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Twenty One Pilots, “Stressed Out”

Twenty One Pilots, “Stressed Out”

Twenty One Pilots is an American musical duo that originates from Columbus, Ohio. The band was formed in 2009 and consists of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun. They put out two self-released albums, Twenty One Pilots in 2009 and Regional at Best in 2011, before being signed by Fueled by Ramen in 2012. They released their signed debut, Vessel, with Fueled by Ramen in 2013. Their second signed album, Blurryface, was released on May 15, 2015 through the same label.

Tyler came up with the band’s name while studying All My Sons by Arthur Miller, a play about a man who must decide what is best for his family after causing the death of 21 pilots during World War II because he knowingly sent them faulty parts for the good of his business. Tyler explains that this story of moral dilemma was the inspiration for the name of the band.

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Troye Sivan, “Happy Little Pill”

Troye Sivan, “Happy Little Pill”

Troye Sivan Mellet), better known as Troye Sivan (/trɔɪ sɨˈvɑːn/), is a South African-born Australian actor, singer, songwriter, and YouTuber. As an actor, he played young James Howlett in the X-Men film X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), and most recently has starred as the titular character in the Spud film trilogy. Sivan also regularly makes YouTube videos, and as of 26 September 2015, has over 3.6 million subscribers and over 203 million total views.

On 15 August 2014, Sivan released his first major-label EP, entitled TRXYE, which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200. The lead single from the EP, “Happy Little Pill”, reached number 10 in the Australian charts. On 4 September 2015, Sivan released his second major-label EP, Wild. His debut studio album, Blue Neighbourhood, was announced on 14 October and released 4 December.

Sivan is openly gay. He came out publicly via a YouTube video on August 7, 2013, three years to the day that he came out to his family.

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Nouvelle Vague, “In a Manner of Speaking”

Nouvelle Vague, “In a Manner of Speaking”, Live in Lisbon

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!

I started this blog in February and have passed 500 followers with many more people visiting and even more liking my posts. My thanks to all. I will try my best to keep it interesting and filled with images, songs and art to enjoy. My thanks also to all those blogs which I visited and those from which I reblogged posts. You have added new things to my life. My best wishes to you.

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River: “The Eye of the Cockatrice”, Music by Harry Escott

River: “The Eye of the Cockatrice”, Music by Harry Escott

River is a six-part British television drama series, created and written by Abi Morgan and starring Stellan Skarsgård and Nicola Walker. It premiered on BBC One on 13 October 2015, and internationally on Netflix on 18 November 2015. The series was commissioned by Charlotte Moore and Ben Stephenson. The executive producers are Jane Featherstone, Manda Levin, Abi Morgan and Lucy Richer. Filming began in London in October 2014. The series was made by Kudos and will be distributed globally by Shine International.

Vicki Power of The Daily Express reported Skarsgård saying of his role as DI River, “There’s not much research you can do because his condition doesn’t really exist as we know it. […] It’s a combination of problems, because he’s not like people who hear voices – they’re usually schizophrenic and lack empathy and he does not. But it doesn’t make it less truthful. What attracted me to the script is that it didn’t look like any other script I’ve ever read.”

Finding River to be “Kinda Wallander meets Sixth Sense”, Wollaston of The Guardian said, “It’s more than just crime drama – it’s about personal tragedy, demons; it’s a study of loss and grief (which it shares with the greatest Nordic noir of them all: the first series of The Killing). It’s also a study of that – killing – and why people do it. And why they did it – Mr Cream brings a historical perspective to it. And Abi Morgan, the creator of the series, brings a characteristic humanness to it all; it’s as much about who the people are as about what they do to each other. Good enough for me”.

Note: I just finished watching River; actually I was so riveted that I watched the entire series in one sitting. I am a big Wallander fan and never thought any show would be as intense. I highly recommend River. This is a must-see, particularly if you are into this genre. The music score by Harry Escott is one of his best.

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Fischerspooner, “The Best Revenge”

Fischerspooner, “The Best Revenge”

Fischerspooner is an electroclash duo and performance troupe formed in 1998 in New York City. The name is a combination of the founders’ last names, Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner. Influenced by retro electropop tendencies (arguably similar to Kraftwerk, early Pet Shop Boys, and Gary Numan) Fischerspooner uses a modern approach to programming.

Originally a duo formed by classically trained musician Warren Fischer and video-artist and experimental theater performer Casey Spooner for an impromptu rendition of their makeshift track “Indian Cab Driver” at the Astor Place Starbucks, the group grew to over 20 performers, most of whom are dancers and guest vocalists. “We started as a performance art piece about entertainment that ultimately became legitimate entertainment”, said Casey Spooner, when talking about the group’s origins.

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Ólafur Arnalds, “No Other”, Featuring Arnór Dan

Ólafur Arnalds, “No Other”, Featuring Amór Dan

Speak slowly, tongue of winter
Leak only strokes of bright moonlight

These streets I’ve weaved with hunger
Repeatedly with white sheet eyes
Quiver through the nights

Beneath a lonesome moon, I hear
This city croons to me, no other

With dark descending phantoms
Haunts hoary heads he longest wail

Their hollow beat of footsteps
Will follow me midst snowy trail

Beneath a lonesome moon, I hear
This city croons to me, no other
Releasing all too soon, I’m near
To her my heart gives in, no other
(The grieving streetlights monitored me well, since all was but frost)

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Scissor Sisters, “Only the Horses”

Scissor Sisters, “Only the Horses”, 2012

Scissor Sisters is an American pop group formed in 2001. Forged in the “scuzzy, gay nightlife scene of New York,” the band took its name from the female same-sex sexual activity tribadism. Its members include Jake Shears and Ana Matronic as vocalists, Babydaddy as multi-instrumentalist, Del Marquis as lead guitar/bassist, and Randy Real as drummer (who replaced Paddy Boom). Scissor Sisters have incorporated diverse and innovative styles in their music, but tend to sway towards pop rock, glam rock, nu-disco, and electroclash.

The band came to prominence following the release of their Grammy-nominated and chart-topping disco version of “Comfortably Numb” and subsequent debut album Scissor Sisters (2004). The album was a success, particularly in the UK where it reached number one, was the best-selling album of 2004, was later certified platinum by the BPI, and accrued them three BRIT Awards in 2005. All five of its singles reached positions within the top 20 of the UK Singles Chart while “Filthy/Gorgeous” scored the band their first number one on Billboard’s Hot Dance Club Songs, despite the album’s meager success in their native US.

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Radical Face, “Welcome Home”

Radical Face, “Welcome Home”

Sheets are swaying from an old clothesline
Like a row of captured ghosts over old dead grass
Was never much, but we’ve made the most
Welcome home

Ships are launching from my chest
Some have names but most do not
If you find one, please let me know what piece I’ve lost

Peel the scars from off my back
I don’t need them anymore
You can throw them out or keep them in your mason jars
I’ve come home

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Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, “Nate’s Theme”

Uncharted 3,: Drake’s Deception, “Nate’s Theme”

Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception is a 2011 action-adventure third-person shooter platform video game developed by Naughty Dog, with a story written by script-writer Amy Hennig. It is the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed video games of 2009, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, and is the third game in the Uncharted series. The game was published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3, in North America on November 1, 2011. A Game of the Year Edition, containing all additional content that was a part of the Fortune Hunters’ Club deal, was released on September 19, 2012, for Europe.

Uncharted 3 sees protagonist Nathan Drake and mentor Victor Sullivan traveling around the world to places such as the Rub’ al Khali desert, in search of the legendary lost city the Iram of the Pillars, which is mentioned in the Quran. The plot draws from the archaeology days of T. E. Lawrence.

A sequel and the final installment of the series, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End will be released on March 18, 2016 exclusively for the PlayStation 4. On October 7, 2015, the game was released on the PS4 along with its two predecessors as part of Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection.

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Radical Face, “Holy Branches”

Radical Face, “Holy Branches”

Cooper chose the name Radical Face upon seeing it on a flyer. He later found out it was a plastic surgery flyer saying ‘Radical Face-Lift’ with the word ‘lift’ ripped off. One of his singles “Welcome Home” was played at the beginning of the first episode for the T.V. series “The Returned”.On November 16, 2010, Cooper released a six-track EP titled Touch The Sky, which serves as an appetizer for an announced trilogy of albums called Family Tree.

Leading up to the release of The Roots, The Bastards: Volume One EP was released track by track. The first album, titled The Roots, was released on October 4, 2011. In August The Roots was accidentally released to users outside of the US on iTunes. The Roots will be followed by The Branches and The Leaves. Clone, an album by Ben Cooper and Richard Colado, was announced to be released through Bear Machine Records and available by fall of 2012. After many delays, the first track of Clone, The Laboratory, was released on September 23, 2014.

The album was released in acts, Cooper adding one act per week to release the album. Each track has a full explanation of the act available at projectclone.com. ‘Laser-engraved crystal thumb drives’ were designed as an alternative medium for the album.

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