Greg Weeks – Made

Off Greg Weeks 2001 release, “Awake Like Sleep” is this very personal and slightly disturbing tale of pain. Think Elliot Smith with a Moog and Mellotron.

Last.fm Bio:

Greg Weeks is a singer-songwriter. His music has been described as folk, acoustic, psychedelic and experimental. He is now a member of Espers, a neo-psychedelic folk band from Philadelphia.

His song “Made” was featured in the “Pink” adicolor video, which was directed by Charlie White.

Greg Weeks – Made

Lryics

“Made”

A silence a sway/
A gesture a wild sashay/
Can make your today/
And then take it all away/
They made us this way/
For what they can never say/
Sent us on our way/
It’s useless to make them pay/

Holding ground

“Just live for today”/
‘Least that’s what they try and say/
They say “Pay, pay, pay/
And we’ll take your pain away/

Holding ground

So much for today/
So much for the days of May/
So much is passe/
Please just make it fade away/

Update: This song was also featured on Weeds (Showtime) at the end credits.

Milique – Blame it on me

Doesn’t this track just throw you back to the days of 90’s Trip Hop. Digging this track with the dissonant piano chords over some rough electronics beats and distortion.

Trip Hop group Milique are from Melbourne, Australia and are made up of James Murfet & Roni Shewan.

Bio from myspace:

milique is james murfet & roni shewan. it’s trip hop, it’s simple; and maybe you can dance to it. expect soothing minimal lows, happy grooves, bass heavy angst and a bit of fun.

james has been hacking around with music and computers since the 90’s. one-time industrial act, james has chilled over the years and now enjoys making downbeat, trip-hop and a bit of minimal/techy stuff. in milique he plays keys and clicks a mouse occasionally. check out his website

roni’s sweet but powerful voice has unpretentiously been rockin’ the melbourne scene in a variety of genres for a number of years. her sincere songwriting and jazz-inclined vocal style soars full flight in milique. check out her myspace.

Milique – Blame it on me

Logan Lynn – Feed Me To The Wolves

Ok, this track just floored me the first time i heard it (actually, i saw it / heard it since it was a music video on LOGO). Anyway, Logan Lynn is from PORTLAND, Oregon and has a great emotronic sound to his music. This particular track is taken from his last ep titled, “Feed Me To The Wolves EP

bio from last.fm:

If the Land of Misfit Toys elected a team of cultural ambassadors, Logan Lynn would be its poet laureate. In Portland’s pulsating music scene, he occupies a singular position- an emo prophet with a penchant for electronic beats, preaching the Good Word to drug-damaged crybabies.

For the past decade, Logan has been writing and recording his own music. In 2000, he released his debut album, Glee, a blissful, sex-drenched romp through some emotionally treacherous territory. Produced by Pfog, heavy themes of religion, sexuality and identity played out alongside upbeat grooves and smiley-face rhythms. One critic said it “put the ‘disco’ back in discomfort.” That blend of spleen-venting lyrics and “Let’s dance!” optimism owes a lot to Logan’s unique, mildly scary upbringing.

Homeschooled in a fundamentalist Christian household, he was completely isolated from popular music. (Let’s just say the tagline “I Want My MTV” had especial resonance for this 80s baby.) Escape came in the form of the mid-90s underground rave scene, deejaying for tweaked-out teenagers in the Midwest, and later moving to the West Coast to pursue a degree in art school. All this helps to account for the leitmotifs threaded through much of his music: sex, drugs and Jesus.

His self-titled sophomore effort came out in 2006, using his earlier work as a springboard for exploring fresh sonic territory. He collaborated with several Portland artists on some truly radical music videos- Think the backroom of a bathhouse as reenacted by Ken dolls. The album release coincided with a much-praised performance at San Francisco’s all-leather Folsom Street Fair. To retool a phrase from the aforementioned music critic, he puts the ‘mo back in emo.

Logan Lynn – Feed Me To The Wolves

Here’s the video for Feed Me To The Wolves:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MHlblyBhOI&feature=related

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