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August 23, 2010 

Can’t Stop: Watching: Sarah Jaffe

As if Dentonite songbird Sarah Jaffe isn’t a local music favorite yet, Dallas Observer posted a few videos of her last Friday which I’ve watched multiple, multiple times today. She won’t be back in town for another two weeks when she plays at the Granada Theater with Seryn but as I’ve mentioned before, she is definitely worth checking out live. From the sounds of this video of her new, unreleased song, “A Sucker For Your Marketing,” I will undoubtedly buy her upcoming release… which, cross your fingers, may be released as early as this fall?

(Sarah Jaffe / website / myspace / facebook / last.fm)

August 20, 2010 

Can’t Stop: Watching: Creed Shreds

Besides creating music that is fit to pop in your car on a sunny day, Austin-based Quiet Company is also a source of amusing tweets. Recently, they posted this:

Curiosity got the best of me and everyone loves listening to people sing with a mouthful of water so naturally, I hit up Google to find a clip from this concert and ran across an amusing message board thread. In it, I found both Creed performing “Bullets” from their Creed Live DVD (which broke a few Guinness World Records?) and a parody called Creed Shreds. The precision of the dubbing in Creed Shreds is what keeps me coming back for more. Someone put some effort into those videos and for that, I applaud them. I’m not sure which sounds more like someone singing with a mouthful of water, real Creed or fake Creed but you can make the choice yourself:

Real Creed:

Fake Creed:

August 19, 2010 

Can’t Stop: Listening To: Lalagray

The first time I heard about Ashley Myrick (musically known as Lalagray) was through Twitter since I happen to follow some DFW musicians that enjoy tweeting. @lalagray was getting more and more mentions, so naturally, I checked out her account, saw that she likes to tweet regularly, and hit the “follow” button. During my blogging hiatus, I really didn’t keep tabs on the local music scene much but knew she sang with The Beaten Sea and Dallas Family Band, and I listened to a few of her simple recordings on Myspace. I liked what I heard. But I was on a hiatus and listened to nothing but Mumford and Sons so I didn’t dive in too much further. (I told you yesterday, it’s been a pretty mild summer.)

Fast forward to yesterday when I finally had a breather at work and could spare a few minutes to check out her new site, www.lalagray.com, and the three tunes from her upcoming album. I had been listening to The Beaten Sea for about an hour, took the detour to her site, then proceeded to stream those three songs until the end of the work day. Yes, I listened to three songs over and over for about five hours. Prior to yesterday, I was already familiar with her beautiful voice, but to hear that voice combined with full instrumentation blew me away. Beautiful voices are a dime a dozen but the grandness “Devil’s Nest” reaches at its peaks is enough for me to head to Dallas for her CD release show, September 4th at LaGrange. Her supporting cast assures me that her live show should be as fantastic as her mastered recordings.

(Lalagray / website / tumblr / myspace / twitter / facebook)