Shouting Matches

Check out Justin Vernon's latest side project, Shouting Matches. While the album marks one of the few occasions Vernon sings in a lower-than expected register, you can count on this being a refreshing change. With the accompaniment of Brian Moen and Phil Cook, each track is structured with a wide array of influences somehow sharing a single heartbeat.

LIYL: Tom Petty

-Honey Thief

The Postal Service

in 2012, Pitchfork did an interview with Ben Gibbard.
He told tales of his latest album with his band Death Cab For Cutie and had a brief discussion about his solo record. Sure, people were interested. But what should have been the main topic of conversation is his love for slow pulsing electronica music.

Back in '03 Gibbard teamed up with acclaimed electronic producer DNTEL.
They later formed one of the most influential bands of the decade.
The Postal Service.

What people don't realize about the album is that no matter how brightly polished, it was an album about loneliness.
It would seem that Gibbard was going through a rough patch in his life. A patch that apparently could only be filled by the crisp clasp of an E-drum and a twinkling synth.

Now, in 2013, the age of bumping fists and slutty clothes, The Postal Service announce their return to give the world some much needed closure.
Fans can rest easily knowing that Gibbard doesnt plan on stepping out of the spotlight anytime soon,
but he has concluded that there will be no new album to follow their long list of tour dates.

And as much as I would love to see The Postal Service in a small and cramped venue in which their sound is best consumed, I know that it's nearly impossible to get that lucky.


Download the album "Give Up" by The Postal Service for FREE
>>>as soon as you're through listening to the singles below.

Cheers.


Feel Flows~

-Honey Thief

Lefty

LIYL: NaS, Gangstarr, Mos Def, and Canibus (The rapper and the plant)

Robert Lefkowitz (Lefty)
is
on
his
grind.

It was a late Saturday night when Lefty came stumbling into my house wearing the familiar garments of a chasidic jew.
He shook my hand,
congratulated us both on making it through the long weekend and told me of his plan.
He raised his plastic cup filled with what ever we were drinking and exclaimed
"Im gonna make one new song everyday for the rest of my life"
We both giggled and clicked our cups together.
So he started with that. Just an idea.
But its already blossomed into so much more.

Lefty is the product of a generation that holds only influence.
Like few before him, he builds static towers of lyrical narratives through truth and inspiration.
He focuses on death, as if it were just a shadow of the sun shining through the branches of an old tree.
But as witty as he might be with his metaphors, it doesn't hold a candle to what people actually enjoy about his music.
what we enjoy most, is how his lyrical complexity coincides with his long range of emotions.
Through self-exploration, Lefty found something that most people dare to dream about finding.
With one ear to his heart, and the other ear to the blistering concrete streets of New Jersey,
Lefty found truth in music by finding truth in himself.
The only problem I have with any of this, is that I shouldn't have to color in the lines of something that is already so vibrant and kaleidoscopic.
People should find this out for themselves.
They should uncover all of Lefty's brilliance like I did.
By realizing there is more to life than its ups and downs.
Life is about experience.
Life is about how hard you push against the winds.
But people never seem to understand this.
They overlook this, like they overlook the artwork that stains the tall sky scrapers of New York City.
Passing right by, never taking a second to realize what's in front of their faces.

And as sure as I am that everyone will love Lefty and everything he's come out with,
I know he will stick with me through thick, thin, and thinner.
Because thats what best friends do.


Feel Flows~

This song plays tribute to our beloved friend Raymar.
He who lives by the gun, dies by the gun---12/31/12--
REST IN PEACE.
You are forever.

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-Honey Thief

The Langley Schools Music Project

The Langley School have created a music project.

Celebrating the classics with young aspiring vocalists..

Beautiful renditions of classic rock songs.

-Honey Thief

Volcano Choir

...This reminds me of my childhood.
It reminds me of collecting shells, getting lost in the woods,
and swinging too high for my own good on the swing set.

..."Volcano Choir" is a collaboration between Justin Vernon from "Bon Iver" and a band called "A Collection of Bees"

 'Nuff said.

-Thief.