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Video Clip of The Week: Space Lemon, “Alone Again”



Space Lemon are a Los Angeles based alternative rock band combining alternative rock with hard rock and grunge. The band consists of Musician Institute graduates from around the globe: Vocalist Tommaso Gimignani from Italy, guitarist, Ignacio Zas from Uruguay, bassist Felipe Archer from Brazil and drummer Ale Robles from Mexico. With influences ranging from Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains, the band has been making a name for themselves as the next Stone Temple Pilots, by combining catchy vocals and electrifying riffs as they have been performing around the Los Angeles area.

“Alone Again” is the band’s first single off of their self-titled EP which was independently released this past summer. Space Lemon describes the song as being about people who take the path less traveled; the one’s that don’t get a degree or have a ‘regular’ job and who feel certain pressures and deal with struggles given to them by the world around them. Lead guitarist Ignacio Zas adds, “The song has a different meaning for everyone in the band, but we can all relate to the fact that we are different and have pressures of being away from home, being on the road and being musicians.”

Enjoy!

Space Lemon Album Cover

Video Clip of The Week: Princess Century, “Sunrise 101/Last Disco”



Most of the time, when I listen to music on a Sunday morning, I don’t want to have to think too hard about what it all means. I’m just looking for a beat or a groove or some kind of aural hook to move me. That’s it. I’m not demanding. Because Sunday is a day of rest, and that rest also applies to my brain.

What I do imagine when I listen to, and watch the video for “Sunrise 101/Last Disco” from Princess Century (AKA prolific remix artist, DJ Maya Postepski), is that the couple shown are contestants on The Amazing Race, but have gone rogue and decided to turn the Race’s various Road Block and Detour challenges into a combination Vacation/Art Project. Being a song without any lyrics, also known as an instrumental, “Sunrise 101/Last Disco” provides an ideal sound track to your leisurely Sunday Brunch and post-Brunch impromptu Dance Party. Listen and tell me you don’t agree.

“Sunrise 101/Last Disco” can be found among other awesome tunes on Princess Century’s latest CD, Progress, released October 16th, 2015 on Paper Bag Records. Like her on the FaceBook at This Link Right Here. Enjoy!

Princess Century CD Cover

Video Clip of the Week: “Giver” by Mike Gale



The aim of this weekly column has always been to find a song that epitomizes the wistful, gorgeous vibe that defines Sunday Morning Music. A lot of people do not know what they means, but we know it when we hear it. This week’s featured clip is “Giver,” a solo outing by Co-Pilgrim front man Mike Gale, and it is just sublime.

Inspired by masters of lo-fi acoustic song-writing Robert Pollard, Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse), Gram Parsons and Elliot Smith, Mike’s latest solo record, Another Planet — from which “Giver” is culled — is modern folk music with cues taken from classic pop, doo-wop and soul as well as shoegaze. Filled with winding, scattershot harmonies it mixes Brian Wilson’s sublime talent for a heart breaking melody with Justin Vernon and My Morning Jacket’s reverberant bliss. On home recording and the writing process, Mike says – “I need to keep writing and recording all year round – it keeps me sane! I write everyday but I’ve only recently started recording at home by myself.”

Visually, what we’re given as a minimalist palate is a scene of the sea on a grey, grey day. What a perfect backdrop to encourage imaginative extrapolation.

The new Co-pilgrim record Slows To Go is out on October 16th, 2015. In the meantime, enjoy!

Mike Gale Another Planet

Video Clip of The Week: CROSSS, “Dance Down”



OK, I realize that this is asking a lot (i.e. too much) of those out there who are wantonly ignorant of all music recorded before 1995, but imagine if you can a mash-up of Jefferson Airplane’s “Lather,” The Zombies “Beachwood Park”, and any Sid Barrett-era Pink Floyd tune that teeters on the precipice of sanity, only one million billion times creepier, and that’s what “Dance Down” by Canadian trio, CROSSS (yes there are three “S”s) reminds me of.

“Dance Down” is a song that is mastered so loud that I bet when the volume is on zero you can still hear it, and it is Fucking Amazing. Visually, the no-frills (and yet, highly stylized) Monty Pythonesque animation resembles a series of Edward Gorey drawings come to life. This my favorite thing I’ve seen or heard in months, though I admit that the first time I played the video I had to stop and re-start it three times to make it to the end, because it freaked me out so Intensely.

“Dance Down” comes from CROSSS’s sophomore LP, LO, which was released on June 16th, 2015. Take some drugs and listen to this one in the dark. Enjoy!

CROSSS LO CD Art

Video Clip of The Week: Telepathe, “Night’s Spell”



Maybe it’s just me (it usually is), but this week’s Video Clip from Brooklyn-based, multi-instrumentalist femme duo, Telepathe, reminds me both aurally and visually of the late Laura Branigan’s borderline disturbing video for “Self Control”. Because, the eighties!

But seriously, “Night’s Spell”— culled from the duo’s upcoming sophomore release, Destroyer (BZML Records) — embraces a pleasant synth-pop feel, propelled by a simmering tribal beat, accompanied by hypnotic vocals and a truly stimulating visual of a woman clad in a somewhat futuristic golden unitard thing, gliding about in front of pretty colored lights. What’s not to love? “Night’s Spell” has it all!

Telepathe is comprised to two very obviously talented ladies, Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudais, who quit their day jobs and relocated to Los Angeles to record the album in a few short and intense months. “Melissa and I decided to leave NY for a couple of months during the winter to write and record this new album,” Busy explains. “We rented an apartment on Sunset Boulevard. At the time we were reading a lot Science Fiction and researching California cults, which became themes that seeped into our music.” After watching the video, perhaps you will concur.

Providing further juicy background, the band’s latest press release offers, “With nods to freestyle Miami beats and Madonna’s early work, Destroyer is a focused cacophony of layered beats, synths and vocals bemoaning the complications and misunderstandings of relationships.” I feel them on this. Destroyer hits the streets on August 7th, 2015. Like them on the FaceBook at This Link. Enjoy!

Telepathe Destroyer Cover Art