Locked Groove

A music blog by Drew Beringer.

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eaux claires 7.17.15 the national / sufjan stevens / justin vernon

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When I'm lost in my head and all the self-doubt is clouding my vision it's your smile and those gorgeous eyes that bring me back from the brink. thank you

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2.10.15

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She's my everything

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because I can't hold smoke

here it is - my final review for AbsolutePunk.net for the foreseeable future - I will still be a senior editor  but I will be focusing 100% on podcasting and behind the scenes stuff with maybe the occasional review here and there in the future. I told myself that I would never write just for the sake of writing and if I felt like I had nothing more to add to the conversation I would stop. After nine years at AP.net - I've finally hit that point. I will always want to talk about music and discuss it with anyone (and will continue to do so via the AP.net podcast and with my friends). But no one wants to read assembly line reviews in which I just repeat myself - I know I don't want to. 

I'm glad I was able to write one more review about my favorite album of 2014 - I'm grateful for every opportunity this position has ever granted me.

thank you to everyone who ever read one of my reviews and for giving any kind of feedback, positive or negative. it's been a blast - enjoy this one last review and please continue to support and talk about the music that moves you and inspires you no matter what it is.

Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You

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slow show

When you break it down, the story of Brianna and myself is fascinating. There were so many moving parts and moments that happened over the last few years that makes this union anything but coincidental. 

Let's go back five or six years - we both attended the same university and had classes in the same building for years but we didn't know each other. We certainly ran into each other - I was seeing someone who was in the same art class as Brianna. Our times at school overlapped three years - I graduated in 2010, she in 2013.

Now let's think about just a year ago. I was still in Los Angeles and she was just moving to Indianapolis. It took me losing my job in LA and going through a break-up to even lead me back to Indianapolis. It took her leaving a job in another town to move to Indianapolis, as well (also we were also at the same Tegan and Sara show this past May without knowing it).

And of course I'm not weirded out by how we met, which was via an online dating site. It doesn't work for everyone but it worked for us. The funny thing is she deactivated her account and randomly decided to reactivate it one night - the night before I messaged her. 

So yeah, whatever, this may be really sappy or over sharing but I don't care. I love this woman - I'd go through everyone I went through to get to her every single time. Losing my (at the time) dream job, leaving close friends, and going through a difficult breakup - I'd go through those situations a hundred times no hesitation as long as it ended up with me meeting her. 

It's crazy to me that over the last handful of years she and I had crossed paths unknowingly - I always tell her that I wish I would have met her sooner but that I'm also appreciative of when I met her because the journey I took to her has taught and allowed me to truly cherish her and not take her for granted. She's always been in my heart - the one I was and am supposed to be with - and the first meeting was when it fully crystalized in my memory and I had complete clarity of everything. 

You know I dreamed about you for 29 years before I saw you You know I dreamed about you, I missed you for, for 29 years

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10 years old

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Driver Friendly, Seaway, Stickup Kid Cover Green Day’s "Good Riddance"

Driver Friendly, Seaway, and Stickup Kid covered Green Day’s “Good Riddance” this past summer on tour. Watch the video below after the jump.

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[marielxhearts]

Hey guys we didn’t do this cover or anything too. It was JUST those 3 bands on tour with us. Excellent reporting. #poppunksnobs 👐 👐 👐

[drewberinger]

The Call Out (You Are The Dishes)

[sarascoggs]

I feel like she was put on this earth just for me.

Something my friend just told me about his first date he had today. (via sarascoggs)

I am the friend who told Sara this. After my first date with Brianna (which was ten hours long), I knew that something special was about to happen. 

[bkfinney]

In the stillness of the early morning, you exhaled my name and it consumed me. Only my name. The tenderness echoed through my aching muscles and I knew. You were falling for every part of my being and I was falling for yours. I was falling with a fervor so rare and so seldom experienced, I thought it only to exist in films and literature.

You proved me wrong and I have never been more grateful.

[drewberinger]

speechless

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tonight's podcast inspired me to put on daisy and yeah still the best brand new record….BY FAR. brand new's previous three records sound like amateur hour compared to Daisy

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I've always been one with words - the guy who can never shut up about anything - and she leaves me speechless every day. Every time I see her face I fall in love all over again. 

I'm so incredibly lucky.

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lemme tell you about this girl....

everything that has happened in my life has led up to this moment. the moment were I fall in love with the most amazing woman I've ever met in my life. 

she let's me be me and she loves me for who I am. And the way she looks at me....

guys, I can't even explain it but I hope everyone gets to experience what I'm experiencing.

I love her.

[vanityfair]

Hot Tracks | St. Vincent

“My duty as an artist is to give everything I have to the record or the show.”

Photograph by Renata Raksha. 

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A freaking super hero of weirdness

[sarascoggs]

I’m afraid I fell in love without realizing it.

It wasn’t in my plans, and it wasn’t even an option.

It started off slowly and then picked up speed. Like when you first start driving. When you first get behind the wheel, you drive slowly and cautiously until you get a feel for the car. Then,...