brooklyn, nyc-based band bear in heaven pulled one of the biggest promotional stunts in the musicsphere this year with the promotion of their latest release, ‘i love you, it’s cool‘. check here on npr for details. but no wild stunts here on the bands, “reflection of you (lovelock remix)”, just slightly doctored music in real-time. peace.

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You can’t get a lot more ethereal and folkishly organic than the music being born out the hearts and heads of the Bowerbirds. At the core, and I suspect it will always be, this band is Phil Moore and Beth Tacular. And although there has been a revolving door of line-up changes, it is the constant ebb and flow of shared human emotion played out between both Phil and Beth, that act as the catalyst for their songs and music. When you watch the mini documentary, you’ll see the surface of a relationship. But, you’ll also suspect, and come away with the sense that these two people; this man and woman, are not only making their way in the world, but keeping a journal and writing upon its brittle pages with the red ink of lovesong. You hear their love, their fear and every other crazy human emotion in-between. Maybe nowadays love is corny, or at least talking about is, but one cannot simply listen to their songs as something two people just created for the sake of creating. Yes, one purpose is to share and entertain, but in the end these are songs two people crafted out of necessity, as something tangible to hold onto to buoy them across time, and predicaments known and not known. Yes, it is a public journal, but with private and secret meaning. The forthcoming album, due to drop February 21st, is titled The Clearing. Perchance The Clearing is metaphor for the space two people need to clear, to rid a marked territory of everyone else, and all other aspects of the known world, in order to make room enough for two to grow miraculously as one. Peace.

About “The Clearing” by Bowerbirds from Secretly Jag on Vimeo.

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Jon Philpot, Joe Stickney, and Adam Wills make up the Brooklyn-based trio Bear In Heaven, and indeed their irascible brand of Pop has marked out acreage in Shangri-La. Play their single “The Refection Of You” and reaffirm your belief in a better place (While your still living, that is), even if that place exists whilst your listing to Bear In Heaven. Check out their label RCRD LBL for free downloads. And, be on the lookout for their forthcoming LP I Love You, It’s Cool, due for release April 3rd. But if you can’t wait until the release date, these practical jokers (Emphasis on jokers) are streaming the whole album on their website bearinheaven.com. I warned you. Peace.

“The Reflection Of You”

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Like most people I love taking trips, even when traveling no further than my own mind. The Lafayette, CO duo Gauntlet Hair take me back and forward simultaneously in my very own Back to the Future-esque sound quest. I’m weird like that didn’t you know? Whatever. Regardless of my mental state at the moment, I hear so many nice sounds when listening to the song “Top Bunk” and its the categorization of those sound references that I usually avoid. Not this time because this one is such a fun mental mash-up. What I hear is 80’s alternative bands: for instance in my mind if the sound of New Order were genetically merged with the sound of the band Big Country then the resulting mutant would be Gauntlet Hair. Let me know if your feeling me (not literally) on this, well I’m off. Enjoy your trip too. Peace.

Also, to back up my 80’s references check out the William Doyle directed video for Gauntlet Hair‘s “Top Bunk” its badass!

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