Funkin' Wagnall's Music Round-Up
Every issue, we will feature mp3s from some of our favorite bands &mdash with their permission, of course. This month, we have female-fronted pop from Sweden and Colorado, two artists from Portland (Maine and Oregon) and a thirteen year old novelist! We welcome all types of music at all times of the year.
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Zoë Woodbury High
Zoë Woodbury High lives in Portland, Maine and is in 9th grade. Her interests include music, radio, art, travel, and language. She has been playing the ukulele for a year and a half, because it’s easy, fun and portable.
She wrote her first novel, It’s a World, It’s a World, It’s a World 2, at age 7. She wrote two more novels, Charles B. Nutmeg-Spice, Nicknamed Chip, and Pine of the Canadian Wolves, at ages 9 and 10, and has gone downhill from there. Now she writes short stories about substitute teachers and pulling boats from her "weird hippie high school."
Zoë is now studying French, learning to play the piano and guitar, and continuing to teach herself the ukulele. She plans to someday move to New York City and become an artist and college professor, and also hopes to open a vegan bakery.
Zoë's music video of "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" attracted the attention of websites such as ukelele.fr, Morrisey-solo.com and The Laughing Squid. We look forward to seeing what the future holds for Zoë, as it's sure to be great.
No One Will Ever Love YouThere Is A Light That Never Goes Out
After Hours
Website:
Music Video by David Meiklejohn (YouTube)
Contact:
info (at) miloinmaine (dot) com
Hello Saferide
Photo by Annika Norlin.
Hello Saferide (inspired by an intelligent bus driver in a drug-addicted small town) is songwriter Annika Norlin. She'd been writing songs since the age of seven, never aspiring for anyone else to hear them, when she recorded a song about a young girl internet-stalking her crush. "Highschool Stalker" was an instant Internet hit, which led to her record deal and first single, "My Best Friend," which had "even the toughest of tough men crying they, too, wanted to be lesbians."
Her debut album, "Introducing...Hello Saferide" released in September 2005 to much critical acclaim. One song, "Long Lost Penpal," was featured in an episode of HBO's "Big Love." Her follow up album, "Would You Play This EP Ten Times A Day?" catapulted to #4 in the Swedish charts, and is expected to hit gold.
Music:My Best Friend
San Francisco
I Can't Believe It's Not Love
Highschool Stalker
Website:
Official Website
it's a trap! (International)
Cdon.com (International)
Cdon.se (Sweden)
Eluvium
Matthew Cooper, sole member of Eluvium, creates beautiful ambient music in a diverse number of forms, from a 30-minute piano piece to electronica and back again. Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Eluvium's five albums since 2003 evince an evolving and promising style. His latest, Copia, came out early this year.
Music:amreik
Requiem on Frankfort Avenue
Radio Ballet
Website:
Official Website
Eluvium's Albums for Sale (worldwide shipping)
Contact:
eluvium (at) temporaryresidence (dot) com
Dressy Bessy
Dressy Bessy makes music that's fun to listen to. Hailing from Denver, Colorado, they've put out five records, weathered the folding of their first label and been called "virtually perfect" and the "Top Underground Band In Colorado." Their music featured in "The Powerpuff Girls" and "But I'm A Cheerleader!"
Their latest album, Electrified, came out in June 2005.
Music:Stop Foolin'
Electrified
Tay Tay Again
Website:
Official Website
Myspace
Buy Electrified
Buy All DB albums (Half.com)
Contact:
sally (at) transdreamer (dot) com
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