Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Container Park



Everyone has to hear this song at some point. I love it. I love The Chemical Brothers, so it's all good to me. This was featured in the Hanna soundtrack...I don't think I ever got through that movie but the music was pretty good.

Secondly, can I just say... SHIT SHIT SHIT. I have a bunch of songs that I tagged on Shazam and have NO IDEA where I heard them. I was reminded of The Chemical Brothers track when I went to the cinema as they play soundtracks before the trailers come on, so I presume some of the tracks I have are from then. This next one is called They Move on Tracks of Never Ending Light by This Will Destroy You. 
Such a beautiful song. But I have no idea where I heard it from. Whoops!



Next up, preeeeetty sure this one was on the end of an episode of Weeds... maybe. It's called Your Rocky Spine by Great Lake Swimmers. This song also has an essence of Sufjan Stevens in it, which ironically is the next song I'm gonna put up for you.


LOVE Sufjan Stevens. I've still yet to buy their albums, I just have a bunch of their songs on iTunes. Totally need to get with it. Such a great band, I could truly listen to them all day.
This is Holland.

Some other GREAT Sufjan Stevens songs that have been featured many times on TV are To Be Alone With You, Casimir Pulaski Day, and personal favourites To The Widows in Paradise and Seven Swans.

That's all I'm going to give you today because my laptop is overheating and is probably about to crash. 

Sorry I've been away for well over like 6 weeks now. I have lots of songs lined up to give you so I'll get working on the next post and get it out tomorrow or Friday!

Laters!

~HL   

Wednesday, 29 August 2012

The randomness of it all...

Well, hello again!

Thanks for coming back. I appreciate it when people take a look, and perhaps a listen, to some of the music I've posted. I really hope someone out there has maybe found a song that they now love after discovering it here!

Anyway, back to it.

Found this song playing on the Film4 advert showcasing the upcoming films over the next season. (There are some goooooood films coming up.) Loved the track and managed to get a little bit of it into my phone to see what it was.
It's an artist I've never heard of but I'll definitely be checking him out now!
Caribou - 'Hello Hammerheads'

Next up is a song I think all us Brit's will have probably heard by now but I do think it's a great song. It's Of Monsters and Men and I first heard them when I saw their performance on TV that they did at Reading this past weekend. I was actually about to fast forward but stopped to take a listen and loved it and since then, pretty much every time I've been in the car it's been on the radio, right before I usually stick my CD in. And a LOT of people have been plugging it on twitter so I might as well jump in.

Plus, I don't know if any one across the pond have caught these guys yet, but here they are with 'Little Talks'.

Yeah, sorry I couldn't find a video that Sony haven't restricted, so click the link and you'll be taken to youtube in another tab :)

Right, next we need to talk about Weeds. Amazing show, you're watching it, yes?! I LOVE it. Seriously, I don't know what I'm going to do without it when it ends. I also love the tracks they play during the end credits of every episode. They're so amazingly awesome. Entourage was always the same, GREAT end credit songs. I'll have to go back through the series and give you some.

I am going to do a full blog post about Weeds and it's music, so prepare yourself but just to give you a taste, I'll give you this gem from the music producer Rjd2 from his album Deadringer.
Rjd2 - 'Ghostwriter'

This is a full on sync song, no doubt, so perfect for TV/Film. 
There is so many I could give you right now just from this programme but like I said, I'll do a separate blog post with my favourites. 

This was going to be all the songs I was going to give you but Andrew McMahon (from Jack's Mannequin) has just bought my attention to this sweet new track from Metric via a tweet, so I shall pass on the goodness. 



Bye for now. Peace and all that jazz! 

~HL 

Monday, 20 August 2012

Fright Night (2011)

Hola Amigos!!!

Greetings. I'd like to thank Daytrotter for the (most likely) unintentional promotion of my last blog post by re-tweeting me, but then again I did essentially promote them. Daytrotter still rules by the way, but you haven't been nagging them, have you??! Because the Marcus Foster session STILL ISN'T UP! It makes me sad. You have no idea just how amazing it was... And we'll never frikking know unless they PUT IT UP!

Anyway, back at the ranch.

I bought Fright Night on DVD. 'Cause it was £3. Can you say bargain? I watched it at the cinema when it came out last year and was surprised that I actually liked it. It's quite funny and very cheesy... It's not a great movie though. It's a popcorn movie, lets face it.

BUT the BEST thing about this movie, besides Colin Farrell, is it's soundtrack. That's why we're here, right?

The song in the credits is by and far the BEST song out of the lot and is so amazing that I completely wore it out last year when I first heard it and now I can barely listen to it. Up until last month, this song was still on my mix CD for my car, that's how awesome it is. Ten months of plays. Seriously, I never been that faithful. And screw Jay Z, who came up with the lyrics and whatnot, this is the ultimate version.
By country/blues singer, Hugo, here is '99 Problems'.


Next up is a song that's played in the beginning of the movie, just after the opening sequence. I absolutely love this song and this guys voice is niiice. Very Bob Dylan, and who the f*ck doesn't love Bob Dylan. 
Alexander - Bad Bad Love 

Next up and last of today because I've got more songs I want to introduce you to another time, is The Blue Van with 'I'm a Man'. Yeah I pretty much just love the guitar in this but listen out for the saxophone solo!


I won't put any more up but I am going to give you some links for some of the other tracks which are frikking awesome. Check them out.

Young The Giant - Cough Syrup
Lupe Fiasco - Letting Go
Kid Cudi - No One Believes Me

Seriously there's more I could put here but I can't find them on Youtube so here is the track listing from the soundtrack. 

I'm out.
Enjoy the songs! 


~HL 

Monday, 6 August 2012

The Daytrotter Sessions

I forgot to introduce you to Daytrotter, didn't I? I suck. You see, too much has been going on and I've not been inspired musically wise lately, so the blog has been ditched...for like a month. But I'm back you see, and I'm Smokinnnnnnnn'
OK so I've been watching clips from The Mask, sue me. I love Jim Carrey. (When are they gonna bring that movie out on DVD????!!!! Makes. No. Sense.)
Anyhoo...
Daytrotter is your new best friend. It will introduce to bands you've never heard of, give you the bands that you love, and will even make you love the bands you loath. It's that good. Daytrotter basically invite bands and artists to come into their studio and play live sessions. These sessions are recorded and then are offered to members (or if you join now, I think you'll get a free trial, which is what I did and basically downloaded as much as possible before my trial ended.)
These sessions are amazing. Not only do these bands come in and sing and play live as though you were hearing them at a concert, they play oldies :) You know, those songs that you haven't heard in agggeeeesssss... maybe they don't play them live any more, or perhaps they can't simply do them on stage at a gig but only in a studio. It's simple cool.
One of the artists that came in and recorded was Ingrid Michaelson. Now I wasn't a huge fan before, and I'm still not really but her live rendition of 'Die Alone' is too good to pass up. 

So here it is. 



Next up is Grizzly Bear. I LOVE Grizzly Bear. I don't even know how I came about them or heard of them but I did and I'm so happy I did. Their song 'Shift', on their album 'Horn Of Plenty' actually freaked me out to be honest. I loved the lyrics but the sound on it just scared me. (You can lol it's all right.) Then I heard a different version on this video somebody made (before Blue Valentine came out. I only just realised it was in that movie after searching youtube) and it was so beautiful and just SO much better, I thought. Then came along Daytrotter's. 

Yes, Grizzly Bear did a session and played this alternative version.

So beautiful. 

Oh my GOD. It's just so amazing every time I listen to it. 

I could give you more (yes, more Laura Marling) but I need you to go and discover it and have fun, it's just so good. Also, while we're at it
Marcus Foster did a live session back in June and Daytrotter still haven't put it up on their website. So what I want you to do is go bug the shit out of them, ask them where the hell it is and why on earth it's not up yet??!! Seriously, it was so amazing. I listened to this session live, YES you can tune in and listen to it being recorded live, listen as they fuck up and have to start again and again. It's so beautiful! Dooooo it. Do it now! 
But yeah as I was saying, Marcus Foster did 3 (I think) amazing songs which blew me away and I NEED it. So go bug them. If you click on the links above, it will take you to their twitter pages! 

That's all I'm giving you tonight folks. It's 3am. I'm tired and cranky. I'll do another post in the next couple of days (or tomorrow maybe).


I'll go find some music and get back to you!


Laters,

~HL 

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Laura Marling @ The Royal Albert Hall

Right now I have a beautiful email sitting in my inbox about a temporary job that would give me amazing experience and invaluable training but I have noooo way to get to and from this place if I did indeed get it. It's pretty much out of the way of public transport and I'm pretty much car-less. If I could only find £2000 somewhere so that I could sort that out, including insurance, tax and you know...petrol. 


Anyway, I'm ignoring the email for now. Procrastinating by making mix CD's. Do people still make mix CD's?!


But I digress, this is a blog about music....

Lets go through some Laura Marling
The concert was balls-to-the-walls fantastic. I'm pretty sure everyone in that room that night could feel how significant and important it was, for Laura especially. This was Miss Marling's first night at the Royal Albert Hall and it was spectacular. She made mention of the fact that her parents were in the audience and that was the signifier for me for how much this night meant. It was also her last concert for a while, I know she's doing Latitude this weekend (I'm not sure if maybe she's doing any other festivals) but I think this was her last official concert until the new album... Which I feel is very much under way and most likely already written. 


One of the new songs she played I absolutely loved... I thought for sure it was a cover, it was like I'd heard it before, but no, it was just so beautiful, so I found a video of her performing it. Enjoy. 
Laura Marling - Once

(EDIT: The live video disappeared so I've replaced it with this one.)
This was the best video I could find. She performed for the BBC at the Southbank Centre but I think this is a better performance. But seriously, no Youtube video will do this song justice. It was so beautiful live, in that massive building, it brought tears to my eyes.

It's clear she probably has written all of the songs for her next album because they're all over Youtube from her live performances this past year or so. I can't wait. 


Next up is one of my all time favourite songs. Blackberry Stone. I managed to find a video from the night at the Royal Albert Hall that some lovely person kindly uploaded for us all to enjoy. 


Too beautiful... You absolutely, truly appreciate her music so much more in that massive hall. Several thousand people completely stunned into silence. 


One more from the Royal Albert Hall. Enjoy. 
Laura Marling - What He Wrote

So I'm now just going to share another couple of my favourites, ones that I couldn't find from the night so these are just the recordings. So good. 


This one I did actually record myself on the night, but I was in the nose bleed seats or cheap seats,if you will, front row though so I had a nice, none obscured view but with my dodgy camera that takes pathetic pictures and video... well it's just not good enough to show. Seriously, my phone took better pictures -_- 
Laura Marling - Night After Night

I have a feeling not that many people like this next song. It's just a hunch because I couldn't find many video's on Youtube... weird, because I do really love this song. 
Laura Marling - Alpha Shallows


Now this next one is my ALL time favourite of hers, I think... (so far, anyway.) 
Laura Marling - Hope In The Air
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"Pick up your rope, Lord. Sling it to me, if we are to battle I must not be weak!"
Too good. 


Anyway, that's me done I think on the LM front. This weekend I will introduce you to Daytrotters!! Have a good week. I feel better now after listening to these, I was definitely on a downer.
Right, I'm off to go listen to some more Marling and as I parting gift, this is the other new song she performed at RAH. I'm unsure of the name but sounds goooood. Enjoy. 



~HL


PS. Sorry about you having to go listen to some of the songs on Youtube. These record labels and their laws, eh?!

Kingdom Come

I'm gonna blog the crap out of the Laura Marling gig at the Royal Albert freaking Hall tomorrow.

But right now, after having just watched a really shoddy version of The Hunger Games (because I felt like it) I have to blog a couple of songs from the soundtrack that I've been obsessed with over the last couple of days. They're not even in the actual movie but I realised about a week ago that I'd never actually sat and listened to the whole album. So I did. 'Tis pretty good.


BUT before we get into it... I have to apologise, I've tried to find youtube video's that can be embedded and allow playback from other sites but... Alas, you will find that some record labels will not allow it. So when the song doesn't play, just click the 'Watch on Youtube' link and it'll bring it up for you in another window.


Back at the ranch...


So I think I've shared a song of theirs before, but I am currently obsessed with The Civil Wars. They are soooooo good. Their harmonies are amazing and so beautiful. So up first is their track from The Hunger Games OST called Kingdom Come

Good right? :D Ugh. That line "Fly high across the sky from here to Kingdom Come, fall back down to where you're from..." Gets me every time. Right in the feelings. 


Second up, well, it's Taylor Swift. Now I absolutely HATED this song when I first heard it, this was way before the movie came out but I don't have much patience for the Swift and her voice can be on the verge of irritating sometimes. Too breathy..? I think that may be it. But since listening to it over and over, I've decided I do love it. Not as much as The Civil Wars track but the fact that they feature on this song with Swifty helps a lot. Here's Safe & Sound



The last one I'll put from the soundtrack is Come Away To The Water by Maroon 5. This track features Rozzi Crane and I think that helps quite a bit actually, she definitely brings something to it. However, Adam Levine's voice cannot be denied. It is beautiful. 
It's a really great song and suits the movie perfectly without it being towards either one extreme or the other, which I found with a lot of the other songs on the album. Several of them are just so opposite, they kind of contradict themselves rather than compliment each other. 

OK that's it on The Hunger Games front. 


However, I did watch Remember Me today as well. I don't know why I do it to myself, I just ended up in tears. Anyway, it reminded me of the track that they used in the trailer for the movie... well I'm pretty sure it was a trailer for this movie, I don't care either way... it reminded me of this AWESOME song that you should listen to. 


It's Dream On by The Chemical Brothers. I believe this was on their third album, Surrender, and is personally a favourite of mine. Enjoy.


That's all folks. 
I'm going to go..... "Sleep on, Dream on" ;) 


~HL

Sunday, 1 July 2012

Underwater...




Joshua Radin - Underwater 
LOVE this song and I am patiently (not) waiting for his album to come out on the 31st of July.


Right so, quite a few songs I want to let everybody know about because...well, they're awesome. First one is a song I recently heard on a film trailer. This one is called 'Demons' by Imagine Dragons and was featured on The Words trailer. I'm going to put the trailer below because I actually quite want to see this movie.


Bradley Cooper... YUM. Anyhoo... it's the song towards the end and here it is in full for your enjoyment. I immediately downloaded this song after watching this. (I actually spent money buying this track even though I'm flat broke!)
Imagine Dragons - Demons


Another song I found over the past 10 days or so is this gem by ALB called 'Golden Chains'. Now some may recognise this immediately from a funny/weird advert for a car... I forget which. I quite like this song purely cause it's quite joyful and it makes me laugh. Wait for the chorus, that's when it kicks in!
ALB - Golden Chains


OK I'm a huge movie fanatic if it's not already obvious and I love all kinds of movies. Seriously, I'm open to anything. I'm impatiently waiting for The Dark Knight Rises to come out right now and then there are a bunch of films out this year which I'm really looking forward to. 
I'm a HUGE Jennifer Lawrence fan. 1.) Because she is amazing in Winter's Bone - the first movie I saw her in, and I recommend watching it. 2.) She was in The Hunger Games. 'Nuff said. The books are awesome, don't argue with me. 3.) She is perhaps one of the funniest people ever. Seriously just watch/read one or two of her interviews and it's all there. She completely cracks me up!
So the trailer for her next movie just came out (also featuring the b-e-a-utiful Bradley Cooper) called Silver Linings Playbook. I can't wait for this movie. Here. Watch.

Like someone said on twitter, it's a Jennifer Lawrence/Bradley Cooper DANCE MOVIE. Oh my gosh, I'm excited. And...Where the hell on earth has Chris Tucker been!? Seriously?!


Anyway, that's all for now. I'm seeing Laura Marling (again) on Saturday at the ROYAL ALBERT FREAKING HALL. Super excited. So I'm thinking a little Laura Marling spam blog will be up by the end of this week. 

Laters.


~HL