Best of 2014

This is pretty cool... 

A raving review of Radiohearts' EP, "Nothing at All!"

Also, we're #52 (out of 249) on this best of Oct. 2014 list...

And to top it off, the eponymous song, "Nothing At All" made an end-of-year, 2014 Top Ten List!!

Check out our music here.

Thanks, it's been a great year!!

ICYMI

THE THINGZ IN THE LA WEEKLY!!

The Thingz
ALEX'S BAR
For more than a decade, The Thingz have been one of Long Beach’s catchiest garage-punk bands, but their music often has been overlooked, perhaps because in their early days it was so supremely and defiantly silly. Back then, just about every song was about food (“Manicotti Massacre”) or the life aquatic (“I’m Glad I’m Not a Mollusk”), but even the trio’s goofiest tendencies were fully powered by Jason Cordero’s relentlessly punishing drums, bassist Kim Morris’ punchy bass lines and the controlled savagery of guitar riffs from her husband, Mike Morris. The Thingz finally come into their own on their new album, Red Future. Most songs clock in at a Ramones-y two minutes or less, yet the group reveals new emotional and sonic range with balefully uplifting anthems such as “Not Mean (Just Soured)” and the unexpectedly rootsy and morbidly poignant “Julia Brown.” — Falling James

99% Perspiration

Love the book, Songwriter's on Songwriting, especially this excerpt from Leonard Cohen on the value, and indeed, the intense labor of the creation/revision process...

My immediate realm of thought is bureaucratic and like a traffic jam. My ordinary state of mind is very much like the waiting room at the DMV… So to penetrate this chattering and this meaningless debate that is occupying most of my attention, I have to come up with something that really speaks to my deepest interests. Otherwise I nod off in one way or another. So to find that song, that urgent song, takes a lot of versions and a lot of work and a lot of sweat. 

But why shouldn’t my work be hard? Almost everybody’s work is hard. One is distracted by this notion that there is such a thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I’m not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff, to come up with my payload. (emphasis added)

So true, but what wonderful "work" it is!