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Time has a way of putting things in place…
Okay, I have moved my album review for this week to what I am really hoping is Friday. Scooter has flipped days and nights again and if Kahuna didn’t tell me what day it was I would be completely lost.
A few old and a few new tracks in the jukebox this week. I’m still annoyed the Takers broke up and no one told me. Then Devon and Chad went and made a new band (Snakehealers) and again no one told me.
The Bart Walker Band – Left Turn, Snakehealers – Roadside, Joshua Black Wilkins – Late Night Talks, The Delta Routine – Oh, No , Tyler Walker Band – Maybe We Were Wrong, and some Eden Burning with If You Want Me ’cause coffee alone is just not enough this morning.
The featured vid this week is Life in Film with their new release Cold Wire . You can check out more stuff from the band on their Facebook page or follow them on Twitter @lifeinfilm.
- Kit
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Well I cut my lip on summer’s teeth…
Kit’s Awesome Vid of the Day
Teen Girl Scientist Monthly – Summer Skin
-Kit
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Nothing to lose and nothing to gain…
So I am finally playing Dragon Age Awakenings and I just…see I am playing a mage. I have another mage in the party. We both have enough healing magic that everywhere we step should burst into glorious, bubbly life. I have (at last count) enough healing poultices and injury kits to open my own hospital – and yet, every stupid NPC we come across has an injury and instead of my being able to heal it they just die.
Seriously Bioware? I can bring my entire party back from the dead but I can’t set a broken leg before the dude dies?
Anyway…
Shiny new tracks in the juke this week by Nick and the Ovorols - Try Me, Todd Dorigo - Alive, Cobalt Cranes – Head in the Clouds, Bobby Long – Devil Moon, and Josephine Oniyama – Portrait. I also have older track from Frank Turner called The Road.
Brooklyn-based Arc & Stones are in the featured video spot this week with Silence, from their soon-to-be released EP, Arc & Stones.
- Kit
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I don’t wanna feel, cause I don’t wanna bleed…
Brewed Southern Pecan coffee this morning. The house smells like pecan pie.
New tracks in the jukebox this week. I’ve also posted links to all the jukebox songs within the post for anyone pulling the blog on feed. Unless it says differently these are all linked from Soundcloud.
The Delta Saints - Chicago, Jack Moore covering Something Good, Viv and the Revival with Early Ape – I Want It, Fife and Drom – Wicked Tongue, and from Reverbnation W. B. Johnston – Sky Blue.
Precious Bryant passed away this weekend. The Music Maker Relief Foundation has a nice article about her on their website. Check out Fool Me Good from her 2002 release of the same title over in the jukebox.
The featured vid this week is Green Lights by Eastern Rift off their new EP Left of the Mark. You can check out more stuff from the band on their Facebook page or over on their Reverbnation page.
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The Week in Music…Blogs – Jan 5, 2013 to Jan 11, 2013
Stacey from the official SXSW site listed over a hundred more bands added to the 2013 line up. She also included a link to the list of around 1000 bands scheduled to perform this year. I noticed Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires, BOY and Frank Turner on the latest addition.
Tony Porter from Music That Isn’t Bad reviewed The Amends new release, What We Could Be.
Ninebullets.net put up the December podcast, while Charlie, Mike and Bryan added posts with their best albums of the year.
Ryan Bingham tossed up a new video because he knows I get twitchy if I go too long with nothing from him on the blog.
That’s pretty much it for this week. I’ve had a cold so I mainly listened to some new music, played Skylanders and coughed. If you have a post from your blog you want added to the list just shoot me an email (guitarkit at gmail.com) or leave your post addy in a comment below.
- Kit
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Can’t go anywhere without my sunglasses…
We headed over to Raleigh this weekend for some ‘must spend my holiday money gifts’ shopping. I wore my cool new Wayfarers.
Okay, okay…I wore my new sunglasses that just happen to look like Wayfarers. I can’t have actual Wayfarers because I am the Mount Doom of sunglasses. Seriously, I am where sunglasses go to die. I usually buy three or four pair at a time from someplace cheap like Dollar General and then hope they last out the month. A couple of months before we moved to North Carolina, Kahuna bought me fifteen pairs from slickdeals. By the time we pulled out to make the trip I had three (3) pair left out of the bunch. One of those was a tiny pair I gave Scooter. Yes, my preschooler keeps sunglasses longer than I do. Sigh.
Anyway, beautiful weather, no traffic and mostly deserted stores. We even braved Toys-R-Us but it was a ghost town. (like an actual empty town, not like the band) It would have been great for shopping but there was nothing to buy - just big stretches of empty shelves. Even the above-mentioned toy abyss had scattered all the toys out to make the shelves look full. The girls came home with a few items but it appears I will be spending most of my money buying music online. Or maybe over on Kickstarter…I haven’t decided yet.
(Bands! If you have new stuff coming out soon or a Kickstarter project, now would be a great time to tell me)
I have a new article up on GamingHUD. It’s sort of the video game version of my best music list. While you all are over there you might give the ‘rename GamingHUD’ contest a try.
All new music in the jukebox to start off 2013. Check out new tracks from The White Buffalo, Viv and the Revival, Hawk and Dove, Corey Koehler, Gypsy and the Wolf and The Flying Bricks.
The featured vid this week is A Certain Speed off the upcoming (January 8, 2013 release) What We Could Be by The Amends.
Okay, time for more coffee…
- Kit
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It’s just another day…
Sooo…daytime is very…bright.
Having finally eased Scooter back into sleeping at night, I give my brain another day or so until it back in working order. Until then, here are some “things Kit learned while watching middle of the night television“. You have been warned.
For some bizarre reason all the Scorpions videos on VH1 are three times louder than any other video being shown, shoulder pads in women’s shirts and dresses will NEVER stop being painful to watch and there are actually two (2) different shows about guys that build and install aquariums. As a bonus, I am also addicted to Storage Wars.
The featured vid is the shiny new release from the Amends, A Certain Speed. You all can pick it up for free over on Soundcloud.
I intended to add all new songs to the sidebar but my connection is so bad I can’t get them all switched. I did manage to add Slow Trains by the Anaesthetics.
- Kit
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I’ve seen your picture on a hundred dollar bill…
Kit’s Awesome Vid of the Day
Angeles – Steve Carlson and Jensen Ackles
Beautiful cover of Elliott Smith’s Angeles. From Steve’s shiny new album, Sharing the Covers.
-Kit
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- Blurred…
February 12, 2013 | 4:06 pm
I have been trying to write the review for Blurred, by San Francisco singer/songwriter Alex Wise for a few months now but can’t seem to finish it. This is difficult for me to say but I get about halfway through the process and find myself so homesick I just can’t continue. The past few years have been full [...] - Arc & Stones…
February 11, 2013 | 4:53 am
Now that Scooter is back sleeping nights I proclaim this ’dig myself out from under the mountain of un-reviewed music‘ week. Kicking off the week o’reviewing is Arc & Stones, the debut EP from Brooklyn band Arc & Stones. The guys are Dan Pellarin (vocals), Ben Cramer (guitar), Joe Doino (drums) and Eddy Bayes (bass). I had [...] - Telegraph Taboo…
January 21, 2013 | 8:45 am
So, I was in the mood for some blues and whoosh – blues appeared. Other people get coupons, bills and news updates in the mail while I get blues music. Cool new blues music in the form of the debut release Telegraph Taboo from the Chicago-based band Nick and the Ovorols. This is not a pretty album. The vocals on a few tracks [...] -
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