Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Islands

Caught the end of Islands's show at Mohawk last night. I'm not a huge Islands fan but what I saw of their show was good and I'd see them again. Plus I only had to pay $3 to get in because it was so late into the show. Once again, it is bad ass to live just a few blocks from some of the best music venues in Texas. Austin is dope.


Saturday, October 24, 2009

uggarrr

bike to emos... saw a real good singer la band keyboard player three piece Crash Kings... saw the The Bravery good but not spectacular... thought they were Euro but their not... got drunk at Buffalo Bill's with Aaron... met Matthew who brought me back... met someone from the apartments at the bike racks and drank a little rum... nothing good so I came home and started watching new Office episode... passing out now.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Centaur Marauder Recording Session 2

Last weekend we spent Friday night, all Saturday, and into Sunday afternoon recording in Montgomery. I think we ended up recording three new songs, "Deep In The Sauce", "San Fransisco's Burning", and "When You Speak." I also laid down some more lyrics to "Open To The Truth." Overall I felt that we were way more productive than last time. Also, Stephen wrote and sang most of the songs, which was freaking great. Actually I felt like I hardly did anything the whole time but back him up, which made things really fun and stress-free.





So we are starting to look for a solution to our crappy drums problem. We're hoping to find $750 just lying around, but until then we'll have to Frankenstein together a better kit. I'm going to try to sell some extraneous crap I have, but it might prove difficult. If only we could figure out some way to make money with music!


Over the weekend Stephen hipped me to the fact that Thrice's Dustin Kensrue's little brother is in a band called "Eye Alaska", which apparently is nearly as big as Thrice. I checked them out on MySpace Music, and they're not my cup of tea. Seems like there was a consensus that the lead singer is not cool, and that they appear to be a label-manufactured band. Very un-Thrice-like.

I just got through watching a music documentary show called 'Embedded' on Hulu. The show featured an L.A. indie band called Silversun Pickups, who I've never heard of before. Well, I was not that impressed with this band either. I did notice that their bass player is a girl, which surely adds to their popularity. I keep telling Grant and Stephen that we need a girl bass player but they say I'm crazy. No, you two are crazy. Two crazy homos.

I have also recently heard music I like. Enchanted Islands, the newest album by Beep Beep (Saddle Creek) is sooo great. I have been listening to this album relentlessly for about three weeks now. It's just so original, with amazing songwriting and guitar work. "I brush a pony's mane thinking of your hair drying in my arms." Need I say more? No, I need not.