scarred for life

kelli scarr, is not only a talented musician, she is also a wonderful mother, and a great, new friend.

i was really tired the first time i saw her (and met her), but 10 seconds into her first song i knew that i was going to be blown away. she's touring this summer, so if you find her playing in your area, please don't miss it. she is just incredibly moving to watch and hear.

along with her solo project, she's also part of the bands salt & samovar, and color of clouds.

for more info, you can find her on myspace, facebook, or her blog.

the following song, "anything," is a rough cut off her new album, which she is currently recording. enjoy.

photo by derek frampton davis.

*if the player isn't working properly, please listen to the song HERE. it's too good not to.

streets of fire

the new pornographers.

alexandra hope | invisible sunday

last month i wrote about my very talented and busy friend alia raza, who had just directed a music video for the band known as violens. i still think that is one of the best names ever.
well, perhaps because we've known each other for 25 years, she has kindly worked some of my duskin pieces into her newest music video project for the song "invisible sunday," by alexandra hope, an artist on the label manimal vinyl. these are stills pulled from the shoot, and they are

just.

so.

amazing.

the video and album of the same name will debut in february, so please check back, as i'll be posting it here.

tune in / tune out

there's a new playlist up, and it's now manual instead of auto-play, because if you're like me, you open multiple blogs at once, and sometimes there's a scary symphony arrangement between them all that could definitely be avoided. now, you have the power.

i'm still unpacking and working (i have a feeling those words will be repeated through many more posts), so i quickly just thought of some songs i was feeling for my mood right now. how do i sound to you?

AMZNG

"kids," by MGMT. i really wanted to post "electric feel," but i couldn't find an embeddable version. i think everyone is sick of them by now, but i'm having a renaissance. blame it on the kids in miami.

sorry for the poor quality...

music for the morning after

i listen to my playlist on the blog pretty much every day and though i love it, i think it's time for some new songs...i'm working on a new one, which i hope to update once a month...coming soon.

lives of crime

it's a sin: another unhealthy obsession of mine is eric johnson, of the band fruit bats, and, occasionally, the shins. i "pulled" these images off this flickr page, which i assume belongs to his girlfriend, annie beedy. i just outed myself as a stalker. godspeed.

metal heart

a very long time ago (maybe almost 10 years ago), my friend conrad worked for matador records and invited me to see cat power perform a private show at webster hall, in one of the smaller rooms. it was her, a piano, and the film the passion of joan of ark projected behind her, in silence. there was a very intimate crowd of less than 50 people if i'm remembering corretly. i almost didn't go because i was feeling anti-social, but i lived around the corner and managed to make it, and i am so glad i went- it was one of the most amazing shows i've ever seen her perform, and i've seen her play at quite a few. i think there was not a dry eye in the house. the reason i am writing about is because i'm listening to moon pix right now and was just transported to that moment...

later, when asked about that show, this is what she said:
"When I got back from the 'Moonpix' tour, I was so much hating what I was doing... that I was so happy with all these new songs that I been playing, all these covers. So I called this club in New York, and I said I wanted to play there. "Can I play there on Sunday?" They said "No, 'cause it's our filmseries night". An old friend of mine from Atlanta, who was in a band called Smoke but passed away last year, he told me that I should really play along with 'Passion of Joan Of Arc'. He told me: "You would like it." Mostly, when people tell you that, you don't listen to them. But when people you care about tell you something, you always remember what they said. So they said it was their filmseries night. "So what if you got this movie 'Passion of Joan of Arc' by Dreyer, can you get that on reel to reel?" And they said they could do that. I had never seen the movie. So I show up at soundcheck, I'm looking at the film, they are playing it to make sure they got the angle right. So I just play all my songs, watching the movie, people are watching the movie. I felt really comfortable because they weren't looking at me. It was really a great experience and the movie blew me away."

get thee to a hospital

jane- thank you so much for sending me this video. it's gorgeous and incredibly inspiring. first aid kit, from sweden, covering a fleet foxes song (a band that i am going to look up next). these girls are sisters. can you believe they are only 15 and 17? and why wasn't i born with this talent?

little wing

this is how i feel today.
neil young, via homemade video from YouTube.

sex tourist

presenting the french kicks, my second favorite dc prep-school boy-band. 

sex tourist is terribly sexy. 

and i love that people make dedication videos and post them on YouTube, especially when the whole video is just a photograph accompanying a song. 

violens: doomed

video by mateo ramirez

a little anthem for your monday

we went upstate this weekend and our accidental soundtrack was t. rex. it's great when you haven't listened to an album or artist in a long time, and suddenly find a song to fall in love with. when "metal guru" came on, it was as though i was hearing it for the first time even though i've owned it for years. i really don't remember having heard it before, but perhaps it just wasn't the right time. that's what i love about music- sometimes it just doesn't stand out, but a certain moment can bring it to your attention. like taking a road trip with your boyfriend and dog, and when it comes on, it's the best song ever. and from then on, that's nostalgia.

the penalty

beirut, take-away show n.64; paris.
the song starts at around 01:24, and it's so lovely to watch him sing, so lovely to see the colors. for a second, i felt like i was really there.

a crack in time

I CAN LISTEN TO THIS SONG BY FERRABY LIONHEART ALL DAY. AND I DO.

beauty in song, save me.

"JESUS, ETC." BY WILCO.

NOW PLAYING: WILCO - JESUS, ETC.

diamond blues

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THIS BRILLIANCE?
I REMEMBER PLAYING IT OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
UNFORTUNATELY, THE YOUTUBE VIDEO ISN'T VERY CLEAR, BUT I WASN'T ABLE TO EMBED THE ORIGINAL,
FROM SHOWSTUDIO.COM.

something so pretty, but you can't really see it...

SO YOU JUST HAVE TO LISTEN:
"LEAVE LITTLE FIDDLER (ALONE)" BY DESTROYER.
AND WHILE YOU LISTEN, YOU CAN READ THE LYRICS HERE,
BECAUSE THE WORDS ARE PRETTY TOO.

NOW PLAYING: DESTROYER - LEAVE LITTLE FIDDLER (ALONE)