking computer a lot, or possibly a talking computer uses them a lot. they were selected as the best new chicago band for 2009 by metromix.com. there are several tvs at all of their shows, occasionally showing people playing videogame versions of their songs, while the band plays the songs live on videogame controllers, and everyone's heads explode.

they played a date on this year's warped tour. they tend to release free music to their email list every couple weeks (but you already know, since you're on it, right?). this fall, they'll be branching out from chicago to tour the nation for 2 months with mc chris. all in all, there are 6 of them, and at least one of them is really really cool, but they haven't figured out which one yet. it's hari.

"i fight dragons is a high-def concert experience influenced by an 8-bit video game dream world. they are both an audio and visual powerhouse to have at the club" -brian bender, elbo room chicago talent buyer/general manager

“i fight dragons’ ep, 'cool is just a number,' offers such catchy hooks that 'irresistible' feels like an understatement.” -metromix.com

*info from thesixtyone.com

More New Stuff

Glam.I.Rock

its been some time since i gave you any new tunes. have a listen. let me know what you think.

Anthem of the Party People



Empty Ave.



Turn Up The Bass

*glam.i.rock is a little catchy, sounds pretty good. but this is coming from a guy who listens to acoustic music more often than not. glam stands for:

Good
Lyrics
And
Music

"i'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. i make mistakes, i am out of control and at times hard to handle. but if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. hip hop. rock. pop. electro. and go."

The Felice Brothers

*The Felice Brothers are a folk rock/country rock band from upstate New York founded in 2006. It is comprised of the five main members Ian Felice (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Simone Felice (drums, vocals, guitar), James Felice (accordion, piano, organ) and their friend Christmas (bass), previously a traveling dice player. They have been joined by Farley, a washboard player and fiddler, and others who at times had a horn section to the band. The three brothers are from the Catskill Mountains of New York. They hail from Palenville, NY, twenty minutes from Woodstock.

The three brothers began playing together on Sunday afternoons at their father’s barbecues but the band started when they moved to a little apartment in Brooklyn and began to play at the Subway stations near 42nd. Street and Union Square in Greenwich Village.

They released their debut album Through These Reins and Gone in 2006 and in 2007 they got a deal with Loose Music in Europe. Through These Reins and Gone made it onto Radio Woodstock WDST’s top 25 albums of 2006. The Felice Brothers have played at Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble in Woodstock, NY, toured with Bright Eyes played at the 2008 Clearwater Festival, and Bonnaroo in Manchester, TN.

A Personal View of The Felice Brothers

Scruffy wanderers who just happened to find some instruments.

Dirtbags capturing lightning and spinning it into harvest gold. That’s what you’re holding in your hands right here.

“Dirtbags” because the Felice Brothers (three of them – Ian, Simone and James – brothers of blood, with dice-throwing bassist Christmas adopted in as blood brother) are the type of guys who, no matter how much you wire-brush scrub them, will never clean up entirely. I’ve personally never seen them without a little bit of dust or grime somewhere upon all of their persons, and having gotten to know them, I know for a fact that it’s hard won. The Felice Brothers live and travel as a unit. Their main mode of transportation is what we call in America a “short bus,” a miniature school transport usually reserved for the kind of kids that sometimes need to wear helmets just because. The Felice Brothers’ short bus is battered and wheezing, but it runs. It’s cluttered with stained dress shirts, holey vests, suits shiny with age and wear, and punch-drunk hats, all of which finds their way on various Felice body parts at any given time. While in transit or simply sitting parked in a haze of smoke and talk, Faulkner and Dostoevsky paperbacks, passengers, guests and paramours sit on whisky boxes, or instrument cases containing accordions or dented drums. It’s a good feeling.

They’re a bunch of slouching Hudson River pirates, the Felice Brothers are. They’re natives of the same wooded portion of Upstate New York that was the sometimes physical and always mythical home of The Band. They charm like a snake oil salesmen in a 19th-century medicine show; they stomp the boards like spirit-filled preachers; they close their eyes when they croon their imperfect (and therefore paradoxically perfect) Catskill Mountain harmonies; they smile wickedly when they drop into a groove; they bring a little bit of that front porch feeling with them wherever they go, even when they’re not playing; they watch the Nashville skyline with bemusement.

They’re a harvest festival, a late-night meal of greasy roast chicken and a stolen bottle of red wine shared with friends, and a woozy summer night filled with the promise of love, danger, barbecue and fireworks, all rolled into one.

All of that is in the vinyl of this record you’re holding right here. As is the lightning. How do I figure? I figure literally. On track three, what you may be thinking is a glitch in the recording of “Hey Hey Revolver” is nothing of the sort. Your record is fine. What you’re hearing is literally lightning hitting the ad hoc studio the band was recording in at the time (a leaky, abandoned Shakespeare theatre). No fooling. And that’s the Felice Brothers all over – imperfect and rough in an age of false perfection and polish. Their edges aren’t smooth; their clothes (and their voices, and their instruments) are tattered, threadbare and frayed. And they’re all the more golden and beautiful for it.

— Gabe Soria of Vice Magazine/February, 2007

THE LONGEST SONG EVER!!!!!

Bling Crosby

*when i saw the name bling crosby, i chuckled and was interested. glad i listened. might just be the greatest, longest mash/mesh/mess/colaboration of songs ever. just listen.

The Weekend Playlist

Grace Pettis

Shout Out Louds

*shout 0ut louds are an alternative indie rock band from stockholm, sweden. the band consists of ‘four boys and one girl’: adam olenius (vocals, guitar), ted malmros (bass), carl von arbin (guitar), eric edman (drums) and bebban stenborg (keyboards, vocals).

Shipwreck

*most nights, when life allows, i music journal. i just hit record and pour out the day in the most honest way i know. these entries go onto a hard drive, and stay there: a chronological, date stamped account of where i have been and what it was like to be there. the voices you hear in the background might be your own. maybe you laid in your bed that night and listened to the rain while i held a mic out my bedroom window. maybe you were the stranger who played a bent-bugle solo into my laptop on the side of the road, or the bearded heathens who whistled in three-part harmony for me in an alley. maybe you left me the voicemail that i turned into a violin or you knocked on my door just to see if things were going alright. maybe you nudged me every day for two months to put this album out. if you don't hear yourself in these stories, listen again. it is all in here, with my gratitude.

Doug Burr

*a singer and songwriter of uncommon resonance, doug burr was born in 1972 in dallas, tx, growing up in a southern baptist family, the spiritual residue of which has been a lifelong influence on his musical endeavors. burr took up the guitar at age 16, and by 18 he was writing songs. after a dozen or so years of home recording, open mikes, church performances, and coffeehouse gigs in the dallas-fort worth region, he began fronting the roots rock band the lonelies. in 2003 he independently released “the sickle & the sheaves,” an ambitious and atmospheric gospel concept album produced by deadman’s steven collins that worked around the themes of birth, death, and renewal and brought him a good deal of critical attention. the equally impressive “on promenade” appeared in 2007 from spune/velvet blue music.

William Fitzsimmons

*william fitzsimmons was raised in the outskirts pittsburgh as the the youngest child of blind parents. due to the family's inability to communicate through normal visual means, william's childhood home was filled with a myriad of sounds to replace what eyes could not see. the house was suffused with pianos, guitars, trombones, talking birds, classical records, family sing-a-longs, bedtime stories and the bellowing of a pipe organ, which his father built into the house with his own hands. when his father's orchestral records were not resonating through the walls, his mother would educate him on the folk stylings of james taylor, joni mitchell, bob dylan and simon & garfunkel. by the completion of his youth and schooling, fitzsimmons had become well-versed at a variety of instruments, at the minor expense of social standing, interactional skills and a knowledge of proper shaving technique.

fitzsimmons' path into music was likewise unusual, forsaking the hobby for many years to work with the mentally ill and pursue an education in the field of mental health. it was during his last semester of graduate school that William pooled monies from past birthday's, holidays and snow shoveling outings and bought cheap home recording equipment to begin creating songs again (the first collection of which eventually became his debut album). after finally achieving his goal of becoming a practicing therapist, william left, and returned again to his love of crafting and playing songs. he felt that is where he most belonged. somewhere between a singing therapist, and a counselor who writes songs, is where fitzsimmons endeavors to be. using songs to address matters that he believes need to be addressed.

william draws from those early folks stylings of his mother's music, and the embellished instrumentation of his father's. he is often compared to contemporaries sufjan stevens, iron & wine, and the late elliott smith, not only for his unique style and skill in writing and proclivity to deal with substantive and evocative subject matter, but also for his use of organic and colorful melodies and arrangements. his first two records were completely self-produced and his new album, "the sparrow and the crow," produced by marshall altman at galt line studios in los angeles, is his first studio recorded work. while his lyricism deals often with darker undertones (his most recent album is said to have been written following his own divorce), a measure of hopefulness is always carefully blended in. even with his short tenure as a songwriter, william has already received mention in noted publications such as billboard, paste magazine, and performing songwriter magazine, and his music has been featured on several television programs such as "grey's anatomy" and "army wives."

enjoy the music

*taken from thesixtyone.com

Kings of Leon