ben howard "keep your head up"

a few things to note:

- the pretty, carefree, waterslide-filled video
- the lyric "keep your head up, keep your heart strong. keep your mind set, keep your hair long. keep your head up, keep your heart strong. keep your mind set in your ways. keep your heart strong."
- if you don't know ben howard's music, i urge you to check it out. currently soaking it right up.

"only love" ben howard

Ben agreed to shoot an acoustic version of "Only Love", only to find out during the recordings that a secret flashmob was set up around this recordings and hundreds of people suddenly appeared from the dark to attend the performance. Ben Howard: "We didn't realise anyone was coming. I was tired and behaving like a jerk. It was probably one of the craziest things we've ever done."

The Christmas Story

Let's face it, Belieber says it all.

LOVE Boyz II Men...& of course Biebs

I met this guy last night at a party

Josh told me he was going to try and pursue music. i didn't listen to his music until this morning *swoon.

Justin Bieber claymation

this just made my day A LOT better. how can you not love claymation? something old + something new:

90's country

it's probably no shock to you i really loved 90's country. well, in perusing the Nashville Lifestyle Most Beautiful People 2011, i saw Sherrie Austin among the recognized. That name sparked a faint memory of a 90's country singer with one hit that i loved...and a video that did my high school heart good. I googled her to see and it was the same girl. So here you go:

"honey come home" elenowen

i'm a little late to jump on this bandwagon, but what a beautiful, musical couple. nashville's very owen: elenowen.

saw this in the New Year's Eve movie preview

The Afters, "Start Over"

i can't help...

Ingrid Michaelson's cover of "I Can't Help Falling in Love with You." Beautiful. Perfect way to wake up on a verrrrry dark morning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5UG3pcsJ0A&feature=related

Don't mind the One Tree Hill themed video :)

Someone Like You. hey boys :)

"people say" portugal. the man

lollapalooza someday...

bon iver beauty.

"Here's one the Icelandic Ministry of Tourism will appreciate: Bon Iver's new video for "Holocene," which follows a young boy as he explores the island nation's breathtaking countryside. It's a stunning five-and-a-half minutes of vast green plateaus, floating icebergs, rocky ocean beaches, and other scenic beauty. You can almost feel the damp moss squishing beneath your feet. The video -- fittingly premiered at National Geographic -- is a perfect match for the atmospheric folk song from the Wisconsin band's self-titled album. "I could see for miles, miles, miles," frontman Justin Vernon sings in his warbling falsetto." - found via SPIN.com

catchy song, great marketing! thank you subaru.

"powerful stuff" sean hayes

to whom it may concern...

"there's a lot that i don't know. there's a lot that i'm still learning."

so excited jack's mannequin will be in nashville oct 18th right after their new album drops. lead singer andrew mcmahon's (formerly of something corporate) battle against leukemia in 2005 tugged my heart strings then, but given my boss bob's current condition, i have even more respect and admiration for his fight and his work. here's a little acoustic love:

Chris August jams

"remind me" brad paisley & carrie underwood

simple video. honest message. fabulous duet.

KFC

"something good can work."

every time this song comes on my slacker radio, i find myself bobbing my head at work. it doesn't hurt that this irish band was produced by Eliot James (Kaiser Chiefs, Noah & The Whale, Bloc Party).

we have talented friends.

if you don't know him already, meet neal carpenter. sounds just as nice off stage as he does on. recently i relished a summer evening w/ sa & loey listening to songs like so:

socks & chimes.

this duo is hard to find on the interweb, but well worth the effort. visit their website for a little sampling. sounds like a forgotten track on the 500 days of summer album. love their description: "It’s a love story. A real one. Aches, elations, and everything in between."

http://socksandchimes.com/

"pumped up kicks" foster the people

"This orgy of success was ignited by "Pumped Up Kicks" — the song that went from YouTube to the eager forebrains of very dedicated fans and then an after-the-fact three-song EP. Simply searching for "Pumped Up Kicks" and "song of the summer" — a cliché as applicable as it is adorable — yields hundreds of results from local newspapers, national media outlets, radio station websites and blogs.

"When I wrote ['Pumped Up Kicks'] I didn't know that it would be the type of song it has been," Foster says. By that, he means that he didn't know it would become the impetus for launching the band into a major label deal and all these sold-out shows and the trappings of pop fame circa 2011, etc. 'I produced 'Pumped up Kicks' myself and to me it was just a demo. A week or two later it started to go viral.'" - LA Weekly

new mumford.

"home"

I ran away in floods of shame
I'll never tell how close I came
As I cross the Holland road
You went left and I went right
As the moon hung proud and white
You would of loved it here tonight

Spin me down just to pin me down
On the cover of this strange bed
Spin me down just to pin me dowm

Roll out your questions keep them down
Let the water lead us home
And I was sorry for what I'd done

You were young I was not old
And our story was not told
But torn apart by greedy hands

Spin me round just to pin me down
On the cover of this strange bed
spin me round just to pin me down

Spin me round just to pin me down
I'll be gone by the nights end
Spin me round just to pin me down

But I'll be home in a little while
Lover I'll be home
And I'll be home in a little while
Lover I'll be home

And I'll be home in a little while
Lover I'll be home
And I'll be homw in a little while
Lover I'll be home

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/07/mumford-sons-debut-a-new-song.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

"faster" matt nathanson

very pop-y. very much on repeat in my car. + windows down & a sonic happy hour drink = lovely afternoon.

1/2 commercial, 1/2 music video...

...whole lotta love for andrew belle. apparently windows came to him & requested he write a song for them. i think he did a pretty great job :)

music videos just aren't what they used to be!

The Head and the Heart

haunting voices. i just love this:

Beauty

i realize not everyone sees beauty in the same way. the reason i love the show So You Think You Can Dance is because it combines almost every creative element. there is music, choreography, art and dance. at times there are even multiple emotions expressed and felt. so, that's why i look forward to it every season. it's beautiful to me. plus you learn stories, which is makes them real. so i've included two clips. When the world is introduced to melanie & then my favorite dance from last night, who happened to be hers.

my drive to work this morning

Carrie killed it. AMEN SISTER

a very British Monday

"kiss me slowly" parachute

wasn't a huge fan of their first release on their upcoming album, but with this one, i'm a parachute believer again. loving the simplicity of this video as well.

Whitney - she's still got it.

"sooner or later" michael tolcher

old song that a friend put on a new mix. heard & instantly loved. created a little nostalgia for baz luhrmann's "wear sunscreen" song :) cheers to a little sunshine today!

sanders bohlke.

http://www.myspace.com/sandersbohlke/music/albums/sanders-bohlke-14677820
perhaps one of the most underrated musicians i've seen.

description:
"His music is acoustic guitar singer-songwriter fare, his poetic lyrics tinged with bittersweet memories and hope for the future. And his voice has a strong range capable of reaching a falsetto pitch that Justin Timberlake would envy."

lyrics:
I'm not ready, I'm not ready
for the weight of us, for the weight of us
for the weight of us, for the weight of all of us
The time has come, let us be brave....
Shake off all of your sins, the time has come, let us be brave, let us be brave

favorite track:
"where i belong"

Adele. enough said

You Go Girl...you 12yr old you!

lightning 100 bday bash

last night, i was blessed to see these nashville gems (among others). i was overwhelmed with the feeling of never wanting to leave nashville. ever. for me, live music is life giving.

Teach Me How To Dougie?...seriously.

compliments of tamia.

little sister has an ear for music!

Jar of Hearts

sing me thru Monday Adele.

"rogue machine" the daylights

featured on paste today. and mentioned by ssmith recently :)

Cool Remix

here is the link to the Passion Pit remix of Bruno Mars "Grenade" song. it's a pretty good remix. it's on the Nylon Blog. So here is the link love!

http://nylonmag.com/nylonblogs/blog/2011/02/07/first-listen-bruno-mars-x-passion-pit/

eli "paperboy" reed

one of paste's top 10 solo artists of 2010. hard not to smile when listening to this marvin gaye-esque song!

Should i be embarrassed?

perhaps a dance party?

i found this song on my friend Ben's wall. he loves fun music, so this definitely falls in that category. enjoy Robyn!

"love came down" - brian johnson

we've been singing this song at Midtown recently, and each time i tear up. there's something so moving in singing out with a congregation about God's love for us and repeating "i am Yours". the line "mountain high or valley low - i'll sing out, remind my soul" is so evidenced in my life. as i sing out, God allows music to speak His Truth into my soul. so thankful for the limitless ways He reaches us via song, art, nature...

Andrew Allen? i like it.

can't get enough

no shock to you, but i am a little more than sick with a Bieber Fever. the ESPN guys love him, along with Johnny Depp and many many others...including Chelsea Handler. i loved this interview so much. hopefully this fever will go down soon, but until then, enjoy:

andrew mcmahon

vocals for something corporate and jack's mannequin.

much appreciation for:

his story (leukemia survivor, non-profit starter)

his writing (“With each new day it becomes more apparent to me that everything and everyone in this world is connected in some beautiful and inexplicable way, and the more I accept that, the more my world seems to come together.”)

his music

Bieber love. One Time.

a sweet song from Train

"who are we fooling" - brooke fraser

enjoying everything about this song: lyrics, vocals, pacing, piano. calming rainy/snowy day tune.

"fire & dynamite" - drew & ellie holcomb - new video

so much joyful energy :)

Terrified

i'm in love. Garrett Hedlund

Mondays need to be more fun

"boy lilikoi" - jónsi

a perfect escape from the winter blues. on a snowy day, it's hard to believe that spring will come. but it will.

Erin McCarley....pretty voice.

"feels so right" matt wertz

new single released today. this breezy, cheery song reminds me that summer WILL come.

DJ Earworm 2010

in the words of our friend carter, “i can’t listen to this right, now because i’m scared i might get veerrry krunk.” amen sister.

"you will find me" andrew ripp

combining some faves. andrew ripp + steve moakler + ben rector.

John Mark McMillan, Death in His Grave

"fix you" street corner symphony

first acapella show. needless to say, i am currently swooning over this form of music. so raw and moving and lyrically charged. this song has brought me to tears more times than i can count (in a good way). enjoy!