MY SOUNDTRACK: NOTES FROM VIVACE’S MAY PLAYLIST (PART I OF II)
Ingenue: “Lookout”
Coyol: “The Pharmacist”
Bullet and Snowfox: “Neurotic Nancy”
Sweaters: “Investigation”
Barrie Rose: “Wishful Thinking”
Tommy Santee Klaws: “Chasing Bodies”
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Feel Free: Tumbleweeds
Run-On Sunshine: “Singles Staying Single”
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Devon Williams: “Honey”
Black Elephant: “Four Years”
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Guards: “Resolution of One”
Act As If: “Please Be Worth This”
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The New Assembly: “Slow Down”
The Americans: “Prison Yard Walk”
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I hear one of the members of Coyol is from Bakersfield. Our Traffik editor is from Bakersfield. Bullet and Snowfox has gotten some press here on Traffik. I caught them at Club Moscow when they were playing along with The Mulhollands. I caught Group Love at Bootleg. They had the place packed. I was at a birthday party when The Americans took the stage. Awesome stuff. I saw a number of the bands on this list at The Smell. As I write this up, I have the urge to head on down there.
WHERE WE’RE HEADED TONIGHT: BULLET AND SNOWFOX RECORD RELEASE PARTY
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TONIGHT WE’RE HEADED TO THE BULLET & SNOWFOX RECORD RELEASE PARTY FOR A NIGHT FILLED WITH SUPER-INFECTIOUS MUSIC THAT MAKES YOU WANT TO DANCE ALL NIGHT LONG!
Get their track “Bad Days” for free here
Where: Harvard and Stone
Address: 5221 Hollywood Blvd. (Hollywood, CA)
Time: Doors at 8pm (bands at 9:30pm)
Cost: Free (Free EP for those who attend)
ALSO TONIGHT:
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THE MULHOLLANDS AT BOARDNERS
Where: Boardners (1652 N. Cherokee Blvd. Hollywood, CA)
Doors at 9pm
Cost: Free w/ RSVP (RSVP HERE TO GET ON FREE ENTRY LIST)
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THE HIGH LIFE CAVALIERS AND THE BLACK BOOTS AT OLD TOWNE PUB
Where: Old Towne Pub (66 N. Fair Oaks Ave. Pasadena, CA)
Time: Doors at 9pm
OUT TO SEE: A YEAR IN PHOTOS (LOCAL MUSIC EDITION PART IV of IV: OCTOBER – DECEMBER)
OCTOBER
Row 1: LA Vampires
Row 2: Wet and Reckless, Jail Weddings, Jail Weddings
Row 3: Shadow, Shadow, Shade , Rocket, Rocket
Row 4: (from L to R) Cold Cave, Downtown/Union, Nightmare and the Cat
Row 5: (from L to R) Nightmare and the Cat, The Hounds Below, Rocket
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NOVEMBER
Row 1: Chasing Kings
Row 2: Gentlemen Prefer Blood, High Life Cavaliers, The Shakers
Row 3: Silver Needle, Silver Needle, The Fake Boys
Row 4: The Monthlies, The Mulhollands, Tijuana Panthers
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DECEMBER
Row 1: Black Elephant
Row 2: (from L to R): 3Hombre, Coyol, D2ncia
Row 3: (from L to R): Honey Honey, Queen Kwong, Raining Jane
Row 4: (from L to R): Run-On Sunshine, The Mulhollands, the Mulhollands
OUT TO SEE: A YEAR IN PHOTOS (VANCOUVER & LOCAL MUSIC EDITION PART 2: APRIL – JUNE)
APRIL
Row 1: Get Set Go, The Slow Death, Twilight Sleep
Row 2: Whispertown 2000
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MAY
OUT TO SEE: A YEAR IN PHOTOS (LOCAL MUSIC EDITION PART I: JANUARY – MARCH)
JANUARY
Row 1 (from L to R): Asa Ransom, Bathroom Murders, Honey, Honey
Row 2 (from L to R): Obi Best, Pu$$y Cow, Silver Needle
Row 3 (from L to R): The Hundred Days, The Hundred Days, The Ignorant
Row 4 (from L to R: The Mulhollands, Year Long Disaster
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FEBRUARY
Name That Tune: The Importance of Putting Song Lyrics on the Internet
More and more these days, the music of independent unsigned music artists is integrated into our daily lives. Creative music licensing. It’s pretty much everywhere – on TV, obviously on the radio (online and traditional formats), at the gas pump, in department stores, grocery stores, the list goes on and on.
Thanks to insomnia, just in one day while flipping through channels I heard a few of our friend’s bands on TV (which will remain the most popular vehicle for song placements for quite some time to come) as I attempted to clear out my DVR’s recordings.
This was a few months ago, and I’d initially planned to publish this post at that time (if you can believe it, that was back in January) after having had a similar encounter with an all too familiar soundtrack comprised of more friend’s bands which included: Spider Problem’s “Cha, Cha” on some “Gossip Girl” teaser, Bang Sugar Bang’s “Where’s the Fun in That?” on a re-run of “The Hills” (I think it was a re-run I hadn’t seen that show in eons?), and of course with Samsung having gone the way of Sprint with featuring a local LA band late last year, (The Happy Hollows) on their Google Phone Commercial (Sprint featured iO Echo on their Palm Pre commercial). Just because the programming isn’t quality (but then again, I’m also not necessarily the target market of the shows mentioned), that doesn’t mean the music getting played isn’t and people won’t take notice of it.
I’m sure there was a lot more that I didn’t catch. In fact a couple of years ago I couldn’t watch many of the shows on TV without hearing a band I knew on shows. This will only become more and more true for years to come. Some of those that I recall included, but aren’t limited to: The New Fidelity, Silver Needle, Bang Sugar Bang, The Mulhollands, The Waking Hours, and The Automatic Music Explosion all on the WB and MTV, Get Set Go on Grey’s Anatomy (they even made the soundtrack)– those are just some I can think of off the top of my head, the list goes on and on. I won’t even get started on films.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but songs have a tendency to stick in my head. Name of song and artist not always so much. At least not at first listen, unless I happen to know them personally or it’s all over the place (an example from earlier in the year, Phoenix’s “Listomania”). At times all I can remember is a few of the lyrics, and those lyrics won’t get out of my head. I want to hear them again.
So what do I do?
Hope that episode plays again and they announce the artist name and song title? (more…)