Remember - Misty Miller

Misty Miller

Whether your making a statement or asking a question one is just as relevant as the other. " Do you remember me?  I was the girl about 5' 3. Do you remember my eyes blue, blue as the skies.." Misty Miller sweetly sings about the evolution of young love and its highs and lows.

 Check out Remember.  The debut EP by 16 year old ukulele player from South West London certainly will not disappoint.  It's such a refreshing surprise to hear her fresh voice serenading along with  her plucky companion.  Misty, a self taught musician, recounts on her Myspace page how she received her uke as a gift and only picked it up one afternoon when she was bored. Once she picked it up she was hooked and has been writing music on it ever sense.

Misty sings like an angel in Evergreen Love- a heart felt ballad  sung for someone special no doubt, and Vampire, a song about a girl in love with - well a vampire - should be a popular song for her since it's every teenage girls fantasy at the moment! Still, while Vampires may be overexposed in the media- Misty puts a new spin on the usual hard rock soaked tunes that are commonly associated with Vampires- instead the song musically saunters about the vampire/human component with delicious detail.

      "Tell me about your thousands of lives, I want to learn about your other side.

 'cause I can't get you off of my mind.  And touch me with your freezing finger tips

 and kiss me with your blood red lips- I want to gaze into your ever-changing eyes.."

The final track on her EP, Home, has a soft country vibe, and I find it inspiring she can use a small instrument to take on various influences and it really works for her.  Misty Miller is a name you definitely will remember. She uses her talent to write relevant songs and her ability with this unique instrument leaves you  excitingly anticipating the next song.

Blackbird Blackbird/ Summer Heart LP

Ahh Fridays.. the end of a weekdays, promoter of good things to come. I was looking for some music to put me in a good place and be something out of the ordinary for me and hot damn whats this?  I stumbled upon the floaty electric synths and moody beats of Blackbird Blackbird.  Mikey Sander  is the name behind the musical dreamscapes that is Blackbird Blackbird and I challenge you to find a song that you dont like! He has released two projects just this month alone on his website: Summer Heart  LP and Modern Disbelief EP and announced on his blog this morning that Fade to White 7 is available for pre-order through Firetalk Records. Mikey, no one can say your a man without a vision!
So the other night in my sleepless search for anything to coax me into sweet slumber I come across the video for Pure- the video was enigmatic and entrancing all at the same time, and yes there are blackbirds in the video as well- very nice touch. Now I knew I HAD to hear more. Hawaii- another mind altering song that puts you somewhere along Waikiki at night at a luau complete with hula dancers and roasty pig crackling in a pit. I also enjoyed the title track Summer Heart  and Aura to name a couple more . It should also be noted that Blackbird Blackbird covered Float On made famous by Modest Mouse in  2004 and it sounds sick and aptly gave the song a fresh new vibe. So go download Summer Heart and get a FREE download of his digital album Modern Disbelief featuring Fade to White ( feat. Emily Reo). 




Pure

Blackbird Blackbird – Pure (official music video) from Isaac Bauman on Vimeo.


Float On

Review :Rocky Votolato -True Devotion

Singer songwriter Rocky Votolato has gift- he makes the morose sound beautiful.  In True Devotion he has a clean yet emotional sound and often Ill find myself mindlessly singing tracks like  Red River - my personal favorite, it has a strong indie rock flavor all throughout the track.
 One thing anyone will notice about  Rocky Votolato is that he isn't musically boring or predictable. Maybe it comes from his background being raised in the Pacific Northwest indie scene of Seattle that he pulls his inspiration from, but if you compare Red River to another track on the album, Lucky Clover Coin, its stripped to an acoustic guitar, some violin in parts and his harmonic voice and heart felt lyrics- YEAH this is a damn good track and I like that it's first on the album because you'll want to hear it over and over again.

Rocky is currently on tour and maybe in a living room near you.  He's taking a grass root- ish  approach with this tour that is absolutely amazing- basically you go to his website and can actually request him in your very own living room to do a show in your town- if your chosen- you get 5 tickets for yourself then he sells the rest to fans in your area at $20 a head and you get a very intimate performance with a very cool dude in your own basement or wherever you can comfortably hold about 50 people. All he needs is a chair and the man is set- how awesome is that?! You dont even have to have a big house, here's a vid of said concert he recently put on in someones APARTMENT!



True Devotion is an understated  mellow album with mostly  simplistic acoustic songs proving once again that  at least as far as he is concerned less is more and we the fans are forced to reckon with the lyrics of his melodies and the messages it  softly speaks.
Track listing:
1. Lucky Clover Coin
2. Fragments
3. Red River
4. Eyes Like Static
5. Sparklers
6. Instrument
7. What Waited For Me
8. Sun Devil
9. Don’t Be Angry
10. Where We Started