Outside Forces: Bread Club

Pattern-and-rule-breaking music describes the tracks on the San Jose based band Bread Club's self titled album, "Bread Club".

At times dreamlike and other times holding a sandpaper-rough quality, Bread Club has a way of scratching out the internal monologue in your mind and taking it on a bumblebee path through music. Songs like "Metallicat" will bring you back to the days when you rocked out in someone's basement to a friend's band. The screaming vocals to "Metallicat" break up the otherwise unplanned drawing quality that seems to epitomize Bread Club's music.

Bread Club has a sound and creates a melodic tune that lets you wander through your thoughts without too much distraction. Though it has an alternative, punk sound to it, there's something about the music that just is so complex and entrancing. Check them out at their bandcamp and visit their facebook to show some love.

Best of Bandcamp: Everyman of Parts

The sweetest songs are the ones that are soft hands, reaching out to touch your heart and plant a little seed there. Sometimes these songs come in the shape of a lullaby; today, this song comes in the shape of an acoustic melody with the sweetest vocals. Ladies and gentlemen (and gender nonbinaries), please welcome Everyman of Parts.

Based in Brooklyn, New York, this band marks the typed pages of your life with a thin pencil and circles all the vowels of an unknown poem. Intricate starlight instrumentals combine with brushed singing to create a river of music.

Contrasting with this is the gentle tune of "Handlebars," a composition made to play as you lie on the floor, staring at the light reflecting from a glass prism, flashing strange ghostly glowing shapes at the ceiling. Catch a shard of this light with your hands as you listen to this song in the peace of your bedroom.

Check out more of Everyman of Parts' music at their website and support them by buying their album, on sale now. It's definitely worth every penny.

Free stuff: Music from Paste Magazine

Who doesn't like free shit? Online music publication, Paste Magazine, is offering a free album download from the Paste Festival Sessions, featuring artists like Apache Relay, Trampled by Turtles, First Aid Kit, Of Monsters and Men, and MORE. Check it out below and, if you like it, leave a little something. A tiny bit goes a long way, dudes, and supporting musicians is one of the best things you can do to promote the continuation of awesome tunes.

Now do this: Lottery Film Fundraiser

One of the local concerts of the week is happening this Friday at the Buddha Lounge in Philadelphia. Performing at that night's show will be Oh Bree, NarK, Placeholder, and Triceratopolis, two of whom I've already written about previously, so hopefully you already know of their awesome musical powers to shake you down and wring you up.

A recap of Oh Bree: happy show tunes meets the absurd and melodic. They're definitely not something you want to miss.

NarK, a pop punk band made up of members Lucas Kozinski, Ben Mink, Sam Palumbo, and Tyler March, gives you a kick in the shin with their up tempo jams. Give them a listen above and download the mp3.

Based in Harrisburg, PA, Placeholder adds some weight to this concerts set list with their heavy, dark guitar riffs and emotive vocals. A duo of Marco Florey and Brandon Gepfer, this band is the striking undertone to Friday night's concert.

And who could forget Triceratopolis, the chiptunes punk one-man-band? Solely made up of singer/songwriter/coffee aficionado, Ed Spinelli, Triceratopolis' signature silly songs are lighthearted enough to make you want to dance off your little dinosaur tail. 

Excited yet? The facebook event can be found here, and you definitely should show up ready to party hard like this guy over here:

SEE YOU THERE.

Where did Joe Go?: BBC Xmas Party 2012

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Big Mouth (I'm the red headed girl next to the guy in plaid!)


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Unfortunately, despite my desperate attempts to find pics of The Death Set's performance, I was unable to locate any. If you happen to see any, please let me know so that I can update this post. I have the feeling, though, that the mosh pit was too insane for any photographer to get a good picture. (I'll have you know, though, I was in the very front, hands on the stage, and I touched Dan Walker and Johnny Sierra's guitars. I even stage dived, against the desires of the tech crew, and briefly crowdsurfed. 'Twas one of the best concert experiences I ever had.)

Now Hear This: Soko

I first discovered Soko years ago with her debut song, "I'll Kill Her," a song that struck a chord with me after a rough break up. It was the kind of song that spilled out from a bleeding heart and reeked of a bitterness that only an unrequited love could give.

(I couldn't find a good stream of the song, so this'll have to do)

It was a few weeks that I rediscovered her and her recent album, "I Thought I was an Alien." Lonely songs sway on an empty swing set in this collection of original songs that sweep away ashes of a broken heart. Soko is actually a French singer as well as an actress, though her songs are in English. She has played in various French films which you definitely should check out as well as her album, which can be found at her website here.

Fill your empty mornings with a beautiful musician's voice playing from your speakers; let Soko into your heart and never feel alone in the universe again.