Ourvinyl http://blog.ourvinyl.com Our Generation. Our Way To Listen. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:28:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Theodore – Hold You Like A Lover I would say that my folk/alt country, or whatever you would like to call that genre, kick ended, for the most part, about a year or more ago. An acoustic guitar and a sad, dusty voice just didn’t do anything for me anymore. Theordore, a group from St. Louis and personal friends of mine, is a band whose music is so uniquely Midwest and impressively deep in tones and lyrical content. Their first release, “Songs…

]]> http://blog.ourvinyl.com/2010/03/01/theodore-hold-you-like-a-lover/ Garet Camella – Fate From A Fortune Cookie (EP) After high school graduation, most teens tend to have an abundance of thoughts floating through their head.  They face long internal battles over questions of what they might want to major in, how it’s going to feel to be away from home or if they are even considering going to college.  Breaking away from this stereotypical mold, 18-year-old Garet Camella had other things going across his mind.  Of course he was conce…

]]> http://blog.ourvinyl.com/2010/02/15/garet-camella-fate-from-a-fortune-cookie-ep/ Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? The Brian Jonestown Massacre The Brian Jonestown Massacre have released another album, “Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?” The band, which for some of the current generation has come to emobody the sound, philosophy and drive of the substance-fueled psychedelic music of the 60’s more so than the music of that generation itself, has changed up their game.

The title of the album itself, to this author, is an obvious reference to their a…

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A while ago, I (BW) had a chance to do an interview with upcoming pop rock band, Disco Curtis before they played an acoustic in-store. Members Tanner Howe (TH), A.J. Novak (AN), Garrett Perales (GP) and Brendan Barone (BB) took some time to sit down with me and discuss them, their music and their futures.

BW: I’m here with Disco Curtis at Brio in Polaris. Could you guys tell them your names and what you do?

TH: I’m Tanner and…

]]> http://blog.ourvinyl.com/2010/01/22/interview-disco-curtis/ Top 10 Albums Of 2009 2009 was a great year. It brought us many great albums. Here are my picks for the best albums of 09.

1. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

While I had dabbled into Phoenix’s previous material, it took them this album to finally win me over. From beginning to end, these songs shine brighter, and dig deeper into the soul than anything else I listened to this year. This is an indie album at heart, yet it is easily a…

]]> http://blog.ourvinyl.com/2010/01/03/top-10-albums-of-2009/ Artist Spotlight – Cash Cash In today’s modern music age, what is it that one expects to see from some of the bands they listen too? Trends that I have noticed are as follows:

1. Clothing so attention grabbing that if the colors were any brighter they would be blinding.

2. Wild hair that seems unkempt, but in all honesty it took hours to style that way.

3. Crazy techno party beats are so infectious they stay in your head for days on end.

So what is it…

]]> http://blog.ourvinyl.com/2010/01/03/artist-spotlight-cash-cash/ Artist Spotlight – The Ready Set Bands nowadays are scratching and clawing their way to the top, doing anything they can to get their name out there.  Whether it be posting a link to some of their music on a mainstream band’s website or sending mass friend requests to randoms in hopes that they can get their music heard, many bands are in this position.  I’m not going to lie and say that a lot of them deserve to make the big time, because let’s face it, not eve…

]]> http://blog.ourvinyl.com/2009/12/02/artist-spotlight-the-ready-set/ Dan Price: An Inspiring Songwriter for Aspiring Artists Most aspiring artists find the foundations for their art close to home, but Dan Price has done it by traveling and immersing himself in other cultures.  Within Price’s young life of 23 years, he has lived in Ghana, India and the Marshall Islands.  During his junior year of college he lived in the Osu district of Accra, Ghana for six months.  He lived in a dorm with Ghanaian students and bought his meals, “ba…

]]> http://blog.ourvinyl.com/2009/11/28/dan-price-an-inspiring-songwriter-for-aspiring-artists/ Battle Studies After a 3 year hiatus from releasing a studio album, John Mayer returns with his 4th major label release Battle Studies in hand and does not disappoint his eagerly awaiting fanbase.  A self described CD that “you put on before you go to sleep”, Battle Studies is a sampler plate pulling references from some of classic rock’s biggest names.  Heartbreak Warefare opens the album with the mid temp feel…

]]> http://blog.ourvinyl.com/2009/11/24/battle-studies/ A Rocket To The Moon – On Your Side If there is any music group who has made a complete transformation from the recording of their first EP to the release of their first studio album it is A Rocket To The Moon. The group, consisting of members Nick Santino, Justin Richards, Andrew Cook and Eric Halvorsen, completed their musical metamorphosis with the recording of their new record titled On Your Side, which was released October 13, 2009 with Fueled By Ra…

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