Sometimes the best music to hear is by the unknown artists. Some great places to find these artists are small cafes and clubs, Borders, an Myspace. Now I’m not a huge fan of myspace but I will say that i have discovered some great artists on there. My current personal fave is David Thompson. He’s got a great sound that is reminiscent of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and of Queens of the Stone Age. He currently does not have an album out but you can preview tracks off of his upcoming album on his myspace, myspace.com/davidsmusicnstuff. Another artist I have become a fan of is Sean Fitzpatrick. He’s been playing for years and just released his 7th album Force this past February. A track to check out is Drowning or Fuel for my Liar. Both are excellent and when you discover that Sean is a one man band doing the guitar, bass, drums, and pretty much anything you can think of, you find his music even better. His myspace is myspace.com/seansnoiseNow if you like funk a great band to check out on myspace is Groove Ethics. They’re fun and put on a great live show. Check them out at myspace.com/groovethics. Now I did a review of a Battle of the Bands a while back and all of the headliners were discovered through myspace. Myspace is a great place to find new music, and hopefully I will have some interviews with these artists in the near future.

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Song:

Untouched by The Veronicas

Untouched by the Australian Dance punk, Electropop band The Veronicas is an excellent song I recently got into. The Veronicas are made up of identicle twin sisters Jessica Louise Origliasso and Lisa Marie Origliasso. They were created back in 2005 adn are still an active group with just relasing their second album Hook Me Up back in November. Untouched starts off with some classical orchestral intrsuments that leads into a very catchy synth beat which eventually has an even catchier guitar and keyboard melody added. This song is very electropop, but don’t let me saying that scare you away. I usually listen to hard rock adn genres like that, but I love this song. The song was released to Australian radio on November 21, 2007 and became the most added song to radio for that week. The song debuted on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart at number four on December 17, 2007. The song debuted at number sixteen on the U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles on July 5, 2008. This is an awesome song that you should check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NLs3odG2Kc

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Long time no blog! I am really truly very sorry! But I’m getting right back into the swing of things with a fashion tip of the day : )

Tip of the Day: Summer is hot, keep your hair cool!

Healthy hair seems to be a rarity in the summer. With damage from heat, sun, pool water, and other hair killers, it’s amazing everyone is not bald by the end of august! Dry scalp, fried strands and split ends are rampant but there are ways of beating the heat and keeping your hair luscious.

Top tips to Keep Your Hair Happy:

1. Skip the blow-dryer/flat iron/curlers, your hair gets enough stress from the summer sun and heat, give it a break and let your hair air dry and fall naturally.

2. Use swim shampoo, its specially formulated to help get rid of chlorine buildup and keep your hair green-free (My favorite is the L’Oreal Kids Swim Shampoo in the orange scent, mmm!).

3. Treat hair to a deep conditioner once a week to keep weak brittle strands at bay.

4. Get your hair trimmed every 4 to 6 weeks to keep split ends away, they frequent your hair when its dry so you cannot afford to miss a trim!

5. Use color care shampoo for dyed hair, its especially important if you are out in the sun or pool a lot, where your hair will change shades faster than you get burnt! Keep your original color bright with John Frieda’s color care shampoos and conditioners.

6. Give your tresses a break from the sun by slipping them under a hat a few days a week, your hair will stay softer and shinier!

7. Before you go swimming get your hair wet in the shower, wet hair won’t soak up as much of the pool water, keeping your hair chemical free!

8. If your hair gets especially tangled, use a leave-in conditioner on your strands before and after splashing in the water.

9. Let hair naturally lighten, don’t try to use spray in lightener that can potentially fry your locks!

10. Keep hair in fun french braids to avoid tangles and breakage (and its a super cute look for summer!).

These tips should help you keep your hair looking and feeling it’s best this summer.  Enjoy the beach, pool and outdoors but don’t forget to take care of your hair!

-Fashionista-

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Today’s Song:

Shadow Stabbing by CAKE

Sung in a monotone yet enjoyable voice is CAKE’s Shadow Stabbing. With catchy lyrics and feel good beat this song is a great summer listen. It’s off of their 2004 album Comfort Eagle along with their most popular hit Short Skirt/Long Jacket. It has their classic horns along with bizarrely tuned guitars.

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Today’s Song:

Devil Inside by INXS

An excellent song by the 80’s new wave rock group INXS, it is one of my favorite songs by them. The song starts off with a catchy drum rhythm and leads into the lyrics by adding each instrument one at a time. Michael Hutchence’s voice is simply amazing, singing whisper like in this particular song; he was an amazing singer/songwriter who tragically died by hanging himself although it is thought it is thought to have been caused by an autoerotic asphyxiation. The lyrics are insightful and wonderfully written by Michael Hutchence and Andrew Farriss. The video is quite nice too,  http://youtube.com/watch?v=luobOzreRq4 although Guitarist and saxophone player Kirk Pengilly stated in an interview that he did not like the music video for “Devil Inside,” because he thought that it was “too American.” Random fact: This song was used in the movie rockstar. Enjoy this song and I’m sure you will see me write more on INXS.

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So on my recent exploits to Kohl’s, I’ve noticed quite a disturbing trend in their latest posters for the moderately priced summer attire. As I was leafing through the massive racks of printed and/or novelty tee’s, I looked up to see a rather angsty-looking teen with some sort of gay-emo-fohawk-weirdo peakcokshit hair-do holding a Fender Telecaster. So I looked at this in horror for about fourteen second s before realizing that every poster of every teen had some sort of either bass, guitar, or drum set featured almost above the clothing these statuesque teens were wearing. Immediately began to feel angry and wanting to break some type of shit that was close and easily destroyed, but I calmed down, and analyzed the situation instead. WHY were these kids holding these things in the first place? So, I began to run through some options.
1): Perhaps fender and Kohl’s was getting paid big bucks be fender to feature their instruments in their adds as a quite direct way to display their instruments to young teens.
2): Perhaps there was a new Kohl’s brand line of clothing based around music and stuff; perhaps new band and/or guitar company oriented tee’s (which I thought was the case) .

Turns out both were horribly wrong.

So I stroll over to the girls clothes and- OMFGWTFBBQ0×0x0×0x0r~ss!! The girls are all holding the too!!! Wait a minute…..This girl is wearing a sort of dressy top, and a knee length, very classy floral patterned skirt….SO WHY THE HELL IS SHE HOLDING A GIBSON FLYING V!!!!!!! And why are these other girls (also dressed in nice clothes(did I forget to to mention these posters are located in the girl’s dress clothes section?)) holding guitar’s too???? The brand names on the headstocks were even photoshopped out… So why the instruments at all? even thought they did have some new band tee’s in stock, the reason for the new guitar posters were clear: owning a guitar makes you cool. If you have a guitar, that must mean you’re in a band, and that also makes you cool, and a rockstar!!! Who wouldn’t want to be a rockstar!!! I know I would.

With items on the market now, like Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and things of that nature, being a rockstar has been closer than ever. After playing these games, Kids go to guitar center and pick up $90 dollar guitars, which the begin to learn “E’ and “Am” chords on, instantly making them guitarists, and the ability to say to people, “yeah, I pretty much play guitar. not gonna lie.”
Unfortunately for people who actually play guitar, guitar center is now full of those kids trying out their brand new E chords and clogging up the place with polluted sounds. Here’s a little tid bit. Look at the number of guitars sold under $100. http://www.musictrades.com/census.htmlNow, anyone who says they “play guitar” is probably lying, but what about those who know what they’re doing? Oh well for them I suppose. If you wanna be cool, buy a squire and learn three chords. everyone is doing it.

*This was written by my friend (obviously a guitarist)

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Today’s Song: (Sorry for the month I was gone)

Here’s to the Night by Eve 6

This song is just one of the many memory songs of being young. Here’s to the Night is the end of the 90’s alternative rock sound. It hit #30 on billboard charts while other hits off of Eve 6’s album Horrorscope reached as high as #3. Here’s to the Night is a good song to remeber your years with your friends, especially because graduation is coming up soon. As much as this can be considered a love song I personally think it can be used to think of your friendships you had.  It’s a great song and enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wHlg_AL0c&feature=related

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