Music
Five Songs That Matter To: Krista Morgan
May 23, 2013 by Alex Naser-Hall
[Invisible Children Music: We firmly believe that music has a necessary role in giving social movements tremendous amounts of momentum. It is a universal language, and at Invisible Children, it's important for us to be a part of that language.] Invisible Children has been (second) home to Krista Morgan for over a year now. She [...] Read More
Bear Mountain: “Faded”
May 23, 2013 by Alex Naser-Hall
This is a special blog post because we actually just finished recorded an acoustic session of this very song with Vancouver’s Bear Mountain. Their debut album XO just got a fancy re-release, and it’s chock full of electro-emotion. “Faded” is exactly that – a rare blend of synths and sincerity (shameful alliteration, yes). A lot of [...] Read More
Clare Maguire: “Changing Faces”
May 22, 2013 by Alex Naser-Hall
The recent resurgence of Clare Maguire is one of the most welcome surprises of 2013. She’s featured on the current single from BURNS, and she’s been dropping demos and covers via her Soundcloud that are hinting at a new minimalist approach that is frankly beautiful. Today via our idols at The Line of Best Fit, [...] Read More
Five Songs That Matter To: Alex Naser-Hall
May 21, 2013 by Alex Collins
[Invisible Children Music: We firmly believe that music has a necessary role in giving social movements tremendous amounts of momentum. It is a universal language, and at Invisible Children, it's important for us to be a part of that language.] We started a feature in the fall about songs that matter. As Invisible Children Music, [...] Read More
Monday Mini Mixtape: mayTHREE
May 20, 2013 by Alex Naser-Hall
[Invisible Children Music: We firmly believe that music has a necessary role in giving social movements tremendous amounts of momentum. It is a universal language, and at Invisible Children, it's important for us to be a part of that language.] It’s quite difficult to be at the office currently as we are overcome with sadness [...] Read More
Ghost Beach to perform at Fourth Estate Summit
May 17, 2013 by Alex Naser-Hall
Ghost Beach will be joining The Jane Doze and Noah Gundersen as special musical performers at the Fourth Estate Summit this August in Los Angeles. The duo from New York City, comprised of Josh Ocean and Eric “Doc” Mendelsohn, have built serious buzz based off their electro-pop singles and energetic live shows. We’ve been fans [...] Read More
VIDEO // Foxes: “Beauty Queen”
May 16, 2013 by Alex Naser-Hall
Louisa Rose Allen, more known as Foxes, has been having a VERY LARGE year; She released some impressive pop nuggets in 2012. Both “Youth” and “White Coats” were on strong repeat in our office, and we ate up everything else she touched as well. Then, she hopped on lead vox of a song by Russian-German [...] Read More
Take Away Film: Uganda to screen exclusive clip at Mountain Film Festival
May 16, 2013 by Alex Naser-Hall
We’re very honored/excited to announce that we have been chosen to premiere an exclusive clip from our film with La Blogotheque at this year’s Mountain Film Festival in Telluride. We have an official name for the film now, and we’re ready to get the ball rolling on showing the world the doc about our supporter-funded [...] Read More
Glitches: “Only Time Will Tell”
May 16, 2013 by Alex Naser-Hall
Our trust in music discovery is evenly distributed among Belgium’s disco naivete, New York City’s Neon Gold, and the UK’s The Line of Best Fit. All credit for this track from British trio Glitches goes to Jamal Guthrie over at The Line Of Best Fit. “Only Time Will Tell” is a festival-ready anthem, as Jamal [...] Read More
Ruen Brothers: “Walk Like A Man”
May 15, 2013 by Alex Naser-Hall
The last time we wrote about Ruen Brothers, they were on the verge of taking off with their song “Aces,” a chorus-heavy/festival-ready anthem that’s since catapulted on radio. Today, they return with their first proper single. “Walk Like A Man” just received its first spin on Radio 1, garnering the ever-impressive title of “Hottest Record [...] Read More
