Discovery Post (Reviews, Mp3s, Videos, etc...)

Stone Birds · 09-27-2009, 12:25 PM

Ok this thread is pretty basic, i come up with a few bands, artists, songs, videos, etc... and you check em out. sometimes it may be something you've never even heard of, or it could be something you know better than anyone else. but you should still check it out.

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Down With The Ship (formerly The Zach Heath)

Genre(s): Folk, Rock, Blues, etc...

Members:
django (guitar/vocals)
zach (drums)
brent (bass/vocals)

Friends (session band):
Jason Bejot (guitar)
Stephani Hanson (keys)
Mark McGowan (drums)
Deborah Greenblatt (viola pomposa)
David Seay (harmonica)
John Bleicher (upright bass)

Down With the Ship on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads
The Zach Heath - It's the Quits (itunes)

random un-flowing sentences i made for this band:
Down With the Ship is a really amazing band that's a very good representation of folk-rock music. Django majored in music while in college (i think). This band likes beer and skateboards. "Up To Our Names" is an awesome song. I was told the thr original reason that the band was called Zach Heath is because the drummer wanted to be in front, the main-guy of the band, reasons for new name are unknown.

Quote:

Press: The Reader (Omaha)
Forever Is For Good
The Reader (Omaha)
By Jeremy Buckley
12.6.07

When Django Greenblatt-Seay was a child, his parents would take him and his brother along for studio sessions of their folk band the Whole Wheat Quintet.

Greenblatt-Seay recalled those early studio experiences as he recorded The Zach Heath's debut EP, It's the Quits.

"It helped me understand what being in the studio was like," Greenblatt-Seay said by phone while organizing press kits. "It made it more comfortable for me to be in the studio with a larger group of people."

Greenblatt-Seay's parents, Deborah Greenblatt (viola) and David Seay (harmonica), along with Whole Wheat bassist Jon Bleicher, joined the acoustic/indie/folk band at Bassline Studio this summer. Deborah Greenblatt played with the Omaha Symphony in the late-'70s. The couple run Greenblatt & Seay Publications, a recording/publishing business, in Avoca, Neb.

"They were very laid-back during the whole process for It's the Quits," Greenblatt-Seay said of his parents. "They basically just said 'tell me what to do and I'll do it,' and that they did."

Greenblatt-Seay plays guitar and sings with Zach Heath on the drums. Bassist Brent Peekenschneider and keyboardist Stephani Hanson joined the band after the recording.

As evident by the album's name, the concept is pretty straightforward: Boy meets girl; boy dates girl; girl breaks boy's heart.

Greenblatt-Seay said his parents, who home-schooled him until high school, are the happiest married couple he knows.

"Sure, it would be nice to have something as special as what my parents share. But if I did, I wouldn't have much to write about," he said.

For coming from such a frustrating place, the songs are surprisingly upbeat.

Greenblatt-Seay said recording the album helped him make peace with a failed relationship, and it doesn't look like it took him long. The six songs on the EP clock in at about 15 minutes.

As Greenblatt-Seay croons in "Forever is For Good": "This is not about you. This is not about anybody. This is about getting better and I'm about to be through."

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Press: The Volante (Vermillion, SD)
The Zach Heath Impresses
Music Fans of all Genres
The Volante (Vermillion, SD)
Issue date: 1/30/08

"I don't care if 85 percen...
1/30/08

"I don't care if 85 percent of the people here don't really 'hear' us," brooded Django Greenblatt Seay, frontman for the Omaha band, The Zach Heath, as he picked at his chicken finger basket provided courtesy of Maya Jane's bar.

"As long as we like (our music), it's awesome."

The band played to a crowded room at Maya Jane's Jan. 18.

Apparently, the view from the stage was a lot different than the view from the floor.

"These guys are really good," said Brandon Bjerrum, a Vermillion resident in attendance of the show.

"I normally listen to punk or country, but I'm actually digging this."

Bjerrum's opinion on the band seemed to be shared by the rest of the crowd, who were more than responsive to The Zach Heath's acoustic onslaught.

The band was in town for the most fleeting of moments on their way to play the Safari Lounge in Brookings, rounding out their South Dakota experience.

The Zach Heath, formerly The Zach Heath Band, came together through a friendship between Seay and drummer Zach Heath, who generously lent his name to the collective group of musicians.

"Django called me up when I first moved to Omaha," Heath said, "and he was like, 'we should start up a band again.'"

The two had played in a band previously while both living in the Norfolk area.

"I said, 'Sure, man, but I'm the frontman.' He didn't like that idea, but he compromised with our name," Heath joked.

No matter what they called themselves, the duo was onto something.

Seay's frantic lyrical style and guitar abilities, when coupled with Heath's precise drumming (including the use of a double-bass pedal on a suitcase - that's right, a suitcase), created a sound reminiscent of early Modest Mouse-meets-Bright Eyes acoustic fury.

The band decided to record some of what they had written, and entered Omaha's Bassline Studio (owned by Tim Kasher, frontman for Cursive and the Good Life) last summer to record their debut EP, "It's the Quits."

To plug some proverbial holes, the Zach Heath recruited friends and family to fill in on bass, harmonica and viola to round out the record.

Lyrically, "It's the Quits" mostly focuses on a problematic relationship that Seay carried on primarily through e-mail while working at his job. The result is a very well put-together package of songs featuring mature songwriting and acoustic prowess.

However, the two friends realized that what they had, albeit promising, wasn't enough to create the live sound that they were looking for.

Only two months ago, The Zach Heath welcomed bass player Brent Peekerschneider, also known as PB Jams, into the mix. To properly initiate PB, Seay took him on a "great western adventure," sans the namesake drummer (strangely enough), including playing gigs in Las Vegas, Albuquerque and Loma Linda, Calif.

Upon their return, The Zach Heath added yet another element to their ever-developing sound.

Keyboard player Stephani Hanson joined the group just three weeks ago, and the Maya Jane's show was one of her first as part of the lineup.

Despite all the recent personnel changes, The Zach Heath were a force to be reckoned with that night, tearing through an all too brief setlist that highlighted songs from their EP, and also from their planned full-length album, which will most likely be recorded this year.

Material from "It's the Quits" can be heard on the band's MySpace page, and the band also promises to send fans a copy of the CD (donations are welcomed, but not necessary).

"I'll send a CD to anyone who takes the time to ask," Seay said, pouring more ketchup onto his fries. "That suitcase is full of them."

Check out Myspace.com/thezachheath to learn more about the band.

Mojo · 10-06-2009, 07:20 AM

The tracks on the Myspace arent doing much for me i'm afraid, the last one sounds alright but the vocals are going right through me in places.

I look forward to seeing what you post next, though.

Stone Birds · 12-10-2009, 12:53 PM

after a long wait here is the next artist (she's one of my friends)

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Ally Heman

Genre(s): Pop, Folk, Acoustic

Members:
Ally Heman - Mostly everything

Brighter - EP by Ally Heman - Download Brighter - EP on iTunes (iTunes)
Ally Heman (BRIGHTER EP ON ITUNES + NEW SONG UP!) on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads
http://www.youtube.com/allysmusic14

MP3s (go to site then download):
Ally Heman - Use Somebody (Kings of Leon Cover)
Ally Heman - Boys With Girlfriends (Meiko Cover)

Ally Heman is a very talented musician, who's voice captivated thousands of Youtube users (literally), she has over 10,000 subscribers, and over 1,000,000 video views, and even with this immense popularity she's very down-to-earth. she's very similar Taylor Swift, Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, Justin Taylor, Kate Nash, The Fray, Etc... we both support Kilapanda Clothing (the name is misleading). many of her songs about things us teens go through, but has a more mature musical abilities and better lyrical abilities than most teen pop musicians.

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HI, I'M ALLY!
sometimes i don't like my name. sometimes i want to be betsy or alicia or lillian or tanya, just to see what it's like. sometimes i'm annoying and i will not shut up to save my life. sometimes i don't think hard enough about the decisions i make. sometimes i'm really obnoxious. i run through grocery stores screaming about WHERE THE HELL THE ORGANIC COTTON BALLS ARE, because yeah, i want organic cotton balls. fake cotton just won't do. sometimes i'm quiet, and all i really want to do is sit in my bed in the quiet and read books. forever, just books and books and books, and never look up. but eventually i do look up, and i see the sun sparkling through my window. it tickles my toes sticking out from underneath my blanket. i hate that, so i tuck them back inside. but then they get too hot, so i have to take them back out and the cycle repeats itself because i am just never satisfied. sometimes i do bad things. my mind strays and i'm not always completely there, and i'm occasionally guilty even when i seem innocent. sometimes i lie when i should really just tell the truth, and i know what the right thing to do is, but i just do the wrong thing instead. sometimes i build up walls so you can't get to me, but behind them, i am just as vulnerable and small and warm and empty and wrong and loud as you. i am a dynamic person, and i like dynamic people. i like myself. i like you. i like everybody, and i like them all a lot. i love the world. it is a beautiful place.

- From her myspace

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10-06-2009, 07:20 AM	#2 (permalink)
Mojo Melancholia Eternally Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: England Posts: 5,018	The tracks on the Myspace arent doing much for me i'm afraid, the last one sounds alright but the vocals are going right through me in places. I look forward to seeing what you post next, though. __________________ Last.FM \| Echoes and Dust