Its stuck

Do you ever get a song stuck in your head for days? I've had this song from native New Zealander Kimbra on repeat in my head for so long figured I would share. In case you think you've never heard of her, you have. She's the sweet female voice in Sombody that you used to know, you know that song you love to sing in private but swear you're totally over in public.

On repeat: Tune Yards

This week has just flown on by hasn't it? I've been so busy with projects and taking care of our growing garden...seems someone keeps helping themselves to our delicious strawberries. Its sad really, we put all that effort into growing organic food in a community garden at the back of an elementary school and have not been able to eat from our berries for the last 3 weeks! Totally  not fair, guess we are going to have to spend even more money and time to put them under lock and key, sad but apparently necessary. 

But enough of the sad stuff, I thought I would end the week with one of my newest favorites, Tune Yard. The husband introduced me to the unique and almost chant like sounds and now I'm a total fan, I mean, once I found out she used a looping machine to create her music I was glued to her videos and live performances. There is just something about seeing the sounds turn into music right before your eyes and ears. While her videos are colorful and a bit unusual, the best videos are her live shows. Be sure to check out how Merrill Garbus creates each note. It always boggles my mind when I watch musicians like this, so much talent!

Metronomy madness

Last week as part of the husbands birthday gift we made it across the city in a torrential downpour to feast our eyes on the creativeness that is Metronomy. And lets just say they did not disappoint. After shaking off pounds of water and wading through a sold out crowd of slightly damp folks, we scored a front row spot right in front of my favoritest band member {Gbenga, the super cool base player} and got our dance on. Now, if you haven't heard of them its ok, as of a year ago I hadn't either but now they are always on my go to list of bands that deserve some round the clock play time. Self described as "a little bit electronic, a little bit guitary", this England born band is crazy addicting.  And love this live and acoustic version of the look, they make it look so darn effortless! I would highly reccomend trying to check them out live, not only do you get a way cool light show but Oscar, the keyboardist is a sight to see just on his own. 

Getting musical

I just discovered Alexander Ebert, lead singer of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zero released a solo album a few months ago and oh does it sound lovely. Not only is the sound just happy and fun to listen to but the visuals in the video are quite interesting. Although the mouth pool is a little creepy A million years is a great weekend listen. You can find the album here.

And speaking of fun weekend music, last weekend I stopped in at The Independent for a little indie music fun. My favorite was A B and the Sea and turned out I knew a few of their songs thanks to Rue's summer video. Its such a fun and playful video its hard to keep yourself from dancing. Trust me.

Well, since this is clearly a musically charged post, I'm getting myself pumped for tomorrow night at The Rickshaw Stop. Its a full blown 90s party! They had me at the poster alone then when they dangled visions of Zach and Kelly and Salt n' Pepa and knew it was going to be one fun party. To get me in the mood I watched a live performance of Alanis Morissette and it was like it was '95 all over again!