Our good friend and talented musician Blake Manion has finished putting together his new site and some new music. Check out these tracks from his solo project. Being the nice guy that he is the tracks are free to download for your listening pleasure. Below is the first track he released from the project. If you like what you hear follow this link over to his site where you can listen to and download the rest of the CD. Plus if you in Colorado make sure you catch up with him at 15605 West 32nd Avenue, Golden, CO 80401 on May 7th for a open mic performance with The Bathtub Mary.
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For all you attending Sasquatch out there, as well as those who aren’t, Minus the Bear has a new album coming out next month! The Seattle locals will be playing Sasquatch Music Festival on Saturday May, 29, hopefully with songs from this soon to be released album, Omni. But I encourage you all to listen to it now, as the band will be streaming it for the next month on KCRW’s website. So to check out the album in its entirety,
New Vida Pura sunglasses just in time for spring. Hit us up and let us know what you think. These are just the prototypes so we are open to any suggestions to bring the style up to another level!
The support over this last week about the site update has been fantastic! Were lucky to have a met so many of people who have been so awesome in helping, supporting, and building this project with us. I know its not much of a thank you, but check out this track from B.0.B. Its been playing non-stop for us and we can’t wait for the album!
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Also stay tuned for some stuff from local artists to hit the roll!
We’ve been on the grind for the last few weeks working to bring some new products out and the first of our efforts are paying off. Check out the site for some sick new threads including the llama
From Seattle, to Salt Lake, to New York spring is knocking at the door. Although this makes it hard to sit down and get to work thats just what we’ve been doing. With the winter/spring mens line off the ground we’re excited to start moving ahead with some new fun projects. Keep your eyes and ears open for a girls release, some new music releases from northwest bands, a few events, and some other goodies.
Keeping living the Vida Pura and get out and get some sun for us!
this new video by OK GO features a warehouse-sized rube golberg machine that ranges from tiny rolling balls to smashing tv sets with sledge hammers. the whole video is amazing, but i was a little put off by the end, where they thank state farm for making it happen.
my initial instinct was SELL OUTS (i mean band? insurance? how is that related) but then i stopped to think about it. without corporate money, i wouldn’t have seen that large, complex, well timed creation (because it probably cost a lot).
is corporate funding the future of creative projects? it sure helps the starving artists not be so starving and gives them a chance to think big. but it has the potential to cast a weird overtone on artistic works (ie how much of the vision is the artist’s and how much is the company’s?). but, for this video it just meant a little toy truck with “state farm” written on it and a quick closing tag.
overall their marketing was subtle, effective, and not too stifling. this time, i approve.
