Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Friday, December 27, 2013
Friday, October 25, 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Friday, May 17, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Laneway Festival at Home
Top to bottom: ALT-J, Bat for Lashes and Of Monsters and Men.
So today in Auckland is the Laneway festival, a perfect way to spend Auckland Anniversary holiday (if you live in Auckland) as it is a day off for the region. But if you are like me and could not afford to attend this great festival at Silo Park why not throw your own Laneway Festival at home.
All you need is some of the acts who are performing at Laneway on your iPod, either a dock system or headphones and some room to dance and move around. Now is that so hard?
Just because you aren't there doesn't mean you have to miss out on hearing some amazing tunes. Okay so the environment might not be the same as actually being there, but just make the most of what you have got and loose yourself to the music for a while.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Blasting In My Earphones
So I have recently purchased a lot of music to keep me entertained through these uni holidays. So I am currently listening to Maroon 5 (Overexposed album), The Lumineers (The Lumineers album), Two Door Cinema Club (Beacon album), Sigur Ros (Valtari album), Of Monsters and Men (My Head Is an Animal album), Ingrid Michaelson (Blood Brothers song), Jack and White (Night after Night song), Lee Brice (Hard to Love song), Josh Turner (Time is Love song), Grouplove (Tongue Tied song), Charli XCX (You're The One EP, Stay Awake EP), Stars (The North album), The XX (Coexist album), Linkin Park (Living Things album), Matchbox Twenty (North album), Imagine Dragons (Night Visions album), Morgan Evans (While We're Young song), Muse (Madness song) and Ellie Goulding (Anything Could Happen song).
As you can see I listen to every type of music, this list contains pop, rock, country, indie, folk, songwriter, electronic and whatever other genre you class some of this music as. I love music, and without it I wouldn't be here today. Yes that may seem cliched and I have told myself that, but when I look back on my life I realise how important music is to me. I can't wait to see what the future has for music.
What tunes are you all listening to out there?
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The Wanted in Auckland
Last Monday (so on the 13/08/12) I was lucky enough to see The Wanted at an exclusive showcase in Auckland. I won a double pass through the radio station ZM and that was the third time I have ever won anything in my life, and what a prize to win!
They were only on for half an hour because they were only here to promote their EP, so it was not a full blown concert, but I am still super excited that I got to! It's not often that you walk up to a showcase with your name on the door. I have been a fan of The Wanted when I heard their single Gold Forever, this was a long time before they were even popular over here in NZ so I was very excited to see them live, and was impressed that they sounded so good live!
Taking my friend from Uni we ventured to a place called Turkish Cafe on K'Rd (as The Wanted were playing at The Studio) and had a kebab. When we got our kebabs they were nothing like we expected and were instead on panini bread. But these kebab's were amazing! I am definitely going back there another day because they were also cheap, and I want to try one of their wood smoked pizzas!
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Blasting in my Earphones
I am a huge music fan, I can't remember a time in my life that I wasn't a music fan! People say that without music in their life they wouldn't be around right now and I fall into that category. Listening to music is the time when I can just loose myself for a few moments in my life and just listen, it's refreshing.
I have been searching the Internet to find some new music to listen to when I stumbled upon the bands Imagine Dragons and The Royal Sons, and I must say what great finds they are!! I am in love with both of these bands. The two images are of my two favourite songs "It's Time" and "Through and Through", I recommend you listen to their work on YouTube because it is worth it TRUST ME!! I would class the bands as Indie music, some might agree some might not but just listen to their music. There is so much hidden music out there you just gotta search hard for it, but at least you will find some amazing music at the end of it!
Imagine Dragons Soundcloud
Imagine Dragons YouTube
The Royal Sons Tumblr
The Royal Sons YouTube
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Taking a Break!
Shot time after exams, the amazing burrito, iTunes visualizer, working on the play list, ticket and flights, Matt Corby's EP, my new postcard.
What a week! I am now officially on holidays since my last exam was on the 14th, so my friend Abby and I went to the student bar after our exam and celebrated with a few well deserved drinks, and the bar was filled with nearly every person studying the same degree so it was big celebration for the Communication students. But Abby and I weren't silly we decided to try out the new burrito place which is conveniently close to uni, I was expecting some small burrito but it was huge! The picture doesn't do it justice, I couldn't eat it all so I brought it home with me to eat after we went out drinking, and what made it even better is that it was only $10, so I have now found my go-to burrito place!
Since I am now in holiday mode and I don't have a job I am going back down to the South Island for a couple of weeks! And to make the trip even better my best friends are also going to be flying into Christchurch so the gang will be back together in Christchurch which is a very rare event for us, I can't wait! We are all going to this Ministry of Sound event on the 28th which will be an amazing event, and of course we are having pre-drinks so I have decided to make a playlist for this epic night! While I was playing around with iTunes I discovered it has a visualizer!! I have had iTunes for like 5 years now and I did not know it had this, it feels like I have a new gadget it's awesome!
While finding new music for this place my friend told me to check out a guy called Matt Corby, and all I can say is WOW! His voice is so different and it gives me little shivers when he sings, he is super good and his EP was a free download so of course I downloaded it! and it has been playing non-stop.
I also got another postcard from my mum over in the UK. She is flying back on the 23rd and to make it even better my sister, her boyfriend and I are surprising my mum, nana and grandad at the airport. They think that I am flying down on the 24th, but I am flying down on the 22nd so they won;t be expecting me and my sister has told them that she can't get time off work but she has! It is going to be so much when we see there faces, I can't wait!
My two weeks in the South Island is going to be crazy, busy, epic, exciting and I just can't wait to see my family and friends!
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Instead of study...
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Exams are coming up, but every student needs a break, and what better way to discover new music!!
Taking a break from study last night I stumbled upon that Loreen had won Eurovision 2012, WELL DONE SWEDEN!! And now I can not get her song Euphoria out of my head (it sent shivers down my spine, in a good way) it is now my new song that I listen to while walking to uni (a whole 3 minutes it takes me). It makes me wish that NZ got to see some coverage of Eurovision because it would be great to see all of this overseas talent that people do not hear often over here.
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