GLG Fresh Mp3 Friday: Golden Globes

Congratulations to Ricky Gervais for winning the award for Rudest Golden Globes Host.
Courtesy of Robert Downey Jr., his performance was best summarized as "hugely mean-spirited" with "mildly sinister undertones." Despite this year's short-comings, Gervais did snag a Golden Globe Award in 2004 for Best Actor in a TV Series Comedy for his role as "David Brent" in the BBC hit The Office. If it were up to us, we would nominate Gervais in the "Entertainer of the Year" category.

On behalf of GLG, I am hosting the Green Globes...and the Green Light Globe nominees are:

Most likely to be touring in a town near you:

Gwyneth & Monko

Genre: Americana/Roots Music/Alernative

For fans of: Emmy Lou Harris, Patty Griffin, Jenny Lewis

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Golden Bloom

Genre: Indie/Rock/Pop

For fans of: Ben Kweller, Wilco (Summerteeth Era)

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Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library

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Neutral Uke Hotel

Genre: Indie Rock/Cover Song

For fans of: Neutral Milk Hotel

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Most Influential:

The Handsome Family

Genre: Folk/Americana

For fans of: You should already be their fan!

Best Music Video:

Lawrence & Leigh

Genre: Folk/Experimental/Indie Rock

For fans of: Joanna Newsom, Dirty Projectors, Fleet Foxes

Video: "Chelsea Nights"

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Enjoy Your Pumas

Genre: Alternative/Indie/Rock

For fans of: Metric, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bloc Party

Video: "He Was a Fly"

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Most Original:

Michael J Epstein Memorial Library

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Break Through Artist:

Seafarer

Genre: Indie/Folk/Experimental

For fans of: Sonic Youth, Fugazi, Pavement

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Leopold and His Fiction

Genre: Garage Folk

For fans of: The Black Keys, Kings of Leon, Heartless Bastards

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Most likely to find their song sticking in your head:

The Morning Code

Genre: Alternative/Rock

For fans of: Silversun Pickups

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John Shipe

Genre: Acoustic/Indie/Rock

For fans of: Josh Ritter, Jonathan Rice and Elvis Costello
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Baby Teardrops
Genre: Grunge/Pop/Rock

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GlG Fresh MP3 Friday 1-28-11 by greenlightgo
To our fans, please feel free to post any of the approved songs on your blog or tweet to your friends. Check out our list of clients and available mp3s here: greenlightgopublicity.com. If you're not on our email list to receive these directly and want to be, please send an email over to info@glgpub.com.

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GLG Fresh Mp3 Friday

Hear it here first at GLG: Lawrence & Leigh and The Handsome Family.

We promise you, these are three tracks you do not want to miss out on!

Lawrence & Leigh are two artists on a mission: to create work that’s beautiful and bold, with refreshing originality and an infectious sense of style.

The Handsome Family, “Brett and Rennie Sparks continue to put a brilliantly surreal twist on everyday subjects, using nature imagery to evoke the weird intensity of all-consuming passions.” --Jon Young, Spin

Lawrence & Leigh from Hills and Masts
Release Date: March 7, 2011
“Chelsea Nights”
Genre: Folk/Experimental/Indie Rock
For fans of: Joanna Newsom, Dirty Projectors, Fleet Foxes
Bio/hi-res photos

Lawrence&Leigh Chelsea Nights by greenlightgo


The Handsome Family from Honey Money
“Just Like Tom Thumb Blues" (Bob Dylan Cover)
"Drinking Beer on the Roof" (bonus track)
Genre: Folk/Americana
For fans of: You should already be their fan!
Bio/hi-res photos

The Handsome Family Drinking Beer On The Roof by greenlightgo

The Handsome Family Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues by greenlightgo

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To our fans, please feel free to post any of the approved songs on your blog or tweet to your friends. Check out our list of clients and available mp3s here: greenlightgopublicity.com. If you're not on our email list to receive these directly and want to be, please send an email over to info@glgpub.com.

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Lawrence & Leigh Release Odyssey Volume III: Hills and Masts on March 7th

Lawrence & Leigh are not the sort of artists who wait for inspiration to come before producing great work. The duo spend their time, thought and energy creating and perfecting their music. The result of this hard work is beautiful and bold, with a refreshing originality and an infectious sense of style. The duo’s first major undertaking, entitled Odyssey, is a set of three EPs, each with its own distinct sound and character. The first release, which has been a year in the making, is in fact the final chapter, Volume III: Hills and Masts. The EP will be released on March 7th, 2011.

Download "Chelsea Nights"

Like some kind of wondrous blend of Dirty Projectors and the haunting richness of Fleet Foxes, the female/male band of Andrew Kalleen and Kristin Stokes fill their music with dazzling styles of pop-- colored with a dream-like nostalgia, and realized to their fullest potential in the studio. With dense harmonies and elaborate song structures, the time spent meticulously fleshing out every detail has paid off. Lawrence and Leigh have created an album that fluidly progresses from each passing sound with impressive dynamics and energy. All the songs are absolutely individuals, with their own form, color, and intention. Yet the album remains cohesive through a melancholy yet optimistic, tone, and a sense that each song takes you on a ride somewhere you had never anticipated arriving.

Take for instance, the varying moods of the song “Glow.” What starts out as an explorative soliloquy over harmonically lush vocal overlays, soon takes a turn to a base heavy pop anthem, which then again evolves into a driving jazz piano with brushed drums, setting the scene for a 1960’s noir-like chase. You feel immediately transported through each section, becoming more engulfed with each turn of phrase.

Whether the music takes shape from Kalleen’s openhearted words or the duo’s skill at crafting gripping stories from the remains of variously dissimilar sounds, strong songwriting is always at the core. The band states, “We want everything that we put out into the world to have a point of view and style. Time, thought, and energy go into everything we do.” The invigorating experience their music embodies is surely enough to dazzle even the tamest listener. In the end, it’s clear the fresh and creatively intuitive duo, Lawrence & Leigh are ready to turn heads with their latest release. Click Here to Read More..

Staff Infection: Samples and Seeing the Light:: Right On

(*Editors note: This little lady to the left is named Molly. Molly is the face of Bryan Sanchez. We will continue to pester Bryan to show his face by the time his next Staff Infection rolls around, just to prove we like working with men just as much as other women.)

But for now, let's just let Bryan get straight to it:

The latest album by The Roots features a fantastic collection of new songs that showcases the Philly band blending the realms of hip-hop with incredible new beats. Their guest appearances are far more ranging than before – Dirty Projectors and Monsters of Folk to mention a few – but perhaps the finest guest spot is the sample used on “Right On.” Here is the song:

That sample happens to be the exact same hook that Joanna Newsome wrote for “The Book of Right On.” Here is her original version, as performed on the Jools Holland show:

The former one, which appears on How I Got Over, is the album’s centerpiece and at the heart of the album, it’s perfectly sequenced. Obviously, being the best band on late night has introduced ?uestlove, Black Thought and Co. to a wonderful array of new musicians and they’ve definitely seized that opportunity. But besides that, it’s still one of my favorite hip-hop albums of the year and probably their best album in the past five years.

Other than that, I got to see one of the best current bands, Spoon, two times in the span of three days when they played here in El Paso, TX on Wed. Oct. 6 and then in Austin, at the Austin City Limits Festival, on Friday, Oct. 8. With an immense catalog – one that has been downright exceptional since 1998 – and an impeccable musicianship that beguiles their gritty strength, the performances were surreal. Their new album, Transference, is definitely of the highest quality, here is my personal favorite song off it, “I Saw the Light.”

Each Monday a different Green Light Go staff member will let you in on what songs have infected their ears for the week, while giving you the opportunity to share in the experience yourself.


This week: Bryan Sanchez, Bio-Writer-at-Large Click Here to Read More..