Greetings from California! It’s been a little bit of a traumatic start to a new life out here in the Wild West but things are actively moving closer to the ways I’ve always wanted them to be. I have been pursuing my love of making jewelry for my line Couture by Lolita, and have been busy freelance writing for a few special Hollywood interviews soon to be published in the Summer 2011 issue of Fault Magazine!

It’s nice to be in a new city and going for everything that I love as I feel it’s the only true way to enjoy your life. Please excuse my length of absence as cross country relocations, sometimes can lead to blocked creativity. As I’m on the hunt for a place to live here in Los Angeles (anyone know anyone who has a place available in any part of California?), I’ve come to learn what it really means to be apart of such a fast paced and overwhelming city. It’s hard to see the beauty in such a place of industry but by pushing that all aside, it’s realized that your not really here for the scenery, you’re here to create your life. Everyone seems to have similar dreams of becoming the next big movie actor or rock n’ roll star of Hollywood and for myself, I really just want to find my own true path of happiness. Maybe it’s here, maybe it’s not — but I’m definitely on the road to find out.

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Nick Cave and Neko Case collaborated on the Zombies 1964 classic “She’s Not There“. The track was produced with Louisiana-based musician CC Adcock and together they all created a darker, New Orleans by Los Angeles influenced version, perfectly fitting as a soundtrack for HBO’s Season 4 premiere of True Blood. Enjoy!

This past Christmas Eve, JJ released their very own mixtape (.zip) featuring their own songs mixed within sounds of greats like M.I.A., Jay-Z, Dr Dre, and Biggie. The cover art from the mixtape above showcases exactly how JJ’s music sounds: sensual, calming, ethereal, and very dreamy.

Listen to ♥ JJ – Angels (Kills, 2010)

Thank you to Gorilla vs Bear for recently sharing a new video for JJ’s Angels. Perfect how some of the visuals showcase Music is Art’s soon-to-be-city of Los Angeles, and provides a quiet form of synchronicity in the most mesmerizing way.

XL Recordings’s artist Jai Paul shared last year an amazing song called BTSTU and somehow it ended up in my hands this morning. It was part of Said The Grampaohone’s favorites of 2010 and recently, Pitchfork mentioned it as one of the best new tracks, and I have to agree. To start a song off with “don’t fuck with me” in such a soft voice sounds too perfect along with everything a listener could want including the sounds of precise harmonies, electronic handclaps, pulsating distortion, and happily ending with golden saxophone. Enjoy!

In less than 6 days, my journey moves me to California. It is a place that I’ve always dreamed of living in — to feel the stories of old Hollywood and the uninhibited ways of a Los Angeles rock n’ roll lifestyle, to enjoy spending alone time along the beaches of Malibu getting lost in tranquility and writing poetry, and to eventually fall in love with where I live, what I create, someone else, and myself in San Francisco.

Have always loved the idea of Record Store Day. Bands sharing unreleased, rarities, and reissues on vinyl albums of limited edition secrets. It’s like a music lover’s Christmas, a day exclusively celebrated for going out to your favorite local record store and buying yourself a special piece of art by an amazing artist.

Radiohead released in the UK their own unique release for this past Record Store Day 2011, a 12″ featuring two new songs, The Butcher and Supercollider. Still maintaining the edge that their new album Kings of Limbs has, these singles go beyond hypnotizing and draw a listener inside, closer to the sound. Enjoy!

Maybe it’s the pure beauty that I always hear coming from Adele‘s magnetizing melodies… or the tranquility I appreciate when sounds can be soft, catchy but not so much that I ever tire from listening.

After listening to Adele’s album 21, it has given an overall feeling of a more mature album yet still made with that fragile broken-hearted innocence, that clearly demonstrates how much love can hurt, and how bittersweet it all truly can be no matter how old you are.

Remembering seventeen years ago, the legacy of Kurt Cobain lives on.

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Recently three of Music Is Art’s favorites Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Four Tet, and Burial secretly joined together to collaborate and record two beautiful electronic tracks called “Ego” and “Mirror”, which were released on a limited edition black 12″ vinyl that quickly sold out last week. For now, enjoy streaming the songs below as their collective sound bring you to a transient and calmer place.

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Burial & Four Tet / Thom Yorke

Ego / Mirror

(Bleep Records)

On the recently released Red Riding Hood movie’s official soundtrack, Fever Ray have a new track called “The Wolf”. Very much fitting for the theme of her own visual presentation, Karin Dreijer Andersson always has a perfect way to create music that is beautifully haunting.

Listen:

Fever Ray – The Wolf