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bass player & life enthusiast

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Sonnet & The Book Club PBS Special

Wow! It was so fun to be featured with Sonnet and some of my favorite musicians ever. What a blessing to be surround by such lovely ladies. 

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Redd Carter "Devilish Blues" EP RELEASE

It was such an honor to play on Redd's first EP. Words can't even express how happy I am for him. You can buy the album here and come see us at Hotel Cafe @ 8PM on April 18th!

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Could not be more excited for my dear friend D. Phelps upon the release of his first single with BK Bambino. 

Read his exclusive Q&A for Verge Magazine here. 

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Sounds of January

 One of my favorite things to do is to put on a record that I haven't listened to in a while and to have it feel like the first time I heard it again. This January I tried to keep that in mind and to pull all of my favorite songs from 2014 together. I hope you love it!

Check out the full playlist at VergeMagazine. 

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Sounds of January

 One of my favorite things to do is to put on a record that I haven't listened to in a while and to have it feel like the first time I heard it again. This January I tried to keep that in mind and to pull all of my favorite songs from 2014 together. I hope you love it!

Check out the full playlist at VergeMagazine. 

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Backstage Pass: Mansions On the Moon Q&A

So stoked that I got to chat with the dudes from Mansions on the Moon....One of the hardest working bands ever. It's refreshing to see people out there taking a totally new approach to what it means to be a "band" and what kind of music that "band" should write.  Check out the Q&A I did with them for Verge Magazine! 

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Sounds of December

Whenever people ask me, “What type of music do you listen to?” Really- how could anyone answer that?? Are there people out there who really only listen to one kind of music? If I HAD to narrow it down my only reply would be, “good music”. So this month for my playlist I channeled a winter storm a few years ago where I was snowed into my Boston apartment for 3 days and had nothing to do but listen to good music. Living in sunny L.A.... To See Full Article Please Click Here

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November Playlist

The first of many more Verge Magazine playlists to come! 

Click the image to listen or view the article here! 

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Backstage Pass w/ Submotion Orchestra

So very excited for the first part of my column with Verge Magazine to be released! Check out the article here. 

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California Shoot

Can't believe this was a year ago already. Thanks Ashley for doing such great work!! xx 

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Propriano, Corsica French lessons will be necessary plus vitement! Over the years my French hit a peak and it has been a downward slope... While I can get a long with small talk, daily encounters are just completely hopeless!! Might I add for those of you I don't know, I spent all of my summers here from 13-20. I was a trouble maker early on and Mama thought it best to send me away to somewhere I couldn't communicate or get into trouble. Thus I have this amazing Corsican family that I somehow managed to get very close to regardless of a serious communication gap. So here I am in this fantastic place (which I never come to alone btw? not speaking. ( I have always found it useful to just listen and roll with it) listening. Looking and listening. Fitnessing. Eating. Sleeping. Doing mostly what I never have time to do. Even writing. The last few days I've found my self writing lists. About all topics of my life and a few stream of consciousness' that my high school lit teacher would always make us do before an essay. If you haven't ever done that its a great exercise. Just set a timer, or don't, and write. Your sentences don't really need to make sense and neither does your grammar or handwriting, I guess it's most important that you just get all your thoughts out. While the weather has been total shit and I find myself speaking and typing like a Brit everyday- tomorrow is supposed to be in the 70's and gorgeous. A perfect beach day before I return to England and then LA. I think that's all.. PS some random French kid that I have never met just said, "Nice to see you again" and did the kissy thing. Party On Wayne.

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This little guy welcomed me back to the city that I love so dearly! Hello London! Hello Pooh! I added my first posts to FOOD & DRINK. Feel free to ignore my ramble or take my advise :)

More to come :)

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So I have been bad at this I apologize! Here’s what I’ve been up to! Oxford-Athens-London/Birthday?! Let me say that Oxford is just about the cutest town I’ve ever seen and super Harry Potter-esque, as I guess it should be. I went to visit my cousin and we explored and tried pims for the first time! The following weekend I went Greece and caught up with all of my friends there. London has been a total whirlwind and I’m just sinking quickly into the vintage clothing market! Ah!

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Well, I guess I’m back to blogging-

Today was my first real day in London thus I found it extremely appropriate to get lost. As normal I only get lost in the best parts of the world and this afternoon I found myself very underdressed and strolling through the streets of Westminster looking for a tube stop and my future place of employment! After finding my place of employment I decided that finding a tube stop wasn’t actually that necessary and I decided to walk home.  I found my way safely, looking at park maps along the way for landmarks and street names and once I was home I decided that my first 1.5 days in London had in fact been a success. 

Last night after arriving I went to see a friends band play on Brick Lane at a venue/café called Café 1001. I had no idea it would be so hip. I felt like I was walking down an alley in Santa Monica where people were pretending to have British accents.

Oh and I know that people say food in London sucks, so I’ve made it my goal to only find good food and coffee. So far I think I’ve done well! Enjoy!

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Life Under Water- Submergence in Our Surroundings

I know that I frequently fall victim to my surroundings. Whether its friends, lovers, engagements, affairs etc, it's easy to underestimate what you're capable of and go with the flow. Recently I have been letting "life" happen as it should and as a result I have realized that life doesn't happen if you don't make it. Not in terms of success or prosperity but in terms of disciple, fulfillment and happiness. All of the above are a conscious choice that each one of us have the ability to make. 

I remember as a child, my Hawaiian family nicknamed me "fish": I was always swimming. In water one has freedom of movement and seemingly unlimited opportunity for movement. But in reality in water there is much more pressure and resistance to movement. I seek limitless opportunity and beauty. I seek a life worth living and a potential incomparable. But I wonder why we feel so much more free under pressure.

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Reid Haithcock Photography and Mono Cases!

Here are some fun pictures from a shoot I did recently! If you get a chance, check out mono cases, my newest sponsor!

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NAMM and California

After a month in California it was finally time to come back to Boston and start life at Berklee again. Luckily for me the week before I started school again I got the pleasure of going to NAMM for Bass Musician Magazine. My good friend andcompadre at BMM got to wander the halls of the Anaheim Convention Center interviewing the likes of Stu Hamm, Hadrien Feraud, and Victor Wooten. Interviewing the cats was pretty fun, and so was being able to see the "demos" for the big companies like EMG, Yamaha, Gibson, Hartke and Fodera. However my favorite event was a jam session called the Bass Bash that went down at a bar a few miles away from the NAMM-proper. It was a four jam sponsored by Lo-Phat amps, needless to say it was four hours of killin' gospel. Definitely couldn't have asked for more. But now I'm back in boring Boston going to school and dealing with the temperature of -2. Going from 80 degrees and margaritas in California is brutal but god what a change of pace from Greece......

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