October 2011
3 posts
“It won’t bring much cash. But it’s sentimental value is through the...”
– A great quote from season 12 of simpsons. This I think was the season I stopped watching but I’m gonna give a nother go
“After Carrie, everyone had to have a second ending.”
– Wes Craven
March 2009
2 posts
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHH, jeezus I love this song, by the...
February 2009
4 posts
This is a string quartet tribute to Elliott Smith...
The Pixies - The Happening from Bossanova.
...
The Boxer Rebellion - Spitting Fire
This album is...
Feelin’ Blue?
Well do what I do and blast...
January 2009
3 posts
Riverdales - Back to You
Here’s a song...
Neko Case - People Got a Lotta Nerve
Totally...
December 2008
5 posts
Yesterday, I tried to start my New Pornographers...
I discovered something over the years that’s...
Modest Mouse - All Night Diner from Building...
Modest Mouse - Dramamine from This is a long drive...
November 2008
17 posts
Happy Pranksgiving. Here’s a lovely cover...
Alice Russell - Two Steps from Pot of Gold
Like...
I’ve been pretty busy so I haven’t...
Japanther - Cable Babies from “Skuffed Up my...
I chose another track from Tigercity cause I...
I took a break yesterday so sue me!!!!
I guess...
Tigercity - Solitary Man from Pretend Not To Love...
Tigercity, the new Hall and Oates
Oh, Hall and Oates what have you done to me?
You’ve made me want your spirit to fly and soar like an eagle throughout all of nowadays music. Maybe you have in touches, maybe.
This group has a touch of that awesome pop/guitar/synth goodness that you guys did so very well in your heyday.
It’s these kinds of albums I can drive down the road on a sunny day with the windows down and not...
Song 99
Yesterday we did song 100 on my 100 songs, 100 days countdown and it was a doozy. I ended up listening to the whole Chap album yesterday, I like it but it’s totally weird.
Today I chose a more digestible tune. From the Amazing Blitzen Trapper. They’re homegrown and they’re great. It’s from their 4th album called “Furr” and it’s a very catchy, Pavement...
Blitzen Trapper - Gold For Bread from Furr
100 Songs in a 100 Days
Because I’m so generous, for the next 100 days you will get a song a day from me from my personal faves of stuff I’m digging on, somedays will have a couple songs from one band, others will have a different song from a different band each day, depends on what kind of mood I’m in really.
This will be fun and a challenge to myself to see if I can surely keep it up. Ha ha, keep it...
The Chap - Surgery from Mega Breakfast
A bit...
October 2008
10 posts
Happy Halloween, Music Lovin' buddies!!!!!
So it’s Halloween, one of my favorite holidays, probably my favorite of all next to Summer. And well, you know I’m stuck at work, working, wishing I could spend the whole day dreaming up a cool costume. But with no money, time or even energy. I had to give you all a treat who have been reading my music blog and enjoying it. Even taking time out to talk to me in person to mention an...
Abed's BOOmix!!! →
Empire of the Sun - Half Mast from Walking on a...
A Sunny Empire
Luke Steele started a group awhile ago called The Sleepy Jackson
Their debut album Lovers blew me away. It was part George Harrison, a little Flaming Lips and Brian Wilson. Very very sunny, beautiful and just a really really inspired happy sound. A lot of the songs on that little record had some charm. The cover always interested me in being funny and strange looking so I checked it out cause...
September 2008
9 posts
Ladyhawke - Another Runaway from her self titled...
Ladyhawke, will you marry me?
Last night I got in my car and I didn't have anywhere to go really. I just had to hear that big blasting booming 80's sound thumping from my car.
Pip Brown is her real name and she grew up in the 80's. And here's her explaining her music a bit...
“Me and Ladyhawke are two sides of one coin,” explains Pip. “She is an incredibly important part of my personality. As primarily, a songwriter, I only ever wanted to create something that evoked feelings. I hope that Ladyhawke does. We were all teenagers once, listening to music at full volume, jumping on the bed with the door shut.”
It's a mash of all her favorite 80's female lead influences and I swear you could pull anyone of these tracks out and send them back to the 80's in a time warp and they would be gigantic radio hits.
Imagine, Stevie Nicks, Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Laura Branigan, Olivia Newton John all rolled into one under a disco light and you have Ladyhawke. This is music that I've been drooling over for the past year or so. So I may be a little biased. But as passionate as I am about Stevie Nick's voice. It's not very common. That light and fuzzy cuteness with some attitude and power. It's great stuff, stuff that you listen to and fall in love with.
A fierce lulluby from the lips of an eagle.
With a name like Pip Brown. I'm wondering why she didn't just go with that cool name. Maybe in New Zealand it's a bit more common. But Ladyhawke, which I assume is a reference to the Matthew Broderick and Michelle Pffeifer movie from the 80's really fits because if a hawk is flying over your head, turned into a lady and started singing with a guitar and feathered hair, this surely would be her.
“My stepfather is a jazz drummer and my mum is a singer, so I was introduced to music very young,” she says. “At around 14 I got frustrated with only playing drums and taught myself the guitar, bass and synth."
At 16 she joined a band.....
“But on our return to New Zealand, we started having personal differences in the band. A big tour was booked for Australia but literally two days before our flight to Australia, our singer decided to quit and our drummer followed suit."
Until....
“I was devastated, bitter and angry. So in a fit of impulsive spontaneity I thought 'f**k it, I’m getting on that damn plane with or without my band' and I did.
“When I arrived in Melbourne I was homeless, penniless and band-less. I started Ladyhawke out of a desire to do my own project where I could completely express myself in any way I wanted without having to answer to bandmates."
So there you have it, she currently is releasing her self titled debut on Sept. 30th and nowadays plays guitar with the band Teenager.
And she's gorgeous looking holding a guitar.
