#116 Sun will rise

Finally, a time and inspiration for a new post... life has been a carousel of exciting events and experiences lately which I guess changed me a tiny bit...in a better direction. There are some of the songs I found recently, so feel more than free to abuse the replay button.

Of Monsters and Men - Little talks

Pinback - Good to sea

Bonobo feat. Speech Debelle - Sun will rise

#112 Pinkpop

Summer is coming...well, kind of and the major festivals around Europe are announcing the upcoming line-ups so I had some fresh ideas for bands I haven't posted before on the blog! I would really like to check out Pinkpop in the Netherlands, legendary festival, but yeah... money don't grow on trees, so will see =)

I come across The Wombats very often (the name) but never listened to their music before, but I really liked what I heard so far! So the reason of the post today is Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves).

Another interesting bands (in my opinion) that will be on that festival this year are... Blood red shoes - I wish I was someone better, which are playing in the city where I live soonish, so fingers crossed.. and lets say.. Bombay Bicycle Club - Always like this

#107 The appleseed cast /indie, post-rock/

Some time ago I wrote about the debut album of Moving Mountains. Anyway, I've seen the name of the Appleseed Cast many times ago throughout the years but never paid much attention to their music, until recently, cause they were pointed as influential for MovMou.

Long story short, I had to check out their stuff and now it's hard to say which band I prefer more. So yeah, the Appleseed Cast. Some describe them as indie post rock. I think, they are good for  Sunday evening.

The Appleseed Cast - Fight Song

The Appleseed Cast - As the little things go

The Appleseed Cast - Innocent vigilant ordinary

If you liked what you heard, I reckon to check their music more thoroughly, which frankly said I should do as well.

#106 There is always hope

This is the story of Chris. Chris cannot see with his eyes. He sees with his heart. Chris cannot walk. Chris though has an imagination, so he can travel everywhere. And he stars speaking. He is well-mannered, relaxed and knowledgeable young man. He is noble. He speaks slowly and properly. There is no sympathy for him, there is just respect. There might be tears, but they are not tears of sadness. So I keep watching his story. He says he is happy. Why? Because he knows he makes people happy. And he does - he makes me happy. And he is happy as well - he feeds on other people's happiness and that's the most noble thing that can exist in our world.

 Fuck, I wish there were subtitles to the video I am watching now, so all can just grasp a tiny piece of this incredible Bulgarian boy. Chris is one of those miracles that stands there..above everything and ...just inspires with his actions and words. It might sound stupid to some people, but this is the way I experience this and I want to share it...that boy is one of the reasons I keep having hope and I do believe that watching this interview, in a way, made me a better person. It is cliche, but why do we complain? Especially for the minor everyday problems. Such a fragile (in first sight) physically boy is so strong on the inside. And that's possible for all of us. We face troubles, problems, pain but...

...one of the guests in the show said - "I want his will to live, his perspective about life, the power of his soul, his energy..."

Chris wrote a book and he sings. He sings very well. You don't need subtitles for that. THIS is the video. In case you don't know Bulgarian go to 4:00 and tell me I'm wrong.

Chris, I know you will never read this, but you are priceless. I can keep writing till the morning and it won't be enough. Thank you for being who you are.

You just inspired hope.

Regards.

There is only one song today, and its enough Grow on, grow up, grow out.

#102 Eurosonic Noorderslag

Ok, I had to drop everything and start writing that post, cause a super awesome coincidence just ..occurred.

So, I was just browsing random videos as a background to my reading in the extremely boring library and I came across Vondelpark - HipBone. So, after listening to the song like 5 times, I decided to abandon reading about the global and industrial diversification of companies, and check their profile on last.fm...and apparently they are part of the Eurosonic festival, which is happening in the city where I live. I've been thinking to write a short post about some bands playing there and finding out that those guys are part of the festival was ..well, cool coincidence. So check them out along with other artists playing here this weekend.

Vondelpark - HipBone

Phuture Shock - Don't Let Go *FYI: amazing Bulgarian band*

Benjamin Francis Leftwich - Pictures

Madeon - Pup Culture

2:54 - Scarlet

Great Mountain Fire - Late lights 

James Vincent McMorrow - Early in the morning

...and many, many more. More than 250 artists are performing - from dubstep to hip hop to..acoustic rock. Those who have tickets are lucky bas.... people! For the rest of us - there's always youtube.

#101 Fast, fast /indie rock/

OK. Finally, after couple of days fighting with this retarded platform I managed to change the design a bit. The blog is going to be modern from now on and its gonna have its own humble Facebook page which you can like or hate on ..on the bar on your right - whatever rocks your boat, mate.

Ahh, yeah - the posting is back on. I am glad for all the things people said about not stopping and the couple emails I got from strangers. So I guess it feels like taking things a tiny step further. Damn it, writing on this white (on my screen) box is awesome. There is a rush of blood through my body. Not my penis though, well a bit. More like the brain I guess. So Isis are blasting through my headphones, but I guess today I'm just gonna post you some of the tracks I've been listening to the past weeks. I guess its a bit indie night so lets stick to that. Umm, enjoy?

Little Comets - Her Black Eyes (thx my Russian music friend)

Let's Buy Happiness - Fast fast

Emily and the Woods - Steal His Heart

#96 A walk in the mist /various/

Was walking around the city today. I guess... around the late afternoon. There was a slight mist, which is not very surprising for this dark and gloomy place. So as I was minding my own business thinking about the everyday, not very remarkable things, a blind man passed me by...

uh..I had to rewrite the next couple of sentences cause it is really hard to express what exactly I want. But lets go back on the situation. You know, people always say that disabled people don't like compassion and people feeling sorry for them and I really do get them. I kind of try to inspire myself, because those people really deserve respect. They face obstacles beyond our imagination, cope with them, often win and keep pushing. I never paid much attention to the way blind people..deal with the everyday life and I don't know what made me pay attention to that particular man. He was also kind of going my direction (more or less) so I was walking behind him and was observing his movement. It was trully amazing. He was faster than many of the random people on the street and really precise in following..wherever he was going. That thing kept for like 5 minutes or so before we had to "part" ways - using his stick as a radar, he confidently took turn in a small street and I lost him out of sight. I don't know why I even talk about that but..such an everyday life thing, which I never thought before impressed me a lot. Kudos. Enjoy the songs.

Kings of Convenience - Peacetime Resistance

Dave Matthews Band - Crash into me

The best pessimist - Walking with happiness

#92 Helen Keller

Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

I have no idea why but I just came across the name of Helen Keller. Honestly, I had no idea who she was and what she was fighting for.. I do not feel confident enough with my writing to try to describe her life and what she has been through, but her story stroke me immediately. It cured my insignificant and meaningless hangover, it made me realize that staying in bed will not give me anything today, it gave me desire to stand up and try to achieve something today. Move, embrace things around you, touch, feel, absorb, smile, make others smile.. if a deafblind person managed to achieve so much and made the world a better place, I... we should try to do that. At the end if all about beliving in yourself and having the inner strength to keep fighting with what life offers us. Helen, that goes for you!

Foster the people - Helena Beat!! 

The beautiful girls - On a clear day


Citizen Cope - Let the drummer kick

#91 Just another post /miscellaneous/

So, that is what I came up for today. Relaxing music in a way. I hope you like it.

Local Natives - Who knows who cares

bloc party - the preset

zero 7 - Destiny

and I guess bloc party - version 2.0

#88 Random thoughts /indie rock/

Something came to my mind today. I do get the fact that we are considered as the most superior creatures on this planet because of our intelligence and so on..you know, the usual blaberish. And despite the fact how complicated the human brain is..I do have a vague idea how things work..for most of us.. but have you ever though how do animals view the world around us... 

So, I am really fucking curious what kind of thoughts they have, how do they process information..when..you interract with it? Whether cause you love the animal or it is interesting or ..you want to kill him. Erm, basically information about it has been processed in your human brain and.. yeah I really get it. But what exactly those creatures think..of us for example? Do the species communicate? There's this mosquito flying next to me and I wish I could see the world through his eyes for just a minute. I mean I would prefer another animal, but that one was the one I saw first. Enjoy those easy going indie-ish songs while thinking bout this nonsense you just read :)

Two door cinema club - Something good we can work

General Fiasco - Ever so shy

Young the Giant - My body

#83 My Body /indie/

So, it has been a while from the last post, which can only mean that ..I was either really bored with posting music here or..I was just busy. But anyhow, I've been collecting some really cool tracks from here and there so the only think that comes up to my mind is - enjoy the music! 

Cage the Elephant - Shake me down

Young the Giant - My body (both bands have a similar pattern in their name..funny)

Foals - Hummer

 

#75 Rufus T. Firefly

Okay, so I finally decided to add a new post in the "Promising Artists" section! During my viaje in Spain I came across a young, but promising indie/alternative/post rock band from Aranjuez (a really cool city near Madrid). I had the pleasure of meeting one of the members and I got their CD so after listening to it for a while I decided it would be a good idea to try to spread their music around.

So the band is called Rufus T. Firefly and the name of the album is "My synthetic heart" which is also one of the tracks in it. The artwork is FUCKING MINDBLOWING and I dig some of the lyrics! I couldn't find most of the songs from this album online, but you can check their other songs on their web page and myspace page.

Some of the songs available online which I like - my personal favourite Inertia... also 8:24, Rational killer monkey

So, if you have time and you wanna listen to something new and not yet commercial, I think those guys deserve 15 minutes of your time.

"Tomorrow nothing will remain. Tomorrow will be time to think."

#68 On a clear day /summer, australian/

Gibraltar

So it's the peak of the summer and people are traveling around, going to festivals, you know - gathering positive emotions! I am finally doing nothing and chilling at home, but its been enough for this year. Anyway, I've been listening to the following kind of sumerish rockish tunes and I think you might enjoy them.

John Butler Trio - Better than

The Beautiful Girls - On a clear day

The Cat Empire - So many nights

..actually the three bands are from Australia. Such a beautiful place.

#60 Postcard from Italy /acoustic, folk/

Belogradchik, Bulgaria

It is a bit cold, but nevertheless very relaxed and chilled day. So here I am laying down on my couch next to the big window, watching the trees outside, slightly being moved by the wind... and I guess I just want to listen to something peaceful.

Beirut - Postcard from Italy very interesting band, strongly reccommend!

An afternoon like that cannot go without Kings of Convenience - Misread

...and riding the slight folkish wave from Beirut - some very promising Bulgarian artist Kotarashky - Tebe

#48 Say Anything /indie, pop/

So it's Friday. One hour before the start of my working shift. Six hours before the weekly Friday party and three days before my presentation. No idea where I'm trying to go with that, so I better just drop it off. My point is that I think I should post some a bit cheerful music. A friend of mine sent me this Romanian band..which I can describe as a mixture between some indie band and... electro pop? Well, thats just the way I feel it so - enjoy the Les Elephant Bizarres - Hello!

The next band I came across, watching Scrubs. I do sense the indie sound (a bit) so.. I guess I can just put it out there for you.. Say Anything - Alive with the glory of love (it is quite awesome song..despite the intro).

The last song.. oh, fuck it - sounds cheerful and I dig the name of the band! You, Me and Everyone we Know - I can get back up now. Actually, I just found them like 5 minutes ago, but on the second listening - its nice song!

Enjoy your weekend!

#25 Naked and famous /electro pop, indie rock/

Hey, its gonna be a really quick post, although I had a crazy crazy weekend with a total amount of sleep around 5 or 6 hours. And I do have what to say about life in general, cause I just realized that all I write in the blog are boring daily thingies. Lame. But, anyways I just played The naked and Famous - Punching in a dream, and realized that lately there are lots of bands like that I listen to, so... I suppose the theme will be electro pop/ indie.

Enjoy the rest songs as well!

Daily Bread - Shot the picture (I'm gonna speak about them soonish, saw them live in Groningen. Amazing sexy garage rock or whatever they define themselves).

Passion pit - Sleepy head (amazing!). I think I might have productive a Sunday night.

#24 Australian music

I discovered a really cool indie band recently. Apparently, they are from Australia. I also lived with an awesome australian girl. So... I guess this post will be dedicated to the australian music scene, which gave us really really good songs.

The indie band I mentioned in the beginnig is Last Dinosaurs - Time & Place. The video is quite fascinating as well. Oh, seriously I can't come up with anything to write today, I'm completely stuck, I feel that everything I write is just some boring blablabla. So I will just put the other bands I really like.

The presets - If I know you

Little red - Coca Cola

There are lots of bands which I can mention, but the one I really can't miss is Silverchair (awesome live!).

Australia rocks! And now.. I have to pick up my brain because passing out last night was...oh fuck it.

#17 Dice /indie rock, easy-going/

Hey, just came back from uni... I totally forgot how hard is the student's life. But at least we learn something not as boring as the usual things we take. It's been crazy for the past couple of weeks, which I guess is good cause I keep myself kind of busy. I got the motivation to write today because of a song I came across facebook this morning, thank you (the person who posted it).

Finley Quaye - Dice

The song is unbelievably fucking incredible! I think I'm gonna rape the replay button on youtube..actually I better download it?

The next band, I found accidently on myspace 5 or 6 years ago and until recently they did not have anything on youtube, but luckily someone posted that - Moldig - Cloudless. In my opinion, they are very promising so do not hesitate to check them out! :)

And the last one is a random pick-up from my old school winamp playlist Asher Lane - News Days.

I tried to be kind of positive, since its Monday and we got another 4 days and a half to push until next weekend. Wish you an above-the-decent rest of the day.

#12 White lies /rock, indie, alternative/

Oh, crap. That was a crazy weekend... but didn't get much sleep. Again! I will soo regret that later in life. Ah, yeah - so not quite sure how the songs today are related, but I do believe (in my mind) they have some similarities.

So, White lies - not quite sure how they popped in my favourites section in my youtube account, but they definitely deserved their place here today. In my opinion you should check at least these songs:

White lies - Death
White lies - Ritual
White lies - Farewell to the fairground

The second band, that seems logical to post here are Keane, but I really have nothing much to say about them, except the fact I think they are famous and they got kick-ass keyboard parts.

Keane - Your Eyes Open
Keane - Crystal Ball

And finally, I want you to introduce you very pleasant and interesting (maybe cuz of the language) band - Kent, which were shown to me by my swedish friend Martin..and yeah they are also swedish. Kind of remind me of Sigur ros, maybe cuz I cannot understand nothing from the lyrics. But it's definitely worth checking out!

Kent - 747

Kent - FF

Well, that is for now. Buenos tardes, amigos :)

#6 Between us and them /indie-rock/

Hm.. didn't want to post today, but I'm so f*cking hangover, I simply do not care/remember why I decided I should take a couple of days off that thingy. Besides, between you and me - I kinda like writing some stuff here. Ok, enough for my 2 sentenses, lets proceed. 

Shit, so much stuff to post, and so hard to group them. But I guess today's songs would circle around ...yeah, agian, the so called indie rock, which by the way - ok, i admit there is a typical sound and the bands are recognizable easily, but why the fuck indie. I mean they are supposed to be independed, but now most of them have major record deals and sh*t, you know? I never got that... maybe it's just me.

Moving units - between us and them

Next guys, are a weird combination between electro and indie, actually weird = pretty awesome. I saw them live this summer in one of the festivals in NL, was quite pleasantly surprised. Check them out - Daily Bread

Daily bread - shoot the picture

Ok, next one is pretty famous, but still - you never know.. so The Virgins - Rich Girls

So many cool things out there, huh? Despite the fact that I feel like posting at least 20 weirdly similar to each other bands, I will cut the indie for the day with The Dead 60's - Riot on the Radio

I wish I could say that was all for the day, but given that its just 16, I cannot trust myself and I might post later, if not because someone is actually checking this thing, then for my own amusement. Cheers!

ps - Martin, this one goes for you - Cold War Kids - Hang me up to dry