Discovering face pop (and Christian) of Dustin Kensrue of Thrice

There are few artists who evade their lifetime bands in order to play and experiment with side projects. Are the only premises? Have fun and be carried by more creative instincts. Lately we have seen this in cases like Jared Followill (Kings Of Leon) with Smoke / Jackal, or Dustin Kensrue (Thrice singer) with the new line The Modern Post.
Dustin was wandering with his band Lifetime - Thrice - between post hardcore, especially in the initial phase, and the alternative rock shaped base. Furthermore always existed in the background Kensrue's solo career, in which the artist took it out on the raw and heartbreaking folk of "Please Come Home" and "This Good Night Is Still Everywhere". Now Orange County has joined fellow Mars Hill Church to try to approach a tessitura as pop like 'Before The Throne', where energy crop with keyboard lines and catchy rhythms of drums.
"Grace Alone", the first EP by The Modern Post, and can be heard and downloaded in full through the band's Bandcamp that attached in this post. Among the tracks on the album is a tailored version of 'Amazing Grace' John Newton, probably the most famous Anglo anthem in the United States, representing the religious sentiment perfectly covering every musical pore latter proposal EP format.
This brings to three different records that Dustin Kensrue has explored throughout his career. Now we need to see how it will sound Joybringer published, another group he started writing / recording a small EP in mid-May. Namely with surprises us soon! You never know who will surprise us with this great artist ...

'Worse Dreams': first appetizer Soundgarden's new album

We are anxious, and more if it's something related to Soundgarden. Two long years have we've had to suck to hear some "Animal King", the final title of the new album of Soundgarden, but finally (hallelujah) and have something on the table: a small preview / snippet 36-second duration of an item entitled 'Worse Dreams'. You can listen via YouTube at the end of this post.

Just over half a minute the subject is not sufficient to assess this fairly and accurately. Even so I was very pleased to see that Cornell, Thayil & Co. have not focused on putting the autopilot as happened in 'Live To Rise'. Here's a background job, with a background sound that seems to come to a hair that idea as hybrid Kim said in the entry that we dedicate a week ago.We like! The thing has a pilot can leave way too much of themselves.

And you, what do you think? Do you consider this short preview is promising?

An eternal cycle

Indian dancers dancing. A volcanic eruption. Children are baptized. Buddhist monks put in countless small work of sand and tiny pebbles along a painting. No dialogue, no comments, no one ever speaks. Only breathtaking photographs and music. A film crew has traveled to five years through 25 countries from one continent to another, in the baggage-art 70mm camera, which makes every shot an adventure. It is difficult, this film and what it shows together, but the title captures it well. Samsara: The cycle of life. In all its facets.
The best screensaver in the world runs on the canvas. Deserts, temples, cathedrals, canyons, volcanoes, high-rise buildings ... you get used to all the great postcard views and longs for a Indiana Jones, who rides through the canyons or a Tom Cruise from Burj Kalifa throws. Even the most beautiful landscapes will eventually get bored.
It lasts until you look into it is in this flood of images. Sure, it all looks very nice, but the thoughts wander. Especially the generation of smartphones will have trouble through. But then ... scenery change, all of the original, traditional and nature into the city. In great lapse sequences can Samsara rush by the hectic city life, shows the traffic of the cities and the crowded subways. And slowly you realize why the film begins as he starts.
A "How come the burger on the plate?" - Fast forward almost looks like from the program with the mouse. Only drastic course. And "How the ball comes into the gun?" The mouse would probably rather not ask. Factory farming, prostitution, weapons factories, one Sexpuppenwerkstatt ... Somehow man has developed into a comic direction. Combining these themes heard so often one would otherwise have dismissed as gooders. By unspoken contrast to the peaceful originality they develop quite another stunner. Nobody is telling us that what we see is abhorrent and we must all be vegetarians. Samsara does the moral finger down and his audience the freedom to evaluate what they have seen themselves. "Pleasant" is still far too weak a word for it.
For possibly will turn back again anyway everything. The pace decreases again, the camera flies again over high-resolution land and not over crowd, in which individuals seem small and insignificant. The monks consider silence her mosaic paintings. And make it break again. Collect the sand and are satisfied. We like pity for the beautiful picture. We probably both right.

Exhibition at the gallery Veronika

Veronica knew Otten: Most things in life happen tightened - Photo: Galerie Stephan Stumpf
Until 08.09.2012 will be held at the Galerie Stephan Stumpf in an exhibition in Munich, the deceased artist Veronika von Otten. The theme of this exhibition is "Most things in life happen in clothes", as in Veronica Ottens works of the question to learn the appearance and reality of reality on a new meaning. The artist is in her paintings are mostly everyday scenes that seem familiar, on closer inspection, however, permit a conclusive interpretation. Is the depth desired expression of a mental state, a story or an illusion?

This intention, it is through personal influence to decipher and complete. From Otten thus granted only superficial insight into the emotional world of often portrayed people, the true expression of the event remains open through the imagination and the mind of the beholder.

Come and visit the exhibition "Most things in life happen in clothes" until 08/09/2012 at the gallery in Munich Stephan Stumpf.

David Ramirez, pondering the turns of life in Stick Around '

Sometimes I feel a little green dog. While half the world goes crazy for listening "2nd Law", I have other preferences. First, take into my hands "Mirage Rock" Band Of Horses. Second, know every one of the themes that draw up "Apologies", David Ramirez disc I've been waiting for about a year and will go on sale permanently on 28 August.

As I got to "pledgers EP" I heard the original version and an acoustic first single from the LP. This is called 'Stick Around' and the end result of mixing / mastering what we have enjoyed today thanks to the coming forth of the new official music video for the single.

The clip, which was directed by Ryan Booth, shows a pensive and downcast character (played by David himself Ramirez) who meditates to stay or move away from their place of origin. This debate, which we have lived some of us, takes place at sunset in a beautiful place located in the deeper America.

Chirping you rich?

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SURF ART meets meets FOOD

The Arts 'n' board is a unique blend of bar, restaurant, art gallery and surf the temple. In addition to food, art and surfboards there are an open stage, changing exhibitions and other events. On 28 August is the Arts 'n' boards a year old!
Where there is a place to surf - the Eisbach - not even missing a place where you can relax after surfing. The Arts 'n' boards in the Belgrade streets is much more than that and surfboards on the walls hang photos of Wipe-outs, the spectacular falls for wave riding. In the basement there are paintings of urban art and artists Frederick Hundertwasser and the cocktails are named after expressions of the surfing scene.
Selena Fletcher, media designer, teacher and surfing led by Arts 'n' board itself is as varied as the concept of their Bargalerie. Here she has her two greatest passions - brought together and maintains this by selling exotic foods and beverages - surfing and art. The combination of gastronomy, art and surfing is now celebrating on Saturday, 08/25/2012 from 19 clock go well the first anniversary and it makes it with flying buffet, live music and of course Amea Bendix and Augustiner beer from the keg.
And as if the concept of arts 'n' Boards do not already awesome enough, here are still plenty of organized events. Every second and fourth Tuesday of the month there is an open stage to tell everyone at the jokes, sing songs or recite prose can. Registration under arts@arts-and-boards.de. This bi-monthly one-local hero egoFM event will be held. Always stop by one of the reasons the Arts 'n' boards is the way the goat cheese tiramisu or the "Hot Bloody Mary" tomato soup with vodka foam.

"Main home is my head"

Distinctive in its eloquence and uncompromising clarity, facial expression and polyphony: The legendary comedian Passau Sigi Zimmerschied guest appearances with his new program "Shredder" of 16 August to 8 September (Thursday to Saturday) at the Fraunhofer theater. A gripping chamber piece in which one talks extortion shredder out of school. Depths are in small or larger whole, as always, included in Zimmerschied to satisfy: Great shocking funny. In the interview room on blackmail potential difference, Munich, Passau and Fraunhofer theater, television coverage and new projects.
How did you come up with the overall story of the "shredder"?Because we all now live in a world that is becoming more transparent. Privacy has become an illusion. Man is the subject of an extortion have become reality and he is both victim and perpetrator. 
The issue has now received in the form of cover-ups by disappearance of documents from the secret service and the Federal Ministry of the Interior under the Nazi terror scandal new urgency ...No, that everything is already known facts. "Now they have substance," say the people and see this one as they had caught us with the needle. The politics of the day is indeed a bar, but we are not the prostitutes who go on it. "Now they have substance," say the people and forget that we do not need him because we do not gloat addictive, but a sisyphusartige desire to find a pattern in the ever recurring incurable.
What was their approach to "shredder" as the stage show come about?How are all my programs. Through a formal idea. I wanted a ransom from the darkness, the fear of appearing Pursued awareness feel for me a refuge. I was about telling a biography regain the security to the people at the end to blackmail again, as I will elicit information that would have the potential to blackmail. Precisely the people that I have before me, and I've told a half hours, as blackmail works. Alarmingly, succeeds almost every night.
You have to cabaret with Bruno Jonas began in mid-seventies in the then arch-conservative Passau has changed since then some of their motivation?No. Because the motivation comes from an incompatibility with closed and hierarchical worldviews. It's almost like an allergy. Sprout and the same pustules, which we used to get on incense, today neoliberal steam or para-religious philosophies of appeasement. No, because nothing will change. Not even the sermon chairs. Bruno has always been drawn to the big arenas. Mine were the master tables. He was already centered in the mini dome. I was in the Innstadtpfarrei. No, it has not changed.
You, as a native of Passau also temporarily lived in Munich. What were or are the respective advantages and disadvantages of the two largest cities?Munich has always been the second home. Similarly, Passau. As well as writing my home in Kneiding in Upper Austria. There is only second homes. Main home is my head.
Her previous stage show "Laugh poet" turned to their often subversive rejected television scripts. How important is television coverage of the stage success of comedians?A disastrous. We managed to television, to rob the cabaret, the dignity and power to destroy it. The cruel but at this development, however, the vulnerability of its own genre, which is defined by distinctiveness, consistency and substance, and has degenerated into a media puppet theater. The formal censorship has long since replaced the content. Everything looks the same. If you consider that the Bavarian television now on the cabaret Friday time slot the "Musikantenstadtl" dare to repeat rather than new formats, then a declaration of bankruptcy is the same.
They traditionally play in August at the Fraunhofer theater. What makes its charm?It is the appeal of the May devotion. Only that it takes place in August. A sort of homecoming ritual finding beyond the patterns of success and the importance of the noise. A living room to play, experimentation, drinking, the teasing, loving, sink and spin kidneys. Come back and break in the serenity of the Gesamtkunstwerk Fraunhofer.
Are to be expected in the near future, new projects by Sigi Zimmerschied?After the cabaret scene has decay characteristics, are structured differently and no longer functions as the butchers' guild or the local administration department, I have next to my cabaret again revived the actor's work and the author's work.Not that it is in the world of film and publishing zuginge differently than in the local administration department, but have never claimed that these genres. So you can enter and leave without anticipation in without major disappointment again. I succeed in not currently cabaret.Sun and perceive, hear ye! A book will be published and movies to see, and even before the Lord resurrected on Easter morning, I'm going in February, already give a new comedy program.

Tashaki Miyaki, bright even in the face B

At the time shone with covers of various kinds. One that was most impact was the dreamy version of "All I Have To Do Is Dream 'by The Everly Brothers, with which the duo Miyaki got Californian Tashaki slowly approaching us. His masterstroke, however, was made ​​with the release of an EP - "Tashaki Miyaki" - in which the tandem showed good happy little couple of aces up its sleeve bore. And they, not happy with that, have returned to show off a new topic.

Spin We read through the song in question is titled 'Tonight' and will be released on August 7 as single B-side of that - 'Best Friend' - about which I spoke some time ago. The craziest guitar distortion and bombastic drum beats are the points to highlight an issue that works a pop base much deeper than the rest of TM issues.

Each and every piece that has launched this training, one way or another, we have been bewitched. How long will it take to listen to an LP in terms? The wait is becoming eternal.

The Penelopes - Summer Life

Just to break with the usual melancholy and supported me otherwise, I present to you today a sound outrageously fluffy song - "Summer life" of the French electro duo The Penelopes. 
Parallel to Empire of the Sun are difficult to ignore. But I like it. 
On the debut album "Never live another yesterday," that is unfortunately very mixed, there are also a few other pop pearls.