Project delays, and some sweet local music

Well the filming for the rest of the "Stylin" music video has been delayed a bit, as school projects start to get in the way.  We're now trying to finish filming sometime towards the end of April.  These things happen, but it definitely won't keep the video from being filmed or from being too legit to quit!

Anyhoo, there's been some good new stuff on the local music scene this past week that I've been listening to a lot.  First off, there's a new EP by We Are the Strike - the lead single "One Night of You" is super catchy disco-funk pop tune.  The rest of the EP is pretty solid too, even if it doesn't feature the band's horn section as much as I'd like.  You can check it out at www.wearethestrike.com.

Next, there's a music video from Foster the People-esque band Coral Bones' new song "Queensway." I love the synth layers going on throughout the song, and proceeds from downloads go to the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

And finally, here's a video of Tyler Glenn of Neon Trees playing the hymn "Where Can I Turn For Peace?"  Simple, quiet, but really well done.  Watch it.

Original Poem: Open Mic Night

I've been to quite a few shows where the last band of the night has had virtually no one to play for. I distinctly remember one time when I was helping my friend Chris Bernstorf with merch for his show, and by the time the last band got up to perform, the only people left in the venue were Chris, the sound guys, and myself.  It's not much fun to perform to an empty room.  It's sad when people go to a local show to hear their friend's band, but then don't stay to listen to the other bands playing.  I've discovered some of my favorite local bands by sticking around to see everyone perform.  So as a side note to that, I wrote a short free verse poem.  It's called Open Mic Night because even though the experience I mentioned was at an actual show, I feel like this type of thing is even more likely to happen at an Open Mic.

Open Mic Night

The last chord fades to silence,
Is there any applause?
No.
There isn't anyone left to listen.

We Stylin! - Filming a new music video

Well, I'm not entirely sure how this whole blog thing is going to work, but here goes...maybe I'll do an intro/overview type thing later, but not today.

This last Saturday my synth/rap band Bust A Kap began filming our new music video for our song "Stylin."  If this picture is any sample, it's going to be pretty legit.

Oh yeah.  We've actually filmed another music video before, called "Cruisin' Down Claiborne" (you can watch it here), but we wanted to do something more in-depth this time.  Which means we actually did some real planning before we started filming and have more people working on the video with us! Basically the story of the video involves Bust A Kap being changed through several different crazy styles by a malicious robot with its powerful TV remote, and our epic quest to stop this heinous attack on our hip hop stylin'.  I'm lucky enough to have a few friends in the film program, as well as a wonderful fiancé who recently graduated with a degree in Theater Makeup, which definitely makes the filming process a lot easier (and is going to give us a better quality video too)!

Of course there's still a lot of work left to do.  On Saturday we filmed the scene in which we fight against the robot in its apartment (popcorn goes flying everywhere), as well as the scenes in our David Bowie-esque outfits/makeup.  This still leaves us the scenes we need to film in downtown Provo in our hip hop and old-school professor outfits...which should hopefully be happening on the 28th.  Awww yeah!