If there's a future, we want it NOW!

Tweet New year. New look.

Yes, I've finally managed to find time to change the blog. Now that I've figured it out a little, and as I learn more about HTML codes (man, are they a minefield), I'll hopefully update this to look a lot better over the next few months. 

As I was doing all this at 4am last night, I was randomly listening to songs on my iPod and found some that I wanted to share in this post. 

First up is a song by a band I think I may have already mentioned, Young The Giant. I heard there song Cough Syrup on the Fright Night soundtrack, which I posted about here. If you haven't heard of them, well get on board.

This is called My Body and is so energetic and verrrrry catchy. Love it. Now, it's in my Vampire Diaries playlist so..well...it must of been played on there. *shrugs*

They're definitely getting more recognition but this is one of my favourite tracks of theirs.

Now for some oldies but goodies. I've just finished re-watching all four seasons of The OC. Cause I'm cool and there's nothing on TV. But whatever you say about that show, you cannot deny the music. It was amazing and featured my all time favourite Music Supervisor, Alexandra Patsavas. 

Band Of Horses - The Ends Not Near

This song features on the 6th and final The OC soundtrack and was actually the title of the final episode of the series. I do love Band of Horses but only in small doses. I don't think I've ever been able to listen to one of their albums all the way through. Great band though!

I might just do a full on The OC music post next because there are a lot of songs I want to put up just from that show, so I'll leave those for next time.

Next up is a bit of Florence + The Machine. Gotta love Florence. I absolutely love Ceremonials and it's an album I come back to over and over again and find a new love for the songs I wasn't as into in the beginning. This is one of those cases. This one is called Bedroom Hymns and I found a completely new love for it when it was used on TV recently. I think it was used over an advertisement of upcoming programmes on one of the channels... Sky maybe or FX, I forget. This is a great song and far too short. 


The final instalment for today is, of course, Paramore. 

Yes, they finally released their first single off their self-titled album, which is out in April. The first listen of Now completely threw me but that was the same feeling I got with Renegade and Hello Cold World. It's so different to their older stuff but I love the direction this is going. Give it a couple of listens and be completely hooked! 

Lost the battle, win the war
I'm bringing my sinking ship back to the shore
Starting over, head back in
There's a time and a place to die but this ain't it!

Love the lyrics too, as always. It's definitely one of those songs that the more you listen to it, the more you like it. This has seriously been on repeat but it's so annoying that you can't download it from itunes until February 18th or something... You have to acquire it other ways, I'm afraid. Hopefully we'll get the video soon, very much looking forward to that!

That's all for now. Hope you like the new look.

~HL

When The Night Comes...

Tweet Ooooh first post of 2013! What up!!

Hope this new year treats you all well :)

So, to start off the new year I have Imagine Dragon tickets and Gabrielle Aplin tickets. BOOM. Hoping to make some stops at a couple of festivals this year too. So it'll be a full on music fuelled year!

Plus new Paramore album.. Out on 8th April in the UK, in case you were wondering. We should hopefully get a new track from them this month, called 'Now'.

Also, here's hoping that The Black Keys get their new album out this year too!!

But now I'll give you some tracks I've been listening to.

First up was a song I heard on an ad while I was at the cinema, watching Seven Psychopaths which is an AH-MAZING movie...seriously, go see it, funny as hell and I love Sam Rockwell. That is all. 

Back at the ranch. So this song was on a advert for OPI nail polish and is the weirdest fucking thing ever. Honest to God, some of the actual comments from others in the theatre were "What did we just watch?" and "What the hell was that?" 

See for yourself.

Imagine that on a 30ft screen. Fucking weird. But I really love the track. It's from a couple of French DJ's called C2C and the track is 'Down The Road'. 
I totally went and bought it from iTunes when I got home. I can't even explain why I like it but it's definitely an ad you wouldn't ever forget seeing on a massive cinema screen, and the song just makes it so unique. 

The next song I'm gonna recommend giving a listen to is from Ellie Goulding. I got her album for Christmas but I've still yet to listen to it. This track was actually used for a movie (as per usual here) called Now Is Good. One of my favourite films of last year, based on the book by Jenny Downham (originally called Before I Die, such an amazing book), the DVD comes out on the 21st January. I've pre-ordered that business. 

It's called 'I Know You Care'. Lovely song, it's been on repeat for the last week. 


I'm just gonna jump right in to the next song. It's a cover of 'Winter Song', the original of which I absolutely love but then this cover comes along and breaks my heart all over again. Dare I say, I love it so much more than the original or any other covers!

It's done by Natalie Taylor with some help from her husband and his band mates General Ghost and she was so kind enough to offer this cover out as a free download, so happy times for everyone!! You can download the track from here. Which I got from Natalie's Tumblr, which is here. Enjoy. 


Last but not least is a song by Dan Auerbach, yes, of The Black Keys. It's from his solo album 'Keep It Hid'. I'm only just getting into this album because I have a hard time even imagining The Black Keys going their separate ways.
There's a couple of his songs that are on constant repeat at the moment but to just chose one I'm gonna go with 'When The Night Comes'. Oh my THIS SONG. I love it. Repeat. Seriously.

So much love for this song. 

Anyway, I'm off. Enjoy the new tunes. Hopefully I've made a fan out of someone for these awesome songs. 

Happy New Year! 

~HL

The Black Keys

Tweet

It always surprises me when people tell me that they've never heard of The Black Keys.
My automatic response is to say "Oh, you have, you just don't know it."

They are one of my all time favourite bands and they have featured in my life since their 5th studio album, Attack & Release. But when Brothers was released, that was it. I absolutely loved them.

This year marked the first time that I ever saw them live. And also the second time, cause once just isn't enough. I saw them at the Alexandra Palace in London in February, a much more chill event compared to seeing them a few weeks ago at the NIA in Birmingham. It was so manic and such an amazing night. Every single person there was SO into it, to the point where it got near the end of the gig and we were all just so exhausted from throwing ourselves around. But that's the best feeling, to get home and be so dog bone tired, and deaf, but so relieved that you went. A night I will never forget!

For those that haven't seen them live though, I recommend downloading their Tour Rehearsal Tapes  from Amazon for £2.99. You can't beat that price and the tracks are soooooo good. I can't recommend it enough!!

Now for those that have never heard them, you have. Trust me. 

Their songs feature a lot in adverts, for them this is their equivalent to radio exposure, since they didn't get that much air play before now. Obviously, now they do. El Camino, their 7th studio album that was released this year, is the most commercial release they've done and has been EVERYWHERE. TV shows, adverts, radio, I even hear a couple of their tracks on the Sunday morning football programme my dad watches. It's insane but this last album has some of the most catchiest songs ever! Whether the band intended it to be that way or not, I'm not sure. 

I'm so obsessed with this band that I basically centred my whole dissertation on them. 
This is more for those in the UK, but here's an example of where you've heard their music. 



Also there have been several movie trailers that have their tracks featured. And then there's the collaboration with RZA called Baddest Man Alive which is being used for the release of The Man With The Iron Fists movie.


I'm not gonna waste my time putting all these videos up here though, so I'm just gonna give you a few of my favourites cause if there's one thing I think you should do in 2013, it's to discover The Black Keys.

Gold On The Ceiling


Howlin' For You 


Tighten Up


They really have some of the best videos!

These ones above are the ones that I think everyone should absolutely love. Some other ones that are my favourites are Psychotic Girl, Strange Times, Everlasting Light, which is AMAZING live so I'll find a decent video of it and post it next year ;) 

Enjoy The Black Keys and go see them live if you ever get the chance. 

This is my last post of 2012. Hopefully I'll find time to blog a bit more next year. 

Have a wonderful New Years and I hope that 2013 brings you everything you want and desire!!!

Laterz

~HL

Imagine Dragons

Tweet

If you've read any of my other posts, you may have come across a certain band called Imagine Dragons...Then again if you watch TV or have caught a few trailers that have come out recently then you'll already know them. Trust me. 

And they're gonna be big. They're currently touring around Europe, in fact they just played London's Dingwalls in Camden. 

I first heard one of their tracks on The Words trailer released earlier this year but very recently their music has been featured on The Perks of Being a Wallflower trailer and TV Spots (in England anyway) and just today when the trailer for The Host was released, their next single Radioactive is featured prominently. 

By the way, while I have you here. If you haven't seen The Perks of Being a Wallflower... seriously, go see it, download it, get the DVD, rent it...I don't care, you just have to do it. It's such an amazing film. This is coming from someone who was expecting to hate it. I'm not a big Emma Watson fan, at all, and word about Ezra Miller is that he's a bit of a douche which tends to affect the way I watch his films, but I'm telling you, this is pretty much one of my favourite movie's this year. Logan Lerman is Charlie. Also, read the book. 

Anyway, back to Imagine Dragons. New favourite band. 

I just got their album last week and I've already worn it out. 

The first song I heard was Demons. Enjoy below. 


The song featured on The Perks trailer is It's Time, one of the best tracks on the album. Enjoy.


And the most recent track of their's to be released is Radioactive, the first song on their album, Night Visions, and also my favourite track on the album. 


Another one of my favourite tracks from this album is just the catchiest song ever, I can't get it out of my head and the lyrics are such a stand out. In fact, the lyrics all over this album are superb and hit home in more ways than one. 
On Top of The World

"And I know it's hard when you're falling down
And it's a long way up when you hit the ground
Get up now,
Get up,
Get up now."

Seriously, this whole album is just soooooo good. I can't get over it! Another track to go listen to when you have time is Bleeding Out. (UPDATE: I've been to see them live. Check out what I thought here.)

Now, just to move on from gushing about this band, I'm gonna post a song which I'm pretty sure everyone has heard by now cause it's officially on 3 current adverts on television and is featured on the Silver Linings Playbook trailer and TV spots, so I keep hearing it and it is also the most catchiest song EVER. 
The Lumineers - Hey Ho

This song needs to be longer. 

Laters,

~HL

Container Park

Tweet

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   

The randomness of it all...

Tweet 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 

Fright Night (2011)

Tweet 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