New Music Mondays : Bronze

Good Monday fellow music lovers. It's Najamoniq back in the saddle bringing you new music every monday.
I hope everyone enjoyed the Sasquatch Music Series; I had a blast exploring all the bands that will be playing the festival. I even found a few bands I now listen to and love. So, back to the finding of other new bands, new music, and new obsessions. This week's obsession - BRONZE.
Hailing from San Francisco, my partner in crime Del Brown and I had the pleasure of Djing at the New Frontier Lounge with these boys. After an amazing show, we had a little chat with them and got an impromtu interview.
Bronze is Brian who plays drums, Rob who sings, and Joe who does the electronics. The band began in 2006 when Brian moved back to San Francisco from Berlin, took up residence with Rob.
If you need a little bit of sound reference, I would say if you enjoy The Doors, or any kind of down tempo electro music, you will definitely be into these guys. The Doors are one of their influences, as well as Dr. Dre, Rob told me.
Something that really caught my eye was this box that Joe was playing. While chatting with the boys I asked about it; Joe told me that he wanted an insrument that was not a keyboard but still a synthesizer, and that played like a guitar instead of keys.This interesting machine has knobs. The most amazing part - Joe built the Box himself.
So, that's all for this week folks, take some time and check out BRONZE. I'm certain that you will enjoy this new music obsession as much as I have. See you next week. Enjoy this fun track by BRONZE, "One Night In Mexico."

xoxoxoxox
Najamoniq

Dance takedown with Friendly Fires

My spotify, cd player, and YouTube have been abuzz with my new music obsession -- FRIENDLY FIRES, electronic dance funk shoegaze. You can dance to these tracks as well as relate to the prolific lyrics. In one of my favorite tracks, "Skeleton Boy," Ed McFarlane writes about a break up, keeping the good memories, and leaving the bad relationship.

"your too much , i take it that we're over, or should we even care at all, you're too much lets shake hands and say goodbye, your love is out believing despite the loss, give me your hand lets face this night and see it through"

Meeting in the year 1989, the UK trio Ed McFarlane, Jack Savidge, and Edd Gibson began as a hardcore punk cover band, staying together until university and taking a break. They reunited after graduating and rose to become chart toppers with TV perfomances on some of UKs top channels. A large break happened for the band when they were featured on Ninetendo and Playstation games in 2007. In 2008 the band finally released their self titled album and magic was made readily available to the masses!!
I love this band, their energy, beats, and lyrics -- it's meaningful, beautiful, and dancetastic all at the same time.
I hope you enjoy these guys as much as I do. Do yourself a huge musical favor and find Friendly Fires on Spotify, Google or YouTube -- delve into some more tracks (Lovesick being a HUUGGGE suggestion lol) I think you will be very pleased.

Najamoniq

"Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder to who we are and for what , whence and where to" -Ralph Walter Emerson

HOLY HOLY HOLY....HOLY GHOST!!!

Its New Music Mondays..... This weeks pick is a New York based band called HOLY GHOST! The band was formed in 2007 by childhood best friends Alex Frankel and Nick Millhiser. My best friend, Del Brown, and I recently attended one of their shows in Portland , and met up with Frankel.
Having met him about a year ago, it was a fun reunion; the show was even more amazing. We chatted with Alex about the record especially about our favorite track, "Some Children,  " featuring another favorite artist of ours, Michael McDonald (formerly of the doobie brothers.) Alex told a super funny story.
When playing the track for his producer, James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem,) they both thought that they needed someone else to sing the hook, Murphy quickly suggested Justin Timberlake; Frankel snickered to us, took a drink of his glass full of bourbon and said, "I laughed at James while saying, 'If you can get him for it, but dont you think he is a little famous?'" Frankel then suggested McDonald, and they emailed him the track. McDonald replied, "I think I already know what you want me to sing on your track!"
We spent a few more moment with Frankel drinking, laughing, singing, and dancing. HOLY GHOST! A true mix of hip hop , electropop, and funk - with a dash of rock and roll. Check this band out if you wanna dance......REAL HARD

-Najamoniq

Music is an outburst of the soul -Fredric Delius