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Ian Moore: Toronto (Last Chance)

Ian Moore Toronto (Last Chance) Just a year after putting out the impressive LP ‘Strange Days,’ Seattle-by-way-of Austin, Texas musician Ian Moore has just turned in an equally remarkable six-song …

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Check out INNOCENT WORDS' interview/feature with The BONNEVILLES

The album title and subsequent title track sum up the album. In a world where a dark cloud seems to be following everyone due to the political landscape, Andrew McGibbon Jr (guitar, vocals) and Chris McMullan (drums) went for a positive album full of promise, promiscuity and hope. Unlike a lot of albums out now who are rightfully denouncing the racist president, the Bonnevilles are putting a little love out there with ‘Dirty Photographs.’ – INNOCENT WORDS HERE

Check out INNOCENT WORDS’ interview/feature with The BONNEVILLES was originally published on Alive Naturalsound Records

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02.24.16 - I've been procrastinating writing this blog post, not because I don't want to but because I have no idea what I want to articulate about this show. If you know me at all you know that I have a handful of artists that I worship, and Hoodie Allen and Blackbear are definitely in that list. This past wednesday I was given the opportunity (thanks to innocent words) to not only attend my second Hoodie show but shoot from the photo pit. So on Wednesday morning my dad and I began our trek to St. Louis during one of the worst Blizzards in the Midwest this year. And even though we drove through white out conditions and were "love tapped" by a semi truck, we still made it to the venue in one piece (our car not so much). There was some opening act that was from St. Louis that I missed. But after him Blackbear took the stage. And I completely forgot how to use my camera because holy shit Blackbear's 2 feet away from my camera. At one point he even reached out to his fans and I reached up and grabbed his hand because I have no restraint when it comes to fangirling (he thought it was funny though so it's ok). Next was Kyle and his sidekick Brick. Honestly I don't really know anything by Kyle but, he has a few hits with R&B artist, Kehlani, and they are fantastic. I had no idea what to expect but their energy was unreal which resulted in some pretty sick shots. Thank you to Innocent Words for sending me to this show. Thank you to everyone who said hi to me and let me stand in front of you with my camera. 

"grab your camera dont be shy"

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02.05.16 - Friday night, I had the privilege of shooting Tigerbeat, Tara Terra, and Cullen Omori for Innocent Words. Tigerbeat is a local band comprised of John Isberg, Michael Hicks, and Matt Yeats. This was the first time I had heard them. They did not disappoint. Their album The Last Picture Show, is so dreamy and soothing — they are just as good (if not better) live. After Tigerbeat my favorite local band, Tara Terra, preformed. Let me tell you, this is probably the best I've ever seen them live and every time I've seen them they have been phenomenal. I could rave about them indefinitely, but all the right vibes were there last night. If you haven't heard their album Daughter, you need to drop everything you're doing and listen. Honestly, I hadn't really looked up Cullen Omori before his set, but when I saw how nice the light looked I knew something special was about to happen. Omori has that cool "sad boy" aesthetic that I've always wanted to achieve but never really have (or will) which gives him a pretty rad stage presence. His music is also definitely worth checking out. After his previous band, Smith Westerns, broke up Omori embarked on a solo career and creating his own sound. His major influences are The Beatles (if you couldn't tell by the high guitars) and John Lennon. Omori's newest album, New Misery, releases March 18th.

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In the fall of 2013, seminal indie rock band Throwing Muses broke a 10-year hiatus – although to be honest it wasn’t much of a hiatus for front woman Kristin Hersh who continued to releases masterful solo albums and guitar-driven punk rock with her other band 50 Foot Wave. But I digress. Throwing Muses return with the 32-track masterpiece ‘Purgatory/Paradise.’ In typical Hersh and band fashion, the Muses gave back to their fans with the return album offering up a gorgeous hardback book full of lyrics, short essays and stories by Hersh about each song, and exclusive photographs and artwork. In addition you got a download code for these exclusives: ~ A commentary track featuring Kristin Hersh and David Narcizo ~ An instrumental version of the full album ~ Prepackaged mp3 and lossless versions of every track with embedded metadata, artwork and lyrics. Taking it a step further, thanks to the fine folks of Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records, ‘Purgatory/Paradise’ is now out on vinyl. True, the 2-LP gatefold vinyl version doesn’t offer up the amenities which the original release did, but hearing ‘Purgatory/Paradise,’ one of the bands best releases in their nearly 30-year career, is priceless. ‘ As an album, ‘Purgatory/Paradise,’ which takes its name from an intersection in Hersh’s Rhode Island hometown, is an exquisite collection of music from one of music’s finest songwriters, not to mention fellow Muses drummer David Narcizo and bassist Bernard Georges put in some of their finest work to date. Hovering around the two to three minute mark, the songs are short bursts, which culminate into one cohesive album. The tracks, much like Hersh herself, are authentic, unrelenting and organic. At 32 songs, you could easily try to break this album down into rock songs and acoustic songs, but after listening to it, that task is virtually impossible. The songs have both elements mixed in. There’s even hints at a little blues and retro pop fused in. The tracks “Opiates;” “Sunray Venus;” “Milan;” and “Speedbath” are forceful rockers which ebb and flow between the other tracks. The Muses are at their best and ballsiest when they turn it up and rock out. Case in point, the two best songs on the album – “Slippershell” and “Sleepwalking 1.” Hersh, Narcizo and Georges put in a lot of hard work and it pays off. The trio play flawlessly on ‘Purgatory/Paradise’ while, once again bucking the conventional in favor of real rock & roll.

Throwing Muses at Innocent Words

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Check out Charlie Oxford's nice write up in Innocent Words today!

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Innocent Words Premiere's the New Single From System and Station 'Sell us the senseless'

 "Sell Us the Senseless" is taken from the recently released self-titled album.  Below is exclusive editorial about the song written by RFK Heise (vocals/guitar/keys).

Artist: System and Station Album: Self-titled Track: Sell Us the Senseless

  This song has become one of my favorites if not my favorite on our newest record. All of the other songs on the album were fairly close to the original demos minus some re arrangements but Senseless went through at least three other versions before ending up where it is. We labored over this track and ended up completely changing the face of it, it also was very much a group writing effort. The intro was intended to feel like a desert drive at midnight- calming, alive yet a little eerie. The lyric “you’ll save up luck that they throw away” came from a construction site I was working on in the west hills of Portland. I was working carpentry on a mansion on the hill where they remodeled at least one room every year. I would see all of the virtually new materials being discarded, hundreds of thousands of dollars just being tossed. I imagined it as the luck that got them where they were, being thrown out to the street merely because they had abundance.