Music videos cheapen music. Most often, they have no mean­ing at all or they con­vey some­thing com­pletely dif­fer­ent then how you orig­i­nally inter­preted the song. Sure, there are cer­tainly some excep­tions but sadly the vast major­ity fall into those two cat­e­gories. How­ever, there’s also a third cat­e­gory: absolute cre­ativ­ity. Here’s a band from New Zealand doing […]

[Audio clip: view full post to lis­ten] It’s dif­fi­cult to say good­bye After only one life And rain will fall down Replen­ish­ing all of our bro­ken dreams And this burn­ing tree, that’s with­er­ing Will bloom again Would you believe? Good­bye, good­bye Walk away; it’s time to say good­bye Good­bye, good­bye Walk away; it’s hard to […]

This beau­ti­ful and pow­er­ful song comes from a Scot­tish indie band who got recent place­ment with this song on a TV spot for the ABC drama LOST. I’m a huge fan of the show but what I was really impressed with was how seam­less this song fit in with Michael Giacchino’s (com­poser for all 6 sea­sons) overall […]

This Swedish pop-rock track fol­lows the secret for­mula to catch my atten­tion imme­di­ately and keep me addicted. The lyrics are some­what sim­plis­tic but work won­der­fully for the direc­tion of the song. It’s emo­tional with­out pre­tend­ing to be pow­er­ful. It’s sad that most inter­na­tional artists don’t get much of a mar­ket­ing push in the United States. We […]

This is a great alter­na­tive rock track released recently. Although the lyrics are seem­ingly dis­tracted thoughts at times, I think it’s a solid song that deserves some atten­tion. [Audio clip: view full post to lis­ten] You got a way of livin’ your way, say, I want that I try to live my life for the […]