Wheels

Based out of Yellow Springs, Ohio, check out Wheels.
A band whose lush americana-folk sound has been creating ripples in all corners of the world.

The only difference between Wheels and your favorite band,
is that you haven't heard Wheels yet.
Jah feel?

All hail the folk revival.

Feel Flows~

-Honey Thief

Dad Rocks!

LIYL: Akron/family, Owen, Bill Callahan, and Why


Drawing inspiration from the things immediately surrounding him,
Snævar Njáll Albertsson, writes about the relations closest to him.
Namely, his beautiful and creative daughter, who thought up the moniker Dad Rocks! (go figure)
His lyrics, are well-crafted and shed imagery with every new stanza.
'Nuff said.

The songs consists of twinkling pianos, bright acoustic finger plucking, and other various classical instruments that blend themselves into anthem-like arrangements.
Rendered into its own genre, consider Dad Rocks! as a brew of Indie-Folk music with a dash of Lo-Fi Pop

Practicing the sponge-approach, Dad Rocks! embodies anything it wants to.
Absorbing anything deemed creative to utilize and squeeze out all at once.
Which is actually fairly similar to what it's like to be a kid.
Never really knowing who you are, you helplessly scramble to try and figure it out.
You take pieces of everything as you get older.
Absorb anything that comes in contact with you.
Grab ahold of certain values and extremities but reject others.
Then, in a blended mess, you whisk them all together to form who you are.

Well that, in essence, is Dad Rocks!
It is the ability to uncover yourself over an elapsed period of time, through creativity and discovery.



Feel Flows~

"Mount Modern" is listed as a pay-what-you-want album on Bandcamp.
Any donations wold (obviously) be greatly appreciated by the band.

-Honey Thief

Little Sur

Let us take a moment to reflect on the perfection that is Little Sur
At first listen, you might mistake their ethereal vocals as an exposed sense of truth.
An effortless rendition of what it's like to float.
But as you spend more time with Little Sur, you'll soon realize they are much more spectacular than any being can explicate without getting frustrated enough to make you listen to each song individually.
The album itself, takes you on a journey that propels in and out like a restless tide.

Before you know it, the album is halfway through and you have already completely surrendered to the spiraling melodies and welcomed sense of desperation.
But if anything, that earnestness will only strengthen your love for the band.

It is quite evident that Little Sur is made up of family and friends (friends who call themselves family) who not only share one dream-- but also--share one grand idea.
That is, to introduce their listeners to a snapshot of what it's like be completely content with sharing comfortable silences.

The final track of the album, entitled "Zobeide (The Wake)" contains the albums most proficient and artistically meaningful vocal performances. It has Judy Butterfield (a new favorite female singer) softly untangling hopeful lyrics over an emotionally charged piano.
I have yet to go a whole day without listening to it.
However, "Continental Love Song" will most likely generate the highest fan satisfaction for its catchy melody and folky tendencies that alternate in speed between each track.

It doesn't matter where you start on the album,
as long as you start.
Its all gold, Jerry.
Pure,
solid,
gold.

I urge you to pick up the album for a small price
(even though the band was kind enough to upload it for free)
HERE>>>Bandcamp
*All proceeds go to the band.

Feel Flows~

-Honey Thief

Emily Baker

Honest, elegant, genuine, and beautiful..

You can choose from any list of adjectives.

This album has it all.

Feel Flows~





-Honey Thief

Ted Lucas

LIYL: Bon Iver, Nick Drake, and Lost In The Trees


In 1975, Ted Lucas gave birth to one of the most influential albums that no one has ever heard of.
However, Lucas is constantly overlooked and dismissed as an artist.
He was just one of those musicians that fluttered right under everyones noses as they swooned over the rock gods of '75.

Does that make him unworthy of a listen? I think not.

Definitely going to be the best discovered album of 2013.

Feel Flows~

-Honey Thief

Sufjan Stevens

LIYL: Bon Iver, The Welcome Wagon, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Iron & Wine

Sufjan (pronounced:  Soof-yan) is an over achieving God.

Deal with it. 

Feel Flows~

-Honey Thief 

Songs: Ohia

Few artists can master the idea behind silence.
Whole seconds without a single note.
Music goes on during every second of our lives,
but its the silence that we take for granted.

Yet somehow the quite actually becomes a sound.
Like how after you turn off a lamp or television,
there is always a faint buzz that rises above your head like its passing right over you.

"Translation" is Songs: Ohia's calling card.
If you like this song,
get the album!

Feel Flows~

-Honey Thief

Shakey Graves

Heads up world!!

Shakey Graves releases a fresh new EP unheard of by the whole universe!!

Think about THAT!!!!!!

Anyway... 

Feel Flows~

-Honey Thief 

Andrew bird

One of the most incredible musicians of his time.
Not only does he have one of the most versatile catalogues,
but the sound of his whistle might make your girlfriend swoon.

Noootttt-a-problem.

Feel Flows~


If you like Classical....

If you like Rock N Roll...

If you like Folk Rock...

If you want something that makes you say "Holy Shit!"

-Honey Thief

Dizraeli and The Small Gods

LIYL: Anything catchy.

"Dizraeli and the Small Gods are a 7 piece band from England, playing a folked, melodic, unashamedly heartfelt reinvention of hip-hop."

Feel Flows~ 

-Honey Thief 

The Daredevil Christopher Wright

LIYL: The Lucksmiths, Bon Iver, Iron & Wine, and M Ward

Its good to acknowledge music as an exponential factor for change.
The more we change, the more our taste for music change.
and so it goes.
However, sometimes the music itself sits solidified within its perfect structure.
Styles harden and become a musician's own.

Chord progressions and time signatures begin to represent the artist,
and the artist represents the chord progressions and time signatures.
and so it goes. An endless cycle of cause and effect that builds the (respected) genre into what it is now.

All though,
some musicians- like Christopher Wright- never really adapt new ears for new music.
These musicians don't change- they don't alter their ways for the satisfaction of higher selling albums.
Instead, they do what they always do.
Perfect what has already been perfected.
and so it goes.


Feel Flows~





-Honey Thief

Racing Glaciers

LIYL: The Oh Hello's, Of Monsters and Men, Coldplay, and Beirut


Step outside the box youve trapped yourself in,
to a crowded hallway.
Change the steps you take to walk,
to a slow hop.
Change the broken home alternative rock,
to a vast landscape of indie folk.

and you have Racing Glaciers.

Their songs build, glow, build, and refract.
In that order.

Get their EP for FREE on Bandcamp


-Feel Flows

-Honey Thief

Calexico / Iron & Wine

There was a time where Sam Beam from Iron and Wine had too many songs.
As docile as the man is, he searched for help to complete the songs that had filled his books.
From cover to cover, he taught the young band Calexico,
all of his songs.
Calexico, however, saw things differently.
They saw things a little bigger than one acoustic and a soft rounded spotlight.
They saw the songs as an atonement of everything holy and pure.
They recorded the album and stashed it within their book cases.
Always to look back on for some subtle advice as to how to write an album.

Point on telling you this: Dont allow yourself to get stuck within a bubble of your own music.
Step entirely out of your own box to find opinion. Besides, the fans are who you want to please.


Feel Flows~

- Honey Thief

M. Ward

LIYL: Iron & Wine, Sufjan Stevens, and Beck

M. Ward has been with me for as long as I can remember.

He's best consumed on the nights where you weren't feeling the bar
but ended up there anyway.

Then you wanted to leave early,
but all your friends werent finished hitting on the girls they clearly wouldnt get.

So you walk home alone.

The bar isnt far away,

but you walk slowly.
Slow enough to let an album play till its end.
Slow enough to realize that walking home alone was the best decision you could have made.
M. Ward is saved for the feeling you get when you wrestle your pocket for your house keys outside your door.


Feel Flows~

-Honey Thief

The Oh Hello's

The Oh Hello's are what you get when you combine an acoustic guitar with a thunder clap..
A butterfly and a raven.
An open wound and a scar you cant remember how you got.

Songs of reminiscence.
From the places your heart takes you when you're in love
to the fields of trees we remember from when we were children.

The duo is made up of a brother and sister,
and most of the song structure is done in the studio.
but that doesnt change who they are as a band.
Who they want to be.

their melodies are infectious,
and each song marches along to a hammer and nail foot stomp.

Pick up the album for FREE here>>>bandcamp

Feel Flows~





-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

Harry Nilsson

Last post of the night..
...

Sometimes, the best way to know where your going,
is to return to where you were.

Feel Flows~

-Honey Thief

Ed Tullett

LIYL: Bon Iver, Bowerbirds, City & Color, and Bright Eyes.

  >>>> Bandcamp

 You are missing out if you don't have this...
Recorded entirely in one room, "Never Joy" is a quite crowd, packed with melancholy sing along's and fragile emotions.
Ripped and torn, with his heart on his sleeve, Ed Tullett perfects the warm falsetto that musicians can achieve only by sounding vulnerable and mislead.


"The touch was what i missed most,
and the haste in which i left.
made my eyelids heavier as if i hadnt slept.
Valor, wasnt in me,
but I was sure enough to swallow.
Pride was what i left behind and guilt is what would follow."

-Honey Thief

Shakey Graves

If you get a chance, see this man live!
Nothin' wrong with a dude in a cowboy hat, with a guitar and bass drum drilled out of a suitcase.
---Pick up his album at Bandcamp.

P.S- If you dont believe me, believe the state of Texas... They loved this album so much they dedicated a day to him..
February 9th = Shakey Graves Day

...And if for some reason you believe that the Folk genre (as a whole) has been beaten in to the ground,
get ready to be proven wrong... Bitch.