The Chambermaids - Down in the Berries

The Chambermaids

"Down in the Berries"

4/16/13

No, you see so much.

Pussycat Dolls, you may have been that

No, it doesn't really matter

In a midwest town 

I am a midwestern 

and the sky is blue

Vocals intertwine

The bass and drums run ahead

Dance with the guitar

sexual tension

finds it's childhood home in the 

dust on a snare drum

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS

I LOVE THIS FUCKING RECORD

(thanks for making it)

this is what could be

if Thurston and the two kims

made a music kid

short shirt with fringe

fringed dancers that hang on

to see fringed noise

bass bop head stock snare

too controlled too controlled now

cuts fingers cuts lights

By water, by air

We should not go home that way

Alley's are fun too!

When I first met you

you led me down those dark stairs 

to that cellar door

Guards - In Guards We Trust

Guards "In Guards We Trust" 4/2/13 Modern Ear candy Leaving no hip stone unturned A zeitgeist snapshot through a waterfall into mozzarella lawns then into new shoes today we wished for summertime to hurry up maybe this will help I can almost taste when everything felt simple but was it ever? Black midnight leather midnight fog city street rampage hold my midnight hand outside your door you will rectify your choices when is too much when? modern kids will dig light those sparklers and dance! summer is now theirs

Palma Violets - 180

Palma Violets 
"180"

3/21/13

Warm echo? Yes please!

My constitution is tired,

and I need respite

This takes me back to 

A time when I wasn't here

it's not deja vu

desert rock chevy

interpol takes peyote

and forgets heartache

croon your fuzzy toms

and strum out the ghosts with rock

we will be redeemed

A frenzied party

feet stomp and fists punch air

dancing youth breeze by

hear through hollow ears

one kiss if he had two lips

silent skeleton

a mirrored image

is caught in your youthful eyes

it makes you sexy

All the scorecards say

It's not wrong to sing like him

One of us will be

A walker downtown

into the liquor store shelf

Oops! The bottles crashed

Remember when the 

Drinks were cheap and songs were too?

I do! Just kidding...

London recycles 

or maybe regurgitates

vastly fickle tropes

not cheap sunglasses

cheap drinks and rattlesnake birds

join the garden drum

Adebisi Shank - This is the Second Album of a band called

Adebisi Shank
"This is the Second Album of a band called"
3/17/13

Boom, boom, boom, bang, boom

It makes me think of doughnuts

buda boo buda boo buda boo

Someday I'll find you

Fierce walking to the dreamscape

The conquest is here

Eee! Eee! Eee! Eee! Eee!

Video game bing bing bing

comic book soundtrack

Popcorn in my brain

Anxiety attack me

Let's go make messes

Electric landscapes

Chicago/Japan/and where?

Ireland? Can't be...

Hidden vocal tracks

Chinese dragon in a cage

Poetry in song

Liquid implements

The neon casino bleeds

gnash translucent teeth

If we were able

To hear what plants sounded like

They would sound like this.

If a lazer shoots

In the big wild jungle

would anyone see?

Spiders with new shoes,

But no hands to tie them up.

Evolve or trip, bud. 

Tiny robots dance

in an arena of chrome

to more than 8 bits. 

Police Teeth - Self Titled

Police Teeth

"Police Teeth"

3/4/13

Pig dentures are not

junk but a package of good

don't call it junk please

Strong rhythm section

heavy rocks in the pocket

we all stomp our feet

Stomp stomp dance party

you're yelling, I'm listening

let's tear up the place

I'm 19 years old

just got home from a long day

time to turn it up

Rain soaked practice shed

work by light, home after dark

Bellingham makes sense

Finger count and march

I'll dance to you cop chompers

attention wanders

If stadium rock

was like this when I was young

I'd own more denim

Everybody jump and bounce

denim everything let's go!

all nights, starting NOW!

Behold Seattle!

your purity remains in

the mouth of the law

Blow up the strip mall

piss pepsi and gasoline

then shoot the neighbors

Sleep in til noon, dude

punch the damn kick drum straight through

drink a motorcycle 

Shugo Tokumaru - In Focus?

Shugo Tokumaru 
"In Focus?"
2/25/13

Resonate all things

including the kitchen sink

into sounds to drink

 

 

A ball of yarn falls

Continuously rolling

Passing us all by

 

 

Shoelace in untied

Have to catch up to my friends

I will ride my bike

 

 

Dissonance Beware:

It is too bright for you here

Take leave on the wind

 

 

Is it true that you,

During the war, built balloons

To pepper the sky?

 

 

Dissonance come back!

I was so wrong to judge you

Please forgive my ears.

 

 

A parade of notes

under floats of airy voice

maintain the merry

 

 

Tokyo neon

overcome by morning sun

after the party

 

 

Shogun and Sufjan

nylon string pop dream garden

same sun as a print

 

 

An optimism

of sharp inking and bright greens

what might you describe

 

 

Paul and Art never

dreamed of theremins like this

so many sounds here

 

 

Layers and layers

of bright and airy and clean

notes placed perfectly

 

 

Industrious noise

the soundtrack to an army

of bamboo robots

 

 

Standing between tents

The sounds meld on summer breeze

Arcades hum, kids laugh

 

 

Super happy fun

Interesting melody

A circus sunshine

 

 

Your lonely cuisine

a solitary glass plate

dreaming for dessert

 

 

Lightning bolt honey

chocolate stabs of sing-song

poly rhythmic tongue

 

 

Now a bit of mint

horns from your balcony seat

y'all can go to hell.

 

FERGUS & GERONIMO - Funky was the State of Affairs

FERGUS & GERONIMO
"Funky was the State of Affairs"
2/17/13

bloody lightning bolts

feed back my friend here, until

we dance and take sleep

Don't anchor here, man,

With its woes steeper than steeples.

Onto station synth!

Piggy bank glaze time,

Beer and juice and gum and toothpaste

Funky is a time.

Yo! There's no Texas

There are two kinds of sax, though

Rockin' and dirty

Fuck the URL

Right? Cuz like I said there is 

No fuckin' Texas

Why do you gotta Fuck...

Zappa's dream of the Future?

How you know Funky?

Choices are sexy

Your clavinet makes me wet

A shoulder shimmy

Boop boop beep ba-dop

I want to play all day long

Lets meet for ice cream

My state of affairs

Are so freaking funky now

I'm in outer space

Our shoulders shimmy

You say "No Parties," but dude -

You're picking my speed

Your day - shake it out

Whatever happened is gone

This pleases me, too

Throwback dance party

should we be smoking the weed?

let's all get haircuts

Most days I want drugs

Right now more than usual

mind thought heart face fuck

grandparents basement

a cabinet full of drugs

a way I felt once

MATH the band - Get Real

MATH the band
"Get real"
2/11/13

Is that bass drum real

Are you the pinball wizard

Kaleidoscope Sound

Blast beats, blast beats Blast!

Geometry at its best

Beat me to my death!

caffeine fueled keyboards

in a real messy bedroom

I'll rock it away

8 bit heart attack

probably no weed involved

christmas tree still up

spaceship victory

in galaxy or pixels

over the mundane

my angst now mastered

I'll explode it through speakers

real quick and shiny

how will kids today

take this sound and run with it?

god, God, GOD HELP US

yell excitedly!!

I'm yelling excitedly!!

Yell Yell Yell, it's fun!!!

No one's sitting still

circus pulsing in our bones

how does your voice feel?

my Nintendo smoked

crack and got an addiction

to Andrew W K

party Heart Attack!

Game stop employee's wet dream!

Lightning Bolt video game!

High School Bedroom friends

geek out over fast synth loops

keep up if you can

video games rock

it's like a child's dream world

can't dance fast enough

I experience

something that may be like a

brain aneurysm

Nintendo for LIFE!

I love my friends so very much

can't wait for summer

The UV Race- Racism

The UV Race
"Racism"

2/3/13

Silence is golden

Not down-under UV Race

Glib, brash. fantastic!

it's still recess for me

I will own my own car soon

pizza in locker

beat relieves feedback

say whatever's happening

I need a soda

Aussie's bass sound nice

see you driving an old dodge

man I love your swagger

Hair must be shagged out

sid and nancy but smarter

better drugs and gear

does it work still and

alone repetition is

gathering tonight

You are like children

on drugs seeing tornadoes 

from another time

Hair swinging one side

hate music is for lovers

swim with me summer

1-2-3 what glee!

fuck a broomstick all night long

while the polar bears kiss

Australian hand claps

sound better than American

even in circles

We need a stage cage

to take turns gogo dancing

do birds have secrets? 

it's like maybe if

Stooges, talking heads, and ween

made an Aussie babe

tune your instruments

and carry a melody

then give me a call

CLAP CLAP BANG CLAP CLAP

BANG CLAP CLAP BANG CLAP CLAP BANG

CLAP CLAP BANG CLAP CLAP

The Warlocks - The Mirror Explodes

The Warlocks  
"The Mirror Explodes"
1/16/13

the droning noises

crash, bass drum, guitar chords

somebody please break through

sonic drug despairs

rattling chains in my brain

i feel haunted now

dark dark devil rock

bloodletting team of no end

we drown in the 'verb

its wicked cold out

much like the black in my heart

the warlocks appease

lucid dreams taste tight

sonic spirit awakens

my hands are sooooooo huge

sonic masterminds

hold my head underwater

is that a guitar

Echo Lake - Wild Peace

Echo Lake
"Wild Peace"

1/28/2013

Jon Singer Sargent

paints a flamenco

Dancer in his head

Center of your sun

Self-harmony forever

Dream another dream

how many delays

can one record endure

chasing the sublime

Thunderous Love Bites

Summers End is not my heart 

Tasting Sulphur Tips

tiny voice is big

feels like running through the park

are these words English

We All tilt our heads

and look up at the ceiling

this isn't shoe gaze

lazy honey heart

napping on summer sundays

tattoo this in me

then you got happy

played ring around the rosey

pockets full of gum

Inside the fish tank

I float along and listen

Quiet, peaceful, nice

Misty twang bang; HOT!

familiar face, drive your bass

gentle crash dash smash

waking to smurf smell

orange sun in the mirror

reverb in my head

Questions for the group:

How peaceful is your life now?

It's better... ECHO?

Glowing stars above

I'm floating in warm water

sinking in your voice

sitting in a car

in a trance the world goes by

could last forever

sooth me down to sleep

dreaming of lost memories

woken by the sound

Shimmering Pools

Reverberating Gently

Sometimes, all we need

A LOST MEMORY

A DREAM YOU CAN NOT FORGET

Did or Didn't It?

Cut off the shrink wrap

Echo lake will be spun fresh

Brighton carnival 

-

Five thousand years on

Swimming through the 

sunken rollercoaster

Down deep 

Mermaids in converse 

Sing ancient pop

-

Every head tilted 

Eyes at hazy suns or planes

The song uncovers 

- 

Sigur rose smoked joints

Behind a boardwalk arcade

Listened to Spector

-

Any poetry

Shrouded by the studio 

But sounds real sweet guys

-

But wait, mermaids don't have feet.

Simon Joyner - Ghosts

Simon Joyner  
"Ghosts"
1/22/13

Sonic tapestries

Not to be played at parties

Lonely, dark, dirges

Dead wine avalanche

I will see you again on

the living room floor

A backyard trashfire

and whiskey night with you

makes Townes sound happy

Conor Oberst called

He wants his analogue back

still, you are older

Sweet sweet sadness

Rambles on through mournful soul

Here's a drink to you

Loping voice only

Dark tide of sound pulling down

Night tied to a stone

I'm swimming lines through

Electric ocean fuzzy

Flannery find air

Decades old sweater

Forgotten in the jungle

Distracted by song

Always playing waits

In midwest tattoo parlors

makes me miss grandpa

Remember babies

They don't much know how to drink

It's why I love them

When I was  bullied

As a kid I always put 

On The Band and cried

These songs make me feel

like melody was murdered

behind our winter

Dear Simon Joyner

This depressing music is

slow, sad, and great

Deep in my gut well

We needed a whiskey break

to drown the dark place

Mid western wave crash

waves of darkness, death, and love

crash hard brother, crash