Posted in guitar, acoustic on March 9th, 2008 3 Comments »
Matthew Andrae
“Sweet Celine”
Browsing youtube music videos the other day, I stumbled on this video. When I found it, it had about 100,000 views and is now up to more than 500,000 views. I really would like you to hear his other music. His link is below. If you like this song, buy his new CD. It’s only $10.
This is a song he wrote for his daughter, celine. He’s singing it about himself (matthew james andrae) and sweet Celine.
It’s touching. It’s honest. It’s the kind of music I love to discover.
Posted in guitar, acoustic on February 29th, 2008 4 Comments »
Chris Cendana
“When The Lights Burn Out”
I discovered Chris today on youtube. You should watch all his videos on youtube.
He also has a myspace page.
His influences include John Mayer, Musiq Soulchild, Jason Mraz, Brian McKnight, and Jack Johnson.
Chris Hawkes
“Falling Into Doubt”
This song played on MTV tonight. Chris is a great Texas (yay!) artist. I love his chord progressions. If you’ve ever listened to old school seven mary three, you’ll notice a lot of resemblance in the sort of dissonant chord patterns, and similarly how they resolve. It’s great music. I also have a thing for falsetto lately. This guy will be making a splash in the coming days, you can be sure.
Quantic & Nickodemus
“Mi Swing es Tropical”
I fell in love with this tune the first time I heard it in a commercial for Apple’s iPod. This Spanish number has been stuck in my head for days. Posting it here was the only way to get it out of my system. This song is featured on the CD associated with this post as well as a CD for Quantic, since this track was apparently a collaborative effort.
I hope this song is as fun for you as it is for me.
Posted in guitar, acoustic on August 13th, 2007 14 Comments »
Marié Digby
“Umbrella”
She’ll be making big news by tomorrow. This song was just added to iTunes today. It’s a pretty good cover. A non-produced version is on youtube. Check it out. This version aired on MTV at the end of the season premiere of “The Hills” (3rd season). Don’t start. It’s not my fault I started watching it. Someone twisted my arm.
Marié has been recently in the studio (re?)recording 3 songs. You can find them on her myspace page (linked below). I love Rihanna’s version of this too, but I like acoustic takes on popular songs even more. Enjoy.
Jason Reeves
“Photographs & Memories”
If you didn’t know, Jason Reeves helped Colbie Caillat cowrite most of the songs on her new CD “CoCo”. If you are a fan of this site, you might remember I posted a song by Colbie already, before the CD was released. This was not well-received by the RIAA, but thankfully Colbie’s online marketing agency saw fit to give me clearance to post the music afterward.
Enjoy This song by Jason. He’s pretty good on the guitar and a good singer on his own.
Matt Nathanson
“Bulletproof Weeks”
Matt finally gets posted here with this amazing guitar/piano/vocal combo. This is no cheap radio song, but I’m sure I’ll be singing it (or at least humming). It’s a great, wonderful song about fixating on the wonderful times summer gave us, only to realize they’re now gone, and being sadly nostalgic.
Ahh, summer love. :) Enjoy, and thank Matt Nathanson by buying his new CD.
Matt Wertz
“I will not take my love away”
I’ve wanted to post a Matt Wertz song for quite a while now. Stacy reminded me tonight that I hadn’t yet. We listened to a few of his songs, and this one was the first one that I felt was right for the site. Just the other day, I was listening to a song playing on the TV as the end credits were rolling by at the end of a movie. It was a Matt Wertz song. This one - “I Wll Not Take My Love Away” - is fairly short, but just long enough for him to tell us exactly what he wanted to with the song. I love it when a song leaves you wanting more at the end. It’s usually the #1 reason I hit the replay button, and also serves as evidence that I’m hooked (on a feelin’).
The Velvet Hearts
“History is Repeating”
Sometimes music finds me. I posted a video on youtube, and one of the members of the band Velvet Hearts requested to be added to my friends list. I listened to their music expecting to hear mediocrity, but I was very delightfully surprised. This band is excellent, and plays music from many genres.
Check our their myspace page, or some of their videos on youtube.
It looks as if they’re currently touring the UK. I hope they make it stateside soon.
Meiko
“Reasons to Love You”
I found out about Meiko indirectly through Perezhilton.com. He actually exposes a surprisingly large number of music talents.
Meiko is based out of Los Angeles. Her music reminds me of Feist in a lot of ways, but with a little bit of a southern drawl to her accent in some of her songs. This song is currently my favorite of hers.