Two Posts in 1 Day?! Shit Go'n get CRAY

AWESOME Arctic Cirlce shared by good friend Aubrey! Amazing find and I'm in love with the more unique sounds that I hear throughout the song.  I love the way I feel when I listen to this, I feel like I should be swept away in a romantic Jane Austen-ish way! I can't get enough of this!

Watch and love:

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Munchen

European travel is so worth the annoying flight. The music, food, architecture and art are always breathtaking and always inspiring. I am currently in the Munich airport in Germany with my brother, reluctantly waiting for our plane to take us back the States.

One of the things about Munich that really caught my attention was the lack of German made music. Almost everything that the younger population listens to is American music. I asked one of our friends here about it and he seemed surprised that I would care. He said listenin to German music is crap. The only music that is truly German is for old people(polka, etc.) I asked him what music he liked and he told me
that the only German music that was any good were the up and coming rappers. Other than that, anything tht has a hypnotic beat will suffice for him. It serms that is the common response from everyone in the room. If it can be danced to, then it's good.

Every morning we wake up to music, notall American. One song that was heavily played was a Portugese club song, complete with accompanying dance moves. Se et un Pego. I'm pretty sure it is by a singer Michele Telles...I'll have to double check. Either way, it was a fun one to listen to.

Chuss!!

Dance Music

Although this week shoul mean the replaying of every single christmas album known to man kind, I can't help but listen to a little dance music to put me in a good mood!

Beyonce- Countdown and Love on Top
Robyn-Call Your Girlfriend
Lady Gaga-Born This Way

I love fun dance music, I also live the Jackson 5 and dancing my buns off to them!!!

Brooklyn Bound

So I am here in Brooklyn with my friend Steph, getting dinner at the Cornerstone, and we are overcome by the soul vibe that's going on! We can't wait for the live jazz that's to come later on, but for now we are content with the dimming lights, the vegan nachos and the sweet low beats of soul music thrumming through the downstairs restaurant.

All American Road Trip

Although it seems like an obvious fact, I'm not quite sure that people understand just how large the United States truly is. We could fit most of the land mass of Europe, roughly 32 tiny countries, inside our one gigantic body of states.  It's pretty impressive, if not completely astounding. My point here, is that while some countries have their own musical influences, our country has that times 10. There's so much music out there that people just don't realize exists, or how it came to be. 

I've decided to create a challenge.  There's no need to hop in your car and drive for 2 weeks straight across the country to listen to all the music you can possibly handle (although that does sound like a lot of fun).  Take the next week or so and go beyond what you would normally listen to.  Though I am an alternative/indie junkie, I'm sure that there are aspects of country that I probably would really enjoy.  Dig deep too!  You never hear a musician talk about today's pop stars as an influence on their work, it's the golden oldies that have taken them into their dreams. 

Here's a list of some of the people that I've started listening to and who have made a huge influence in the music choices that I make today:

Loretta Lynn
Dolly Parton
Aretha Franklin
The Supremes
Johnny Cash
Lou Reed (The Velvet Underground too, obviously!)
Sex Pistols
Joan Baez
The Beatles
Edith Piaf

The list continues, but I'd love to hear some music feedback!!!

I think I'm inlove with my radio...

So tons of things have been going on lately, one specifically is the reemergence of the radio in my life.  For a while I was all about the iPod and getting my playlists together for my long car trips or my trips to the gym, but lately I've been feeling quite bored with my musical selection. I know, I know, how could a person with over 3,000 songs on her iPod get bored of her music? Trust me. It happens.  It's not that I dislike my music, it's just that I like hearing what's coming out on the radio.  It is the first place you really ever heard music before this Apple takeover, anway, so why not pay it a little homage every once and a while and tune in?  Although I really hate the fact that radio stations really only play the same 6 songs over and over again, I can't say that I'm willing to pay for a song for my iPod if I'm gauranteed to hear it 45 times in one day on the radio. 

Some of the shows in the Boston/Manchester area that I recommend thanks to my scan button:
Kiss108
92.1WFNX
NPR (there are like 5 stations for this, but trust me, definitely worth listening to All Songs Considered and World Cafe)
94.1
93.5
91.5 (UMass Lowell's radio station)
88.9 (Emerson's Radio station)
106.3
92.5The River
92.9 Independent Radio

There are so many more, but it's definitely worth a listen to that box in your car that sometimes makes fuzzy noises!! 

Give me some of your favorite radio stations! I'm always looking for new places to find and listen to music!!

How can a person be this terrible...

At updating their blog!! It's not that I forget that I have this..I guess I just lose confidence that people actually read it.  I'm sure they don't, it's not like I reinvented the wheel. I'm just telling people what I'm thinking is up and coming for music! I'm admittedly not even that on top of things any more, the sad times of being a corporate employee.  Hopefully whoever does read this gets some good music out of it!

As always, I am obsessed with Bon Iver.  With a bunch of friends I saw him live at a perfectly quaint outdoor venue in the Berkshires.  It was the perfect setting for Bon Iver, it even rained a little.  I realize this makes everyone automatically assume that he is this very emo artist.  On the contrary, folks, Bon Iver is delightfully up beat (tempo wise) in many a tune that he plays.  Justin Vernon's falsetto voice definitely lends a creepy quality to the music, but because the music itself is so intricate, the voice really just floats and goes where it's needed. 

Opening for him was The Rosebuds, who I wasn't completely sold on until the 3rd song or so.  It's a girl and guy group, probably the best combo that you can get really, and they are pretty good.  I'm interested to hear more from them, but so far it seems they are strictly on the indie radar. 

Although she is not someone that I thought that I would ever spend the money to go and see, I saw Sara Bareilles live in Boston this past week.   I know that I don't say many bad things about artists, but it's usually because I can find something good in every performance, aside from the occasional onsie twosie mishap.  Anyways, Sara Bareilles was sort of a breath of fresh air from what I thought my night was going to be like.  She started her set with a Solo cup full of Bourbon and you could tell that she was a little nervous.  It was really interesting to see a musician who is very popular and famous to be nervous and have a little bit of stage fright.  After the first couple of songs she definitely loosened up and started having some hilarious banter with the audience, at one point commenting on how much she cursed and how parents should probably know by now to not bring small children to her shows.  Her voice was incredible.  I don't know many of her songs, in fact, I only know the ones that are on the radio; I was blown away.  My friend that I was with, K, told me that she was really impressed, she assumed that they barely ever had to fix her voice with Auto-Tune.  I can tell you right now, that girl probably NEVER gets Auto-Tuned.  If I had pipes like that, I would find Auto-Tune an insult. The whole show was just very unexpected! Her opener was Joshua Radin, a long time love of mine, so that was also a pleasant surprise. I'm sure that they were billed together, I just never took the time to look at the ticket to see who was opening. 

I'm going to try and stay on top of this, but I want to hear some of your stories about bands you love and shows you've seen! I can only go and see so many...I'm poor, so I'd like to live vicariously through some people!!!