Let’s Talk About: ATTN EVERYONE

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This post title was way too aggressive for what I’m about to say. No I didn’t win anything or meet anyone cool or invent a new instrument, BUT, The Black Keys just announced their tour and for one leg they are touring with Cage The Elephant, one leg Jake Bugg, and the last St. Vincent, that is an excessive amount of talent and I think I’m slowly imploding.

That is all. Except:

1. It’s finals weeks so that’s why I’ve been a resident of Slacker City, post-wise.

2. If that first ‘paragraph’ wasn’t the longest run on sentence you’ve ever seen, then you’re a liar and I’m suddenly good at English.

3. Three more days until the Lana Del Rey concert, six until HAIM, and some amount of days until MØ, so you better believe I will be back with a bang (I just used so many B’s and I loved every second of it).

Let’s Talk About: CHVRCHES

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I have been so enthralled with my music lately, that I have been listening to all these artists and not doing posts about them. Rookie mistake (if I still technically count as a rookie, for today is my 3 month blog-aversary, whoop). Needless to say, this post is lonnnng overdue. I have been jamming (aka embarrassing myself because we all know how good of a dancer I am) to CHVRCHES for quite some time now. Their debut album, The Bones Of What You Believe, came out last September, so I’m sure many of you have already heard of them. If you have, I just want to drive the point home of how awesome they are. If you have never  heard of them, go listen (please)!

So the group CHVRCHES is comprised of three members, Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook, and Martin Doherty from Scotland. So basically, if I stopped there, you would already know how cool they are because they are from Scotland, but I will continue anyway. They were listed in the top five of BBC’s Sound of 2013 list. Their vibe is electric-pop I would say, although I would much rather say electricy-poppy because it sounds more fun. They are playing at Coachella and floating around the United States and Europe over the next few months, giving them a lot of well deserved exposure. Their album has been making frequent visits to my record player, and I can say with certainty that it will continue to do so. The music they produce is so upbeat and catchy, I just want to dance and laugh and jump around whenever I’m listening to them, in the least psychotic way possible (for that did make me sound a bit insane). Many of you have probably heard The Mother We Share and possibly not realized it was CHVRCHES, but it was. So perfect, you may have heard them and didn’t even know, even more reason to buy their album now and dance around in your room! Hip hip hurray!! Fingers crossed that I will be able to get last minute tickets to a show, if my schedule frees up, I would in a heartbeat! If you search my posts, I know I have posted a few videos of them in the BBC Live Lounge and such. CHVRCHES 5ever! If you like any of the following people and/or have a soul, you will love CHVRCHES: HAIM, Lorde, London Grammar, Puppies (the animal), Music (in general), MØ, etc.

Click here for a fun interview. 

Notable Songs: 

The Mother We Share 

We Sink

Recover (my jam, if you were wondering and/or care at all)

 

Let’s Talk About: Marika Hackman

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I feel like I haven’t done an artist post in ages! Gasp this is exciting (someone pop the champagne and get balloons and fireworks, not that any of my posts deserve that response, but I’m celebrating for myself…). As many of you know, I have a pretty solid set of musicians that I primarily listen to, HAIM, Lana, Lorde, Brooke Fraser, MØ and Rae Morris etc. etc. It is verrry hard for me to allow another group or musician to infiltrate my pre-established music core I have going on, but Marika is coming veerrrry close to doing that/ she already has but shhh I need to make myself look more steadfast than that.  

Every so often I like to look at the Burberry Acoustic sessions on youtube, for the artists are completely stripped down and acoustic, which is how I prefer to find them. Funny story, I was actually looking for a specific Rae Morris Burberry Acoustic session I had seen to post on here! That was actually how I heard of Rae in the first place, so I’m a big fan of the sessions. So I look on the suggested videos on the side and just happen to click on Marika performing a stripped down version of her song You Come Down. That was it for me.

Her sound is so peculiar, yet familiar at the same time. She has similar folky/acoustic-y roots that many of the artists I enjoy have, however, there is something about her that comes across as darker and edgier. Her lyrics are neat (as in interesting, not tidy) and a little bizarre and her guitar playing/picking adds a dark and mystical element. Her music is incredibly soothing and her vibe seems very chill, cool and relaxed. 

I believe, if I did my research correctly (insert nerdy emoji/picture here, preferably with a pocket protector), that she recently toured with both the 1975 and Sivu, so I am confident she is going to gain more notoriety over the next few years. I highly suggest you look her up, or look at the previous videos I have posted of hers. 

She has an EP, Sugar Blind an and LP, That Iron Taste, which are both amazing (if you buy the LP vinyl it’s blue!) and her EP Deaf Heat is being released mid April. A song from the new EP, titled Deep Green, has been released and is so so good. Please look her up if you like this blog and my happiness. Just kidding, but I really think some of you would like her a lot. If you don’t like her I will ship you a pizza and /or puppy based on your preference. Kidding. I actually may still get the pizza and puppies but keep them for myself… just kidding…. maybe. 

The only unfortunate part of this situation is that she is from Europe, like many of my other favorites. This means I probably will not get to see her live anytime soon 😦 But one day! I guess Europe can’t help the fact that they produce amazingly talented and likable singers! You go Europe! 

Noteworthy Songs: I’ll Borrow Time, Bath Is Black, Cinnamon 

P.S. After I post something I always go back and look at it, and my sad face turned into an actual emoji sad face, how adorable! Who knew? Technology boop boop.

My Warning To My Followers…

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I don’t know if I consider this a warning or just an informal PSA… but here it goes. 

Somehow I have beckoned the universe to bring favorite artists nearby for tours and the universe is responding. If I were to sit here and not acknowledge the true psychosis of how many concerts I am going to over the next few months, I would be fooling myself. I even am beginning to realize how crazy it is, but I can not miss the opportunity to see my favorite performers live, for it is a musical experience that can not be replicated. I was initially going to the HAIM and Lorde (which already happened) concerts and two music festivals. Now, things may or may not have changed. Lana Del Rey, The Avett Brothers, and MØ all announced a tour nearby (PS MØ announced her tour today if you are interested). 

I guess what I am trying to say/ warn you about is that in a very small time period I will be posting concert reviews/stories from HAIM, Lana Del Rey and MØ. By a short period of time, I literally mean a two week time frame. I think this will be cool to discuss with my followers, but I fear that some people may be annoyed, so that is why I am warning you about it now. I will later be posting about The Avett Brothers and festivals. 

I thank you all so much for checking out my blog. The response has been incredible and I am so happy I decided to begin this blog and join this community. Reflecting on this post, I realize there was kinda no point to it because music posts are the premiss of my blog… so why would posting about concerts be bad….? I don’t know, I just needed to get it out there. If we’re being perfectly honestly, I think I am  just so exhilarated by these recent announcements that I needed an excuse to tell the world about it (because the world totally cares about me and my love for good music lolol SIKE). Have a MARVELOUS day everyone. I will now be pretending to do a paper, while really sitting and starting blankly into space and smiling like a sociopath. 

 

P.S. I hope the ominous title didn’t frighten you from reading this or enjoying it……. or do I? Mwahahah. No, but seriously, I didn’t know how else to introduce this post…