Where the food sounds good, and the music is pretty tasty too.
los angeles-based chilled but not shaken rockers Line & Circle are currently on tour way out west…it’s kind of like a coming out party of sorts with great music and good vibes. check out the bands 7″ Roman Ruins (A-Side)/Carelessness (B-Side) via White Iris Records. Peace. Continue reading “line & circle // roman ruins / carlessness”
a good rock solid soundtrack is the equivalent of having a rock-steady go-to collection of songs to heighten an evening of seduction, sort of. at any rate the summit entertainment film the perks of being a wallflower, directed by and based on the best-selling book by stephen chbosky, has put together a coterie of sounds which lift the film beyond its coming of age storyline. and much like 15-year-old charlie, the movies central character, songs like xtc‘s “dear god” and the cocteau twin‘s “pearly dewdrops’drop” represent the maligned and unseen. so, in a lot of ways the music becomes a character itself, representing the mostly ignored and misunderstood youth of yesteryear and today. good stuff for sure, and for some a pleasant stroll down memory lane. peace. Continue reading “the perks of being a wallflower // soundtrack”
Memorable songs stay with us long after we’ve heard them for the first time; embedding themselves into our very bones and ruining our ears against all other sounds. Such memorable music can be had the moment you click play, and listen to the band Daughter. You’ll quickly fall beneath the spell of Elena Tonra‘s voice. Listen to their tangible fabric of a song, “Landfill” and wrap this soft-hewn scrim about your living spaces and enjoy. Both The Wild Youth EP and the His Young Heart EP are available on iTunes. Peace. Continue reading “daughter // landfill”
Cloud Seeding it the project of guitarist Kevin Serra. What Mr. Serra does best is create acoustic milieus and fills them with vocals which personify particular moods. The results are something sounding at once painstakingly effortless and endearingly haunted. It is music commingling with the darkness of the devil and with the ethereal light of an angel’s dulcet dreams. These are sounds not so much in the middle of things as they are an exploration into the outer nuances of human feeling. On each song the artist finds comforting refuge within mundane emotional states and lingers there until we learn, through him, to see and appreciate their value. The latest collaborative single, “The Light” (Ft. Nadine Carina) is the mere crystallization of Mr. Serra’s adeptness at teasing out the essence, and beauty of our many moods and perfecting them into gorgeous song. Look for this latest single to drop digitally via Bleek Records August 14th. Peace. Continue reading “cloud seeding // the light (our sunday best)”