DTCV - UPTIME!

I've Detect 

by Ryan Cervantes Avellanosa

It is pronounced as Detective and can be spelled as DTCV.   You know how it is when you are feeling quite down or unusually happy or upset.  Either way, this music does rock.  It's quite profound and perky kind of like somebody's marshmallow prize.

And am not sure how to say about new music like these.  It's Breeders-ish/The Vaselines-ish.  It's another treat,  Wow, just wow.

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CHRIS CORNELL - HIGHER TRUTH

See The Light
by Ryan Avellanosa

Well, there goes Chris again, again.  He goes around again.  His voice resonates.  And as he continued to go solo on his musical career, I hear more acoustics and melody.  The harmony which he keeps like a memory that loops and loops, never forgotten.  Almost natural if not in every way.  His music which reflects the continuing reflection of how life should be lived in continuous reflection of one's life.  He's like singing like he'd be gone away any day soon.  Taking everything, cherishing everything.  Amazing album Chris.

VIOLENT FEMMES - WE CAN DO ANYTHING

un/Feminist Rants

by RC Avellanosa

This is sweet.  It has been a long time since and it is exciting  to hear some new tunes from Violent Femmes.   "Issues" is the catchiest.  They pretty much sound the same just like the way they were before.  And it feels just like home again, or some place familiar and comforting.  I'm not sure but this just hit it home.

WEEZER - THE WHITE ALBUM

Zing-a-ling-a-ling
by RC Avellanosa

Well, I know I have heard this upcoming release,  I never thought it'll come this early.  Well, at some point it's bound to happen anyway.  Well I found this on Spotify.  Meaning I had to resort to this new thing.  The Spotify thing.    Well I think everyone is at their fighting stances mode.  And it will take more than a distraction to try to calm the things that go berserk wild these days.  It just might be that a generation has just tipped the balance to the point of realizing things that has to change or stay the way it was.

BEACH FOSSILS - CLASH THE TRUTH

Spotify Stupefied
by Ryan/\/ Avellanosa

Youtube is fine, Vimeo is pleasing, Grooveshark is down, Soundcloud is great, and Spotify is unbelievable.  And I found out  hmm probably around a month ago that Genius is merging with Spotify.  This has been very awesome.  Just too awesome, that they even offered free Premium version.

I'm still not sure how to describe this group, this recording, this set of songs.  It's almost psychologically unnecessary to do so these days. With the season... the election season here and there.. campaigns everywhere. the cacophony of positive vibrations, and the clash of truth.   Say what you want, say what you will. this is cool and calming,, peaceful and serene..sing , sing sing. 

DAVID BOWIE - BLACKSTAR

Spacestar
by Rya/\/ /\vellanosa

I make it a point somehow these days not to listen too much from artists from the past especially the most famous.  And because I was made to do so, it probably is the only way to appreciate music, partly.. that I should listen more about the present or to which the present has imparted us with,  The Music Presence, the presence of Music.  But what about those that which gave us the most wondrous songs, incomparable and too distinct not to notice?  And that was the records are for?  To play it over and over and over again.

I must admit that I am really not into David Bowie, though I know he's too influential not to know.  And I can only name a few of the favorite songs he wrote like...Heroes, Ziggy Stardust and Thursday's Child.  Yes, Thursday's Child was one of the songs I had to play after learning of his demise. His demise which some would deny to have happened. Truly an icon.  Bye Mr. David Beau..oh ..David Bowie.

THE MUTA SCALE - PLEASE DON'T DIE

 I Am still Listening
by Ryan Avellanosa y Cervantes

 Just when I'm on the verge of giving up, music. It's just a bad year. And bad years keep mounting like snakes. And for all the years that passed it seems that I must not give it up. I don't know how I should continue but I can do it one day at a time.  Music helps in many ways I can't even begin to describe.  To stay positive or stay sane, is all I need everyday.  So much so that it's the only thing that makes sense to me.

This is unfair though.  The way this has been laid out like it was something so precious that had to be cherished.  And because it just so happens that this was shared and the knowledge that it can be emulated or redone.  The way music influences another musician and how it's been played in the air for some earthling to listen to.  And perhaps it goes with the generation, the age , and the age gaps that keeps us wondering why we still exist, and why.

This is a pretty trip I must say.