Fins

Have you ever found yourself endlessly roaming the internet? You search one thing on Google, click the link, then see another link that interests you and click it, then another - next thing you know you’re floating through an endless void of hyperlinks, so easily prevented by a ‘close tab’ and a click of an “X” in a red box yet an action seemingly so difficult to undertake. Well somehow in this process at 2am last night accompanied with a half tub of Ben&Jerries and total effort to stop procrastinating from doing my homework down the drain, I found these guys. 

Yes, of course it’s yet another Indie/Alt boy band with the cute nerdy Michael Cera/Jessie Eisenberg look. I can’t get enough of it. Ladies and Gentlemen (Or according to my blog audience demographic that I’m apparently attracting Canadians Teens and Middle Aged Asian Men) I present to you…Fins.

 These 4 guys are a Boston based band who combine eerie electronica synthesizers with an off-beat rhythm with added unique vocals from the lead singer. Not forgetting the Alt-Jesque style and logo.

 I'm shocked purely by how underrated they are as they're very talented -although part of me smiles to myself in great delight as I can have them all to myself. The song above makes me seriously miss the summer, but it's that’s okay as I can tell it'll be on my playlist for next summer. 

  Now, I was given some constructive criticism from a pro-music blogger that -quite ironically- I don't criticize enough on my band reviews, I only give good reviews which could come across as me kiss-assing the artists. Despite the reason why I praise these bands so highly is because I think they're awesome hence why I decided to review them on my blog, I shall criticize. I will always take on advice.

SO, HERE GOES MY FIRST CRITICISM:

Firstly, Fins has no twitter page or a Myspace - but then again Myspace died out when Hillary Duff was actually in the charts and the Simpson's made a movie.. so thats understandable.

Secondly, they don't do enough gigs cause they're all still in high school.

Finally -and most importantly- their band merch is only one t-shirt AND it doesn't ship to the UK which sucks.

 Although considering they've only been around for a year, they're doing bloody well.

So please do comment below and check out other peoples comments. BE NICE. Tell me what you think of them and yeah. Enjoy the music. 

Rac.fm

**NOTE TO READER: You've found yourself wondering into the abyss of my 14 year old mind, I'm flattered you've got here but any post from 2012 or prior is bound to be cringey, nevertheless, do enjoy my pubescent faffling and my evident short attention span to the point where I'm literally going off topic every 3 seconds. Good Luck**

   If my early childhood was a techno song ^^THIS^ would be it. Oh, it's all coming back to me; the pixelated screens, the 8-BIT theme tunes -no matter how classy any xbox 360 may be or how sleek a  PS3 is, the Nintendo 64 will always be unbeatable. You know a songs good when a surge of nostalgia rushes down your spine. The  memories of my 7 year old self, trying to sneak my Gameboy Advance in and out my school bag; Pokemon, Sonic, Mario, Rayman, Earthworm Jim. Good times. Anyway, this song is kickass, which is no surprise since its a remix from indie-techno masters: Rac.fm

Rac.fm literally do the best remixes for indie/pop/alternative songs I know. It's the fact that they manage to do dance remixes of great songs without ruining the song or being too cheesy  making the song their own and adding signature 'rac.fm' beats and drops. When I found their site I was overwhelmed; it was as if they'd gone into my brain, found my top 10 favorite songs and then epically remixed them to uplifting tunes.
  I'm most likely the only person who does this but, sometimes, when I'm walking down the street, I tend to put on an upbeat song, start walking to the pace of the song and pretend I'm in a movie. It's stupid but it makes me smile :) These are the types of songs I'd bob along to, all Rac.fm's:
Go on, have a quick listen through them...

Beautiful isn't, it? How can one be so upbeat yet so chilled at the same time? Its beyond me...  Rac.fm isn't actually a radio station if you're wondering; its actually a group of awesome people who put together some great remixes and make gnarly songs. RAC actually stands for Remix Artist Collective and boy do they know how to remix. The group consists of three artists and he remixes are mainly done by the founder of the group, André Anjos, a really cool Portuguese dude who's has had his fair share in show business and has worked in TV (Entourage/90210/How To Make It In America) and in the film "Holy Rollers," starring Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Bartha. Do you get any cooler? I mean Jessie Essienberg.  Sorry, got a bit side-tracked. Back to the point of André Anjos, he produces some impressive songs. With help from his american amigos of course; Andrew Maury and Karl Kling, who also produce,mix and compose songs for RAC. But wait... it gets better  André also does covers of songs with his rad wife, Liz.  In conclusion, André lives the life I wish to have when i'm older: Making electronica indie remixes, touring the world, happily married to a fly partner with the same love of music and working in the same film as Jessie Eissenberg who will one day realise his uncontitional love for me...haha just joking...ha..ha..kinda...So yeah,check their site, it's superfly... http://rac.fm/

Little comets

**NOTE TO READER: You've found yourself wondering into the abyss of my 14 year old mind, I'm flattered you've got here but any post from 2012 or prior is bound to be cringey, nevertheless, do enjoy my pubescent faffling and my evident short attention span to the point where I'm literally going off topic every 3 seconds. Good Luck**

Lets set the scene.  Its spring/summer 2012 (Sprummer?) and I'm sat in the living room eating my cheerios mixed with coco-pops -couldn't choose- when suddenly this advert for Radox shower gel comes on.

Now if you're thinking "Erm...okay? Were are you going with this?" Patience young grasshopper (although ironically you're probably older than me) and let me finish. So the advert starts playing and I'm not really aware of  the television because i'm too interested in the spectacular fusion of crackling chocolaty sensations with little O-shaped whole grain goodness in my cereal bowl but my attention is instantly diverted when this amazing song (linked in the video above) is played in the advert.

   No song has ever taken such a reaction out of me. I mean, usually when I hear a good song I be like "Yeah, bro this tune is keewl, I'll shazam it later or something..." but, no. Not this time. As if I had no control over my body I get up and start dancing all over my living room rug. I then rewind the advert over and over and over and-well you get the point- and I'm thinking "Thank you, Sky box for having live pause/rewind...I love you baby." Then the Sky box replies to me "Haha lol. no f u" and says "Live pause unavailable due to lack of space on disk" or something and I cant  rewind or fast forward or anything then loose the advert. The song was gone forever. I had lost it. Well until the next Radox advert would come on but I wasn't going to wait that long to be re-united with that special song. We had a connection. So I was stood there staring at the telly like "FUUUUUU-GOOGLE!" and run to my iPad to Google the song.

   After ten whole minutes of searching (Which is a billion years of google searching time) I found the song. It was these geniuses, Little Comets.

 These blokes are a  cute indie trio from Jarrow and Newcastle upon-Tyne -No, I've never heard of it either but asuming its somewere up north England- and they are just so likable. With their unique guitar riffs and their typical indie calls, yelps and hollers, you'd be a fool not to check out their new album "Life is Elsewhere" or the album my Radox advert song came -The song turned out to be called "Dancing Song"- From the album "In Search Of Elusive Little Comets."


  They may call themselves little but they've got big things in store ahead of them...

Who Even Reads Blogs?

**NOTE TO READER: You've found yourself wondering into the abyss of my 14 year old mind, I'm flattered you've got here but any post from 2012 or prior is bound to be cringey, nevertheless, do enjoy my pubescent faffling and my evident short attention span to the point where I'm literally going off topic every 3 seconds. Good Luck**

 I was having of those "I've got absolutely nothing to do days" today. You know when you're dying
of bordem so badly you find you are doing the utter most randomest things to occupy yourself, like trying to calculate how many tiles are on the wall or saying a word so many times over and over until it looses its meaning and sounds weird like the word "utter." utterutterutter...no? Just me? Well anyway, I was having one of these moments when I suddenly remembered this fail of a blog I made when I was turning 13...

To be honest, I didn't really expect myself to commit to this in the first place. It's like how most ten year-old girls are like "Oh yer!ohmygerd i'm sooo gunna write a diary...hehe ok here we go...'Dear Diary...' actually forget this i'm bored," and then never picks up that diary again. I mean, its the same for half the people that start blogs. Ok, maybe I'm being quite mean about this blog thingy or whatever exactly this is but in all honesty it's quite cringe-worthy looking back on how exited I became when I was making this thing. There was somewhat a part of me that expected this to miraculously  become a hit over night. I don't know...do people even read blogs anymore?

   Who needs them? We have twitter and tumblr...leave the blogging to yummy mummys posting "creative" recipes and...well... failed journalists. Sad stereotype, I know, but in all honesty I don't know a single person my age who actually reads blogs. Apart from me. Which is pretty sad. Anyhoo, I read over my two previous posts- frequently facepalming- when suddenly I realized something; doing this made me happy. I didn't care that nearly nobody was reading this, I was just proud of  my work. The suspense that someone, somewhere would view my page exited me despite the fact that my blog only got,like, two views a week.

 Finally, about ten minutes before writing this post, I realized  I'm going to do this for me. Cheesy, I know. Of course blogs are pointless if there's no reader but i'll never enjoy it if I'm just trying to impress people. So yeah, just thought you should know that. Yes you! My dear person who might be reading this. I'm thinking of YOU. Right now. Wondering who you may be, were you may be. I suppose I'm actually kinda glad loads of people don't read this, it saves the pressure and embarrassment. I'm just glad I'm going to continue this for me...

Me Me Me Me Me. Ok. Gottagonow.