The new track from ONE OK ROCK is called Taking Off, and it is every bit as good as you would expect. You can grab it now at Amazon, iTunes, and all the other usual places. Then because one is never enough with this band Last Dance and the live montage of Cry out.
I have enjoyed Tessa Violet’s music since she released I’ll Be Your Star Trek Girl quite a few years ago under the stage name Meekakitty. She continues to put out excellent new music under her own name these days, and I wanted to share a few of her recent tracks. The first song is Dream, posted online this September. She wrote the music and lyrics as well as edited the video, Isaac White directed the video and created all the video effects for it. The second track is Haze and was just posted yesterday, the third is Not Over You posted on October 14th and possibly my favorite of the bunch. All three of these and two other tracks are on her forthcoming EP Halloway, and if you go for the physical copy the first 1,000 of them will be signed.
A headline I never expected to see when I became aware of this amazing songwriter/poet’s work back in the early 60s, but that I would have cheered on even back then; Bob Dylan has always deserved to win a Nobel Prize! Part of the reason is that he never stood still, but kept creating new works with new attitudes, year after year, and decade after decade. The only other artist I know that could match him on that level was David Bowie; had Jim Morrison survived longer, there might have been three of them.
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center does not often partner with someone to create a music video, but they did for this one. NASA Goddard video producer David Ladd got together with musicians Javier Colon and Matt Cusson to create a piece about NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) that they hoped would ignite the imagination of young potential future engineers and scientists. Besides inspiring the kids, it also needed to engage the parents and educators around them, so they could encourage and support them during the education period they would need to go through to reach that goal. The first lesson to be learned would benefit all of them, whatever they decided to do with their lives: that nothing is beyond their reach if they put the effort into it! That seemed like a pretty positive thing to me, so I had to share it here. This is how we build the future.
Just posted online last week, Yolo is the latest track from BAND-MAID, Japans leading Kawaii Heavy Metal band. OK, that last statement is up for debate, with bands like Baby Metal and Doll$ Boxx in the running for that title. Yolo is also the name of their second single, in this case a single with four songs, which will be released in November. They are doing their Brand New MAID Release Tour right now, tonight playing in Mexico, with stops in London and Germany later this week. The second track is The Non-fiction Days from last April, the third is Before Yesterday from June. Those last two are from their third mini-album Brand New MAID, and I am sure they will be doing all eight songs from it tonight, along with a lot of others.
The new song from The Pretty Reckless is called Take Me Down, and equates signing a deal with the devil to signing a deal with a record company. What makes it particularly ironic is this is a tightly produced commercial grade tune, without the rawness of her earlier recordings. I am not sure if that is a good thing, but it is quite a tasty song. The album it is on, Who You Selling For, comes out October 21st.