Kelly Writes Music

The Problem With Music

I’ll have a couple reviews in the new Substream Music Magazine coming up pretty soon here. Super stoked. Check it out! I’ll let you know which issue they will be posted and get then up here as well or a link.

“Black Coffee”, Peggy Lee. Composed by Sonny Burke and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.

Lady Gaga - Speechless (Live at the VEVO Launch Event)

fueledbyramen:

Weezer & Hayley Williams: Rainbow Connection

You can now stream The Green Album featuring the song ‘Rainbow Connection’ performed by Weezer and Hayley Williams of Paramore on npr.org!

damselinthestars:

Lady Gaga - You and I Official Music Video

I. Love. This.

(via t-t-t-torrence)

“Moon River” - The Honey Trees

discographies:

X-RAY: BRIAN ENO

15%  Omnidirectional planetary-culture-shifting hyperintelligence

14%  Oracular, Dumbledorian precognitive futurism

11%  Spontaneous gee-I-wonder-what’ll-happen-if-I-turn-this-knob sound-spelunking

11%  Frinkian tinkering
“I’ve been thinking a lot recently about giant umbrellas in space that will stop the sun’s rays hitting the Earth.”

10%  Loitering around waiting for everyone else to catch up
“Quite often I’ve found an idea — or even had an idea occasionally — and thought: “This is so obvious, everybody’s going to be doing it within a month.” And then it takes 35 years.”

9%  Metafictional time travel
“A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn’t. Like East African free jazz, which as far as I know does not exist … giving something a name can be just the same as inventing it.”

8%  Phrenology
“I’ve never minded the ‘egghead’ tag. It makes sense with my physiognomy anyway.”

7%  Open-source amateurism
“I shouldn’t really use the word musician. I don’t play things very well. I use them quite well.”

5%  Playing nicely with others
Chris Martin, Coldplay:  “[Eno] said that he thought the last album was OK, but it could have been much better. He said that he still wanted to work with us on the next album, but that I was banned from the studio.”

4%  Vascularized adipose tissue
“I think records were just a little bubble through time, and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky … before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you’d be stuck with your whale blubber. ‘Sorry mate — history’s moving along.’ Recorded music equals whale blubber.”

3%  Triple word scores
“I like Scrabble because I’m really good at it. I’ve got a lot of unbeatable strategies. And variations to the rules.”

2%  The memory of a bowl of cereal eaten in 1974 synesthetically reimagined as a self-generating tone cluster of cottony-soft whirring noises.

1%  Sparkling, citrus-y antacids

(via The Daily)

(via postpunk)

New song "Amy" from Green Day

Is your heart singing out of tune
Are your eyes just singing the blues
Dirty records from another time
Some blood stains on your shoes
No one really knows about your soul
And I barely even know your name
Burning rhythms and posting lies
For a bunch of fools drown in shame
Amy don’t you go
I want you around
Singin’ woah please don’t go
Do you wanna be a friend of mine?
Did you tattoo a lucky charm
To keep you out of harms way?
Warding off all evil signs
But it never really kept you safe
You’re too young for the golden age
Cause the record bin’s been replaced
27 gone without a trace
And you walked away from your drink
Is your heart singing out of tune
Are you eyes just singing the blues?
Dirty records from another time
Some blood stains on your shoes
May I have this last dance
By chance if we should meet?
Can you write me a lullaby?
So we can sing you to sleep”

erickimberlinbowley:

Brighten - I’ll Always Be Around

I cannot wait for you

‘Cause I don’t want to sleep at all
But you’ll try to sleep it off

And darling I, I can’t slow down
Don’t know why I do the things I do
But I’ll always be around

So proud of these guys. I’m glad they’re making music again. This song is perfect. I prefer it to the album version, actually.