Missing puzzle pieces

Tonight's music is played by Kings of Convenience, alternative rock/indie pop-folk (that's complicated) duo from Norway, Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe, both singers and composers of their songs. I'm not exactly sure of how to pronounce their last names, but what I am sure of is that this is one of the cutest songs I've ever listened to.

P.S First day of school was really really actually quite nice. Huh.

And there's nothing wrong with me, this is how I'm supposed to be

Today, in celebration of the fact that I went and got a new hair-do that makes me look like a little anarchist, being the fearless BAMF I am (hahaha.), I should talk about one of the greatest albums the human kind has known up to till now, Green Day's American Idiot. I don't care what the general opinion on Green Day is, I've loved them ever since I was a 7th grader who's first heard the term "nonconformist" and thought she'd found the very meaning of life. Haha, good days. I'm not even that much of a punk listener, but for releasing American Idiot, I'm going to love Green Day forever.

Anyway, these guys put riot and youth into lyrics, then into guitar riffs, then into several proper LPs over the years. As much of a punk-rock group who's poster is up on every teenager's wall who dreams of running away from home and start their life over they might be, the social and political issues covered on American Idiot, they had quite some guts to record that. Green Day have this amazing ability to turn every track of theirs into an anthem. All of the 13 tracks on American Idiot put together follow the same storyline, the life of a character simply portrayed as the "Jesus of Suburbia", the anti-hero, as they called him, a punk who loathes the society he lives in, so he struggles between following his own path and terribilist self-destruction with "a steady diet of soda pop and Ritalin". Jesus of Suburbia, (the 10 mins song and the video) tells the story pretty well. It will forever be one of my favourite songs, I know the lyrics by heart, I know every single musical note in there, knowing I've lost countless hours of my life listening to this again and again and again over the years.

Basically, long personal emotional view on this album short, I wish the life I'm gonna live will be worth for Green Day to write an album just as great as this one based on it.

Friday-1, I'm in love

Roses are red, violets are blue, the Cure are lovely, and I'm an ignorant.

I only knew them from Misfits' soundtrack, but today it just hit me out of the blue that I want to listen to The Cure. So I did. All day so far. I'm sorry, office mates.

Why were they not on my list of great bands before? I do not know.

For a full bio go here, I hit the exit button pretty quick though, I'm going to take the time to go through all the "technical" details some other time, for now I'm just going to ignorantly enjoy their music after haven't had done so till today. "Lullaby", "The Lovecats", "A Forest", here, in case anyone wants to listen to alternative rock slightly goth rock at times with post-punk influences and turning pop sometimes, depending on which phase of The Cure the song was released in. Lullaby is my personal favourite so far. And look at their wicked album artworks.

I want to host a tea party where everyone wears ripped clothes and dark make-up, sips tea out of tiny teacups with flowers on them and talks about life beyond death and obscure old records and books, all while listening to The Cure. Which would be quite eerie.

Space may be the final frontier / But it's made in a Hollywood basement

Red Hot Chili Peppers have fascinated me ever since I was a kid and saw Californication on VH1 for the first time. Of course, back then i had a pretty general opinion on music and didn't really understand their message, but a few years after, I really started listening to these guys.

They're amazing. The exact kind of artists I love, creating a whole new musical genre of their own, inspired by real-life experience. I don't exactly know how to put it into words, the kid i was when i first heard Caliornication loved them just as much as I do now, even though now I also get the meaning behind the music.

Red Hot Chili Peppers are a mixture of alternative rock, funk and hard-rock, and the list of bands and people that influenced them varies from Bob Marley to Bad Brains and Led Zeppelin to Miles Davis and Elvis Presley. Each RHCP member had a different musical evolution and brought his own style and musical preference into the band, which resulted into what RHCP sounds like today.

The lyrics were written by the vocalist, Anthony Kiedis, which I find to be a very interesting man with a very interesting story. He spent his teenage years in LA and had one of the Hollywood's favourite drug dealers at the time for a father, who provided bands such as Led Zeppelin and The Who. He lost his virginity at age 12 with daddy's 18 years old girlfriend and consent, and at 14 he almost died from his first cocaine dose. Up till 2000, since he has been clean, he spent his life struggling with addictions, the 1st wake-up call being his band mate Hillel Slovak's death due to heroin overdose, still, that only turned him into an on and off user for a while. His life experience, as well as the other members' life experience as RHCP evolved, reflects into the lyrics, with themes such as love, romance, sex, drug abuse, politics, globalization, loneliness and dealing with death.

Kickass people making kickass music, putting the knowledge they gained since '83 in the songs as a sign of aging, but keeping the young energy alive. I can pretty much see them at 65 still rocking out on rooftops, making weird faces in photos, dressing tacky-punker clothes and releasing trippy music videos.

9 days left till the new album, I'm with you is out.

(Awesome artwork, by the way, 1st pic, the one with the fly on the pill.)

Till then, Stadium Arcadium:Jupiter and Blood Sugar Sex Magik are back in my playlist.

Joined at the Soul with a Pair of Headphones

Artist name : Dub Fx

Genres : beatboxing, drum&bass, hip-hop, reggae, dubstep, pop

Location : worldwide

Dub Fx (Benjamin Stanford) is one of the most soulful artists i've ever listened to, it's amazing how his music seems to somehow reflect the life of the streets he performs on worldwide and connect with the listener instantly; it was love at first track.

Dub Fx is put into his music 100%, known for only using his own performance. It all truly started out after film maker BD filmed "Love Someone" while being performed on the street, posted it on his Youtube account, and 9 million views later, Dub Fx and his finacee, Flower Fairy (real name Shoshana Sadia) had already taken off to hold shows all around the world.

The 1st studio album, Everythinks a Ripple, was recorded using only sounds created with Dub's voice using a Roland's effects and loop pedal.

He also released Live in the Street, a collection of performances recorded during the Europe tour, followed by A Crossworlds' in 2010, dubstep project of Dub Fx and Sirius.

Joined at the soul with a pair of headphones
We need nobody to let ourselves go
Always on my side as We rock at stage show
In an ocean of music We move with the flow

A hand in my hand i don't wanna let go
A partner in life on this mean old road
We got the wind in our back that blows
We can't drift apart We just move wïth the flow

("Flow", Everythinks a Ripple)

P.S Dub Fx will be this year's last live act @Tuborg Green Fest Peninsula in Târgu Mureş. Heh, better luck next time at being there :(