United Kingdom-based alternative/folk rock musician Laura Marling recently released her newest album I Speak Because I Can … Read the restin the United States. In light of this (and the fact that Marling will be touring in the U.S. soon), today’s Music Monday highlights the quaint sounds of this emerging artist.
Marling’s lyrical
The Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival presents a new film, “Nature Propelled” from the filmmakers of Oil & Water. This new film journey is going to follow the water cycle and evaluate the outdoor environments around us. With this new series taking off, Seth Warren and friends are determined… Read the rest
Music Monday this week is not only musically stimulating, it’s also educational. This new music video from the French band Hold Your Horses! presents their track “70 Million” by taking a humorous journey through art history in their rendition of reenacting famous paintings.
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This short animation by artist Tilles Singer highlights the craft of skateboarding. Enjoy!
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This week we are embarking into sounds of alternative pop culture from Sao Paulo, Brazil with a band that calls themselves Ludov. As they are welcoming their newly released album, “Calligraphy,” the band highlights that their music was influenced by the surroundings of their local culture in Sao Paulo. The… Read the rest
Music Monday this week is exploring a band from Bucharest, Romania who call themselves The Amsterdams. They describe their sounds as “nice music.” By listening to their songs, one might say they border on a electro pop and some indie genre. In my, a bit less than expert, musical opinion,… Read the rest
The 9th annual Teva Mountain Games, the nation’s largest outdoor adventure event, is returning to Vail, Colorado June 3-6 2010. After last year’s record attendance, adventure athletes are anticipating yet another great turnout with an awesome lineup of events. These games are a series where both professional and amateur adventure… Read the rest
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Anyone who has traveled to Europe would agree, graffiti is everywhere. Tagging the sides of trains, buildings, trash cans, you name it. However, there is a group of young men out there whose aim is to reverse the stereotypical “mask” of the art form. These reverse graffiti artists from Durban,… Read the rest
It isn’t new… Read the rest news that real-time media is vastly in demand around the world. We have come to an age where news breaking in Europe will reach Americans in real time, making new media and new media developers precious to our businesses. However, what hasn’t been readily available to us
This week we are exploring the musical influences of Choc Quib Town from Columbia. The band is influenced by their culture, creating a mixture of hip hop, reggae and funk to produce their electric sounds. They describe their music best by stating:
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Scotland’s We Were Promised Jetpacks fuses indie, punk, and pop melodies throughout each of their songs, creating an album perfect for any Monday morning pick-me-up. Throughout the band’s newest album, The Last Place You’ll Look … Read the rest(hitting the U.S. on March 9th), soft guitar tones and chimes offset the meaty vocals
Buraka Som Sistema is fresh-sounding urban music that harmonizes the sounds of kurduro–also known as Angolan Dance–to generate move-busting grooves on the dance floor. This suburban band from Portugal has just released their first mix CD, Fabriclive 49. PLANET sums the mix up well:
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Music has a different message for each individual — For some it is peace, for others it is activism. But one thing is unified for all who digest music differently and that is that music is an influence.
For this week’s musician, music is therapy. Nneka is from Nigeria and… Read the rest
