Moth Pick Of The Week – Saving America
To call Michael Behm a music industry renaissance man is actually something of an understatement. As an artist, he’s equally comfortable working under the spotlight or behind the scenes or in a studio, while he has found significant success as an entrepreneur in many different facets of the music business.
Twelve years of touring through North America have established Behm as a compelling live performer. To a rapidly growing number of fans around the globe, he is best known as a singer/songwriter of real melodic and lyrical intelligence. His versatile take on pop-rock has been showcased on seven albums, including 2008’s acclaimed Saving America.
Moth Pick Of The Week – Future Past
Future Past, Lovespirals’ 4th full-length album, is a career-defining synthesis of the band’s vast musical influences into a fresh new electronica sound.
Moth Pick Of The Week – Unbound And Set Free + Under Lock And Key
With a name like “Chamber of Echoes,” one might expect a large band with room filling sound. Well, in this case, the room filling sound is obtained through the music of a one person phenom named Klaryssa Korol, who virtually single-handedly provides the vocals, programming, drum machines, synthesizer, samples and loops that make up her sound.
Moth Pick Of The Week – Sunshower
Sunshowers can be rare occurrences, but when these opposing forces meet, magic and allure is in the air. This is exactly why the NYC-based rockers Jupiter One chose the title (inspired by the Japanese short film “Dreams” by Akira Kurosawa) for their new Ryko album. Their far-out freshness mixed with timeless musical inspirations mesh together in a bittersweet indie-pop rock concoction – produced by the group and noted engineer Chris Ribando (The Black Crowes, Priestbird, Mary J. Blige).
Moth Pick Of The Week – My Personal Sky
Releasing her first major album at the age of 19 has been a long time coming for this songstress, writing fan favorites like “Lovely” and “My Own Hands To Hold” years earlier. Wise beyond her age, Sara writes about growing up in the modern teenage world in a way that connects. “When one of my songs touches someone it means the world to me,” exclaims Sara who’s had over 30 songs placed in films and television shows.
Moth Pick Of The Week – Through The Medium Of Noise
Michael J started his musical career as the lead singer, guitarist, and main songwriter for the Rochester, NY band Exploding Boy in 1987. In their 13 years together the band performed thousands of shows all over the Eastern US and opened for A Flock Of Seagulls, Joe Walsh, Billy Squier, Cheap Trick, and The Goo Goo Dolls among others.
Moth Pick Of The Week – Cooper Cobra
Cooper Cobra by Lily Sparks is proof positive that classic rock albums are still being made and that it doesn’t take years to mature into a classic. When you have it, you have it–and Lily Sparks has it!
Moth Pick Of The Week – On The Wire
A playground fist fight may not be the most promising start to a long-lasting friendship, nor indeed to the creation of a band; however, it was from these fractious beginnings that the story of Ardentjohn began, some time ago on the Scottish Isle of Bute…
Moth Pick Of The Week – Movin’ Higher
Nick Daugherty is a Los Angeles-based pop/rock/soul singer and songwriter in the vein of a John Mayer or Jason Mraz. Recently chosen as one of the “Top 100 Unsigned Artists for 2009” by Music Connection magazine, Nick Daugherty (released) his much-anticipated debut album “Movin’ Higher” on Skyrocket Records in May 2009.
Moth Pick Of The Week – True Story
Singer, writer, and producer all in one, David Homyk’s music can be described as a blend of Maroon 5 and James Blunt, often mixed with a Timbaland-style production. David is known to put on high energy live performances, juggling piano, guitar, and various instruments on stage. A producer by trade, David has made recordings for many well known artists including Beyoncé and her sister Solange.
Moth Pick Of The Week – Decade
As many of you may remember, the first band ever featured on The Mothpod was The Clintons. What you may not know is that The Clintons have just released a best of album titled Decade featuring five brand new tracks! As if that’s not enough to merit a Moth Pick Of The Week, they’re also giving the album away for FREE to all Moth Maniacs!
Moth Pick Of The Week – I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On
The Bloodsugars first established themselves as a force within Brooklyn’s indie-rock scene with the 2008 release of their critically acclaimed debut EP, BQEP. Now gearing up for the November release of their first full-length, I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On (Engine Room Recordings), the band finds itself poised to conquer new territory with national audiences. The group will promote the new album by setting out on a tour of the Midwest, wrapping up with a homecoming show at New York’s Webster Hall/The Studio November 21 with Project Jenny Project Jan and Savoir Adore…
Moth Pick Of The Week – Beyond Familiar
Ledbetter Heights comes from a college town, but it’s far more than a college band. They’re young men, but old souls. They were toddlers when “Joshua Tree” was released, but one can hear echoes of 70s funk and 60s soul threaded through a rock sound all their own. And best of all, they’re not playing for escapism or ephemeral pleasures. They’re slinging their grooves and melodies because they know moving people to jump, shout, laugh and cry is a serious and noble business, far more important than any day job…
Moth Pick Of The Week – Cupéro
Of the numerous striking qualities of Cupéro, the 19-year-old singer/songwriter and rocker, it’s the commanding presence of her voice and songs that sets her apart. Cupéro sings with a maturity and sense of permanence that belies her youth and the relatively short amount of time that she has been in the New York music scene.
Moth Pick Of The Week – Kickin’ & Screamin’
Born in Portland, OR, Becca has already become a staple on the international music charts, and she is now ready to do the same in the states. This 20-year-old shows a maturity far beyond her years on these EP tracks, such as “I’m ALIVE!,” her vow to live life to the fullest in the wake of the premature death of a friend. Songs examining personal relationships, such as “Guilty Pleasure” and “Lose You Now,” are penned by Becca herself, and show a young woman wise beyond her years.
Mothman Picks 13 Halloween Flicks
Disclaimer
This list does NOT contain my picks for for best horror films of all time, but rather my picks for best movies to watch on Halloween.
It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
It’s not scary at all, but this film has been a Halloween tradition since 1966.
Darkness Falls
This film has been [...]
Moth Pick Of The Week – Love Gone Mad
Since their inception in late 2007, Tulsa-based pop-rocker-foursome Stars Go Dim has captured the attention of a devoted fan base as well as music critics; they took the crown in a series of both fan and industry voted music contests nationwide, including the Country Music Television’s Listener’s Choice Award. In mid-2008, The Urban Tulsa named Stars Go Dim the “best unsigned pop band in Oklahoma.” Their popularity is only strengthened by opening act performances for Switchfoot, Daughtry, Paramore, All American Rejects, The Roots, and John Mayer. Stars Go Dim boasts two Grammy nominated musicians with a musical style that blends pop, rock and smooth soul and feature engaging lyrics held together with captivating melodies. The group recently recorded a self-titled debut EP in anticipation of the first single, “Come Around.” The full-length album, Love Gone Mad, which just released August 4, 2009.
Moth Pick Of The Week – Hollis Brown
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Nashville, Tenn. – Hollis Brown, Queens, New York’s hottest young band, releases their self-titled debut album September 1st on the independent label Vibe Theory Music. A mix of gritty rock and bluesy pop, Hollis Brown is a clear reflection of a band that has become essential to the New York City music scene because of [...]
Moth Pick Of The Week – Broken Lights
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Andy Chase wears many hats – label co-owner (Unfiltered), producer (Juliana Hatfield, Tahiti 80), film composer (The Farrelly Brothers Shallow Hal), recording studio owner (Stratosphere Sound with James Iha and Adam Schlesinger) and musician (Ivy, Paco). For Broken Lights, however, Chase for the first time handed over his producer hat to good friend Pedro Resende [...]
Moth Pick Of The Week – Trying To Be Me
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With a voice, style and personality that draws from her inspirations growing up but is distinctly her own, Laura Bryna is emerging as one of the bright new sensations coming out of Nashville.
A native of Mount Airy, Maryland, Laura s love of country music developed at a very early age. She and her mother spent [...]
Moth Pick Of The Week – Risk Everything
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Lee resides in the in-between—of chaos and order, sin and salvation, joy and pain. There’s a bracing honesty in his refusal to provide easy answers for the complex characters and narratives he creates. You can hear it in the songs of his latest project Risk Everything. They are unflinching in their honesty, uncompromising in their [...]
Moth Pick Of The Week – MicroCOSM
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David Packouz was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the third of nine children of pioneering ‘Internet Rabbi’ Kalman Packouz. While living in Jerusalem and Miami he became fascinated by science, studied chemistry and philosophy and practiced massage therapy and international business. Through his immersion in these diverse fields and while traveling to many places around [...]
Moth Pick Of The Week – Don’t Act Like You Know Me
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“Their new album, “Don’t Act Like You Know Me” is Ten Year Vamp’s most polished work to date. The single “Never Know” has the intensity of Foo Fighter’s “Everlong” combined with the female angst of No Doubt’s “Just A Girl.” Ten Year Vamp wants to create music for a large, diverse audience. “Never Know” also [...]
Moth Pick Of The Week – Ugly, Broke & Sober
A Few Words From The Mothman:
So I’ve listened to the album many a time now, and I’ve got to say that this is Telling On Trixie’s best album to date. Don’t get me wrong, their debut self-titled album is epic, and still sits along side my all-time faves, but Ugly Broke & Sober is the [...]
