..well, not necessarily. But some are; and maybe with the arrival of summer, everyone is in a better mood, friendlier, nicer, and more generous. I know for sure that a couple of people (Jónsi, the Saddest Landscape, Lazy Acre Records, the Age of Rockets) are. Here’s a couple of links to a bunch of music-related [...]
July 19, 2010
Local band fishing instruments from the water, running around in the woods while wearing animal heads. Enough said.
June 16, 2010
Into It. Over It. reminded me a little of Dashboard Confessional. On the rather dark stage at the small, half-empty venue, Evan curled up on a chair and played a couple of songs, with anecdotes or funny introductions between each and with the Grown Ups rooting for him and singing along among the audience. As for [...]
September 16, 2009
the Death Is Not Glamorous guys are starting to think that being in an amazing band, touring twice a year, recording great albums, and being super-friendly to everyone is just wayyy too easy. So why not have more? And here they are – Bouvet and PROBLEMS, two new bands from Oslo featuring Even and Emanuele [...]
June 24, 2009
I don’t think I’ve mentioned enough how much I adore the Unicorns. The fact that they broke up years ago, that not enough people know about this wonderfully hilarious and insane band, and that I will never get to sing along to Jellybones live makes me a little sad. Today is a rainy day and [...]
June 21, 2009
..especially when it is love for a young and talented boy from Norway. Since Norway is sort of my favorite country in the world, how could I not be a little bit in love with Sjur Lyseid too? Because Sjur makes lovely bedroom romance winter songs – that’s the best I can describe them in [...]
May 28, 2009
So a summer that starts like this is a little worrying. It’s the heat that does it – I find hot months really depressing, somehow. Maybe because I am always waiting for the rain that never comes. Anyway, this song has been on repeat for the past few days. It’s so fragile and simple, but the [...]
May 24, 2009
You know when you listen to the radio in the morning, half asleep, and there’s always some person who calls the station and wins something, and you think, “Gosh that’s never going to happen to me..?” Yeah, that’s me. My friend A, on the other hand, is always winning stuff. But the last two times [...]
April 20, 2009
10 AM and second coffee of the day. After jumping hectically between mailbox, desk (comic deadline in five), and kitchen, I’m starting to feel that the second Is this Thing Loaded? (Northstar) stops playing, I’ll put on some Noiserv. I’ve slowly but surely gotten hooked to his debut album – and I’ve only owned it [...]
March 8, 2009
The piano was immense and the stage was so dark you had to squint to see something behind the main spotlight, right above the keys. People were whispering and shush-ing each other, you could almost hear the heartbeats in unison and the held breaths. When she came onstage, there was something slightly off about Anja, [...]
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 28, 2010