Three Awesome Covers

Who doesn't like covers? Well, a lot of people don't, but sometimes, someone does the song so well that it makes for a great tribute to the original.

Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People) - April Chase

I'm ninety-nine percent sure that their vocalist was a classmate of mine from way back during the Age of Mists, but that doesn't mean they're not any good - on the contrary, this SF-based indie band is pretty cool.

Their cover of Pumped Up Kicks made its way to my playlist months ago. Why? Listen to it here.

For more details about the band, visit their FB page here.

I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend (Black Kids) - Rizza Cabrera

I discovered old songs from this artist from the depths of Bandcamp (and there are quite a lot), although she's pretty much on Soundcloud these days.

Rizza's take on this famous Black Kids song gives us a glimpse of how it was originally meant to be sung - by a girl. It's pretty cool to hear the original and the cover side-by-side.

Check out her other stuff here.

Can't Take My Eyes Off You (Frankie Vallie) - Muse

What happens when you take a very old (and popular) song and let Muse have its way with it?

Their cover has caused LSS for the past few days now, not that I'm complaining. Besides, The Second Law was such a huge letdown (with the exception of Madness, that one grew on me somehow), so all's good.

As a side note, this was the first time I bought a band's EP, and it's just because of this cover. The other songs aren't too bad though (and it's pretty cheap).

Gabrielle Aplin! Goliath and the Giants! Hannah+Gabi!

Sorry for the lazy post, I'll review the rest of RE6 and a new Android game in the next couple of weeks. For now, give these folks a listen!

Gabrielle Aplin

I found out about Gabrielle Aplin during one of those YouTube random clicking days. I think she started out by doing brilliant covers, then went into producing a few EPs.

At the moment, I only have Home, which has five original tracks. Or at least I'm pretty sure they're original.

Anyway, the EP is only currently available as a digital download in iTunes and elsewhere. Not bad for the price, I guess.

Goliath and the Giants

This surf rock band graced the banner of the TPB a few weeks back.

Free music is free music, and the download's legal to boot, so I decided to give it a shot.

The band's website is here, and they have two full length albums for free download.

Oh, and sorry for mutilating the covers. I don't have shoop skills.

Hannah + Gabi

Lastly, there's this local band called Hannah + Gabi.

A highschool classmate posted the music video of one of their songs (Waiting For the Rainfall) on Facebook recently and I gave it a go.

The nine-track album is a digital download from their Bandcamp site, but I think there's also an option for purchasing a physical copy (and it's pretty cheap too).

Enjoy!

Zombie Dramas, Songs and Comics?

Exit Humanity

Exit Humanity is not your run-of-the-mill zombie film. I was surprised that it turned out to be more of a drama than a horror film set shortly after the US Civil War - with the undead added into the conflict.

The film is based on the fictional memoirs of Edward Young, a soldier who has to deal with the horrors of a post-apocalyptic America ten years after the war - losing his family shortly afterwards due to a mysterious disease that reanimates the dead.

He decides to go on a journey to find answers to the terrible plague that has swept across the land and ultimately, to find answers to the doubts he has for himself.

Exit Humanity captured what The Walking Dead (the TV series, not the comics - those are still awesome) failed to do - human conflict set against a world with inhuman foes.

Junk of the Heart (The Kooks)

This is an album from the English band The Kooks, which I first found when I was running along the dark side of YouTube.

The album has fourteen tracks, and most are incredibly catchy - not a surprising quality from British bands.

25 Lives (Tongari/@madaoba)

Lastly, see the work of Tongari entitled 25 Lives. I don't think I've seen anything this simple and awesome since Arnold Arre's After Eden.

RomCom! Such! Game Theory!

So this is less of a review, and more of a "download-this-now-and-stop-wasting-your-time-listening-to-crap" post. For those who are tired of the stuff being played on the radio, check out the local bands below.

Great free music is rare nowadays, so it would be a good idea to grab copies of their work now. Support these artists, or something!

RomCom

I probably found this band when I was blog hopping a few days ago.

Their EP "It's Tight Like Prom Night!" has five tracks, four of which are originals and the fifth is a Weezer song (Island in the Sun).

Warning: May induce LSS.



Such

A friend introduced me to this rock band from Iligan City and I was hooked.

It's a shame that they've disbanded recently, but their digital album "Forward to Hastings" is still up for download. The album has ten tracks, all of which are original compositions!



Game Theory

The same friend introduced me to Game Theory.

This alt-rock band has a five track EP entitled "Game Over", and two of the tracks are available for free download.

It should be noted that one of their songs (A Desperate Kind of Happiness) has been airing on Myx lately. I've never been able to catch it playing, but here's the music video they uploaded in Youtube.

There are a lot of talented musicians out there whose only means of sharing their work is through the Internet, and it's sad that people choose to listen to foreign factory-made 'music'. It's a good idea to give these independent artists a shot.

You'll never know what awesome stuff you might find.