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yourmandevine · 3 years

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Some stuff that made me happy in 2020, in no particular order

God send you no greater loss. It’s something my grandmother said a lot — a bit of highly Irish Catholic wisdom intended to remind you, warmly but sharply, that whatever you’re currently suffering through isn’t all that bad compared to what lots of other people are dealing with. That it probably isn’t too much to complain about, in the grand scheme of things. That you should, instead, be grateful for what you’ve got, big and small and everything in between.

God sent a great many people a great many unfathomable losses this year, and as hard as it felt at times, our family wasn’t among them; we’re lucky, in the big picture. In the past, people have recommended I try writing those reasons down, to give myself a list of stuff to be thankful for, for the times it’s tough to summon up the gratitude. I figured the end of the year was as good a time as any to make that list, to highlight the stuff that helped me get through this year — the reasons big, small, and in between.

So: here goes.

Peanut butter and jelly

I haven’t counted how many peanut butter and jelly sandwiches I’ve eaten since March 11, which is good, because that would be an absurd thing to do, and a sure sign that I have succumbed to a very specific kind of madness. It’s also good, though, because I would undoubtedly be ashamed by the number; the figure would be titanic, like the unsinkable ship of same name, or the iceberg that sunk it.

Or, at least, I would be ashamed under normal circumstances. This fuckin’ year required whatever flotation device you could find, and you know what I found in the fridge and cupboard? A couple of slices of bread, some strawberry jam, and some goddamn Skippy.

Need a weird mid-morning “brunch” after not having breakfast because you went right from waking up to remote school with the 6-year-old? Crank up a PB&J with that third cup of coffee. Need to pack something in the diaper bag to feed everyone while you’re out at the playground for the afternoon? Stack ‘em up, son. Need a late snack after working the overnight shift filing weird bubble playoff columns? Three letters, one ampersand, one love.

I need to eat better in 2021. But I kind of needed to eat sort of like shit to get through 2020, and time and again, when your man needed it most, PB&J was there.

Sunday night Zoom sessions with college friends

I know that most of us started something like this back in March; I’m not sure how many have stuck with it. I hope the answer is “a lot,” because honestly, knowing that I’m going to end the week by seeing a few friends — some here in Brooklyn but mostly beyond our reach for safety’s sake, some who’ve moved away — has felt like a stabilizing agent on more than a few occasions. It’s important, and no small blessing, to have people in your life who really know you, weird messy ugly bits and all, and in front of whom you can let everything go.

That gallery view’s provided a place to vent, to seethe, to laugh, to cry, and to try to find some semblance of center before heading back into another week. I’m grateful for it, and for the people in those little boxes. Except for the time they reminded me that, when I was 18, I was pretty sure I was a Pacey, and they were all extremely confident I was a Dawson. They were right, but still: a bitter pill to swallow, then and now.

Olivia calling herself “Dr. Bloody”

She took out her little toy doctor kit and just turned into a cackling villain.

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Deeply disconcerting, yes, but also adorable.

All Fantasy Everything

What got me in the door was the conceit: three very funny stand-up comedians (Ian Karmel, David Gborie, Sean Jordan), often with a very funny guest but sometimes without, pick some topic or another and engage in a fantasy draft of their favorite aspects or representations of that topic. (It is, crucially, a serpentine draft. Now what is that? That’s a great question.) Some favorite examples: Mikes; Words That You Think Make You Sound Smart, vols. 1 and 2; Things You Yell After You Dunk on Someone; Fictional Athletes; Crimes We’d Like to Commit. Yeah. It’s that kind of podcast.

What kept me around was the friendship. Listen to an episode and it becomes really clear really quickly just how much the three hosts love each other, how much fun they have being around each other and making one another laugh. The warmth radiates, just pours out of the speakers; in a year where I sorely needed some good vibes, I appreciated my regular check-ins with the Good Vibes Gang to just ... unclench for an hour and a half or so.

Drinking beer

OK, I’ll admit: This doesn’t sound great for me. It’s true, though. I really like beer. (We brewed one in our kitchen, which I realize is something of a “bearded guy in Brooklyn” cliche, but here we are. It was exciting to complete a project, and it tasted OK-ish.) At some points this year, it didn’t feel like there wasn’t much to look forward to, and sometimes drinking some High Lifes or Narragansett tall boys — with my wife in our living room, with friends on the computer, whatever — helped take the edge off a shitty day/week/month/year. I look forward to being able to do that outside with people again.

The Good Place

I am sure some very smart cultural critics and political thinkers and social revolutionaries have forwarded compelling arguments for why this show is Bad, Actually, because that seems to be more or less true about most things, whether because said thing is Actually Bad or because the economics of the attention economy on the internet functionally necessitate the composition and publication of pretty much every position on pretty much every issue, and especially ones that present a counterargument for why you shouldn’t like the thing you like, and might be kind of a piece of shit for liking it. But I liked this half-hour comedy about the way the universe might be put together, why we should try to take better care of each other, and how doing so might be a pretty great way to take better care of ourselves.

Andrew let me write about it a little bit for a big project we did before the series finale aired, which was really nice of him. I found myself thinking about this part a lot this year:

I also thought a lot about Peeps Chili, but that happens every year.

Taking pictures of my dog

Check out this flumpy goddamn champion:

“Lugar is a good boy” is the main takeaway here. They don’t all have to be complicated.

Schitt’s Creek

I know we’re not alone in this, but we inhaled this show this year. A half-hour comedy about people being laid low, learning how to deal with who they actually are, and finding some grace and community and opportunities for growth kind of hit the spot, I guess.

One of the most wholesale enjoyable ensemble comedy casts I can remember; Catherine O’Hara was already in Cooperstown, but what she made with Moira Rose only polishes her plaque. I’ll never be able to describe with any specificity the thing Chris Elliott does, but I know it has made me laugh since I was a child too young to understand the Letterman bits or see Cabin Boy in the theater, and it’s probably going to make me laugh until I am dead.

I love that people who, for years, never got to see themselves or people like them on screen got to see David Rose on screen and maybe recognize themselves a little bit. The idea that seeing the David/Patrick relationship might make them maybe feel a little more at home, a little safer and more whole, makes me happy. Sad, about the before, but happy, about the now and the what comes next.

Past that, I just love how what was ostensibly a family-and-friends production for a Canadian channel just got absolutely everything right—the tone, the look, the sound, the theme song, the cast, the jokes, my goodness, the jokes—and before long, the rest of the world just got it. Like catching a fastball square on the barrel. Something the show clearly knew a little bit about.

Finding new outdoor places it was safe to go

Necessity is the mother of invention, and the need to give the kids a place to be that wasn’t unnecessarily dangerous but also wasn’t inside our two-bedroom apartment led us to do more exploring than we had before. Shirley Chisholm State Park is great. Canarsie Pier was a fun place to spend a Sunday morning; so’s Canarsie Playground. If we got there early enough or made our peace with some rain, the beaches at Jacob Riis Park and Fort Tilden were pretty rad this summer. I lived in Staten Island from ages 8 through 18, and during breaks throughout college, and don’t think I ever hiked in High Rock Park — that’s dumb, because it was nice!

Even if all those little excursions did was kill a little time and reduce the overall stress level of the four humans stuck in our four walls, that’s not nothing. Some days this year, it was everything.

Cobra Kai

I know I’m late here; I didn’t rush to seek it out because I don’t consider myself a huge fan of The Karate Kid, or at least not a big enough fan to sign up for YouTube’s premium service. I checked it out when it came to Netflix, though, and I honestly can’t believe how much I enjoyed this show. Give me “dumb, but with heart” every day of the week.

I believe in Miguel Diaz; I believe in Johnny Lawrence; I believe I will be firing up Season 3 next month, and perhaps drinking some Coors Banquets in its honor. (I cannot, however, believe how the “get him a body bag” thing came back around, but that’s neither here nor there.)

Closing unread tabs

I’m a serial hoarder of links, and I am bad at finishing all of them. I’ve tried to get into Pocket and Instapaper, but I’ve never been able to turn that sort of workflow — open link, save to third-party service, go back to third-party service later to read, then delete from there — into something that felt instinctual, natural, or habitual. So: lots of tabs. Like, lots of tabs.

This was a dicier proposition than usual in 2020, because cutting my work week in half to be able to more effectively coparent two kids who didn’t have school or day care for most of the year meant less time to read things.

I tried to do my best to keep up with the important stuff for work, and to read at least some stuff about how other parents were dealing with their anxiety/anger/depression/frustration at having to be on 24/7 and work, and to stay abreast of (at least some of) what was happening in the world. Sometimes, though, I would wake up and realize I’d been holding onto blog posts about Really Interesting Rotation Decisions on the 11th-Seeded Team in the East or whatever for literally nine months, and I would go against my nature and just hit the eject button on a 25-deep window, and something amazing would happen: I wouldn’t get fired for being shitty at my job. I would move on with my day, and I would feel about 10 pounds lighter.

I still keep too much stuff open. (As we speak, I’ve got three different Chrome windows open on two different laptops. I choose not to count the total tabs.) But I do so knowing that, if it gets too heavy, I can experience the momentary joy of surrendering to the inevitability that I can’t catch everything. In that moment, I feel OK with my decay.

Reading writers I wasn’t familiar with before

Two in particular stand out in my mind: Nekias Duncan, now of BasketballNews.com, who does excellent film breakdowns and statistical analysis, and Katie Heindl, who writes basketball stuff of all types all over the place, and strings sentences together in a way that scratches an itch inside my brain. I’m grateful I got more chances to read them this year, I look forward to bigger and better things for both of them, and I’m hopeful that, if things calm down and our schedules go back to something approximating normalcy, I’ll have more bandwidth to hunt out more new voices in the year ahead.

The time I ambushed my wife as she was trying to break down and put away the girls’ space tent

Pretty good.

Siobhan learning to ride a bicycle (with training wheels, but still)

The moment passed pretty quickly; Not Exactly A Mechanic over here can’t get the training wheels to reliably work right without either loosening them too much or tightening them so much that she can’t pedal it. In that first moment, though, and for as long as it lasted, it was really great to see her get excited about doing something new, big kid shit, for the first time.

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She was proud. I was proud of her. And then we went to a playground for a few hours. Pretty good day.

Tyler Tynes roasting me

Tyler did some incredible work this year — The Cam Chronicles is getting deserved praise as one of 2020′s best podcasts, and his reporting on the Movement for Black Lives was exemplary. It’s hard to top this, though:

You know what the messed up part is? I was excited to tell him what I was doing, just because I knew the reaction would be so violent. Like a body rejecting a transplant. So lucky to have such a dear, dear friend.

PUP

I’m late on everything, so I didn’t start listening to PUP until the spring of 2019, but I haven’t really stopped since. This year has been too sedentary too often; this band is too kinetic to allow me to stay there.

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“Bloody Mary Kate and Ashley Kate” is never more than about 20 minutes away from returning to the front of my mind. I would fucking love for it to be safe enough to watch these guys live at some point, and I am absolutely going to take Steve up on his offer.

Someone sending me a shirt based on a joke I tweeted

First:

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Then:

I’m not sure you should be rewarding my behavior, SnoCoPrintShop, but I appreciate it all the same.

Which reminds me:

Family dinner/family movie night

My wife works in Manhattan and commutes back on the train, and we've tried to prioritize getting the girls to bed early since they were little, so that doesn’t leave much of a window between when she gets home and they go in the tub for us all to connect; before everything shut down, we almost never really ate together. We’re still not great about it, but for a while now we’ve carved out Saturday as family dinner night, where we sit down to eat and talk about our “up” from the day — something that happened that made us feel good or happy, or something we’re looking forward to. (We used to talk about our “down,” too, but that kind of seemed like overkill. Why try to focus on more bad shit right now, you know?)

Then we settle in for a movie, with who gets to pick rotating each week. It’s mostly been Pixar, which has been great but also has its drawbacks; after she caught me crying during one of them (maybe the Bing-Bong scene in Inside Out? or Miguel singing to Grandma Coco?), Siobhan straight up told me, “You need to get yourself together, man.” We just watched My Neighbor Totoro, too, which they loved, so we’re probably going to try some more Miyazaki soon. It’s a really simple thing, but it’s one we rarely made time for before, and it’s been really nice to manufacture something positive that we can share and look forward to together.

Sometimes looking like a shiftless drifter

No shade to anyone who felt strongly about getting a lineup or whatever, but I haven’t really felt like going to the barbershop was worth the risk, and I continue to refuse to believe that my wife can actually pull off the fade she’s long wanted to give me. (It is also possible that she just means she’s intending to run my fade, and that I will before long wind up cold-cocked and slumped by my bride of nine years.) So I’ve just kind of been growing out my hair like it was when I was single, and sometimes been letting my beard get kind of out of control too, and, well, I sort of like looking a little bit like a Wildling, it turns out.

I have since trimmed things up a little. It didn’t go over well with my youngest. Oh, well. I’ll try to do better next time.

My wife and daughter singing the Pixies

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We don’t know all the words to too many lullabies, so we sing the ones we do know the words to. This will probably come back to bite us in the years ahead. For now, though: Pretty good.

Doughboys’ Tournament of Chompions: Munch Madness: Mac Attack

I can’t believe how invested I became in Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell’s quest to determine the best menu item at McDonald’s in a 64-seed tournament that spawned hours and hours of delightfully funny audio featuring all-time home-run guests like Jon Gabrus and Nicole Byer, who gleefully feed into the often warm, sometimes antagonistic, always entertaining chemistry between the two hosts. I have also never found myself wanting to go to McDonald’s more in my entire life. I have hit the drive-thru a couple of times since, and the boys are right: The McDonald’s fountain Coke does just hit different.

Sound Only

I’ve lost track of whether or not a 38-year-old is considered a millennial, but I’m quite confident that I’m not exactly plugged into “the millennial lifestyle” as my teammates Justin Charity and Micah Peters discuss it on their podcast, which relaunched this summer. Doesn’t matter, though, because I love hearing Charity and Micah talk to each other even if I don’t know what they’re talking about.

Their conversation about Dave Chappelle was great. After listening to their Travis Scott episode, I felt like I kind of understood who he is and why he occupies the space he does in pop culture now. I had no idea how they were going to get me to give a shit about set photos from The Batman, but this they not only got me there, but wended their way toward blaming 50 Cent for needing to know who Groot is to have a conversation on the internet, which is something for which Abraham Lincoln did not die. The show is good, it's getting better, it’s fun to hear them talk their shit, and Charity’s regular bellowing of “I, TOO, AM AMERICA” has made me smile for four straight months.

Siobhan’s letters and notes

She’s in first grade now, and she’s taken to communicating her feelings through the written word. A lot.

I won’t pretend that I loved all of these in the moment. I can only get so upset, though, when she’s already writing with such a clear voice. (And trying to use proper punctuation. (And drawing little cartoons to drive the point home.)

Palm Springs

I’m having a hard time remembering too many specifics about it right now, which probably means it’d be a good thing to rewatch over the holidays. But, as I’m sure many people noted many months before we got around to watching it, a comedy about living the same day over and over again, and about trying to figure out how to make your life mean something when everything seems meaningless, scratched a pretty particular, and particularly important, itch this year. It could’ve been twice as long, and I would’ve eaten up every second of Andy Samberg and Cristin Miloti together.

I’m pretty sure I cried, although this year, that doesn’t necessarily mean much. Also, put Conner O’Malley in more things.

Joining our union’s bargaining committee

I won’t say too much about this, but I will say that becoming an active participant in the process of a labor union negotiating its first contract with management has been an extremely educational experience. It’s pushed me to have conversations, sometimes difficult ones, about our priorities as a staff and a company. It's helped me get closer with the other past and present members of the BC, and has led me to start developing relationships with members of our staff that I otherwise might not have had much of an opportunity to get to know.

The organizing work takes time, effort, and energy, but trying to do what I can to help take better care of my colleagues has been well worth all of that. Here’s hoping that in 2021 we can reach a deal that helps make our workplace even better, stronger, and more equitable for all of us.

Publishing a story about Stevie Nicks’ Fajita Roundup

I swear this is true: After I accepted my offer to work at The Ringer, but before I started, I told a friend that one thing I was excited about was that you had the chance to work on offbeat stuff here, in both the “kind of weird” and “not about the NBA” senses. That, I thought, might maybe open the door to me getting to write a story about a Saturday Night Live sketch I saw when I was a teenager about Stevie Nicks from Fleetwod Mac running a cheap Tex-Mex restaurant in Sedona, Arizona — a sketch that I wasn’t sure anyone else remembered, but that was stuck in my head forever.

That story ran on May 26.

A lot of people seemed to like it.

Accomplishing this goal was, as dumb as this might sound, a highlight of my year, and, honestly, a highlight of my career. I’d like to do some more stuff like this next year, time permitting; we’ll see. Whether or not I do, I got to do this. I’ll always have that.

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themeatlife · 4 years

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the Meat Life Stay-At-Home Watchlist

Chronicling what I have watched or rewatched through the pandemic so far

The world has changed around us the last few months, particularly in the United States since March 11. With the lack of events to hit up, like most Americans I’ve been catching up on some watching through the various streaming services and my own digital copies of movies and shows.

I didn’t really think of keeping up with what I have been watching until just recently, but here is what I can remember hitting up so far since I’ve spent the majority of the time at home. Some are favorites that I would have watched anyway. Some were unfinished until I got a chance to get back to them. And others just became available.

Here’s what I remember of the watchlist:

The Office (Netfilx) This is a favorite of me and the wife. We watch this on the regular though. My wife uses The Office as her lullaby of sorts, putting it on in the evening as she gets ready for bed and is in bed to fall asleep. I did a post on the 15th anniversary, so I won’t really deep-dive.

Gossip Girl (Netflix) Another one that my wife rotates with The Office as her lullaby. The series is not bad, it’s basically The OC in Manhattan (both are created and developed by Josh Schwartz). It also takes on a new perspective when you think about star Penn Badgley is the creep in You. So Dan Humphrey gets this weird creeper Joe Goldberg vibe at times.

Parks and Recreation (Netflix) I never got into Parks and Rec on its original run. I was encouraged to check it out by some coworkers since I liked The Office. It is a great show, very funny, and poignant in a way. It feels like a throwback to when people could disagree politically and still get along. There is a lot less of that nowadays. We might need more Parks and Rec in real life. I started this right before the pandemic and finished around the beginning of things getting locked down.

Frozen II (Disney+) The sequel debuted on Disney+ early on in the quarantine period. My family enjoyed it. I thought it was entertaining, but I felt like it was weighted down a bit by the mythology explaining. It seemed too busy explaining a lot of things. Still an enjoyable movie, but the first is better.

Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness (Netflix) Intriguing. The series debuted early in the quarantine period and became a staple of stay-at-home viewing and a runaway hit. Lots of WTF moments. It was like the train wreck analogy to the Nth degree. But you can tell it was made in a way that leans in favor of Joe Exotic, making him look like a victim in the last couple episodes. Also gave way to memorable memes ever since.

The Rocketeer (Disney+) I haven’t watched this movie since I was a kid. Looking back, you can see a lot of The Rocketeer in Captain America - The First Avenger. Easy to see though, since they share the same director Joe Johnston. Prior to America’s involvement in World War II, a movie star Nazi goes after an experimental rocket pack developed by Howard Hughes. The rocket pack is retrieved by accident from a down on luck stunt pilot. Fun movie.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Disney+) I should have watched the entire Skywalker saga leading up to it, but I figured I have a ton of time to do that later. This was a May the 4th watch. I haven’t watched the Skywalker saga finale since it was in theaters. It’s not a bad movie, I just feel it could have been a lot better with some modifications here and there. Also, I believe this was going to be the Leia movie. The Force Awakens was Han’s swan song, as was The Last Jedi for Luke. I feel like this would have been great for Leia but obviously they were limited due to the untimely death of Carrie Fisher. The scene where Ren/Ben speaks with Han after battling Rey would have hit harder with Leia instead of Han.

Trolls: World Tour (VOD) Cute kid movie. Was nice to hear a lot of familiar music. Sucks that rock was the villain in the first couple acts. Seeing it once was enough, though. Like the first Trolls, I am glad my kids enjoyed it but did not participate in excessive multiple viewings.

Onward (Disney+) Didn’t get a chance to catch this at the theater before they closed them down. Great movie, but gosh. Why does Pixar always pull at the heart strings like that? I was quietly crying to myself at the end. I’m glad we made our living room dark theater-style, otherwise my kids would have seen me all torn up.

Fast and Furious 5-7 (Fast Five - HBO, The Fast and the Furious 6/Furious 7 - Digital) I ended up not watching the entire series. There is a great trilogy within the series, 5-7 was that trilogy. Fast Five was the best of the FF franchise and where it perfected their movie formula. It was like an action Ocean’s Eleven with cars. 6 and 7 expanded on that formula, upping the humor and ridiculousness factor. 6 had the exits of the Han and Gisele characters (they found a way to tie in Tokyo Drift to the rest of the series, Gal Gadot was on her way to becoming Wonder Woman for DC). And 7 had that great ending with the tribute to Paul Walker to the sounds of Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth.

Toy Story 4 (Disney+) Another Pixar hit. Didn’t hit me quite as hard as Onward or Toy Story 3 did emotionally, thank goodness. I thought this story was over the way Toy Story 3 ended. But Pixar did a good job adapting to prolong these characters stories. It did feel like it was a bit of two and three combined looking back. Still very good, Pixar knows what it’s doing.

The Marvel Infinity Saga (Disney+/Netflix/Digital) Leading up to the one-year anniversary of the release of Avengers: Endgame, I went through and rewatched all 23 MCU movies. This time, I went in chronological story order by starting with Captain America - The First Avenger. I chronicled the order I watched in my last post. Even after viewing many of these movies multiple times, I’m still amazed at how much I enjoy them and the scope of what Marvel was able to achieve leading into the climax in Endgame.

Community (Netflix/Hulu) I loved Community on its initial run on NBC but never watched any of the episodes when it was on Yahoo for its sixth season. It has been great to rewatch the meta-humor and sitcom trope parodies. And since Ken Jeong and Joel McHale started their own podcast called The Darkest Timeline (half COVID-19, half Community pod), it has been a good companion viewing.

The Back to the Future Trilogy (Netflix) Recent add to Netflix for easy viewing, these movies have been a favorite of the Mitra boys since childhood. Upon viewing as an adult, there is some humor that I didn’t recognize as a kid that is hilarious to me now. It is also crazy how well this teen time-travel sci-fi comedy works. Some of the effects in Part 2 are dated and 2015 didn’t quite end up the way it did in the movies. But overall very enjoyable on the rewatch!

Extraction (Netflix) High budget action flick funded by Netflix? Written by the Russo Brothers? And staring Chris Hemsworth? I’m in! Directed by long-time stunt man and Russo Bros go-to stunt coordinator Sam Hargrave (you can tell the Russo influence). It has an awesome 15ish minute one-shot action/chase sequence that is top notch. Don’t think much about the plot or the controversy of cultural representation, just enjoy the action.

The Mighty Ducks Trilogy (HBO) Another childhood favorite of mine. Nevermind that the hockey itself isn’t accurate. This is about pure fun for an hour and a half at a time. Come for the hi-jinx, stay for the heart. Triple-deke, knuckle-puck, taking out the trash. And leave it out on the ice!

The Harry Potter Series (Blu-Ray/Digital) This was not a go-to for me until Linda made me watch the entire series. I guess when the first movie came out, it was too much of a kid movie for me (I was a high school senior at the time). But from the second movie onward, it felt like the storytelling and movie making got better and better. The Deathly Hallows was an epic ending, even if they did change the ending from the book. I didn’t watch the newer Fantastic Beasts movies along with this though, my wife did.

Westworld - Season 3 (HBO) Recently got HBO back, so I caught up on Westworld Season 3. I haven’t rewatched the previous seasons yet, but I may revisit it soon. Season 1 was spectacular, Season 2 was confusing as hell but still entertaining. Season 3 is somewhere in between, expanding on the ongoing storyline. It was more straight-forward because its storyline is in the “real-world.” For those of you that have watched, didn’t you think it was highly ironic that the Incite ball was basically the AT&T logo? (AT&T is the parent company for WarnerMedia and HBO)

The Last Dance (ESPN/ESPN+) The Michael Jordan docu-series has been a god-sent for sports fans devoid of live American sports for the past couple months. Is it Jordan-biased? Sure. But it is full of drama and intrigue and full of nostalgia. The NBA had commissioned a camera crew to follow the 1997-1998 Chicago Bulls on their run for their sixth NBA championship. Jordan owned the controlling rights to the footage and unlocked it after the 2016 NBA Finals. So this documentary was years in the making and with the pandemic the release date was moved up. Although it featured a lot of unseen footage, it also chronicled the years leading up to the 1998 Bulls title. The last 5 Sundays have been awesome.

The Princess Bride (Disney+) I haven’t watched this movie since I was a kid. It wasn’t one of my recurring watches back then. So this was actually my second viewing of this movie ever. I found it quite enjoyable. It was cheesy, but fun, and a good family watch. One of the many older titles available on Disney+.

Scoob (VOD) My kids had some of the older Scooby Doo episodes on DVD and watched them when they were younger. This was a fun revisit for them and for us as parents. It was actually cool seeing a lot of the Hanna-Barbera characters in one movie. We watched this shortly after finishing Community, and my kids recognized Ken Jeong’s voice as Dynomutt. My daughter hilariously shouted “Senor Chang!” when she recognized him.

The Indiana Jones Series (Netflix) I introduced my son to Indiana Jones a few months ago watching Raiders of the Lost Ark. He loved it. He lost a little bit of interest during the Temple of Doom, I think the character Short Round lost it for him (character hasn’t aged well). The Last Crusade reclaimed his interest. Harrison Ford was at his natural apex playing Indiana Jones. I did not watch the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I didn’t feel the need to revisit that installment, while it was enjoyable the alien ending ruined the lead up to it.

The Dark Knight Trilogy (Batman Begins/The Dark Knight - Hulu, The Dark Knight Rises - Digital) Every few years I try to revisit this series. It is the best thing DC has ever put out cinematically. While Begins and Rises is more comic book, TDK is a straight crime drama set in the world of Batman. My favorite is Rises, but the absolute best comic book movie remains The Dark Knight, even with the advent of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Jurassic Park/Jurassic World Series (Jurassic Park/The Lost World: Jurassic Park - Blu-Ray, Jurassic World - Digital, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - Cinemax) The original Jurassic Park is such a great movie. Rewatching, it’s crazy how well the effects for the dinosaurs hold up. Steven Spielberg, Stan Winston, and ILM did a great job mixing animatronic and CGI dino effects that stand the test of time. The Lost World was enjoyable but not as good as the original. I skipped JP III, such a bad movie. Jurassic World was a good way to reboot the series, basically a remake of the original but incorporating a lot of references to it. I just finished Fallen Kingdom today. Although Fallen Kingdom was entertaining, it fails to recapture some of the magic of JP and JW.

I’m not sure what I will hit up next. I might hit some Keanu Reeves movies like Speed, the Matrix Trilogy, and/or the John Wick Trilogy. Maybe Top Gun. Maybe rewatch Friends or How I Met Your Mother. Maybe something on HBO Max when it comes out like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Maybe Terminator. Possibilities are endless, at least until some American sports return.

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bthenoise · 5 years

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Here’s The Best of 2018 As Picked By Your Favorite Bands

Well everybody, we did it. In two short weeks, 2018 will be over and we will all have somehow survived yet another 365 days on this earth. Now instead of using this space to talk about how shitty of a year it has been (because trust us, we could certainly sound off right now) we’d instead like to use this opportunity to shine a light on some of the finest things to come out of 2018 -- you know, like best album, best song, best movie, etc.

Like we’ve done in years past, instead of pretending to be the hip tastemakers and trendy influences like other websites, we’ve completely turned our year-end best-of list over to the artists we cover on a daily basis -- because let’s face it, their opinions are the ones we really care about, right?

Right.

So to check out what bands like Memphis May Fire, Fit For A King, 3oh!3, As It Is, Sylar and more have all been obsessing over for this past year, be sure to see below. We hope you love the final list as much as we do and we wish you all the most relaxing and positive holiday season.

Enjoy!

Best Album of 2018:

Matty Mullins of Memphis May Fire: Dan + Shay - Dan + Shay Ryan Kirby of Fit For A King: RITUALS - Deaf Havana Nat Motte of 3oh!3: Chrome Neon Jesus - Teenage Wrist Ira George of Movements: Technology - Don Broco Cody Quistad of Wage War: Dan + Shay - Dan + Shay Jay Forrest and Josh Brigham of Hopesfall: Honey - Robyn Ben Langford-Biss of As It Is: Thank You for Today - Death Cab for Cutie Jayden Panesso of Sylar: Beerbongs and Bentleys - Post Malone Tyler Riley of Gideon: If I Know Me - Morgan Wallen Adrian Estrella of Assuming We Survive: Technology - Don Broco Palisades: Prequelle - Ghost Matt Gravolin of Hellions: Stranger in the Alps - Phoebe Bridgers Calling All Captains’ Nick Malychuk & Luc Gauthier: Proper Dose - The Story So Far Tyler Levenson of Afterlife: Welcome To The Neighbourhood - Boston Manor Camm Knopp of Never Loved: Time & Space - Turnstile + Proper Dose - The Story So Far (it’s a tie sorry) Patrick Hamilton of Vanish: Come Over When You’re Sober pt.2 - Lil Peep Vagrants: When The End Began - Silent Planet Household: Nearer my God - Foxing Daniel Nelson of LIMBS: Bad Witch by Nine Inch Nails is the best album of the year in my opinion. I am heavily into Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ work and I just love that they went for a totally different sound and vibe with Bad Witch compared to all the NIN records prior. They blend modern jazz with industrial, chaotic synthscapes and it’s absolutely wild.

Best Song of 2018:

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Matty Mullins of Memphis May Fire: "Better Now" by Post Malone Ryan Kirby of Fit For A King: “Hereafter” by Architects Nat Motte of 3oh!3: "Swallow" by Teenage Wrist Ira George of Movements: “4Ever” by Clairo Cody Quistad of Wage War: “Tequila” by Dan + Shay Jay Forrest and Josh Brigham of Hopesfall: “Middle America” by Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks Ben Langford-Biss of As It Is: “It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You)” by The 1975 Jayden Panesso of Sylar: “SAD!” by XXXTentaction Tyler Riley of Gideon: “Slow Burn” by Kacey Musgraves Adrian Estrella of Assuming We Survive: “Better Now” by Post Malone Palisades: “Mantra” by Bring Me The Horizon Matt Gravolin of Hellions: “Please Don’t Die” by Father John Misty Calling All Captains’ Nick Malychuk & Luc Gauthier: “Bodybag” by LIL LOTUS feat. Coldhart Tyler Levenson of Afterlife: “Mo Bamba” by Sheck Wes Camm Knopp of Never Loved: “High Hopes” by Panic! At The Disco (big mood) Patrick Hamilton of Vanish: “Lavender Bones” by Stand Atlantic Vagrants: “Doomsday” by Architects Household: “Keeping Up” by Microwave Daniel Nelson of LIMBS: “On My Teeth” by Underoath. I don’t care what anyone says, they wrote a phenomenal record and knew they would get flak for it. They deserve all the recognition they have been getting because they have been working hard since the beginning. It was so sick to see them get a Grammy nomination too. That was essentially a big middle finger to all of their nay-sayers, whether they win or not.

Best Music Video of 2018:

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Matty Mullins of Memphis May Fire: “This Is America” by Childish Gambino Ryan Kirby of Fit For A King: “Hereafter” by Architects Nat Motte of 3oh!3: "New Light" by John Mayer Ira George of Movements: “Say Something” by Justin Timberlake ft. Chris Stapleton Cody Quistad of Wage War: “Hereafter” by Architects Jay Forrest and Josh Brigham of Hopesfall: “Dark Speed” by Failure Ben Langford-Biss of As It Is: “Sincerity is Scary” by The 1975 Jayden Panesso of Sylar: “SICKO MODE” by Travis Scott Tyler Riley of Gideon: “Aeon” by Crystal Lake Adrian Estrella of Assuming We Survive: “This Is America” by Childish Gambino Palisades: “SICKO MODE” by Travis Scott Matt Gravolin of Hellions: “Sincerity is Scary” by The 1975 Calling All Captains’ Nick Malychuk & Luc Gauthier: “This Is America” by Childish Gambino Tyler Levenson of Afterlife: “SICKO MODE” by Travis Scott Camm Knopp of Never Loved: "New Light" by John Mayer Patrick Hamilton of Vanish: “God Is A Woman” by Ariana Grande Vagrants: “Rose Quartz/Fulton Street I” by La Dispute Household: “thank u, next” by Ariana Grande Daniel Nelson of LIMBS: Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” has gotta be THE best music video of this year. I have nothing but respect for Donald Glover and the way he presented controversial, political topics through all of the blunt, straight-forward imagery throughout that video. He’s never put out anything I haven’t enjoyed front to back.

Most Underrated Album of 2018:

Matty Mullins of Memphis May Fire: Are You Even There At All? - Brent Walsh Ryan Kirby of Fit For A King: Gray States EP - The Material Nat Motte of 3oh!3: Graffiti U - Keith Urban Ira George of Movements: Man of The Woods - Justin Timberlake Cody Quistad of Wage War: Seasons - Sylar Jay Forrest and Josh Brigham of Hopesfall: Holy Hell - Architects Ben Langford-Biss of As It Is: Be More Kind - Frank Turner Jayden Panesso of Sylar: Kids – The Midnight Tyler Riley of Gideon: Hatred Softly Spoken - Chamber Adrian Estrella of Assuming We Survive: In Our Wake - Atreyu Palisades: Come Hell - Dead Crown Matt Gravolin of Hellions: Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino - Arctic Monkeys Calling All Captains’ Nick Malychuk & Luc Gauthier: Blue In The Dark - Bearings Tyler Levenson of Afterlife: When The End Began - Silent Planet Camm Knopp of Never Loved: Some Rap Songs - Earl Sweatshirt Patrick Hamilton of Vanish: Taco - Bilmuri Vagrants: Palms - Thrice Household: Pierre - Pierre [ed note: We have no idea if it’s this or this. Guess you’ll have to decide!] Daniel Nelson of LIMBS: Vince Staples’ FM Radio is very underrated in my opinion. I haven’t seen much about it at all since it dropped and it’s a sick follow up to Big Fish Theory.

Best Movie of 2018:

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Matty Mullins of Memphis May Fire: Bohemian Rhapsody Ryan Kirby of Fit For A King: Upgrade Nat Motte of 3oh!3: Isle Of Dogs Ira George of Movements: Annihilation Cody Quistad of Wage War: Incredibles 2 Jay Forrest and Josh Brigham of Hopesfall: Avengers: Infinity Wars Ben Langford-Biss of As It Is: A Star Is Born Jayden Panesso of Sylar: Avengers: Infinity War Tyler Riley of Gideon: Ready Player One Adrian Estrella of Assuming We Survive: Bohemian Rhapsody Palisades: BlacKkKlansman Matt Gravolin of Hellions: Hereditary Calling All Captains’ Nick Malychuk & Luc Gauthier: Avengers: Infinity War Tyler Levenson of Afterlife: Avengers: Infinity War Camm Knopp of Never Loved: Deadpool 2 Patrick Hamilton of Vanish: The Ritual Vagrants: Avengers: Infinity War Household: BlacKkKlansman Daniel Nelson of LIMBS: Hereditary, hands down. Best story, best character development, best everything. Acting, special effects. EVERYTHING. I don’t wanna give away too much because I want whoever is reading this to watch it for themselves.

Most Binge-Worthy Show of 2018:

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Matty Mullins of Memphis May Fire: Riverdale Ryan Kirby of Fit For A King: Ozark Nat Motte of 3oh!3: Bodyguard Ira George of Movements: The Final Table Cody Quistad of Wage War: Nashville Jay Forrest and Josh Brigham of Hopesfall: Haunting of Hill House Ben Langford-Biss of As It Is: The Innocent Man Jayden Panesso of Sylar: Ozark (Season 2), My Hero Academia Tyler Riley of Gideon: Brooklyn Nine-Nine Adrian Estrella of Assuming We Survive: Vikings Palisades: Haunting of Hill House Matt Gravolin of Hellions: Ozark (Season 2) Calling All Captains’ Nick Malychuk & Luc Gauthier: Brooklyn Nine-Nine Tyler Levenson of Afterlife: Bodyguard Camm Knopp of Never Loved: The Office... duh Patrick Hamilton of Vanish: Haunting of Hill House Vagrants: The Office Household: Better Call Saul Daniel Nelson of LIMBS: If you haven’t seen Wild, Wild Country on Netflix yet, you need to. My girlfriend and I binged through that show with a quickness. What a crazy time it would have been to be alive and living in Wasco County, Oregon when all of that was going down.

Favorite Internet Moment of 2018 (Viral Video, GIF, Meme, etc.):

Matty Mullins of Memphis May Fire: Super Bowl selfie kid Ryan Kirby of Fit For A King: Thanos memes Nat Motte of 3oh!3: This Post Malone / 21 Savage / Nickelback mashup video Ira George of Movements: The Real Bros Of Simi Valley Cody Quistad of Wage War: Moth memes got me pretty good for a while. Jay Forrest and Josh Brigham of Hopesfall: This. Ben Langford-Biss of As It Is: The rise and fall of Mason Ramsey Jayden Panesso of Sylar: “Weird flex, but okay” Tyler Riley of Gideon: Mason Ramsey Adrian Estrella of Assuming We Survive: Don Broco Warped Tour workout video Palisades: Pikachu shocked face Matt Gravolin of Hellions: “Weird flex, but okay” Calling All Captains’ Nick Malychuk & Luc Gauthier: Squished face Lil Xan/moth memes Tyler Levenson of Afterlife: Any and all Casey Frey videos Camm Knopp of Never Loved: Spongebob memes are great Patrick Hamilton of Vanish: The bird Spongebob meme Vagrants: Surprised Pikachu Daniel Nelson of LIMBS: I try not to get too caught up with all of that but the moth memes were pretty great.

Thing(s) You Wish You Had Done in 2018 But Didn't:

Matty Mullins of Memphis May Fire: Exercise lol Ryan Kirby of Fit For A King: Go to the gym more. Nat Motte of 3oh!3: Feeling pretty good about 2018, honestly. I voted and did my civic duty, paid my taxes, toured the country twice, worked hard, treated the people close to me with love and respect and tried to do that with everyone I came across! Ira George of Movements: Eat healthier Cody Quistad of Wage War: Made a million dollars. Jay Forrest and Josh Brigham of Hopesfall: Watch our favorite teams win the Super Bowl. A collectively impossible feat. Ben Langford-Biss of As It Is: Have more rest. Jayden Panesso of Sylar: Wish I stuck to my workout plan like I originally intended to. Tyler Riley of Gideon: Go to Brazil Adrian Estrella of Assuming We Survive: Worked out more, learned how to play the clarinet. Palisades: Cook at home more. Matt Gravolin of Hellions: Procrastinated less Calling All Captains’ Nick Malychuk & Luc Gauthier: Tour the United States of America Tyler Levenson of Afterlife: I have no regrets! 2018 was an incredible year for me. Camm Knopp of Never Loved: Tour more. Vagrants: Travel outside of the USA Household: Hang out with friends and family more Daniel Nelson of LIMBS: Tour with Deftones. Hopefully Chino will read this and maybe consider taking LIMBS out next year?

Bonus Question: 2019 New Year's Resolution:

Matty Mullins of Memphis May Fire: Perform in New Zealand Ryan Kirby of Fit For A King: Play in South America! Nat Motte of 3oh!3: To yet again, not make any resolutions! Ira George of Movements: Eat healthier Cody Quistad of Wage War: Be more healthy: physically and mentally. Write the best songs I’ve ever written. Jay Forrest and Josh Brigham of Hopesfall: Be hardcore. Ben Langford-Biss of As It Is: Have even less rest. Jayden Panesso of Sylar: Play in new continents with Sylar, learn more about engineering music on my own. Tyler Riley of Gideon: Put out our best album yet Adrian Estrella of Assuming We Survive: Workout more, give back to the community and better myself Palisades: Make more music for 2019 Matt Gravolin of Hellions: Procrastinated less Calling All Captains’ Nick Malychuk & Luc Gauthier: Play 150 Shows Tyler Levenson of Afterlife: Travel to more of the world, see everything I possibly can. Camm Knopp of Never Loved: Bust more butt get more bread Vagrants: TOUR outside of the USA Household: Write music and hang out with friends and family ;) Daniel Nelson of LIMBS: To release a record of my own. I have been heavily into synths and music recording and production in general. I’m gonna try to delve more into that world next year and hopefully have something to show for it.

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mexicaneurolover · 5 years

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Eurovision 1994 my top 25

Hello, and welcome to another episode of this ESC series of tops, and I go back to April 30, 1994 when the 39th edition of the contest was held in Dublin, Ireland after Niamh Kavanagh’s victory in Millstreet last year, and it was the second year in a row that the contest was held in Ireland. 25 countries took part, while Belgium, Denmark, Israel, Italy, Slovenia, Turkey and Luxembourg withdrew, the latter hasn’t returned since, Estonia, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Lithuania, Poland and Russia debuted in this contest. The winner was, again, Ireland with Paul Harrington & Charlie McGettigan and the song Rock n’ Roll Kids, making this their 6th victory, a record at the time and the third time in a row Ireland won the contest. And now, let’s review the songs. I want to say that the RTE Orchestra here is wonderful and I’m crazy for the drums.

1st Place: GERMANY/MeKaDo-Wir geben ‘ne party (Real Placing: 3rd-128 points)

Legend says that if you find a live version of this, you can make a wish. Jokes aside, THIS IS EXCELLENT, this is catchy, funny and the music is so modern for the time, I like the performance and they are so nice together, I’m in love with this song and yeah, this is my personal winner and IMO this deserved, along with Poland and Hungary, the victory.

2nd Place: POLAND/Edyta Górniak-To nie já! (Real Placing: 2nd-166 points)

Oh this song is amazing as well, Edyta’s voice is so out of this world and the music is pretty, the chorus is so powerful and the verses are calm and soothing, just a perfect balance. What a debut from Poland and it’s still their best result, you can do it Poland!!

3rd Place: HUNGARY/Friderika Bayer-Kinek mondjam el vétkeimet? (Real Placing: 4th-122 points)

This song is so calm and beautiful, her voice is perfect and the music is so well done. This is one of my favorite songs from the 90′s and this is the perfect debut for Hungary, I’m in love with this song.

4th Place: IRELAND/Paul Harrington & Charlie McGettigan-Rock n’ Roll kids (Real Placing: 1st-226 points)

Our winning song of the night, at first I disliked this so much, but then I started to appreciate it’s beauty, the music is very cute, they are good singers and the lyrics are so good. I don’t think this is a winner but is such a cute song.

5th Place: ESTONIA/Silvi Vrait-Nagu merelaine (Real Placing: 24th-2 points)

Ok so why this song finished second last? I LOVE THIS ONE, the music is stunning and her voice is such a delight to hear, the chorus is very effective and it’s one of my favorite Estonian entries ever.

6th Place: FINLAND/CatCat-Bye bye baby (Real Placing: 22nd-11 points)

ONE OF FINLAND’S MOST UNDERRATED SONGS, this sounds so 90′s and it’s modern and fresh, they sing nice and the music is pretty strong, but maybe the orchestra kinda ruined it a bit, because the studio version is miles better, anyway, I love this song so much.

7th Place: CYPRUS/Evridiki-Ime anthropos ki ego (Real Placing: 11th-51 points)

Oh Evrikidi I love you, this song is so powerful and dramatic but this works so well for me, her voice is as good as in 1992 and the music is very nice, I love the bridge after the chorus and her performance is so amazing.

8th Place: UNITED KINGDOM/Francis Ruffelle-We will be free (Lonely symphony) (Real Placing: 10th-63 points)

This is such a song for 1994, modern, cute and the intro is stunning, everything here works well and her voice is amazing, the chorus is memorable and there’s a musical bridge at the end that is very exciting and wonderful. What a song!

9th Place: NORWAY/Elisabeth Andreassen & Jan Werner Danielsen-Duett (Real Placing: 6th-76 points)

ELISABETH <3 This song is pretty, the music is so good and their voices match so well together, the verses are nice and the chorus is wonderful. A nice entry from Norway, and one of the best ballads of that year.

10th Place: RUSSIA/Youddiph-Vechny strannik (Real Placing: 9th-70 points)

This entry as well is beautiful, the music changes on this one are so effective, the verses are very sweet and the chorus is powerful. Also her voice is stunning and the dress is weird but effective. A nice debut for one of the powerhouses of the contest.

11th Place: ROMANIA/Dan Bittman-Dincolo de nori (Real Placing: 21st-14 points)

This entry makes me cry so much, his voice is on point and it’s perfect, the music is so touching and cute. I don’t speak Romanian but this makes me shiver. An amazing debut from Romania, shame on the juries that night.

12th Place: PORTUGAL/Sara Tavares-Chamar a música (Real Placing: 8th-73 points)

Oh what a wonderful song, the music is beautiful and her voice is so pretty, also what a power does she has in the chorus, sweet but strong. The lyrics are also beautiful. Again Portugal giving us a great song.

13th Place: ICELAND/Sigga-Nætur (Real Placing: 12th-49 points)

What a nice song from Iceland, the vibe in this one is pretty and what a voice does she has, the chorus is the best part on this and yeah, I like this entry so much.

14th Place: SWEDEN/Roger Pontare & Marie Bergman-Stjärnorna (Real Placing: 13th-48 points)

Again a pretty ballad with two wonderful singers, I’m in love with Roger’s voice and Marie is such an elegant lady on stage, their voices are amazing together and the music is very charming, a nice entry from Sweden.

15th Place: CROATIA/Tony Cetinsky-Nek’ ti bude ljubav sva (Real Placing: 16th-27 points)

Awww this song is pretty, his voice is stunning and the music is very good, also he’s very handsome. I love the chorus so much and he delivers all his voice there.

16th Place: MALTA/Chris & Moira-More than love (Real Placing: 5th-96 points)

Again a nice melody with nice singers, I’m crazy for the music and the feeling on this songs, but maybe this song had so much to offer and didn’t do it. Maybe it was too much for a top 5 but I still like it.

17th Place: AUSTRIA/Petra Fey-Für den Frieden die Welt (Real Placing: 17th-19 points)

The music here is so good but I’m not so fond of her voice, and I like the chorus so much in this one. A nice average song from Austria that I think it has potential but failed to deliver it.

18th Place: BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA/Alma & Dejan-Ostani kraj mene (Real Placing: 15th-39 points)

This is such an amazing song, both are amazing singers and the music is so lovely, the cheering at the start is overwhelming and it makes me feel happy for them, a nice song from B&H and I feel bad because of putting this so low.

19th Place: SWITZERLAND/Duilio-Sto pregando (Real Placing: =19th-15 points)

Another ballad with a nice singer and a cute melody, but, as my problem with many of the songs that year, it’s forgettable, even I must admit that the chorus is the best part of it.

20th Place: SLOVAKIA/Tublatanka-Nekonečná pieseň (Real Placing: =19th-15 points)

The beginning is very nice and I love the verses, but my problem here is the chorus. kinda falls flat and it’s so contrasting to the verses, but still, I find this a nice debut.

21st Place: THE NETHERLANDS/Willeke Alberti-Waar is de zon (Real Placing: 23rd-4 points)

This ballad is so nice, but in a contest full of ballads, this fails to impress me, even I find the music lovely, it’s kinda boring, her voice is pretty though.

22nd Place: GREECE/Kostas Bigalis & The Sea Lovers-To trehandiri (Real Placing: 14th-44 points)

This intro is wonderful but the song turns to be repetitive and boring for me, although the music is so nice and tropical, but still, the song isn’t nice for me because of the chorus.

23rd Place: LITHUANIA/Ovidijus Vyšniauskas-Lopšinė mylimai (Real Placing: 25th-0 points/last)

A song that is nice but unfortunately isn’t memorable and it’s kinda boring, his voice is okay but overall this song isn’t good enough for me to place it higher, also, this didn’t deserve nul points.

24th Place: SPAIN/Alejandro Abad-Ella no es ella (Real Placing: 18th-17 points)

Oh another song I can’t stand this song as well, the lyrics aren’t so good and his voice is not for me, the music is kinda alright but still this song isn’t great.

25th Place: FRANCE/Nina Morato-Je suis un vrai garçon (Real Placing: 7th-74 points)

I hate this song so much, and it’s weird that I hate a song, this entry annoys me so much and her singing isn’t pleasant for me and the music makes me feel angry for some reason, the lyrics are amazing but the song...

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kickdownthewalls · 6 years

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Top 20 Non-Metal Albums of 2017

So, while my passion has long been heavy metal, there is so much other great music out there I felt it was worth my time to compile a list of the best of the rest. These twenty albums represent quite a number of genres, but they all share the quality of being awesome…

1. BLACK SEAGULL - Distant Lullabies

After the heart-breaking demise of one of my favorite band of the last two decades, On Trial, I was overjoyed to hear that a couple of ex-members had formed a new band called Black Seagull. While the sound is a bit more mellow and countrified, the songwriting quality is still top-notch and it sounds very much like a logical continuation of the Forever album.

2. ANVIL STRYKEZ - Anvil Strykez

My first impression was this would be a half-assed synthwave late-comer, based on the name, song titles, and album art, but damn if this isn’t one of the most thoroughly engaging albums all around. Vocoded vocals, pure 80s synth and drum machines, well-placed guitars, and a completely memorable and different approach for each tune add up to one hell of a spin.

3. DEPECHE MODE - Spirit

The past few Mode records have been consistently good, if not quite as memorable as Playing the Angel or any of the classics. Spirit is a different beast and my favorite album of theirs since Songs of Faith and Devotion way back in in ’93. The songs “Going Backwards” and “Where’s the Revolution” rank right up there with anything they have penned and the lyrics throughout the album are the perfect reflection of our current state of devolved world affairs.

4. POPPY - poppy.computer

It’s happening again. Some things are weird. Let’s appreciate together. Am I doing this right? Someone sent me this. Can you see it? These are cotton swabs. Poppy loves politics. You are Poppy. I’m Poppy. Everybody wants to be Poppy, Poppy.

5. SNIFF 'N' THE TEARS - Random Elements

One of those groups that, save for one big top-40 hit back in 1979, has flown under the radar but consistently released top-notch albums over the years. Paul Roberts is the singer/songwriter that has helmed the group since the start (and even paints all the album covers) and he still sounds as unique as ever. He writes songs that have a certain melancholy to them that has always struck a chord with me and Random Elements is full of them.

6. DANCE WITH THE DEAD - B-Sides: Volume 1

While synthwave acts like GosT and Carpenter Brut have made a considerable number of fans among metalheads, Dance With the Dead goes the furthest in actually combining the styles. Retro synth lines are still the dominant feature but the chugging, thrashy riffs are nearly as omnipresent and the band add some very well-placed (and well-played) guitar solos on many tracks. This is their latest and they have only gone from strength to strength.

7. THE HAXANS - Party Monsters

This is the kind of thing I would usually roll my eyes at and dismiss straight away but this duo has put together a collection of songs that are so infectious, I can’t stop listening to it. It is the perfect mix of death punk, pop, and Rob Zombie-eque horror metal. Vocalist Ashley Costello is a real gem, too, delivering the campy lyrics with the perfect mix of sensuality and power.

8. KMFDM - Hell Yeah

These die-hard industrial rockers have been releasing slight variations on the same album for the past 25 years or so but, hey, it’s a fucking great album. Hell Yeah isn’t quite up there with WTF?! or WWIII but it’s better than the last couple and their revolutionary calls to action have never been timelier.

9. THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA - Amber Galactic

When it comes to paying tribute to classic AOR from the 70s and 80s, no one does it better and with more enthusiasm than The Night Flight Orchestra. Amber Galactic is not as consistently brilliant as the first two albums but it is still great and the song “Domino” is an instant classic.

10. SIINAI - Sykli

This is Finnish ambient space trance. Repetitive, hypnotic electronics, looping guitars - it’s the perfect soundtrack for some meditation or that long, slow flight into the night. I’m always looking for chill stuff like this that works and, damn, this is executed with utmost perfection.

11. CHEAP TRICK - We're All Alright!

While Cheap Trick made some pretty mediocre records in the 80s and 90s, their 70s albums all stand up as classics and they have done some good work in recent years, too, most notably 2009’s The Latest. We’re All Alright! might be even better and the first half in particular is loaded with some well-crafted and hard rocking tunes.

12. CURSED MOON - Rite of Darkness

This album positively reeks of early-80s death rock in all the best ways. You’ve got driving basslines, reverby guitars, and gloomy synths, with the added bonus of gruff vocals that are more in the vein of early black or death metal. Not a ton of variety from song to song but it’s a highly enjoyable sound that works for a full album.

13. THE MOON AND THE NIGHT SPIRIT - Metanoia

This is a cool Hungarian duo that has been around for a good 15 years now. They make a very enchanting brand of folky darkwave with dreamy melodies and ethereal vocals. This is the first time I have had a chance to hear them since I fell in love with their 2011 album Mohalepte a few years back and I’m pleased to report they haven’t lost any of their charms.

14. LEGEND - Midnight Champion

Duo from Iceland that manages to capture the vibe and quality of classic industrial-rock and infuse it with modern and rather epic touches. The songs don’t just kick in and race to a catchy chorus; you have to be patient. The payoff is always worth it, though, and each songs follows its own dramatic course.

15. ADRENALINE RUSH - Soul Survivor

The debut from these Swedish hard rockers back in 2014 was a captivating collection of tunes that lived up to the band’s name. Soul Survivor is not quite as consistently good but it still has some damn fine tracks. The sound is big, melodic and surprisingly metal at times, with Tave Wanning’s vocals adding a great deal of charm, passion, and distinctiveness to the proceedings.

16. JESUS AND MARY CHAIN - Damage and Joy

I’ll admit I never paid much attention to these Scotts until the Automatic album came out and blew me away. Sadly, they seem to have slowly disintegrated after that, but after a lengthy break, they managed to return with one hell of a comeback record. Damage and Joy has some of the feedback from the early years, some of the electronics of the later years, and all of the sardonic humor and Velvet Underground chord progressions you would hope for.

17. BLONDIE - Pollinator

Blondie has had some good tunes since their reunion in 1999 but this is the first album where nearly every track is a winner. The three most important contributors to the band’s sound - Debbie Harry, guitarist Chris Stein, and drummer Clem Burke - are all still intact and in great form.

18. BLACK MARE - Death Magick Mother

This is the solo project from Sera Timms, the lead vocalist of Ides of Gemini. Here she takes a far more traditional gothic tone with the music, while her vocals take on an even more ethereal feel than in Ides. No individual song really stands out but it all works together beautifully as a complete album.

19. RAINBOWLICKER - I Saw The Light But Turned It Off

My first listen to this Finnish outfit was truly one of those WTF moments. Elements of punk, electro, chiptune, industrial and goth all merge together with some suitably peculiar, snotty vocals to make a fresh sound that is at once annoying and endearing.

20. TARJA - From Spirits and Ghosts (Score for a Dark Christmas)

Christmas albums have a tendency to be either too campy or too cliched for their own good. Tarja instead presents a collection of traditional (and one original) tunes done up in a suitably dramatic and darkly original fashion. While her solo rock albums have left me rather flat, I love her voice and the orchestral pairing is simply gorgeous. No one sounds like Tarja, no matter how hard they try.

Some more bands with great releases in 2017 to check out if you are curious: AGUSA, BARDSPEC, CAMERATA MEDIOLANENS, DAN TERMINUS, FLAMES OF GENESIS, GALLEY BEGGAR, IIVII, KESHA, L.A. WITCH, LIVING COLOUR, PERTURBATOR, ROPE SECT, SOROR DOLOROSA, and UFFE LORENZEN.

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midnightiscoming-kasabian · 7 years

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Interview: Listen to Kasabian's sixth album 'For Crying Out Loud,' Serge Pizzorno tells us why

Every album bar one, of Leicester band Kasabian has reached Number One on the UK album charts. In 2014, they also won Best Album and Best Band at NME’s 2014 awards, and that summer proved themselves worthy Glastonbury headliners. Their sixth album, released earlier this year, knocked Ed Sheeran off his perch and has been deemed their best yet, so why aren’t they bigger here?

Could it be their creepy moniker with its associations to a member of the Manson gang? Perhaps it’s the fact that each album tries to shape-shift from the one before, making it hard to peg them? Or is it because British lad and larger swagger; the cornerstone of their music, doesn't always translate out of the pub and across the pond?

Maybe it’s as simple as we just haven’t heard the songs? In 2014 they did a nominal 9-city tour and the album 48:13 hadn’t been released when they were on the road here. Prior to that, they had been absent for five years*. Their then record label's reluctance meant that albums from that period – Velociraptor and West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum weren’t even released in America. And the band are hardly heard on radio.

But if ever there was a time to give Kasabian a try, For Crying Out Loud, their latest, serves as an excellent entry into their oeuvre. It includes electro-banger, "Ill Ray;" the feel good vibes and modern psychedelia of "You're In Love With a Psycho;" "Good Fight" a perfectly structured pop song where they discuss feelings (very unusual for lad rock); and even a love song "Put Your Life On It."

The album was written in six weeks. A self-imposed deadline by songwriter, co-vocalist and guitarist Serge Pizzorno, in an effort to do things radically different from 48:13; which delivered the thumping and addictive "eez-eh" but took a year and was laden with experimental interludes, electronic loops and bleeps.

For Crying Out Loud is largely guitar-based, with an electro-indie sound that marked their first ascent in 2004 with the likes of other guitar bands such as Arctic Monkeys and The Libertines. Songs were written mostly on Pizzorno’s Rickenbacker before it was taken to the rest of the band which includes Tom Meighan, Chris Edwards, Ian Matthews and Tim Carter.

We speak to Pizzorno ahead of their Bay Area show this Sunday, Sept. 24 at the Regency Ballroom, to find out about why he thinks we should check out their latest album. And after 20 years why he doesn’t care if detractors don’t appreciate his lyrical skills.

AXS: You set a task for yourself to write an album in six weeks – within that what other guidelines were there – like, you must talk about feelings? Or that you should try and take the Berry Gordy Motown approach?

Serge Pizzorno: Yes, I was really strict because at the time, I was really into pop structure. The art form of songwriting, of writing a truly great song. Experimentation has always been my go to: messing about with form and changing things up. This album was the opposite: nothing could be longer than three and a half minutes, I could only use the guitar to write and it had to be written quickly. It was just to see what that would feel like. It happened really quickly, then we recorded it and put it out.

AXS: One of the other guidelines, I read was writing in 9 to 5 shifts rather than late at night? Was that out of necessity cause you have kids or was it to see what kind of a different color you might get?

SP: Exactly that. I found it really productive though because it made me appreciate my time in the studio. I tended to get loads done and the next day I couldn't wait to get back in. I was shocked because in my head I was adamant, "like I can write what I want, when I want." Obviously, when I set out to do this I didn't know that it would work. I am very reactionary so if you ask me now, how I will write the next one, I'll probably say I'm going back to Jamaica for a holiday and to the spend some time there writing. You know for that complete change of scenery again and see what gets written.

AXS: You’ve said For Crying Out Loud is the best record you’ve ever made – why? Don’t bands say that after every new record? Critics have said their fair share but in your opinion, what sets this one apart?

SP: I didn't say that. Tom said it.

AXS: Oh that Tom!

SP: Yes exactly. (laughs) I wouldn't have called it our best record. I don't like to think like that. It does have a sort of Punk, street-disco theme. Seventies are a big influence but here, it's been put through modern filters.

AXS: Last time, you came to America for a very short tour. Before that you hadn’t been here for 5 years*, do you still feel America is worth another shot?

SP: We love touring and we love America so we will always tour here. But we're not 18 anymore, and not able to just jump in a van and play live shows for six months. It just doesn't suit my personality. Being on the road is for adventure, gathering information and allowing yourself to be influenced by what you see. Then you take it home and make stuff out of it. I need to create and I can't do that if we're constantly on the road. My time's better spent elsewhere. But like our gig last night in New York, it was insane and we all looked at each other and said: "I wonder, what's happened?" I mean if the gig is crap, you can understand but it wasn't. It was really good. I'm scared now, all the other gigs have a high bar to reach.

AXS: Why should Americans listen to “For Crying Out Loud,” apart from the fact that we might get a history lesson with “Ill Ray” (the video is based on the finding of King Richard III's bones in a Leicester parking lot)?

SP: (laughs) That's right. It's pure feel good music; there's not many albums like that being made at the moment. It's pretty hard to write. I think it's very easy for artist to fall back on pain and write music from there. It's such a mad time all around the world, For Crying Out Loud is positive, makes you want to dance, or go out and do something by the end of it. I don't know... I would never go too deep in trying to sell an album to anyone, I believe everyone should listen to whoever they want; do whatever you want. But if you want a record that is uplifting and has an amazing energy, this is it!

AXS: Speaking of that track – the video is very interesting, could you tell us about the idea behind it?

SP: I received a load of treatments and they were all terrible. I was on holiday, and I thought: "I best come up with an idea." So in the cab ride with my kids from the hotel to the airport, I wrote the treatment; scene by scene, on my phone. Then I have a friend who's a director (Dan Cardan), and it just so happens, his girlfriend is Lena Headey (Queen Cersei from Game of Thrones); obviously writing a queen in there, I don't think that could be any better queen in the world right at this moment. And that carpark where King Richard III's bones was exhumed, it's such an iconic scene from my hometown.

AXS: Crazy food references, the UK press seem to give you a hard time with “I’m like the taste of macaroni on a seafood stick.” There’s a kookiness to it that matches the mood in “You’re In Love With A Psycho” but perhaps it isn’t as elegant as an Alex Turner turn-of-phrase. But why do you do it? Just for a laugh, to goad those critics? Or it just makes sense to you?

SP: Everything is done to piss people off, let's face it. (Laughs) But that line made me laugh, first and foremost, there is always humor behind our songs. And secondly, there's always people that would just get the joke, those with that surrealist humor; it's too tempting not to write lyrics like that. It's a booby trap: if you don't get it, it's like "see you mate." They're my favorite lines in every song. What's annoying is that critics tend to just concentrate on that and miss all the other nuggets of beauty like quoting Charles Bukowski in a pop song. It's something to be celebrated but they won't mention that because it doesn't fit in with the narrative they have written about you: "Now, we perceive you as hooligans so you can't be possibly clever." Well, there's more to it than that.

AXS: One of my favorite songs on the album is “Good Fight” it has an almost doo-wop feel and is so uplifting – can you tell us a little bit about your inspiration for the song?

SP: Just came from a loop, the beat of an old Motown flow. I was also thinking about Nirvana Unplugged and the chorus from "Spiders From Mars." And the song wrote itself really.

Kasabian Tour

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Spotify Playlist

We have a Spotify playlist of all the songs used at Mass from 2013 to present day, plus some songs used before 2013! Here is the link:

https://open.spotify.com/user/eoin.walsh/playlist/2ojJGlLsy5GkRgRbc14nn7

And if you don’t have Spotify but want to know the songs used in the past, the list is under the cut:

Hopkins Court Mass Playlist

Fall Semester 2017

Opening Songs:

· OK by Robin Shulz feat. James Blunt

· Supercut by Lorde

· Feel it Still by Portugal the Man

· I (clean version) by Kendrick Lamar

· Fire on the Mountain Grateful Dead

· Hey Hey What Can I Do by Led Zeppelin

· Earth Blues by Jimi Hendrix

· Belief by John Mayer

· All on Me by Devin Dawson

· Where is the Love? by The Black Eyed Peas

· Something Beautiful by NeedToBreathe

· One Call Away by Charlie Puth

· Strong Enough by Matthew West

· Stargazing by Kygo

· Waiting on the World to Change by John Mayer

· Changes (clean version) by 2Pac

· Ain’t no Mountain High Enough by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

· Best of You by Foo Fighters

· Sail by AWOLNATION

· No Easy Way Out by Robert Tepper

For Homily Songs:

· Falls by Odesza

Instrumental Songs:

· Oceans Cover by Mezzo Piano

· Comancheria by Nick Cave

· You and Me by Dave Matthews cover by Vitamin String Quartet

· Story of My Life by One Direction cover by The Piano Guys

· Forrest Gump Main Theme from Forrest Gump Soundtrack

· House of Cards Theme by Jeff Beal

Communion Songs:

· Oceans by Hillsong United

· American Teen by Khalid

· Tangerine by Led Zeppelin

· Gravity by John Mayer

· One Day by Zac Brown Band

· When I Get Where I’m Going by Brad Paisley

· The Night We Met by Lord Huron

Closing Songs:

· Whole Heart by Brandon Heath

· Glorious by Macklemore

· Soul Kitchen by The Doors

· Burning in My Soul by Matt Maher

· King is Born by Aloe Blacc

· Brother by NeedToBreathe

· The Man by The Killers

2017 Spring Semester

Opening Songs:

· In My Head by Galantis

· Lionhearted by Porter Robinson

· Don’t Look Back in Anger by Oasis

· T-Shirt Weather by Circa Waves

· Youth by Glass Animals

· Oceans Away by Arizona

· Just Hold On by Steve Aoki

· What Do You Love by Seeb

· Brand New Buzz by Big & Rich

· All the Pretty Girls by Kenny Chesney

· Ain’t Nothing Bout You by Brooks & Dunn

· Zombie by The Cranberries

· Somebody by Young Rising Sons

· Drop the Game by Flume and Chet Faker

· Erase Me by Kid Cudi and Kanye West

· One Love by Bob Marley

· Where is the Love? by the Black Eyed Peas

· Daylight by Maroon 5

· Good Grief by Bastille

· Kids by OneRepublic

· Shooting Stars by Bag Raiders

· Come on Eileen by Dexy’s Midnight Runners

· Live Like We’re Dying by Kris Allen

· Count on Me by Bruno Mars

· Broken Arrows by Avicii and Zac Brown Band

· It Comes Back to You by Imagine Dragons

· Kings of Summer (feat. Quinn XCII) by Ayokay

· A Sky Full of Stars by Coldplay

· I Want You Back by Jackson 5

· Stay by Zedd and Alessia Cara

· Sooner or Later by Aaron Carter

· Catch My Vibe by Academy

· Seve (Radio Edit) by Tez Cadey

· High on Life by Rebelution

· When You Were Young by The Killers

· Can’t Keep Johnny Down by They Might Be Giants

· Walking on a Dream by Empire of the Sun

· Carry on Wayward Son by Kansas

· Fast Car by Jonas Blue feat. Dakota

· Overload (The Chainsmokers Remix) by Life of Dillon

· The Middle by Jimmy Eat World

· Jumpin Jack Flash by The Rolling Stones

· Street Fighting Man by The Rolling Stones

· Valleys of Neptune by Jimi Hendrix

For Homily Songs:

· Castle on the Hill by Ed Sheeran

· Lazarus by David Bowie

· Million Reasons by Lady Gaga

· Believer by Imagine Dragons

· Pink + White by Frank Ocean

· Symphony by Zara Larsson

· Something Just Like This by The Chainsmokers and Coldplay

· We Didn’t Start the Fire by Billy Joel

Instrumental Songs:

· Vitamin String Quartet cover of Tuesday’s Gone by Lynyrd Skynyrd

· When the Wind Blows Instrumental Version by David Bowie

· Billy’s Theme from The Departed Soundtrack

· Honor by Hans Zimmer

· What a Wonderful World by Richard Clayderman

· I’ll be There by Jake Shimabukuro

· Come to the Water by Instrumental Christian Songs

· Dearly Beloved by Yoko Shimomura

· Beauty and the Beast Tale as Old as Time Instrumental

· Il Forte (The Strong) by Ennio Morricone

· The Zookeeper’s Wife Theme by The Zookeeper’s Wife Soundtrack

· A Calling by Rupert Gregson Williams

· American Beauty by Thomas Newman

Communion Songs:

· Blackbird by The Beatles

· Have I Told You Lately by Van Morrison

· Dog Years by Maggie Rogers

· Changing by John Mayer

· In Color by Jamey Johnson

· Eyes to the Wind by War on Drugs

· Humble and Kind by Tim McGraw

· Not Today by Imagine Dragons

· White Blood by Oh Wonder

· Rise Up by Andra Day

· My Sweet Lord by George Harrison

· Can’t Help Falling in Love With You by Haley Reinhart

· XO by John Mayer

· You’re Gonna Live Forever in Me by John Mayer

· Fire and Rain (Instrumental Version) by Musica Instrumental

· Holly Holy by Neil Diamond

· Technicolor Beat by Oh Wonder

· Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol

· Southern Cross by Crosby, Stills, & Nash

Closing Songs:

· Feels Like Home by Sam Feldt

· Up Around the Bend by Creedence Clearwater Revival

· The Way a Night Should Feel by Jason Aldean

· The Show Goes On by Lupe Fiasco

· Don’t Leave by Snakehips and Mo

· Shed a Light by Robin Schulz

· All Night by The Vamps

· Good to Be Alive (Hallelujah) by Andy Grammer

· We Found Love by Rihanna and Calvin Harris

· Best I Ever Had by Gavin DeGraw

· Into the Sunset by Mako

· Roundabout by Yes

· Midnight City by M83

· The Seeker by The Who

2016 Fall Semester

Opening Songs:

· In the Name of Love by Martin Garrix

· We Found Love by Rihanna and Calvin Harris

· Closer by The Chainsmokers ft Halsey

· Ghost by Halsey

· Fix My Eyes by For King and Country

· Say It Again by Kingdm

· Wona by Mumford & Sons

· Breathe by Seeb

· You Can’t Always Get What You Want by the Rolling Stones

· Baba O’Reily by The Who

· Reach Out by The Four Tops

· Welcome to My Life by Simple Plan

· Anthem Part 2 by Blink 182

· Follow Me by Uncle Kracker

· Living in Fast Forward by Kenny Chesney

· Guys Like Me by Eric Church

· Parachute by Chris Stapleton

· Silence by Dave Thomas Jr

· Whole Heart by Gryffin and Bipolar Sunshine

· Open Season by Gryffin and Josef Salvat

· Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd

· Free Fallin’ by Tom Petty

· Reelin’ in the Years by Steely Dan

· Love on Me by Galantis

· Let Me Love You by DJ Snake

· Demons by Imagine Dragons

· We Didn’t Start the Fire by Billy Joel

· Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd

· Johnny Boy by Twenty One Pilots

· Flaws by Bastille The Chainsmokers Remix Version

· Time of the Season by The Zombies

· The Chain by Fleetwood Mac

· Never Let You Go by Third Eye Blind

· Radioactive by Kings of Leon

· Please Don’t Go by Joel Adams

· Just Be Held by Casting Crowns

· By Your Side by Tenth Avenue North

· Mercy by Shawn Mendes

· Keeping Your Head Up by Birdy

· Maybe IDK by Jon Bellion

· Something Good Can Work by Two Door Cinema Club

· Shots (Broiler Remix) by Imagine Dragons

· Welcome to Your Life by Grouplove

· Summertime by My Chemical Romance

· Saint Cecilia by Foo Fighters

· Trees by Twenty One Pilots

For Homily Songs:

· Eyes Wide by Handsome Ghost

· Cold Water by Major Lazer

· Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan

· Blessings by Chance the Rapper

· Still Breathing by Green Day

Instrumental Songs:

· This Land by Hans Zimmer

· Hawkins from Stranger Things Soundtrack

· Good Will Hunting Main Theme

· Give Me Love Instrumental Version by Ed Sheeran

· The Pacific Main Theme by Hans Zimmer

· O God Thou Art The Father by Mark Howard, John Mock, and Stuart Duncan

· Inside Out Main Theme from the Inside Out Soundtrack

· Mad World by Marius Furche

· Wild Horses by the Rolling Stones Instrumental Version

· Good Will Hunting Main Theme from the Good Will Hunting Soundtrack

· Vitamin String Quartet Cover of Fight Song by Rachel Platten

· Vitamin String Quartet Cover of Let it Go by James Bay

· Green Mile Soundtrack Main Theme by Thomas Newman

· Star of Bethlehem by John Williams

Communion Songs:

· Blood Stutter by Handsome Ghost

· Home by Daughtry

· #88 by Lo-Fang

· Hey Jude by The Beatles

· Beauty from Pain by SuperChick

· I’m a Mess by Ed Sheeran

· One Hell of an Amen by Brantley Gilbert

· If Heaven Wasn’t So Far Away by Justin Moore

· Lost in the Light by Bahamas

· Guitar Version of Coldplay’s Every Teardrop is a Waterfall by Evan Camrud

· Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan

· Skinny Love by Birdy

· I and Love and You by The Avett Brothers

· Moonlight Mile by The Rolling Stones

· If I Could Fly by One Direction

· O Come O Come Emmanuel by Casting Crowns

· Way Down We Go by Kaleo

· Moving Mountains by Disclosure

· Endless Love by Jon Batiste and Aloe Blacc

Closing Songs:

· Candyman by Zedd and Aloe Blacc

· Dive by Steven Curtis Chapman

· Hundred Miles by Yall

· All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix

· Have Faith in Me by A Day to Remember

· Saltwater Gospel by Eli Young Band

· One World by Swanky Tunes and Dropgun

· Here Comes the Sun by George Harrison

· Time After Time by Quietdrive

· Human by The Killers

· Carry On by Crosby, Still, Nash, and Young

· Walk by Foo Fighters

· Hallelujah by Pentatonix

· Call on Me (Ryan Riback Remix) by Starley

· Take on Me (Kygo Remix) by A-Ha

· Ready to Go by Panic! At the Disco

2016 Spring Semester

Opening Songs:

· Let You Go (Golden Pony Remix) by The Chainsmokers

· Nothing Left by Kygo and Will Heard

· Lose It (Jerry Folk Remix) by Oh Wonder

· Sugar by Robin Schulz

· Sorry by Justin Bieber

· Firestone by Kygo

· Shine by Years And Years

· Clearest Blue by Chvrches

· Third Eye by Florence + the Machine

· Brother by NEEDTOBREATHE

· Fortune Cookie by Emma Bale

· Find a Way by Nico and Vinz

· I Won’t Back Down by Tom Petty

· Everlong by Foo Fighters

· Hero/Heroine by Boys Like Girls

· Here It Goes Again by Ok Go

· Right Now by Van Halen

· Shine by Collective Soul

· Red Hands by Walk Off The Earth

· Prodigal by Sidewalk Prophets

· Let You Go by The Chainsmokers

· Stay by Kygo

· John Cougar, John Deere, and John 3:16 by Keith Urban

· Lay It All On Me by Rudimental and Ed Sheeran

· Zero by Alpines

· Coming 4 U by Ken Loi and Thomas Daniel

· Ray Bans by JT Hodges

· High on Life by Darius Rucker

· If You Ever Stop Loving Me by Montgomery Gentry

· Breathe Life by Jack Garratt

· Elevate by St Lucia

· Lose It by Oh Wonder

· Dreaming by Smallpools

· Anna Sun by Walk the Moon

· Air I Breathe by Mat Kearney

· Sedona by Houndmouth

· Bros by Wolf Alice

· Spirits by The Strumbellas

· Our Own House by MisterWives

· Easy Love by Sigala

· O-o-h Child by The Five Stairsteps

· Walk Like a Man by The Four Seasons

· Alive by Krewella

· Working My Way Back to You by The Four Seasons

For Homily Songs:

· Love Yourself by Justin Bieber

· Beautiful Day by U2

· 7 Years by Lukas Graham

· Stressed Out by Twenty One Pilots

Instrumental Songs:

· Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World by Relaxation Guitar Maestro

· Clocks Instrumental Version by Coldplay

· First Breath After Coma by Explosions in the Sky

· What A Wonderful World by The O’Neill Brothers

· The Hologram/Binary Sunset by John Williams

· Let Her Go (Instrumental Version) by Passenger

· Be Thou My Vision by The Webb Family

· Theme to the movie The Town

· First Breath After Coma by Explosions in the Sky

· Daredevil Main Theme by John Paesano

· Trees Piano Tribute to 21 Pilots by Piano Tribute Players

· D.A.N.C.E by Maxence Cyrin

· Prelude in E Minor by Chopin

· Haunted by Waters by Mark Isham

Communion Songs:

· Blinding (Instrumental Version) by Jakwob

· I’m Yours by Jason Mraz

· You Give Me Something by James Morrison

· All I Want by Kodaline

· Tenerife Sea by Ed Sheeran

· Iris by Goo Goo Dolls

· Just Breathe by Pearl Jam

· One by U2

· She’s Got A Way by Billy Joel

· Modern Day Prodigal Son by Brantley Gilbert

· You Are More by Tenth Avenue North

· Faded by Alan Walker

· You Raise Me Up by Westlife

· Love Will Set You Free by Kodaline

· Beer With Jesus by Thomas Rhett

· I Saw God Today by George Strait

· River by Leon Bridges

· Wheel by John Mayer

· Acoustic #3 by Goo Goo Dolls

· Measures by Windmills

· Sun by Sleeping at Last

· Higher Love by James Vincent McMorrow

· Deeper Conversation by Yuna

· Crash Into Me by Dave Matthews Band

· Funny the Way It Is by Dave Matthews Band

Send Off Songs:

· Can’t Help Falling in Love by Elvis Presley

· Runaway (U & I) by Galantis

· King by Years and Years

· A Beautiful Life by Tim McMorris

· On Our Way by The Royal Concept

· One Vision by Queen

· Home We’ll Go by We’ll Walk Off The Earth

· Dreaming by Smallpools

· Now That I Found You by Martin Garrix

· God Love Her by Toby Keith

· Perfect World by Allen Stone

· Daylight by Matt and Kim

· Raging by Kygo feat Kodaline

· Reach Out I’ll Be There by The Four Tops

· Mr. Brightside by The Killers

2015 Fall Semester

Opening Songs:

· Ain’t No Mountain High Enough by Marvin Gaye

· Know Yourself by Drake

· Calling (Lose My Mind) by Sebastian Ingrosso and Alesso

· Sugar We’re Goin Down by Fall Out Boy

· Love’s Divine by Seal

· Unconditionally by Katy Perry

· Portugal by Walk the Moon

· Crystals by Of Monsters and Men

· Hold On by Alabama Shakes

· Express Yourself by NWA

· Beautiful Girls by Sean Kingston

· All We Need by Odesza

· You May Be Right by Billy Joel

· Best of Both Worlds by Van Halen

· The Impression That I Get by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones

· I Go Back by Kenney Chesney

· Sunlight by The Magician

· Cover of Ed Sheeran’s Photograph by Boyce Avenue

· Heroes by David Bowie

· Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra

· I’ll Be There For You by Bon Jovi

· I Feel So Alive by Capital Kings

· Feel It by TobyMac

· Give In by Lecrae

· Don’t You Worry Child by Swedish House Mafia

· Young Homie by Chris Rene

· How Deep Is Your Love by Calvin Harris

· All These Things That I’ve Done by The Killers

· Hey Mama by Kanye West

· Budapest by George Ezra

· Safe and Sound by Capital Cities

· Awake My Soul by Mumford & Sons

· Where the Streets Have No Name by U2

· I by Kendrick Lamar

· Sunday Candy by Donnie Trumpet

· Apparently by J. Cole

· The Ballad of Love and Hate by The Avett Brothers

· Patience by Guns N Roses

· Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd

· I’ll Show You by Justin Bieber

· Pray to God by Calvin Harris

· Love Myself by Hailee Steinfeld

· Rejoice by U2

· Even If She Falls by Blink 182

· Metalians by Metalium

· Falling Forward by Emmy Rossum

· Before We Disappear by Chris Cornell

· Everyday Superhero by Smash Mouth

For Homily Songs:

· Locked Away by R. City and Adam Levine

· Know Yourself by Drake

· Growing Up (Sloane’s song) by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

· Fanatic by Lecrae

· Only One by Kanye West

· I’m Gonna Love You Through It by PS 22 Chorus

· Colorshow by The Avett Brothers

· The Love Project Video https://vimeo.com/146455750

· Santa Claus is Coming to Town by Bruce Springsteen

Instrumental Songs:

· Haunted by Waters by Mark Isham

· Prelude in C Major by Bach

· Falls by Ennio Morricone

· Bundle of Joy by Inside Out Soundtrack

· We Are Not Things by Mad Max Soundtrack

· Shawshank Redemption Theme

· San Francisco, 1987 by Christophe Beck

· Main Theme from Rudy by Jerry Goldsmith

· Harry Potter Theme Song/Hedwig’s Theme by John Williams

· Someone to Lava Instrumental Version from the Pixar short Lava

· Infra 5 by Max Richter

· Your Hand In Mine by Explosions In The Sky

· Home by Explosions In The Sky

· Your Hand In Mine by Explosions In The Sky

· Instrumental Version of Ed Sheeran’s Tenerife Sea by Patrick McCarthy

· Das Boot Main Theme from the Das Boot Soundtrack

· Now You See Me Theme by Brian Tyler

Communion Songs:

· Crash Into Me by Dave Matthews Band

· Life Ain’t Always Beautiful by Gary Allan

· Footprints in the Sand by Leona Lewis

· Let It Be by the Beatles

· American Dream by Miami Horror

· Swinging Party by Kindness

· Fear Not This Night by Asja Kadric

· Fear Not This Night Instrumental Version by Guild Wars Soundtrack

· Nowhere Fast by Old Dominion

· Revolutionary Road by City of Prague Orchestra

· Give A Little Bit by Supertramp

· My Sweet Lord by George Harrison

· My Everything by Owl City

· 100 Years by Five For Fighting

· Calling On Angels by Train

· Sigh No More by Mumford & Sons

· Tiger Striped Sky by Roo Panes

· Quiet Enough by Jon Niven

· Remembrance by Matt Maher

· I See Fire by Ed Sheeran

· Be Still by The Fray

· Bring Your Love to Me by The Avett Brothers

· Awake My Soul by Mumford & Sons

· Blood by The Middle East

· Life Support by Sam Smith

· Rhymes and Reasons by John Denver

· I Am Not by Erik Mongrain

· Lost in the World by Green River Ordinance

· The Parting Glass by Ed Sheeran

Send Off Songs:

· How You Love Me by 3LAU

· If I Lose Myself by OneRepublic

· Anything Can Happen by Ellie Goulding

· Falling by Haim

· Shoot to Thrill by AC/DC

· King by Years and Years

· Warriors by Imagine Dragons

· Ignition by TobyMac

· Let You Go by The Chainsmokers

· Smile by Mikky Ekko

· Because He Lives by Matt Maher

· Beside You by Marianas Trench

· Stand in the Rain by Superchick

· Revenge of Tizona by Metalium

· Beautiful Now by Zedd

2015 Spring Semester:

Opening Songs:

· Life Is Beautiful by Sixx A.M.

· Soul Meets Body by Death Cab for Cutie

· Down by the River by Milky Chance

· Sell Out by Reel Big Fish

· Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith

· Gimme Shelter by the Rolling Stones

· Fidelity by Regina Spektor

· Something Like Olivia by John Mayer

· Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran

· Budapest by George Ezra

· Vagabond by MisterWives

· Home by Dotan

· Sweet Disposition by The Temper Trap

· Medicine by the 1975

· Insane by Flume

· This Love by Maroon 5

· Cheerleader by Omi

· Someday by the Strokes

· Give a Little by Hanson

· Forever by Matt Hires

· Strong by London Grammar

· Tell Me Ma by Gaelic Storm

· Regular Army by Mick Maloney

· If I Should Fall from Grace with God by Young Dubliners

· Electric Love by Borns

· Queens by Misterwives

· On Your Side by Cheerleader

· Hallelujah by Paramore

· Jumper by Third Eye Blind

· The Silence by Bastille

· Gold by Sir Sly

· Seeing Stars by Borns

· King and Cross by Asgeir

· Mercy Mercy Me by The Strokes

· Oxford Comma by Vampire Weekend

· Call Me Up by St Lucia

· Only Love by Ben Howard

· On Top of the World by Imagine Dragons

· King and Lionheart by Of Monsters and Men

· Somebody by Jukebox the Ghost

· You Got Me by Taking Back Sunday

· Stars by Switchfoot

For Homily Songs:

· Shake It Off by Taylor Swift

· Ghost by Ella Henderson

· I by Kendrick Lamar

· Roll Away Your Stone by Mumford & Sons

· Stay by Rihanna and Mikky Ekko

· Save Rock and Roll by Fall Out Boy

Instrumental Songs:

· Beethoven’s Piano Sonata #14 in C-Sharp Minor, OP. 27 No. 2 Moonlight Sonata by Steve Anderson

· The Vigil Goes to War by the Guild Wars 2 Soundtrack

· Gravity by John Mayer Instrumental Version (not sure which one)

· What Are You Going to Do When You Are Not Saving the World by Hans Zimmer

· Liz on Top of the World by Pride and Prejudice Soundtrack

· River Flows in You by Yiruma

· Passion by Kyle Landry

· Bha Mise Raoir air an Airigh by Kathleen MacInnes

· Avril 14th by Aphex Twin

· Beethoven’s Piano Sonata #14 in C-Sharp Minor, OP. 27 No. 2 Moonlight Sonata by Steve Anderson

· Your Hand in Mine by Explosions in the Sky

· Meeting Krishna by Michael Dana (from Life of Pi soundtrack)

· Golborne Road by Nick Laird-Clowes

· Across the Stars by John Williams

Communion Songs:

· Landslide by Fleetwood Mac

· Fear Not This Night by the Guild Wars 2 Soundtrack

· The Shiverpeaks by the Guild Wars 2 Soundtrack

· You and Me by Penny & the Quarters

· Lost Stars by Adam Levine

· Hungry by Dotan

· Make You Feel My Love by Adele

· Spanish Sahara by Foals

· Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol

· Scar Tissue by Red Hot Chili Peppers

· Days by The Drums

· Hate to See Your Heart Break by Paramore

· Sights by London Grammar

· Kilkelly by Robbie O’Connell

· Will Ye Go Lassie Go? by The High Kings

· Rainbow by Robert Plant

· Hinnom, TX by Bon Iver

· Have You Ever Seen the Rain? by CCR

· These Are the Days by Van Morrison

· Mourning Doves by Mikky Ekko

· I Can’t Make You Love Me by Bon Iver

· Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright

· Only Human by Jason Mraz

· Lover of the Light by Mumford and Sons

· Hear You Me by Jimmy Eat World

· We Found Each Other in the Dark by City and Colour

Send Off Songs:

· Move Along by The All-American Rejects

· Just What I Needed by The Cars

· Finale Song from Les Miserables

· Into the Wild by LP

· Be Still by the Fray

· Something Good Can Work by Two Door Cinema Club

· Last Hope by Paramore

· The Parting Glass by The High Kings

· Crystals by Of Monsters and Men

· I Bet My Life by Imagine Dragons

· Let Me In by GroupLove

· I Can Talk by Two Door Cinema Club

· Shake It Out by Florence & The Machine

· Secret Crowds by Angels and Airwaves

2014 Fall Semester:

Opening Songs:

· Everything is Awesome from the Lego Movie Soundtrack

· Flaws by Bastille

· A Sky Full of Stars by Coldplay

· Back Home by Andy Grammer

· Wake Up by Arcade Fire

· Naïve by the Kooks

· Hideaway by Kiesza

· You and Me (Flume Remix) by Disclosure

· Call on Me by Eric Prydz

· Too Far Gone by Sir Sly

· Are You What You Want to Be? By Foster the People

· King and Lionheart by Of Monsters and Men

· Keep Your Head Up by Ben Howard

· Ritual Union by Little Dragon

· Drop the Game by Flume and Chet Faker

· Pride (In the Name of Love) by U2

· With or Without You by U2

· Where the Streets Have No Name by U2

· I Would Do Anything for You by Foster the People

· Cosmic Love by Florence + the Machine

· Lift a Sail by Yellowcard

· Now We Are Free by the Lyndhurst Orchestra

· Something Beautiful by Newsboys

· Whispers in the Dark by Mumford & Sons

· Under Cover of Darkness by the Strokes

· Sleeping With a Friend by Neon Trees

· Land of the Nod by Is Tropical

· Meant to Live by Switchfoot

· Bright Lights by Matchbox Twenty

· Light Up the Sky by The Afters

· Heroes by Alesso

· You and Me (Flume Remix) by Disclosure

· I Need a Dollar by Aloe Blacc

· Am I Wrong by Nico & Vinz

· I Will Wait for You by Mumford & Sons

· Footprints by Tiesto

· Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkle

· Chinese Translation by M Ward

· Playing With Fire by Brandon Flowers

· Better Days by the Goo Goo Dolls

· Hold Us Together by Matt Maher

· Dare You to Move by Switchfoot

· Where is the Love? by Black Eyed Peas

For Homily Songs:

· All About the Bass by Meghan Trainor

· Take Me to Church by Hozier

Instrumental Songs:

· Dearly Beloved by Kyle Landry

· Shiverpeaks from the Guild Wars 2 Soundtrack

· My Heart Will Go On Instrumental Version from the Titanic Soundtrack

· To the Stars (from the Guardians of the Galaxy Soundtrack) by Tyler Bates

· A Walk by Tycho

· Then The Quiet Explosion by Hammock

· Prelude for Time Feelers by Eluvium

· Make Up Kisses by John Powell

· Magic by Coldplay

· Your Hand in Mine by Explosions in the Sky

· Inspiring Instrumental Music by Unknown Artist (potentially Dare to Dream by Utopian Sounds)

· Haunted by Waters by Mark Isham

· Truly, Madly, Deeply by Ray LaMontagne

· Ave Maria by the Lumiere String Quartet

Communion Songs:

· Hold Us Together by Matt Maher

· Bring on the Rain by Gavin Mikhail

· Oblivion by Bastille

· Lean on me by Bill Withers

· At Last by Etta James

· Us Against the World by Coldplay

· Lovely Day by Alt-J

· To Me by Chet Faker

· Lesson in Patience by Chet Faker

· Dreams by the Cranberries

· Remember Us by The Hunts

· Be Thou My Vision by the Lower Lights

· O by Coldplay

· La Vie en Rose by Louis Armstrong

· What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong

· Oceans by Hillsong United

· Fix You by Coldplay

· Gravity by John Mayer

· Stay With Me by Sam Smith

· Crash Into Me by Dave Matthews Band

· O Come O Come Emmanuel by Casting Crowns

· Hold You in My Arms by Ray LaMontagne

· Within You by Ray LaMontagne

· Mary Did You Know by Pentatonix

· O Come O Come Emmanuel by Pentatonix

Send Off Songs:

· Home Again by Blackmore’s Night

· Peace by O.A.R.

· The Gambler by Fun

· Love is Gone by David Guetta

· So Now What by the Shins

· Hippy Hill by Grouplove

· This Is War by 30 Seconds to Mars

· This = Love by The Script

· Geronimo by Sheppard

· Elevate by St. Lucia

· Let Love In by the Goo Goo Dolls

· Riptide by Vance Joy

· When You Were Young by The Killers

· Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkle

· Send Me On My Way by Rusted Root

· One Day by Matisyahu

2014 Spring Semester

Opening Songs:

· Counting Stars by OneRepublic

· Till Kingdom Come by Coldplay

· All These Things That I’ve Done by the Killers

· Underdog by Spoon

· It’s Only Life by the Shins

· Jubel by Klingande

· Over the Love by Florence + The Machine

· Come a Little Closer by Cage the Elephant

· What About Now by Chris Daughtry

· We Believe by David Cook

· I Dare You to Move by Switchfoot

· Consolation Prizes by Phoenix

· You Only Live Once by the Strokes

· A World Alone by Lorde

· In My Place by Coldplay

· Casting Such a Thin Shadow by Underoath

· Some Will Seek Forgiveness, Others Escape by Underoath

· Float On by Modest Mouse

· My Way Home by Citizen Cope

· Shake it Out by Florence & the Machine

· Helena Beat by Foster the People

· Hurricane by Ms. Mr

· Human by The Killers

· Wind That Shakes the Barely by Solas

· The Devil’s Courtship/An Dro by Battlefield Band

· Star of the County Down by The High Kings

· All I Need to Know by Thousand Foot Krutch

· Swing Life Away by Rise Against

· Light Up the Sky by Thousand Foot Krutch

· Color in Your Cheeks by The Mountain Goats

· Chicago by Sufjan Stevens

· Holland by Neutral Milk Hotel

· The End Where I Begin by The Script

· Carry On by Fun

· Roll Away Your Stone by Mumford & Sons

· At the Sound by Ike Ndolo

· Let Your Heart Hold Fast by Fort Atlantic

· Here is Our King by David Crowder

· Shot At the Night by The Killers

· Aviation High by Semi Precious Weapons

· Up With The Birds by Coldplay

· The Cave by Mumford & Sons

· Demons by Imagine Dragons

· Wake Me Up by Aloe Blacc

For Homily Songs:

· Let Her Go by Passenger

Instrumental Songs:

· Clocks by Coldplay Piano Cover

· Your Hand in Mine by Explosions in the Sky

· There Is No Plan by Steve Jablonsky

· Tennis Court by Lorde

· Mighty Rio Grande by This Will Destroy You

· Quiet by This Will Destroy You

· Interstellar by Hans Zimmer

· Come to the Dance by Emerald Rose

· Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

· Chasing Pavements by Adele Cover by Vitamin String Quartet

· Crucifixion by Passion of the Christ Soundtrack

· This Land (from the Lion King Soundtrack) by Hans Zimmer

· Let It Go by the Piano Guys

Communion Songs:

· Everybody by the Lonely Biscuits

· First Day of My Life by Bright Eyes

· Murder in the City by the Avett Brothers

· Say Something by A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera

· Be Still by the Fray

· Permanent by David Cook

· The Heart of Life by John Mayer

· Warning Sign by Coldplay

· Re: Stacks by Bon Iver

· In the Waiting Line by Zero 7

· Fields of Athenry by The High Kings

· The Green Fields of France by John McDermott

· So Far Gone by Thousand Foot Krutch

· Casmir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens

· Dear Prudence by Across the Universe Cast

· You Were on the Cross by Matt Maher

· The Prayer by Kid Cudi

· The Scientist by Coldplay

Send Off Songs:

· Carried Away by Passion Pit

· Forget and Not Slow Down by Relient K

· Hey Brother by Avicii

· Heartbeat by the Fray

· I Melt With You by Modern English

· Too Bright to See Too Loud to Hear by Underoath

· Welcome Home by Radical Face

· The Impression That I Get by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones

· The Raggle Taggle Gypsy by the Waterboys

· Bodhran by The Young Dubliners

· Architects by Rise Against

· Ghost by Neutral Milk Hotel

· Heroes by David Bowie

· Resurrection by Passion of the Christ Soundtrack

· All of You by Peter Thomas

· Closing Time by Semisonic

2013 Fall Semester

Opening Songs:

· Sanctuary by Utada Hikaru

· Higher by Parachute

· Fill a Heart by Tori Kelly

· Human by The Killers

· Fly by Sugar Ray

· Upside Down by JJ

· These are the Days by 10,000 Maniacs

· Holland Road by Mumford and Sons

· Don’t Dream It’s Over by Crowded House

· Be My Escape by Relient K

· Colours by Grouplove

· Kill Your Heroes by Awolnation

· Pompeii by Bastille

· If You Can Hear Me by Ben Rector

· Hold Us Together by Matt Maher

· Anything Could Happen by Ellie Goulding

· What You Wanted by OneRepublic

· Brave by Sarah Bareilles

· Hanging By a Moment by Lifehouse

· Do It Now by Ingrid Michaelson

· Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd

· The Great Adventure by Stephen Curtis Chapman

· Only Love by Ben Howard

· How the Day Sounds by Greg Laswell

· Viva La Vida by Coldplay

· Gold on the Ceiling by Bill Withers

For Homily Songs:

· Diane Young by Vampire Weekend

· Wake Me Up by Avicii

· Top of the World by Imagine Dragons

· Home by Philip Phillips

· Royals by Lorde

Instrumental Songs:

· Rue’s Farewell by the Hunger Games Soundtrack

· Better Together by JJ

· Together We Will Live Forever by Clint Mansell

· Home (Piano Cover) by Edward Sharpe (original song by the Magnetic Zeroes)

· Concerning Hobbits by the Lord of the Rings Soundtrack

· River Flows in You by Yiruma

· Let Her Go (Instrumental Version) by Passenger

· Fairy Tail—Main Theme Slow Version by Yasuharu Takanashi

Communion Songs:

· Titanium by Gavin Milchail

· The Heart of Life by John Mayer

· The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel

· Shower the People by James Taylor

· The Perfect Space by the Avett Brothers

· Farther Along by Josh Garrels

· Waiting on an Angel by Ben Harper

· Fix You by Coldplay

· Follow You Down to the Red Oak Tree by James Vincent McMorrow

· You Are More by Tenth Avenue North

Send Off Songs:

· Love Don’t Die by The Fray

· Don’t You by the Simple Minds

· Don’t Stop by Fleetwood Mac

· Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum

· I’m Alive by Michael Franti

· I Lived by OneRepublic

· Go Do by Jonsi

· It’s Time by Imagine Dragons

· I’m Shipping Up to Boston by Dropkick Murphys

Songs from 2010-2012 (we didn’t keep records of the songs used these years as well as we did from 2013 on):

· You Found Me by the Fray

· I feel Again by One Republic

· Alive Again by Matt Maher

· Give Me Your Eyes by Brandon Heath

· Let Love In by the Goo Goo Dolls

· Your Love is a Song by Switchfoot

· Feels like Home by Chantal Kreziviak

· Hold My Hand by Explosions in the Sky

· I Refuse by John Wilson

· Only Hope by Mandy Moore

· Better Days by the Goo Goo Dolls

· Hard to Concentrate by Red Hot Chili Peppers

· Gotta Find You from Camp Rock Soundtrack

· Some Nights by FUN

· Lights by Ellie Goulding

· Wonderwall by Oasis

· Man Who Can’t Be Moved by the Script

· Never Gonna Be Alone by Nickelback

· Say When by the Fray

· Never Say Never by the Fray

· As I Am by the Goo Goo Dolls

· Stay With You by the Goo Goo Dolls

· Can’t Let it Go by the Goo Goo Dolls

· Soshite Hitotsu Ni from the D.N.Angel Soundtrack II

· Ice and Snow from the D.N.Angel Soundtrack II

· Could Be an Angel by Vic Mignogna

· This Time by John Legend

· Walls by the Rocket Summer

· Do You Feel by the Rocket Summer

· Beside You by Marianas Trench

· Storm by Lifehouse

· Grenade by Bruno Mars

· Home by Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes

· Little Talks by of Monsters and Men

· Wait, they don’t love you like I love you by Maps

· Talking to the Moon by Bruno Mars

· Let It Be by the Beatles

· Clair de Lune by Debussy

· Where Are You Going by Dave Matthews Band

· One Love by U2

· With or Without You by U2

· Redemption Song by Playing for Change

· Somebody that You Used to Know by Goetye

· Send Me On My Way by Rusted Root

· You’ve Got the Love by Florence + the Machine

#playlist #Playlists #music playlist #mass music #catholic mass music #hcm music playlist #loyolahcmass

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Dan and Phil play Dream Daddy

MEET DILDDY LESTOWELL

I loved this video! I was dying of laughter in the first fifteen minutes and just had to make timestamps. Very very long under the cut.

0:00 Phil is wearing his rainbow zebra shirt! Being his best self.

0:03 Wow was that second “daddies” necessary Phil? (Yes, it was.)

0:42 “Cause you know Dan and Phil they like to have the raw naked-”- Dan

0:45 “Immersion”- Phil

0:46 “They just like to go in-”- Dan

0:47 “Are you saying we’re going to have to be blurring some things-”- Phil

0:48 “Bare. What?”- Dan (what?)

0:58 “Give me that Daddiest graphics.”- Phil

1:00 “Oh it’s like Yuri on Ice.”- Dan

1:10 Phil will be a long haired vampire in ten years. Yes, something to look forward to.

1:25 “Phil, don’t do your chin like that, you’re fine.”- Dan (damn fine)

2:07 “Is that your best dad voice?”- Dan

2:14 “Do you wanna be Dad?”- Phil (sass)

2:15 “Phil, everyone wants you to be Dad.”- Dan (the honest truth)

2:34 “Moving house? Oh my god!”- Dan (omg!)

2:45 “Coordinating the headband with the nails.”- Dan (noticing the important stuff)

2:46 “Definitely.”- Phil

2:53 Phil’s yawn, wtf was that? Sounds like a dog.

2:55 “Are you American now?”- Dan

2:56 “I don’t knowww.”- Phil (poor frustrated Phil)

3:03 “Build that Dad!”- in sync

3:30 “Dilddy! No?”- Phil (Dan’s face)

3:36 “Yeah sure. Let’s not think about that anymore Phil.”- Dan

4:04 “Thor. We just made Thor by accident.”- Phil (always with the Thor)

4:07 “Ah the bun hair.”- Dan

4:08 “Man bun.”- Phil

4:09 “That’s very like modern dad aesthetic.”- Dan

4:12 “That’s quite Dil-y”- Phil

4:13 “That’s the most Dil-esque, I think.”- Dan

4:19 “Heart eyes.”- Phil

4:20 “SENPAI!!!”- Dan

4:30 “Can you just have heart eyes the entire game?”- Dan (are you asking for permission Dan?)

4:31 “The whole time.”- Phil

4:32 “Is that just going to ruin the game?”- Phil (no.)

4:33 “Would that be slightly distracting?”- Dan (well, yes.)

4:58 “Noman Rose.”- Phil (has a bit of a Roman nose)

5:10 They love the lips, sassy mouths

5:39 “He banged it on some kind of exercise equipment.”- Phil

5:40 “Wrestling another dad for territory.”- Dan (sure)

5:45 “Yes!”- Phil is excited by facial hair options (and I’m excited for him)

5:50 “More people should have black hair and blonde beards.”- justifying your ginger eyebrows Phil?

5:51 Dan has to think a second before agreeing

5:55 Hunger Games aesthetic, okay.

6:00 “I asked you yesterday if you’d grow a full beard. If you wanted to. Like what’s your answer to that question?”- Phil (I’m going to cry.)

6:04 “What in like twenty years?”- Dan

6:05 “Yeah.”- Phil

6:05 “Yeah, sure. I’ll give it a crack.”- Dan

6:06 “Do you think you’ll ever have a full beard?”- Phil

6:09 “Ever?”- D

6:10 “Ever.”- P

6:10 “Yeah, maybe in like ten years when I finish going through puberty.”- Dan

6:13 “I kinda wanna try.”- Phil wants to try a beard, people! And it might be a different color than his fringe. I see.

6:15 “This is the best part!”- Phil on clothing

6:19 “Can’t you just like have nothing?”- Phil (for underroos apparently)

6:22 “Captain America! Yes!”- Phil (nice six pointed star)

6:25 “Egg nips. I mean totally, I can see that.”- Dan

6:31 Phil saying “Daddy Dil” kills me

6:35 “Cats! With a suit jacket.”- Phil (we have a winner)

6:43 I agree with Dan about that pattern, it reminds me of party centers, roller rinks and tour busses. Phil with the Saved by the Bell reference.

7:00 “Goals. As the kids would say.”- Dan

7:26 “Be that dad. The dad you always dreamed to be.”- Dan

7:28 “Now do we get to date some dads?”- Phil Lester asking the important questions.

7:58 Phil’s second child syndrome

8:13 “No mum’s must exist in this universe!”- Dan (okay Dan, interesting justification)

8:35 “I was just given a bin bag and some sticky stars to say I was a ‘wizard’. Yeah.”- Phil (dang that’s cheap, Lesters)

8:43 “Princess Dragon!”- in sync

8:45 Dan would watch a scaley fairytale movie

9:05 “I wish I had a horse phase.”- Dan (I’m glad I did)

9:09 “Or a Horse Prince phase.”- Phil (he’s not over it)

9:11 “Oh we all had that.”- Dan

9:20 “Why aren’t we going to McFridayz?”- Phil

9:50 Adoption +1

10:00 Kangaroo existential crisis

10:19 “Hit me.”- Dan

10:25 “He knows what to do.”- Dan (getting really into it)

10:30 “Yeah. Then what?”- squeaky over dramatic Dan

10:35 “And then he ran away with a kangaroo.”- Phil (there are two types of people in this world)

10:44 “Just look him up on Facebook! Or did he die?”- Phil

11:02 “The old house!”- fake crying Dan

11:05 Hawaiian backstories, driving distraction

11:15 Hydration: “I can get behind this.”- Dan

11:22 Phil, waving your hands in the air where Dan sneezes is not going to keep the germs away. Maybe if you both actually covered.

11:33 Everyone does bicep curls in this Daddy themed universe

12:12 Dil Howlter house without the owl slide is no Dil Howlter house at all.

12:44 “Dogs!”- Phil

12:48 “CLICK!”- Dan

12:55 Dog to person ratio should be the highest thing on the agenda for any neighborhood

13:11 “Side quest!”- Dan

13:11 “Dog quest!”- Phil

13:12 “Dog time! I’m here for some cute drawn dogs.”- Dan

13:16 Woofing song to the tune of the Katamari theme!

13:27 “What is this idyllic pastel utopia that they’re living in right now? Honestly.”- Dan

13:30 “Where’s the diseased pigeons?”- Phil (London summarized by Phil)

13:47 “DOGS! (toddlers) NOT INTERESTED! (dogs) INTERESTED!”- Dan

13:52 Panting puppies D&P

14:05 “A corgi! Of all the dogs!”- Phil (this is the only reason Phil agreed to play this game)

14:14 “Delet this doggo.”- Dan

14:20 Second “Bork!”

14:26 “Oh god this is the cutest dog. Can we just do dog adoption simulator instead?”- Phil (I’m sure you could)

14:30 “Pet the dog!”- Phil

14:58 “Woah! Irish father of my children!”- Dan

15:13 Gruff and slightly offensive leprechaun

15:18 Puppy role play ;)

15:25 Phil saw the aubergines come out.

15:35 Phil apologizes for “Dilddy”

16:05 Dan loves the freckle representation.

16:22 “Oh my god it’s a Dad Child Proud Of Brag Off”- Dan (very Undertale)

17:33 “Bam. Amazing.”- Dan, “Slapped.”- Phil

19:55 “I’m torn though, cause he has a corgi.”- Phil

19:57 “He has a corgi, but-”- Dan

19:58 “Can we not just date him to hang out with the corgi?”- Phil

20:01 “Can we date him, adopt the corgi and then break up with him?”- Dan

20:04 “Yes!”- Phil (a good plan)

20:33 “I mean let’s just get our own corgi. Let’s adopt a corgi.”- Dan (a better plan)

21:07 Dan would read horse fan-fiction.

21:36 Chocolate coffee beans btw

22:11 “*Sigh* Why would people sit next to you, they always do that though don’t they?”- Dan

22:26 "Am I being helpful or am I cluttering up everyone’s life?“- Dan

22:44 "Oh my god!”- Dan

22:45 “Another Dad.”- Phil

22:46 “With the ta- the glasses, the hair, the piercing.”- Dan (tattoos)

22:49 “Good layering. On the outfit.”- Phil

22:51 “Definitely.”- Dan

23:00 Dan doesn’t like the “too cool” vibe.

23:13 Husky voice ;)

23:38 Dan would not be able to hold a conversation with this guy in real life. Probably because he sounds too much like himself.

23:48 Iced Tegan and Sara (yay!)

23:02 Phil got the pun!

24:49 Couches (Starbucks sofa)

24:50 “Okay Amanda, wow. Life isn’t all about listening to cool music. It’s about enjoying the music that you like.”- Dan

25:00 Good lumbar support is important. It’s comfier than their couch. *giggles*

25:48 “Okay I’m about this.”- Dan (feeding kink)

25:50 “He’s got food!”- Phil

25:53 “Yes. Tick that box.”- Phil

27:08 Phil likes Mat’s awkwardness

27:10 Dan is on the fence: “I don’t know how to feel. Runs a coffee shop, bit of a hipster, is socially awkward, gives you banana bread. I think it’s looking mostly good.”

27:27 “Ohhhh.”- in sync (using 'baby’ in flirting)

28:00 “Wow. Are we adults? Cause we just moved recently.”- Yes Dan, you are adults.

28:08 “Do I smell bad?”- Phil

28:09 “Noo.”- Dan with a quick sniff, barely leaning in, he clearly already knew the answer.

28:16 They agree that the dark and mysterious stranger is the most intriguing part of the story. Stupid look at camera.

28:30 Acknowledging that they still have boxes

28:42 Pink duck, succulents and XBox 360 “Nice”- Phil

28:56 “Get the hell out of my life!”- Dan

29:00 “He’s too perfect already.”- Phil

29:08 “Robot. Robot. Robot.”- Phil

29:36 “Guffaw.”- Dan

30:13 Yeah, just move again guys!

30:28 Phil feels bad for kangaroo jokes earlier.

31:11 Phil likes the do over, time flipping, reset thing.

31:33 Louise story mention.

32:18 “What is that wink?”- Dan

32:30 “All of these daddies are mixed bags.”- Dan desk slamming returns

32:40 “He’s a bloody angel. He’s an angel.”- Dan

32:42 “He’s got a dark secret.”- Phil

32:44 “But also angels are terrible. Stop feeling bad by comparing yourself to an angel.”- Dan

32:48 “Dark secret.”- Phil

33:07 “Plot twizzle.”- Dan

33:45 “They are definitely possessed. I told you, dark secret.”- Phil

34:05 “Christie, Christian and Chris. Wow.”- Dan

34:08 “Evil.”- Phil

34:09 “Definitely.”- Dan

34:28 Exorcist

34:34 “Time for the nappy ding dong.”- Dan

35:01 “Bro”- Dan "Bro"- Phil

35:20 That look

35:22 “Old college roommate.”- Phil

35:23 “Just sayin.”- Dan

35:35 “River. Oh my god.”- Dan (good name)

35:42 Nice baby gurgling Dan

35:51 “Survived that hazing together.”- Dan

36:00 Phil enjoying the matching eyebrows

36:06 “Maybe they got that scar together, doing something, as roommates.”- Dan

36:30 “Copacabana.”- Dan

36:50 “Clearly we didn’t have the American college experience. We did the Smirnoff Slam.”- Dan

37:05 Jogging with baby imitation

37:12 “Wow. Dilddy is just every person probably on the internet and YouTube, in the community watching this.”- Dan

37:25 “Wow. So relatable.”- Dan (shush Dan, #relatable is your schtick)

37:30 “How is he so ripped if he never jogs though?”- Phil (umm you selected that body type and said he works out.)

37:37 “Bro brunch.”- Phil, “A bro brunch?!”- Dan

“Why do we never have bro brunches?”- Dan, “I don’t know”-Phil

“What the hell is a bro brunch?”- Dan, “I don’t know.”- Phil

37:52 “Jog on, Craig.”- Phil, “Jog on, Craig? Jesus.”- Dan

38:18 “I mean, there’s like, stuff in that, isn’t there.”- Yes Dan, they’re tomatoes.

41:01 “The blonde guy.”- Phil

41:10 Phil likes coffee shop guy. Gee I wonder why. Dan is unsure, too cool.

41:30 Dan likes the blonde: confidence, wants to make you happy, “that’s who Dilddy needs in his life, at this important time.” (Dear god Dan can you not?)

Phil still thinks he’s a robot with satanic children. Yep.

41:51 Gee Phil you don’t seem into it. (probably just tired, maybe headache)

42:08 “Thumb it”, tickle, etc.

42:45 “Get a dog.”- Dan

#phan #d&p timestamps #dapgames #dnp games #dnp timestamps #dan and phil play dream daddy #dilddy lestowell

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gcdanielle · 5 years

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My Thoughts on the 2019 ACM Nominees...

The nominees for the 54th Annual Academy of County Music Awards were announced earlier this week. All nominations are in regards to the artists’ radio play, single and album releases, tours, vocal appearances, songwriting, etc in 2019. **This is something I always have to refresh my brain on because every award show has different criteria and cutoff dates, which is why so many artists seem to get snubbed every few years - or some year after year after year. Please take the following with a grain of salt because we all have a difference of opinions on new artists and what country music is...

ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR NOMINEES Jason Aldean - Luke Bryan - Kenny Chesney - Chris Stapleton - Keith Urban

I fully agree with Jason. I’ve seen him numerous times and his shows are extremely lively. I love Luke, but I forgot that he even toured last year since he’s been on American Idol. Kenny always has my vote, his stadium tours are out of this world. I love Chris, I really do, but I don’t see him as an entertainer. I honestly haven’t seen him in concert because I’d rather see him in a smoky dive bar than an arena. I’ve always been a fan of Keith. I saw him open up for Kenny in 2003, but I feel like he’s been on a decline the past few years.

You know who isn’t on a decline though? Eric Church. He may not have gone on his own tour last year but he still played a lot of festivals. I often wonder if anyone on the nominating committee has even seen him live? His 2017 and 2019 tours have both been only him, no opening acts. 3+ hours of straight Eric Church. And this year he’s playing two shows per city every weekend. He better be an ETOY nominee in 2020.

FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR Miranda Lambert - Ashley McBryde - Maren Morris - Kacey Musgraves - Carrie Underwood

I know we’re supposed to look at artistry here, but I’ve lost all respect for Miranda. But since we are looking at artistry, I can’t get on board with Kacey. I know Ashley has been in the background for awhile, but she’s still so new to the forefront. I have loved every single Maren has released since she came on the scene. But Carrie is always my #1, mainly because we’re dopplegangers.

MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR Dierks Bentley - Luke Combs - Thomas Rhett - Chris Stapleton - Keith Urban

You already know my thoughts on Keith and Chris. I am a fan of Thomas and I’d be okay with him winning but I love this new sound that Dierks has going on. It look me a minute to get used to Burning Man, but now I’m obsessed with the song. However, Luke Combs is the real winner here. He is on fire, so successful with everything he puts out, but is still so down to earth at the same time. Luke Combs is most deserving of this award.

DUO OF THE YEAR Brothers Osborne - Dan + Shay - FGL - LOCASH - Maddie & Tae

Maddie & Tae fell off the face of the earth after their one hit wonder and I don’t think they’re quite back enough to win this award. Same with LOCASH, even though I’m seeing them in two months, they’ve been kinda laying low too. I’m an original fan of FGL (back when it was Baby You’re Like a Song) so obviously I want them to win most, but I’d be good with BO or D+S too, in that order.

GROUP OF THE YEAR Lady Antebellum - LANCO - Little Big Town - Midland - Old Dominion

Has Lady A done anything this year? I thought they were trying out solo paths? I wasn’t a fan of LBT until they released Pontoon, and I’ve found myself drifting away from them again once that song slid back down the charts. I think a lot of Midland like I do Kacey Musgraves, I just can’t get into their vibes. LANCO is still fresh, I can only recall one song of theirs. So I have to go with Old Dominion. Everything they touch turns to gold and their music videos are hilarious.

NEW FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR Danielle Bradbery - Lindsay Ell - Ashley McBryde - Carly Pearce

Danielle won The Voice in 2013, therefore she is not new. Lindsay started getting radio play in 2014 so she is also not new. Ashley and Carly both started releasing singles to radio in 2017 so they are the only two who really qualify for this category. My vote goes with Carly, who has seen more radio spins and touring.

NEW MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR Jimmie Allen - Luke Combs - Jordan Davis - Michael Ray - Mitchell Tenpenny

I kinda want to say Michael because it would be cute for the couple to win new artists, but he’s been around since 2015. And even though I’m a huge fan of Luke, his journey, and his simplicity, Hurricane came out in 2016. Even though Jordan is still pretty fresh, Jimmie & Mitchell are the only artists to have put out their first radio single in 2018. I met both of them at Party in the Park, and while I love that Mitchell has written for one of my favorites, I’ve gotta go with Jimmie.

NEW DUO OR GROUP OF THE YEAR High Valley - LANCO - Runaway June

This is a hard one. High Valley has been around in Canada for a very long time and started seeing airplay in the US in 2012. LANCO has been around for a few years but didn’t release their first full album till 2018. I have to go with Runaway June though. They’re the newest of the old and they have John Wayne’s granddaughter.

ALBUM OF THE YEAR Dan + Shay – Dan + Shay Desperate Man – Eric Church From A Room: Volume 2 – Chris Stapleton Golden Hour – Kacey Musgraves The Mountain – Dierks Bentley

To be honest, the only albums I’ve listened to (aka have had the desire to listen to) are Desperate Man and The Mountain so I’d be okay with either of them winning.

SINGLE OF THE YEAR - Goes to the Artist "Down to the Honky Tonk" – Jake Owen "Heaven" – Kane Brown "Meant To Be" – Bebe Rexha featuring Florida Georgia Line "Most People Are Good" – Luke Bryan "Tequila" – Dan + Shay

Since Single of the Year is presented to the artist, I like to pick the most fun, most entertaining song. So this one goes to Jake Owen.

SONG OF THE YEAR - Goes to the Songwriter "Break Up In The End" – Cole Swindell Writers: Jessie Jo Dillon / Chase McGill / Jon Nite "Broken Halos" – Chris Stapleton Writers: Mike Henderson, Chris Stapleton "Meant To Be" – Bebe Rexha featuring Florida Georgia Line Writers: David Garcia, Tyler Hubbard, Joshua Miller, Bebe Rexha "Space Cowboy" – Kacey Musgraves Writers: Luke Laird, Shane McAnally, Kacey Musgraves "Tequila" – Dan + Shay "Yours" – Russell Dickerson Writers: Casey Brown / Russell Dickerson / Parker Welling

Single Song of the Year is presented to the songwriters, I like to pick the most meaningful lyrical ballad. I was going to pick Yours because it became so popular as a wedding song, but then I realized it was released in 2015... so we’re going to go with Break Up in the End.

VIDEO OF THE YEAR "Babe" – Sugarland featuring Taylor Swift "Burn Out" – Midland "Burning Man" – Dierks Bentley featuring Brothers Osborne "Drunk Girl" – Chris Janson "Shoot Me Straight" – Brothers Osborne "Tequila" – Dan + Shay

Hands down will always be Brothers Osborne. They always come out with the best videos. I wish Old Dominion was in this category as well.

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR Ross Copperman - Ashley Gorley - Shane McAnally - Chase McGill - Josh Osborne

Shane McAnally. Always Shane. Forever Shane.

MUSIC EVENT OF THE YEAR "Burning Man"– Dierks Bentley featuring Brothers Osborne "Drowns the Whiskey" – Jason Aldean featuring Miranda Lambert "Everything’s Gonna Be Alright" – David Lee Murphy featuring Kenny Chesney "Keeping Score" – Dan + Shay featuring Kelly Clarkson "Meant To Be" – Bebe Rexha Featuring Florida Georgia Line

Honestly, I hadn’t even heard of Keeping Score. I’ll have to go look that one up. But for now, that means it will be tossed out of this category. Plus anything tied to Miranda because I’m so over her right now. I’m going with Burning Man because I crank my radio as high as it can go every single time that song comes on!

Don’t miss The 54th Academy of Country Music Awards airing on CBS on Sunday, April 7, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

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Full Transcription: Lana and Courtney Dazed Interview

LDR: So, we could talk just talk about whatever...like those burning palm trees that you had in the 'Malibu' video. I didn't think they were real!

CL: Back when rock'n'roll has a budget, you mean? oh my God, Lana, setting palm trees on fire was so fun. You thought they were CGI?

LDR: Yeah.

CL: God you're so young. I burned down palm trees. In my day darling you used to have to walk to school in the snow. So since I toured with you I kind of got obsessed and went down this Lana rabbit hole and became - not like I'm wearing a flower crown, Lana don't get me wrong - but I absolutely love it. I love it as much as I love PJ Harvey.

LDR: That's amazing because maybe it's slightly well documented but I love everything you do, everything you have done - I couldn't believe that you came on tour with me.

CL: I read that you spend a lot of time mastering and mixing - is this true on the new record? LDR: Oh my god yeah, it's killing me. It's because I spend so much time with the engineers working on the reverb. I actually don't love a glossy production. If I want a bit of that retro feel, like that spring reverb or that Elvis slap, sometimes if you send it to an outside mixer they might try and dry things up a bit and push them really hard on top of the mix so it sounds really pop. And Born to Die did have a slickness to it but in general I have an aversion to things that sound glossy all over - you have to pick and choose. And some people say 'it's not radio ready if it isn't super shiny from top to bottom'. But you know this. Whoever mixed your stuff is a genius. Who did it? CL: Chris Lord-Alge and Tom Lord-Alge. Kurt was really big on mastering. He sat in every mastering session like a fiend. I never was big on mastering because it's such a pain in the butt.

LDR: It is a pain in the ass.

CL: I think my very very favourite song of yours - you're not gonna like this because it's early - is 'Blue Jeans'. I mean 'You're so fresh to death and sick as ca-cancer?' Who does that? LDR: I have to say that track has this guy (Del Rey Collaborater) Emile Haynie all over it. I remember 'Blue Jeans' was more of a Chris Isaak ballad and then I went in with him and it came out sounding the way it does now. I was like 'that's the power of production.' The song was in the radio in the UK on Radio 1 and I remember thinking 'F*ck, that started off as a classical composition riff that I got from my composer friend Dan Heath.' It was like six chords that I started singing on.

CL: You have that lyric 'You were sorta punk rock, I grew up on hip-hop.' DId you really grow up on hip-hop?

LDR: I didn't find any good music until I was right out of high school, coming from the north country, we got country, we got NPR and we got MTV. So Eminem was my version of hip-hop until I was 18. Then mayb I found A Tribe Called Quest.

CL: Have you met Marshall Mathers? LDR: No. Sometimes he namechecks me in his songs. I called the head of my label (Interscope CEO) John Janick and I was like 'OK in this last song (Big Sean's "No Favors") when Eminem says 'I'm about to run over a chick, Del Rey CD in". Did he mean he wanted to run me over or was he listening to me while he ran someone over?'. And John was like, 'No, no he was listening to you while he ran someone over' and I was 'Ok, cool.'

CL: You got namechecked by Eminem? oh my god that is a jewel in the crown.

LDR: Just a little ruby.

CL: Yeah, it's not really a diamond, but it's a ruby.

LDR: Not like touring with Courtney Love. That's like an Elizabeth Taylor diamond.

CL: You know, I met Elizabeth Taylor. I was with Carrie FIsher at Taylor's easter party and she was taking six hours to come downstairs.

LDR: I love it.

CL: I looked at Carrie and said 'This is not worth it,' and Carrie said, 'Oh yes it is.' So we snuck upstairs and, Lana, when you go past the Warhol of Elizabeth Taylor as you're sneaking up the stairs and it says '001' you start getting goosebumps. And then you see her room and it's all lavender like her eyes. And she's in the bathroom getting her hair done by this guy named Jose Eber who wears a cowboy hat and has long hair and I'm like 'What am I doing here? I'm not Hollywood royalty. And the first words out of her mouth are like, 'F*ck you, Carrie, how ya doin'?' She was so salty but such a goddess at the same time.

LDR: She was so salty. The fact that she married Richard Burton twice - and all the stories you heart about those famous, crazy, public brawls - she was just up for it. Up for the trouble.

CL: So back to you. What I hear in your music is that you've created a world, you've created a persona, and you've created this kind of enigma that I never created but if I could so back I would create.

LDR: Are you even being serious right now? I don't even know if your legacy could get any bigger. You're one of the only people I know whose legacy precedes them. Just the name Courtney Love is...You're big honey. You're Hollywood (laughs).

CL: You know what darling? I started real early. I started stalking Andy Warhol before I could even think about it. And you kind of did the same, from my understanding. That 'I want to make it' thing. And there's nothing wrong with that.

LDR: No. there's not. There's nothing wrong with it when you do it for the right reasons. If music is really in your blood and you don't want to do anything else and you dont really care about the money until later. It's also about the vibe, not tobe cliched. And the people. I think we had that in common. It was about wanting to go to shows, wanting to have your own show - living, breathing, eating, all of it.

CL: Can I ask you about your time in New York? Was that a soul searching time? LDR: Oh I don't even know if I should have said to anyone that I was living in a trailer in New Jersey but stupidly, I did this interview from the trailer, in 2008.

CL: I saw it! LDR: It's cringey, it's cringey (laughs).

CL: You look so cute though.

LDR: I thought I was a rockabilly. I was platinum. I thought I had made it in my own way.

CL: I understand completely.

LDR: The one thing I wish I'd done was go to LA instead of New York. I had been playing around for maybe 4 years, just open mics, and I got a contract with this indie label called 5 Points Records in 2007. They gave me 10,000 dollars & I found this trailer in New Jersey, across the Hudson-Begren Light Rail. So I moved there, I finished school and I made that record (LDR AKA Lizzy Grant) which was shelved for 2 and a half years and then came out for like 3 months. But I was proud of myself. I felt like I had arrived, in my own way. I had my own thought and it was kind of kitschy and I knew it was going to sort of influence what I was doing next. It was definitely a phase (laughs).

CL: But you have records about being a Brooklyn Baby. You can write about New York adeptly and I cannot. I tried to write a song about a tragic girl in New York going down Bleecker Street - this girl couldn't afford Bleecker Street so the song made no sense, right? (laughs) I did my time there, but it chased me away. I couldn't do it because I wouldn't go solo, I had to have a band.

LDR: I wanted a band so badly. I feel I wouldn't have had some of the stage fright I had when I started playing bigger shows if I had a real group and we were in it together. I really wanted that camaraderie. I actually didn't even find that until a couple of years ago, I would say. I've been with my band for 6 years and they're great, but I wished I had people - I fantasised about Laurel Canyon.

CL: I wanted the camraderie. The alternative bands in my neighborhood were the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Jane's Addiction. I knew Perry (Farrel, Janes Addiction) and I went to high school for like, ten seconds with two Peppers and a guy named Romeo Blue who became Lenny Kravitz. I remember being an extra in a Ramones video and he stopped by, when he was dating Lisa Bonet from The Cosby Show and it was a big deal.

LDR: See? You didn't really see that in New York. When I got there, The Strokes had had a moment, but that was kind of it. LA had always been the epicentre of music, I feel.

CL: LA is easier. People have garages. And then as you go up the coast, in Washington and Oregon people have bigger houses and bigger garages and people have parents. I didn't have parents. and well, you had parents, but you were on your own.

LDR: Yeah. You know that song of yours (Awful) that says, '(Just shut up) you're only 16'? I think there are different types of people. There are people who head 'What do you know, you're just a kid?' and then there are people who got a lot of support (from the line) like 'Go for it, go for your dreams.' (laughs) And I think, when you don't have that, you get kind of stuck at a certain age. Randomly, in the last few years, I feel like I've grown up. Maybe I've just had time to think about everything. I've gotten to move on and think about how it feels now, singing songs I wrote ten years ago. It does feel different. I was almost reliving those feelings on stage until recently. It's weird listening back to my stuff. Today I was watching some of your old videos and the footage of you playing a big festival. The crowd was just girls - just young girls, for rows and rows. I was reminded of how vast that influence was on teenagers. And - going back to enigma and fame and legacy - you know, those girls who have grown up and girls who are 16 now, they relate to you in the exact same way as they did right when you started. And that's the power of your craft. You're one of my favourite writers.

CL: You're one of mine, so, checkmate (laughs).

LDR: What you did was the epitome of cool. And there's lots of different music going on but adolescents still know when something comes authentically from somebody's heart. It might not be the song that sells the most, but when people hear it, they know it. Are you a John Lennon fan? CL: When I hear 'Working Class Hero' it's a song I wish to God I could write. I wouldn't ever cover it. I mean, Marianne Faithfull covered it beautifully, but I would never cover it because I think Marianne did a great job and that's all that needs to be said.

LDR: I felt that way when I covered Chelsea Hotel No2, the Leonard Cohen song, but when I was doing more acoustic shows, I couldn't not do it.

CL: I don't have your range. I've tried to sing along to Brooklyn Baby and Dark Paradise, and this new one, Love. You go high, baby.

LDR: I've got some good low ones for you. You know what would be good, is that song, Ride. I don't sing it in its right octave during the shows because it's two low for me. But I've been thinking about doing something with you for a little while now. Then after we did the Endless Summer tour, we were thinking we should at least write, or we should just do whatever and maybe you could come to the studio and just see what came out.

CL: When we were on tour, our pre-show chats were very productive for me.

LDR: Me too. That was a real moment of counting my blessings. I just wanted to stay in every single moment and remember all of it, because it was so amazing.

CL: Likewise. It was really fun coming into your room. My favourite part of the tour was in Portland, getting you vinyl that I felt you needed. (laughs)

LDR: When you left the room, I was just running my hand all over the vinyl like little gems, like 'I can't believe that I have these (records) that Courtney Love gave to me, it's so f*cking amazing.' And we were in Portland too. It felt surreal.

CL: Yeah, I don't like going there much but I went there with you. We have this in common, too: we both ran away to Britain. If I could live anywhere in the world, I'd live in London.

LDR: If I could live anywhere in the world other than LA, I'd live in London. In the back of my mind, I always feel like I could maybe end up there.

CL: I know I'm going to end up there. I know what neighborhood I'm going to end up in, and I know that I want to be on the Thames. I subscribe to this magazine called 'Country Life' which is just real estate porn and fox hunting. It's amazing. OK so, if you weren't doing you, what would you do?

LDR: Do you have a really clear answer for this, yourself? CL: Yeah, I would work with teenage girls. Girls that are in halfway houses.

LDR: That's got you all over it. I'm selfish. I would do something that would put me by the beach. I would be like, a bad lifeguard (laughs). I'd come help you on the weekends though.

CL: Do you like being in Malibu better than being in town? LDR: I like the idea of it. People don't always go out to visit you in Malibu. So there's a lot of alone time, which is kind of like, hmmm. I'm not in (indie rock enclave) Silver Lake but I love all the stuff that's going on around there. I guess I'd have to say I prefer town, but I've got my half time Malibu fantasy.

CL: The only bad thing that can happen in Malibu really is getting on Etsy and overspending.

LDR: Oh my God, woman...(laughs) Tell me about it. Late night sleepless Etsy binges.

CL: Regretsy binges. Ok, so lyrically, you have some tropes and themes and one of them is the colour red. Red dresses, scarlet, nail polish...I kind of want to steal that.

LDR: You need to take over that, because I think I've got to relinquish the red.

CL: Well, I overuse the word "wh*re".

LDR: You take red, I'll trade for wh*re. I'm so lucky.

CL: I love this new song (Love).

LDR: Thank you. I love the new song too. I'm glad it's the first thing out. It doesn't sound that retro, but I was listening to a lot of Shangri-Las and wanted to go back to a bigger more mid-tempo, single-y sound. The last 16 months, things were kind of crazy in the US, and in London, when I was there. I was just feeling like I wanted a song that made me feel a little more positive when I sang it. And there's an album that's gonna come out in the spring called Lust for Life. I did something I haven't ever done, which is not that big of a deal, but I have a couple of collabs. Speaking of John Lennon, I have a song with Sean Lennon. Do you know him? CL: I do. I like him

LDR: It's called Tomorrow Never Came. I don't know if you've ever felt this way, but when I wrote it I felt like it wasn't really for me. I kept on thinking about who this song was for or who could do it with me and then I realised that he would be a good person. I didn't know if I should ask him because actually I have a line in it where I say "I wish we could go back to your country house and put on the radio and listen to our favourite song by Lennon and Yoko". I didn't want him to think I was asking him because I was namechecking them. Actually, I had listened to his records over the years and I did think it was his vibe, so I played it for him and he liked it. He rewrote his verse and had extensive notes, down to the mix. And that was the last thing I did, decision wise. I haven't mixed the record, but that fact that Love just came out and Sean kind of finished up the record, it felt very meant to be. Because that whole concept of peace and love really is in his veins and in his family. Then I also have Abel (Tesfaye), the Weeknd. He is actually on the title track of the record, Lust for Life. Maybe that's kind of weird to have a feature on the title track, but I really love that song and we had said for a while that we where gonna do something; I did stuff on his last two records.

CL: Do you have a singular producer or several producers?

LDR: Rick Nowels. He actually did stuff with Stevie Nicks a while ago. He works really well with women. I did the last few records with him. Even with Ultraviolence, which I did with Dan (Auerbach) I did the record first with Nick, and then I went to Nashville and reworked the sound with Dan. So yeah, Rick Nowels is amazing and these two engineers - with all the records that I've worked on with Rick, they did a lot of the production as well. You would love these two guys. They're just super innovative. I wanted a bit of a sci-fi flair for some of the stuff and they had some really cool production ideas. But yeah, that's pretty much it. I mean, Max Martin -

CL: Wait, you wrote with Max Martin? You went to the compound?

LDR: Have you been there? CL: No. I've always wanted to work with Max Martin.

LDR: So basically, Lust for Life was the first song that I wrote for the record but it was kind of like a Rubik's Cube. I felt like it was a big song but....it wasn't right. I don't usually do back and re-edit things that musch, because the songs end up sort of being what they are, but this one song I kept going back to. I really liked the title. I liked the verse. John Janick was like, 'Why don't we just go over and see what Max Martin thinks?' So I flew to Sweden and showed him the song. He said that he felt really strongly that the best part was the verse and that he wanted to hear it more than once, so I should think about making it the chorus. So I went back to Rick Nowels place the next day and I was like, 'Let's try and make the verse the chorus' and we did, and it sounded perfect. That's when I felt like I really wanted to hear Abel sing the chorus, so he came down and rewrote a little bit of it. But then I was feeling like it was missing a little bit of the Shangri-La element, so I went back for a fourth time and layered it up with harmonies. Now I'm finally happy with it (laughs). But we should do something. Like, soon.

CL: I would like that. That would be awesome.

Lust for Life is out this spring.

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the thing journal, 3.19.2017

review-like bitlets of the 7+ new things i took in last week.

this week: mystery team, what we do in the shadows, quelle chris, /sigh/ ed sheeran, the lies of locke lamora, sorority noise, margo price, valerie june

1) Mystery Team, dir. Dan Eckman: This is such a small movie, and such a relatively hidden gem, that I kinda feel bad for pointing out flaws. There's so much charm that I feel the gross-out humor is, while executed well, really out-of-place, doesn’t really fit with what I thought the movie was best at doing, and I really think they should've done more with Donald Glover's boundless exuberance and Aubrey Plaza's deadpan stare; that's a quality comic pairing that I kinda think got short shrift, and for good reason, it's DerrickComedy not DerrickComedy & Friends, but that's still a well they could've explored more. (Hey Bob! maybe edit that sentence?) Nah, dude. Such a solid comedy, though. The central goof somehow never grows tiresome, is in fact never fully abandoned, and they take this concept to really interesting places; like, these characters in a gentleman's club would have been good enough, but they found an absurd angle to take that took it to a whole new level (and then they took it to... a different place? a decidedly less whimsical place, to be certain). There's a lot of imagination, and that’s this film’s saving grace. Honestly, bringing up what I don’t like about this film kind of feels like analyzing a newborn fawn’s first steps. “Yeah, see, the great ones, they strut out the womb. Birth to trot time here is pitiful, not pro-quality at all. You can tell he doesn’t have that motor. You can’t teach motor, you just c -- why is it vomiting. Goddamnit, but why.”

2) What We Do in the Shadows, dir. Taika Waititi: I'm counting this as a film I haven't seen before because I was half-asleep the first time I saw it! It's... Enjoyable, I guess, is the right word? Hey. Team. Let's real quick talk about something. Why has every comedy I've seen in 2017 had a protracted vomiting sequence? It was a good time in Santa Clarita Diet. It was at least acceptable in Mystery Team because that's about what I expected from a film of its caliber. Why did anyone need to vomit here? Or, perhaps more accurately, why have I missed what makes vomit so inherently funny? The gross-out gag didn't really fit the general vibe of this film. This film was so subtle, so deadpan it's hard to tell what the jokes were, then the dude eats a fry, "You shouldn't have done that!" BLEEEEEEEEH like why, did that advance anyone's arc in a meaningful way that i just missed, did it test so well that they would've been fools to cut it, i don't get it. That was the one thing about this movie that wasn't right up my alley, which is why I spent so many sentences talking about it.

3) Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often, by Quelle Chris: Because I've never smoked pot in my life, I was initially put off by the weirdness of this album, but because I'm a generally weird person, I was on this album's wavelength by about halfway through, and now I'm stoked to give this an album a shot now that I know what to expect and that it's something I feel. It's especially nice to hear something this weird and unique because I came to this on Monday and, hey, y'all know what I did over the last weekend? Listened to a fuckton of shitty pop(/country) songs from 2007. It's such a treat to come into this world where this dude's being his own dude.

4) Divide, by Ed Sheeran: In what world is "Eraser" not just an acceptable track to put on this album, but the opening track ahead of "Castle on the Hill." "Castle on the Hill" strikes a much clearer tone, sets an actual mission. "Eraser" is just the song where Ed Sheeran raps because how do you know your limits if you never push them, and not only is it a bad intro, it’s redundant because THAT'S WHAT "GALWAY GIRL" IS THERE TO DO. Ugh. Whatever. I hate how much I enjoyed "Galway Girl." I dunno, this wasn't the worst thing in the world, there were parts were I was like "enh" but parts I really dug, so I guess cheers to exactly fulfilling my expectations!, but I kinda wish it had a more cohesive sound? This was like Ed Sheeran's tour through the magical world of music. This is U2! This is dancehall! This is traditional Irish rap! This is what your exceedingly normal cousins will play at their weddings! This? is Spain!??? And it's like hey man, just be yourself. /remembers ed sheeran's early works Yeah OK this is more than acceptable, then. As something I made myself listen to for a thing no one ever asked for, I couldn't have asked for a better time.

5) The Lies of Locke Lamora, by Scott Lynch: This was a really impressive con man story told within the parameters of basic-ass fantasy. It was this Breaking Bad-esque display of a character getting out of the tightest corners possible, and part of the extrication from the corner involves a sword fight. Father Chains is one of the best, most down-to-earth characters I've ever come across in this kind of novel, and there's a short interlude toward the end between Chains and the title character that I'm still thinking about and laughing at, but it is this kind of novel, where they call chicken “capon.” You can call it chicken. No one’s gonna call bullshit if you call it chicken. Goddamnit. Like there's a Gabe Liedman bit about The Fantasy which all fantasy novelists apparently share and how boring that makes standard fantasy, and I don't 100% get why this needed to be set in a vaguely Spanish (but almost certainly British) fantasy land with an all-powerful wizard? But y'know what, if that's what's in your heart, you write your heart out, and the fact this was fantasy didn't keep me from having a grand old two weeks on the bus.

6) You're Not as _____ as You Think, by Sorority Noise: After my first listen, I immediately hit play on this thing again, 'cuz fuuuuuuuuck, y'all. One of my favorite records of last year was The Hotelier's Goodness, it was this odd little thing that I kept returning to because it kept hitting me in this certain way, felt like an album that sort of understood the special way in which I'm depressed. This album does what Goodness does, but in a more conventional way, speaking about emptiness and failure and staying in your own head, but with music that positively soars at points, like holy shit "A Portait Of" is kind of perfect? And maybe it's worth dissecting why something more conventional hit me harder than the weirdness of Goodness, but fuck it, not now, this is _____ time, and I absolutely love this. If this doesn't end up being my #1 album of 2017, I'm going to be so stoked, because I will have heard something better than this. My favorite punk album since No Closer to Heaven. I don't think I'm going to be capable of having rational thoughts about this album.

7) Midwest Farmer's Daughter, by Margo Price: hahaha you can hear the OH SHIT I DON'T WANT IT TO BE ALL DUDES THIS WEEK from a million miles away! I really dug this. I think it's probably the least interesting out of anything in the recent rash of traditional-leaning country albums, but we're talking about Big Day in a Small Town and Sailor's Guide to Earth and Traveler, that is a strong-ass chain that would see this album as the weakest link. I think, because I had this follow _____, I wasn't really in a space where I could connect to a different kind of sadness than my own? And it's not fair to this album that its evaluation should suffer because I try to binge albums.

7a) The Sun's Tirade, by Isaiah Rashad: So like I've listened to this a couple times on the bus before, so it doesn’t belong in the New Things category, but I just wanted to give this a quick shout-out, because I actually spent some uninterrupted quality time with it (previous listens have been marred by connection issues MUSIC IN 2017 HOLLA), and man, this dude kills it. It's like a Gothic OutKast, if that makes any sense. I'm really intrigued to see how he builds off of this, because man, if he can put the pieces together, he's gonna be incredible.

8) The Order of Time, by Valerie June: It should surprise no one I lurk on a website called Saving Country Music, which is where I heard about this woman, and I was intrigued enough by the description to check her out, and this is like the country version of the Quelle Chris album, where it took me a few tracks to get on the same wavelength, but once I was there, I was there, and I loved spending time in this fully-realized world. I almost feel bad calling this country; trying to fit this into a genre feels inappropriate, like, there isn't a word for Valerie June's songs, there's only the phrase Valerie June's songs. There’s this album I listened to last year, My Wild West by Lissie, this really dreamy and ethereal-feeling folk-rock album, and that’s the closest comparison I can find to The Order of Time, except The Order of Time is more eclectic, has a more interesting sound. It’s a touch slower than what I typically go for, but this is a phenomenal artist doing something crazy-unique and making it sound dope, and I appreciate it.

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9.23 New Music Monday Release Radar Playlist with Jacqueline Jax

Explore some exciting new music from creators all over the world recently discovered by our host Jacqueline Jax as she searches the far corners of the globe for talented songwriters and music creators who are telling their truth to bring the listener a unique experience.

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Artist: Sir London

New Release: Mirror2020

Genre: Hip Hop

Located in: London

I would describe my music as the ‘golden era’ hip hop meets new school hip hop; I pride myself on lyrics and bars but then again, great music to me isn’t about being the most technically gifted, it’s about a feeling.

I came up mostly listening to the likes of Biggie, Lox, Hov, Nas, Dipset, 50 Cent, State Property, Papoose, Ali Vegas, Kool G Rap, Mobb Deep, Cormega, Foxy, Flip Mode, Saigon, CNN, Nature, Fabolous so you will always hear those influences in my music.

It’s different times though, so I like to make sure I’m in tune with what’s going on out there now. I'll come with different flows depending on where the beat takes me but I’m always gonna give you London at the end of the day. Every track I do, I mean it so I’m different from a lot of artists that record to put out lots of music for the sake of it.

As far as this new track – ‘Mirror2020’, it’s more of a commercial joint. The instrumental by one of my favorite producers at the minute – Jaywan Inc and it’s kinda dark and melodic, almost trance-like/hypnotizing but then it’s also got a nice bounce to it cos of the bass. As a matter of fact, on my first mixtape – Hacking 4 Beats, I did a freestyle track called Reflective King.

Right now we are...

It's all Mirror2020 right now, and I'm putting 100% of my energy into this at the minute - so we'll see what's next. I've got another few joints in the clip, but Mirror2020 is the motive right now.

LINKS: https://twitter.com/Sir_London1 https://www.facebook.com/SirLondonOfficial https://instagram.com/sir_london1

Artist: d'Z (dee zee)

New Release: Conviction (ft Freddi Lubitz)

Genre: Melodic Groove Jazz-Funk

Sounds like: : Steely Dan, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Earth, Wind & Fire, Gino Vannelli, Incognito, Tower of Power

Located in: : Arnhem, Gelderland, The Netherlands

Conviction is the first single of d'Z's debut EP CONNECTED and is about the thoughts we can have to limit ourselves. d'Z states that the quality of life depends on our convictions. What do we believe? Do we choose to live our lives based on fear or love? Scarcity or abundance? Although the song may have some critical remarks, it's also a feel-good tune, which leaves a smile on your face. Conviction, with vocalist Freddi Lubitz, reached #1 on the Independent Jazz Juice Radio Charts for a few weeks. The music of d'Z stands out when it comes to horn arrangements, a tight rhythm section, real-life musicians playing real instruments, high-quality recordings, and positive energy.

d'Z is the artist name of Dutch drummer, composer, producer Hans-Peter de Zeeuw. Being influenced for many years by many styles and genres such as Gino Vannelli, Steely Dan, Incognito, Tower of Power, d’Z’s musical heart landed on the shores of Groove-Jazz City. In 2018, he decided to make a record by choosing original music to make his entry into the music industry. All tunes from his debut album have different vocalists (Katie Léone -Incognito, The Brand New Heavies), 2 times Grammy Nominee Sandra St. Victor -Chaka Khan, Prince, The Family Stand, among others) which gives the music a wide variety to listen to. Since the release, many radio stations around the globe (UK, US, Australia, South-Africa) play his music regularly on their shows.

Music is my life and passion. I always knew one day I would become a professional drummer and composer. I'm happy to say that up till now, that is the case. I feel fortunate to share my music with the world. I'm convinced music can heal. So if I can make a difference, even if it's just a tiny one, I'm satisfied.

Right now, besides being a busy drum teacher, a freelance drummer, and composer for clients who want music for their video advertising, d'Z is prepping for recording new material. It is intended to head to the recording studio in 2020 and release original songs sung by a variety of fantastic vocalists.

LINKS: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0Y2Qe3Nhh4dqA5i28JTycm?si=qEcJjhTFSWiB4O_Wq99DOA Twitter: https://twitter.com/dZTheMusic1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dzthemusic Insta: https://www.instagram.com/dzthemusic

Artist: Labán

New Release: Acércate

Genre: Pop, singer-songwriter

Located in: : Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

Acércate is a song about an intense but short relationship that left the artist asking for more. It is the sweetness of pain. It is part of the upcoming album Todos Somos Dueños de Aquí.

The principle of respect for human life is part of the album’s concept and a central idea. Therefore, each of the songs is associated with a vital part of the human body. The function of each part is related to the song’s intention. This is the fourth single from the album.

Musically, it leans towards Jazz, Pop, RnB, Funk, and Rock. The lyrical content goes from protest against corruption, impunity, extreme income inequality and violence to frustration and existential crisis to love relationships and friendship.

A new trumpet funky tune, "Feel the Distance" will be the fifth single and it will come shortly after this one. We have a short but amazingly cool tour in certain cities of Mexico and the US will be announced after the release of the album, soon.

LINKS: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1iSJ17cAQFOlXvFimf3PEb?si=vDfQBlOFQHeKwPCmn1VeSg https://www.reverbnation.com/labán/song/31066116-acrcate https://www.instagram.com/elbuenlaban https://twitter.com/elbuenlaban https://www.facebook.com/elbuenlaban

Artist: Chris Barclay

New Release: New York (I'm On Fire)

Genre: Rock, Metal, Guitar Shred

Located in: : Auckland, New Zealand Technique wise I am influenced mostly by alternate pickers like Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Morse, and John Petrucci. Style wise today I enjoy the use of Modal approaches like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani with Neo-Classical touches here and there.

www.chrisbarclay.net

I am a guitarist in the vein of Steve Van, Joe Satriani, Richie Kotzen, and Yngwie Malmsteen. My heroes are all highly skilled on their instruments. My music is made up of both song and instrumental music-based Progressive, Rock, Metal, NeoClassical Country Rock and Pop.

I have immersed myself in the guitar technique and I strive to cater to audiences who appreciate that same world. We are the guitar players, the musicians, the rockers and rock anthem lovers.

New York (I'm On Fire) is a little departure from my other releases. It is a song written when I first visited New York City. I was blown away by the energy of the city and it seemed that it was indeed the center of the universe. NYC seemed to me to be the ultimate metaphor for success, chasing dreams and where anything seems possible. This is what the song is about.

LINKS: https://www.reverbnation.com/chrisbarclay/song/29943877-new-york-im-on-firehttps://open.spotify.com/album/6FCkjAKZZjOw2OZPhi0TKW https://twitter.com/chrisbarclaynet https://www.facebook.com/chrisbarclaymusic https://www.instagram.com/chrisbarclaynet http://chrisbarclay.net https://www.youtube.com/user/chrisbarclay1

Artist: Dave Molter

New Release: Foolish Heart

Genre: Rock

Located in: Pittsburgh, PA USA

A contemporary rocker with amazing guitar work from Steve Dudas (original member of Ringo Starrs band The Roundheads), "Foolish Heart" features lyrics that anyone who has loved in vain can relate to.

After a 55-year career in music, "Foolish Heart" is the title track of his debut EP of the same name.

Dave's first full CD "Mid-Century Man" will be released in early 2020. The music is an assemblage of eclectic influences, everything from Tin Pan Alley to British Invasion, psychedelia, and pop.

LINKS: Reverbnation: https://www.reverbnation.com/davemolter/song/31091465-01-foolish-heart Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1TKrXQIkeko9qqgIa7ihms Twitter: molter_Dave Facebook: www.facebook.com/davemoltermusic Instagram: dave_molter_music Website: www.davemoltermusic.com

Artist: Suniil Bhatia (Artist)/ Sound Machine (Band)

New Release: You're My Sunshine (Acoustic)

Genre: Indie Acoustic Pop Rock

Located in: Mumbai

This is the acoustic version of a new song called 'You're My Sunshine'. It’s a happy friendship song mostly in Hindi with some parts in English but the vibe and energy is clearly expressed for all listeners.

The song is part of the Album called 'Yeh Din' which means 'These Days'. The album has every song in an Acoustic and Modern Techno/ Electronica version.

Right now I am working on more songs to complete the Album.

LINKS: Reverbnation : https://www.reverbnation.com/sunilbhatia/song/31126128-youre-my-sunshine-acoustic Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/sunil-bhatia/your-my-sunshine-acoustic Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/album/2YN7ZCGcV9hame4JWJnwci (Link to Electronica album) Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/YoursMusically Intagram : https://www.instagram.com/sonu.sunil.bhatia Twitter : https://twitter.com/sunilbhatia

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The 2018 festival season is here. And on Saturday, June 2, the Country Wild Music Festival took over Cobourg’s Victoria Park with a full day of music.

The All-Canadian lineup brought a lot of country and a little taste of rock and roll to the lakefront park. With an excellent combination of male and female performers, Country Wild also showed itself to be one of the most progressive country festivals where the lineup is concerned.

Between about 2:30 pm and somewhere after 10 pm, the music played through the park and out onto the beach with Robyn Ottolini, Rebekah Stevens, Jesse Slack, Sawmill Road, Ben Hudson, Kansas Stone, Alyssa Morrissey, Gentlemen Husbands, Marshall Dane, and finally Jess Moskaluke all taking their turns. And as the sun shone down and the summer breeze blew in, the Northumberland crowd sang, danced, ate, drank, and enjoyed the start to their summer.

Robyn Ottolini kicked off the day with an acoustic set of country music. Accompanied by Tim Deegan on percussion, Robyn welcomed the early crowd to the festival and combined her music and sense of humour to entertain them as they got in, got settled, and got ready for a full festival day.

Ottolini is getting used to finding herself on festival stages, having played Aurora Magna Hoedown and the Boots & Hearts Emerging Artist Showcase – and as she wrapped her set with originals Just A Waitress and Him Problem, she showed Cobourg why they should be ready to see her in front of them on more stages in the future.

Rebekah Stevens was next on stage to keep the festival flowing, and with her full band on stage with her, she did just that.

Stevens brought shared her originals with the crowd including Give It A Try, Liar Liar, and Better In The Past. And with each song, it became clear to the audience that she belonged. It also made sense that she has also been a Top 8 finalist at the B&H Emerging Artist Showcase.

Rebekah also brought us our first surprise of the day when she and her band wrapped their early afternoon set with a cover of Wheatus’s 2000 hit, Teenage Dirtbag. We dug it!

Jesse Slack was next to take the stage, and the Peterborough native kept things moving!

With his band backing him up, and songs from his new EP, Young & Free (March 2018) to share, Jesse brought the energy we’ve seen him bring in the past and introduced himself to Cobourg. And whether he had his guitar strapped on, or he was focused on the mic, he was in control on the stage.

The sun-soaked festival goers tapped toes and listened as Jesse’s set included Stuck, Lip Sync, Counting On A Comeback, and his most recent single release, I Wish I Never Met You. The first dose of guitar lead rockin’ country was a hit with the crowd, and we’re certain that Country Wild and the fans would have Slack back in 2019.