So I had it all set and decided, up until last night. The truth is, sometimes we are so used to being someone, that we forget we are not that person anymore. It might sound silly, but I have spent years being Bright Eyes songs – desperate, a little below the surface, a little cold, [...]
April 27, 2009
This month’s theme for the monthly mixtape was very open to interpretations and offered a lot of possibilities. We had to pick a photograph we liked from the public flickr stream and base our theme on what the photo reminded us of. I have to admit I refreshed the page many times until I had [...]
December 28, 2008
Morrissey: Why Don’t You Find Out For Yourself? (new wave pop; his voice is of course so familiar and cosy like an old sweater. and ohh, I want to sing along so bad.) The Good Life: You Don’t Feel like Home to Me (indie; in a post last month, I had anticipated this song becoming a gigantic song [...]
December 18, 2008
SEVEN DAYS TO GO… I have to admit that I have always been a fan of Christmas. When I was a kid, of course, I would always hope to see Santa coming down the chimney (because, yes, I belonged to one of those lucky families that had a fireplace). The only time I saw ‘him’, he [...]
November 28, 2008
Ah, Death Cab. A little bit of a background story is needed here: I travelled all the way from Vienna to Berlin, 12 hours in the night-train (I shouldn’t complain, I found cheap tickets..) just to see them live again. My dedication to live music will kill me. But I was very annoyed (and surprised, in [...]
November 10, 2008
way too much happening around here in November. decided that I am for sure heading to these shows: November 11th Ólafur Arnalds + Protestant Work Ethic @ Szene (Vienna, Austria) November 20th Soko @ Porgy&Bess (Vienna, Austria) November 22nd Welle:Erdball @ Viper Room (Vienna, Austria) CANCELLED! November 25th Death Cab for Cutie + Frightened Rabbit @ Admiralspalast (Berlin, Germany) November 27th Woven Hand @ [...]
November 7, 2008
Katzenjammer: A Bar in Amsterdam (very cute, energetic and sing-along folk rock from Norway) VNV Nation: Beloved (industrial; totally amazing and moving, and it reminds me of panda) Cat Power: Good Woman (slow and acoustic; one of Cat Power’s most touching songs) Infant Sorrow/Russell Brand: Inside of You (comedy ballad; oh, this song is slightly hilarious, but at the same time kind [...]
May 22, 2008
If someone would have asked me days ago what I thought about Death Cab for Cutie’s brand-new release Narrow Stairs, I would have attacked it, saying it was rubbish. But it grows on you like ivy, it really does. After the big April fool’s by German band Velveteen, there are still fake leaks of this [...]
May 18, 2008
I’ve always had a thing for cover songs. My best friend, though, absolutely LOVES them. I managed to stop being lazy and after promising myself a thousand times that I would finally make him yet another cover mix, I decided to put my rainy sunday to good use. SO here comes the Waschbär Cover Songs [...]
My name has five letters in it, and comes up in some Bright Eyes songs. I am (apparently) an artist, with too much time on her hands. Well, enough to blog (almost) daily. I am 1/4 (the smallest one, actually) of Lazy Acre Records; I also write & photograph for a local magazine based in Englaaand and make used to draw musically-inspired comics for a canadian mag (RIP Inscribed). Sometimes I can be quite cute. I used to still have a crush on Marty McFly; I like baking, overusing semi-colons, the smell of the sea, and thunderstorms.
I tend to be quite the busy bee, but if you make VERY sexy music and want me to listen and enjoy and possibly even (!!) write about it, shoot me a mail, baby. music(at)alicetragedy(dot)org
July 14, 2010