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New Music Friday
My friend and I drove to St. Louis to see her absolute bucket list band, Riverside (a Polish prog metal band) this past week. We drove out Monday for the show that night and drove back on Tuesday. It's not the first time we've traveled a few hours for a concert but it's the first time we've stayed over night somewhere. It was a lot of fun and for two big music/concert lovers we were just having such a good time chatting both there and back we never bothered with a single song on the car radio. I know it's not easy for us to get out of town like that, even driving anywhere there and back in the same day. But I really needed that mini vacation. As for the band, I'm not a huge prog rock or prog metal fan but Riverside is good, and they put on a good show with some laughs. So even though their last album is a few months old now, I'm going to throw up a few songs of their's that I like in the links at the top of this week's post.
For something completely different, let me share the Todrick Hall video that came out today. It is a vision of color and culture that I got mesmerized watching again just while trying to write this post. It's not for me, but I can acknowledge the talent and vision that goes into creating a song and a video that goes into this. Todrick's work is always delightful and this song is no different.
YouTube sent me on some musical journeys this week, the first one was this beautiful and heartbreaking video from Joy Crookes from March. Her voice is something else. If you liked the Finneas video from a few weeks ago, let me tell you that you're going to like her voice and the sound of this song. And when you're done with this video, PLEASE go watch some of her other videos like this one her voice is just amazing.
This last one is just a bit of fun. It's a cover from Seth Everman who is known for taking the piss out of songs/styles/artists. His Billie Eilish video from a few weeks ago still makes me laugh. In this week's video he covered Old Town Road but in a bunch of different styles on his synth and it's both good and funny. Highly recommend especially if you need a laugh.
I'm also going to drop a link down here at the end to this visual album by Jonathan Young. He's best known for his metal covers of songs from anime and animated movies. His got a great voice and I love his style. This week he dropped an album that includes 21 songs by Villains that he's covered. You can find the actual album anywhere you get your music, but if you like videos, I highly recommend watch this video which has the videos for each song back to back to back. His cover of "Hellfire" from Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Lion King's "Be Prepared" are especially good.
- Wasteland (Live) This is such a well-done video from the band that gives you a great look at what it's like to watch them live. The sound is killer too. I also like this one because it shows the different progressions of their style.
- Discard Your Fear Just a lyric video, but a good song.
- Loose Heart One of their older songs, but man it's good.
For something completely different, let me share the Todrick Hall video that came out today. It is a vision of color and culture that I got mesmerized watching again just while trying to write this post. It's not for me, but I can acknowledge the talent and vision that goes into creating a song and a video that goes into this. Todrick's work is always delightful and this song is no different.
YouTube sent me on some musical journeys this week, the first one was this beautiful and heartbreaking video from Joy Crookes from March. Her voice is something else. If you liked the Finneas video from a few weeks ago, let me tell you that you're going to like her voice and the sound of this song. And when you're done with this video, PLEASE go watch some of her other videos like this one her voice is just amazing.
This last one is just a bit of fun. It's a cover from Seth Everman who is known for taking the piss out of songs/styles/artists. His Billie Eilish video from a few weeks ago still makes me laugh. In this week's video he covered Old Town Road but in a bunch of different styles on his synth and it's both good and funny. Highly recommend especially if you need a laugh.
I'm also going to drop a link down here at the end to this visual album by Jonathan Young. He's best known for his metal covers of songs from anime and animated movies. His got a great voice and I love his style. This week he dropped an album that includes 21 songs by Villains that he's covered. You can find the actual album anywhere you get your music, but if you like videos, I highly recommend watch this video which has the videos for each song back to back to back. His cover of "Hellfire" from Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Lion King's "Be Prepared" are especially good.