Poly ☆'s Blog (55)

What can I say....Willy Moon is awesome.  The guy clearly understands a few things necessary to be awesome.  I thought he would be behind the 8-ball trying to make a genre of music from the past exciting but he has done it.  He has power and he understands feel and how to conjure up that feel in listeners. …

I traveled to Columbus OH. to see Keane in the historic Newport Music Hall.  This show was a sold out and its rare that I find myself not able to move in a general admission venue.  This show was absolutely jammed with fans.

This show exemplified the true nature of what being a…

I was very excited to get to see Jessie Ware and her brand of what I call "baby making music".  She has a root in Soul while making use of old school 808 sounds and samplers, all the while being ethereal and airy.  As a side note, the guitar player was playing this…

I had seen Matthew Koma 5 times before this show on the Sorry For Party Rocking Tour.  I felt it would be worth the trip to see a more proper set.  I was pleased to see that from my vantage point, it appeared that the Vic Theater was full capacity.  When he was on SFPR tour, I felt like though it was best he play…

Michael Kiwanuka and Slash at the same venue?  The cool part was after this photo I went and stood where the guy in the hat is standing in the above pic.  I placed a call on my cell phone and I look over and 10 feet away was Myles Kennedy speaking on his cell phone.  It was pretty cool.…

I have many talented Rec'ers as friends.  Some are musicians, producers, remixers and some do graphics and drawings.

In my case I needed to have an album cover made.  I love vinyl albums and the apparent lost art of colorful cover art.  I am a huge fan of the Smashing Pumpkins album "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness".  That cover has everything I love...stars..moons, and the color purple.…

I had written many times about the Sorry For Party Rocking Tour.  I decided that for my last SFPR blog I would just let the pictures do the talking.  I had really good seats but being that I use the IPhone for pictures with no good zoom, I decided to take pics of the stage screen backgrounds that LMFAO used…

Well it had been a few weeks since I had seen the Sorry for Party Rocking Tour in Chicago.  I was curious to see how the show had evolved and it did not disappoint.  First of all Matthew Koma in a brilliant social marketing move started giving out backstage passes if you followed him on twitter and were…

I decided to come to NYC for the Sorry for Party Rocking Tour.  I felt a connection with the city on my previous trip here for the sold out Robyn and Natalia Kills show at Radio City Music Hall.  Therefore being in town I decided to enter for a chance to see LMFAO on Good Morning America and was…

On an impulse, I decided to hop in the car and drive 9 hours to go to a Far East Movement CD signing at HMV in Toronto ON.  Even though I had the digital version of Dirty Bass, I decided to buy the canadian version in hard copy and have it signed for a Rec'er.  There was a fantastic turn out for FM... tons of…

Call me a bad son... this show was on May 26th...my Mother's birthday is May 26th.  She was in Louisville and I...was in Chicago for the Sorry for Party Rocking Tour.  It was really cool when I was driving through Target's parking lot which was across the street from the venue and Matthew Koma was walking…

I was excited to go to Detroit due to the fact I was dying to drop into American Jewelry and Loan (AKA Hardcore Pawn).  After that excursion I made my way to Auburn Hills for the Sorry For Party Rocking stop at the Palace and being fashionably early, I walked laps around the venue.

Matthew Koma and Eva…

Columbus OH was home to the first U.S. date of the Redfoo and Cherrytree Presents:  Sorry For Party Rocking Tour USA.  I was looking forward to seeing this particular show because it was the first and I was very interested in seeing how the show would evolve from this one.  It was nice to also see SkyBlu back in…

Here in Indianapolis, Journeys put on a free show and the headliner was Marianas Trench.  I was familiar with them so I decided to go and see the show.  I didn't know what to expect exactly, but at the completion of the show I was very pleased with what I heard.  I had never really heard their work so the…

That's right...it says Yanni.  Different rooms of course but same venue.

For this show I didn't want to film anything or keep up with set lists.  Honestly I just wanted to bask in the beauty of Feist.  Her delivery and sound is like taking Karen Carpenter and mixing it with the delivery and raw…

I found myself in the Super Bowl Village all weekend starting with an attempt on Friday Night to see LMFAO.  Unfortunately the police had not intervened to control the flow of pedestrian traffic so it was a complete nightmare to move near the block the stage was on.  At one point I realized the closest I could get…

What a pleasure to see the Knux.  This band understands feel and how to use their influences to enhance their music without you thinking its blatant.  I heard so many influences in their work but could never say that they copied their heroes....they infused (infusions) those influences into a sound…

This was my first time in Canada and it was wonderful.  Getting to see all the Cherrytree talent on one stage was an amazing experience and worth the trip.  I knew that with an all Cherrytree roster on a single tour, it would…

One thing Feist understands is the art of "feel".  She clearly goes to the trouble of searching for vintage gear to achieve this versus using the state of the art equipment available.  Even Mayor Rahm Emmanuel was present to enjoy a unique perspective in music, I am not sure his head was exploding like mine trying to…

This was my first time to see Frankmuzik do his set of yet to be released songs from "Do It in the A.M".  When he walked out he told the audience of his realization that they were not familiar with his work yet.  He has a point, I watched the legendary David Bowie blaze through "Rebel Rebel" to 3000 dancing…