Late Night Jammin'

Pantyraid – Superior



D.Veloped – Bring Em Home (Edward Sharpe – T.I.)


Bob Marley vs. MGMT - Wanna Know Now (Xaphoon Jones) by THEBINGOBALLS

Strange Behaviour feat. Tasha Baxter by youfeedme

MUST DOWNLOAD.

I learned a new trick! Except it's not that new, but for my blog it is. I'm really going to try to do this more with the music I post about. It must suck having to go find all this crap on your own, huh? Every other blog or website does this, so I should, too.

These three are songs I've downloaded within the past few days, and OH MAN are they good. Enjoy.

California Sunrise-LS Royale ft. Shwayze MP3 Download

Cinema (Extended Mix)- Benny Benassi ft. Gary Go



Renegade VIP ft. Maxsta- The Qemists

Oh, I'm crying.

Motivation, March (playlist)

So, I realized a day or two ago that I completely forgot to add my March playlist... I have been SO BUSY. My apologies to anyone who actually cares about the music I post... lol.

Here it is!

MOTIVATION, MARCH

The Crave	Chris Young The Rapper
Better Than Her	Akon ft. Matisse
Pass Out	Tinie Tempah
The Cave	Mumford & Sons
My Body	Young the Giant
Iridescent	Linkin Park
Tomorrow	Silverchair
On The Floor	J. Lo ft Pitbull
All The Same	Sick Puppies
Young, Wild, & Free	Wiz Khalifa & Snoop Dogg
One Last D.A.N.C.E.	5 & A Dime
Be Mine (feat. Ellie Goulding)	Erik Hassle
The Prize	KO
My Boots [Acoustic]	LIGHTS
Chicago [Daytrotter Session]	Mat Kearney
Same Stars	Mat Musto
Impossible to Love (demo)	Mat Musto
Summertime	Mat Musto
Dreams 2.0 (b-side)	Mat Musto
Easy Now [Daytrotter Session]	Millionyoung
Rolling In The Deep	Adele
Rolling In The Deep (Adele Cover)	Mike Posner
Slave (The Girls Can Hear Us Remix)	Silver Medallion
Out Of My Head (ft. Trey Songz)	Lupe Fiasco
Simple Math	Manchester Orchestra
Time-Bomb	All Time Low
Rope	Foo Fighters
Break The Chain (ft. Eric Turner & Sway)	Lupe Fiasco
Till I Get There	Lupe Fiasco
All I Do Is Win	DJ Khaled Feat. Ludacris, Snoop Dogg, Rick Ross and T-Pain

Dinner Music and Summer Wishes

 Tonight I ate dinner at Silver Gulch, a restaurant here in Fairbanks, Alaska. I tagged these two songs while eating dinner, they caught my attention.
"Dreamworld" by Rilo Kiley
"She's Got You High" by Mumm-Ra

I can't stop thinking about how close summer is... it's killing me. I hate the waiting in between. I've already got my summer jobs lined up, and I'll be continuing to write for the Sun Star, for which I'll be covering local performances, starting with the Barenaked Ladies on June 3, an all ages concert at the Blue Loon. This means I'll be writing a brief that will include audio and photos of the concert, possibly video. The outdoor all ages shows at the Loon are my kind of scene, and I've seen MANY fantastic bands perform there within the past few years, such as Puddle of Mud, Third Eye Blind, 311, and The Presidents of the United States.

Andrew McKeag walks and rocks the barrier on the Under 21 side of the all-ages Solstice concert at the Blue Loon, June 18, 2010.

April Fools...?

Something magical happened last night. At first, I couldn't quite explain it. I was thinking it was one of three things:

1. Someone is playing a massive April Fools joke on me... seven days too late.
2. Blogger is having some major issues and needs to call a tech doctor.
3. I really did get 4,043 views last night.

I really wish I could've seen my own face this morning. It was about 9am, I barely had my eyes open all the way yet. This is when I started my morning routine. Check my phone- five missed text messages. Wow, that's kind of a lot. Next, check my Facebook. Eight new notifications? Geez, that's a lot too. Check my blog stats. Yesterday's stats were still there. Fifteen hours ago, I had been all excited because I had gotten 21 hits pretty quickly, after the Discovered and Reviewed post.

I clicked refresh.

HOLY TOTS. WHAT?!

At this point, I'm sure the look on my face said something like, "How dare you lie to me! People in Moldova don't use the internet!" Because honestly, I didn't even know where Moldova is, let alone that it exists. My apologies to Moldova, I Googled you guys, and apparently there are over 3 million people living there.

This is insane, guys, really. Over 4,000 views in one hour, in the middle of the night? I must've done something right...

Okay, that kinda makes sense. I mentioned 3 people in my Tweet that have a lot of followers. Sure. 

But that really doesn't explain 4,000 views. I wasn't convinced. 

I posted a status on Facebook: 

Well, that was no help. So, how did this happen? I then consulted my wonderful Blogger friend, Elika (visit her blog!). I sent, "Hey, I have a question for u... Rather, a concern u might be able to help me with... How long have you had your blog? Have u ever had a weird number in your stats? Cuz.... There's either a glitch in my stats, or I got 4,000 hits in one hour last night. I don't think it's right and I'm wondering if there's something wrong with my stats. Lol..."

She replied, "I've had my blog since dec. 2009. And I had that happen once, when I was using a 3rd party app, but then I switched to a blogger stats counter and it's been normal. Maybe you just got super popular last night :)"

That makes perfect sense. Except I'm not using a 3rd party app... I've always only looked at my Blogger Stats, right from my dashboard. So I was still very confused.

I checked Twitter again. Something was still off, I just knew it. I left my computer and started getting ready for the day. I was in the middle of straightening my hair, when it hit me...

#newmusic (cue Twilight Zone theme song)

This had to be it. I clicked the link from my Tweet, and Oh My Goodness, there was the answer. 

It took me to a magical place I'd never even dreamed of. A hashtag trend so powerful, it gave me 4,000 views in one hour. I call this "The Twitter Phenomena". When a person uses this trend in their Tweet, it gets put with any other Tweets using that same trend. I kid you not, approximately every 30 seconds, someone is tagging their Tweet with this trend. Granted, most of these people are underground artists linking their own new music in their Tweets so people will listen to their music... but that's just it!!! It's completely genius!!! If I want something noticed, I have to tag it the right way, even on Twitter! Now, come on, I already knew the tagging trick. It's just like uploading a YouTube video and tagging it with the words "naked" and "Sarah Palin"... trends that are extremely popular on YouTube and the internet in general. But this... Twitter Phenomena... this will get me far. I've officially mastered the Twitter world. So, look out! Here I come.

URL Change

Dear Readers,

In order to make myself feel more professional, I'm trying to make my usernames and such more "uniform". I will be changing the URL sometime soon, to spreadthywingsblog.blogspot.com. Hopefully this won't confuse too many people, as I've already changed the URL once before. So, if you have me bookmarked but you're not following me, make sure you change it so you'll be able to continue reading my stuff. If you'd like, that is.

Thanks,

Alyssa

Discovered and Reviewed

I think I've reached the point that if I don't hurry up and just start writing about everything I've found lately, I'll become so far behind that I'll never get caught up. So, let's play catch up. First off, here's the brand new video for the song "Far" by Coheed and Cambria. I don't listen to them a whole lot, but I really thought this video was pretty cool. I loved the colors, it gave it a creepy vibe in a way. I always enjoy floating lyrics, and of course, Claudio Sanchez himself. Found it here.

Next on my list is a song called Holiday. It was suggested to me in a tweet from @DJLeaks. At first, it seemed a little sketch, but the adventurous side of me won, and I downloaded it. I actually enjoyed it, so give it a shot. It's from the rap/hip-hop genre, so if you like that, try it out and see what you think.

(Sorry for stealing a photo, Sam.)

Last, but certainly not least, I discovered a strapping young man by the name of Sam Davis. Sam does covers, and he does them quite well. He put a jazzy touch on Rihanna's "Only Girl in the World", and a soulful Bedouin cover of "When the Night Feels My Song" that'll get your feet tappin'. I don't know much about him, but I've been in contact with him, so maybe sometime soon I'll be able to get some more info on him. Keep up the good work, Sam. :)

Follow him on Twitter
Watch his videos on YouTube
aaand become his friend on Facebook.
If you'd like to help Sam win the Coca Cola Much Covers competition, click the following link to his FB event page. You can find all the links to his videos and HELP SAMMY D BE A #WINNER!!!

What's been going on?

Alaska Press Club Conference 2011

Follow me on Twitter @spreadthywings

Pictures of J-Week so far: click here. More to come!

Sorry for the lack of blogness lately. I've been SO BUSY!!! Click the first link to see what I've been doing for the past 2 days, and please follow my twitter as well :) 

Here's some music for you:

Band of Horses- Infinite Arms

Sufjan Stevens- The Age of Adz

Deerhunter- Halcyon Digest (Desire Lines is my fave song from this album)

Just kinda found these while snooping through iTunes. 

Anyways, I'll be posting more soon. I'm going to do an entire write up of my time here at the Press Conference, pictures and all.