On a late Monday afternoon in LA’s Silver Lake district, I walked into the local coffee house to find Lillian Berlin standing at the front counter. Black boots, black pants, black shirt, topped off with a black bolero gave him the look of a modern day Zorro. There was no missing him. I was here to meet up with Lillian and have a chat over coffee before his show later that night, at the newly renamed Satellite club, with his band Living Things. I introduced myself, we shook hands heartily and grabbed a table. Read more...
Serius 23 Productions and Project Rhythm Seed are pleased to announce Merge, live at The Culy Warehouse on Saturday, March 19th in San Diego’s Historic Gaslamp District. Merge features headliner and godfather of reggae and dub music, Lee “Scratch” Perry, along with a lineup of top DJ’s that include the popular DJ Bailey from the UK’s BBC radio, San Francisco’s favorite DJ UFO, and International Rhythm Kings, Frequenz Drop and TowerXVI. This will be a night of diverse music, high energy and incredible sets from some amazing performers. It will also be your only chance to see Lee “Scratch” Perry here in Southern California. Read more...
Klaxons are hitting our shores this month for a national headlining tour with stops at Ultra Music Festival and Coachella. Their single “Echoes” has received the remix treatment from Steve Aoki, be sure to listen and download. Klaxons are a British indie rock band, based in London and made up of Jamie Reynolds (bass, vocals), James Righton(keyboards, vocals), Simon Taylor-Davies (guitars) andSteffan Halperin (drums).
Serius 23 Productions and Project Rhythm Seed are pleased to announce Merge, live at The Culy Warehouse on Saturday, March 19th in San Diego’s Historic Gaslamp District. Merge features a lineup of top DJ’s that include the popular DJ Bailey from the UK’s BBC radio, northern California’s favorite DJ UFO from San Francisco, and Dubsteppas, Frequenz Drop and TowerXVI from San Diego. There will also be some special surprise guests that we can’t mention just yet. This will be a night of high energy and incredible sets from some of the top DJ’s in the world. Read more...
Today is the day that Portland, Oregon’s Loch Lomond release their new album Little Me Will Start A Storm. I don’t know why, but I knew this as soon as I woke up this morning. I sat down at the breakfast table and sang the lyric from “Blue Lead Fences,” the opening cut on the album. And I have absolutely no idea why this was the case, other than the fact that it is a catchy lyric. Yes, everyone else at the table looked at me strangely, stranger than usual anyway. But I’ve been trying to figure it out all day. Read more...
For being a small country, Scotland has had an enormous impact on modern music. It never ceases to amaze me at the sheer number of talented, successful artists she has produced over the years. The rock music genre, in particular, has been the largest recipient of this talent. Kate Victoria Tunstall, or KT as the world now knows her, is a perfect example. Read more...
“I just want to be myself, you know?” says Justin Nozuka. The briefest of nervous laughter, and a wry grin, say what he can’t say for himself: There is such a thing as too much introspection, even for a guy who’s made his mark by being candid and reflective. That irony is informed by the old soul behind 21-year-old Nozuka’s fresh-faced countenance, and the duality is striking. New York-born, Canadian bred Nozuka is young enough to have interview jitters, but sufficiently wise to recognize when he stands to sound, well, full of it. So he’s ever vigilant, lest his character fall out of tune with who he wants to be: “I don’t wanna create an inflated image of myself.” Read more...
In February of this year, while we were at Michele Clark’s Sunset Sessions, we met Australian artist Ry Cuming. Ry is one of those rare individuals that just seem to be able to roll with everything life throws at them. He’s happy go lucky from the word go and it comes through in his music and lyrics. The best way to describe it is with a word that spilled out of Ry’s own mouth – “organic”. Read more...
By Myles Crawley
A few weeks ago we met up with Portland, Oregon’s The Upsidedown. It was a last minute thing that blossomed into a wild happening on the roof of a historic old bar in San Diego called The Tower Bar. I’m not sure how we all ended up on the roof. It just seemed like the place to be. There’s quite a few people in The Upsidedown (2 drummers, three guitars and bass), and we brought along another six or so people and a bunch of instruments, recording gear and cameras. And then their friends showed up… We were all a little worried about falling through, but everything turned out okay. They jammed, we recorded. Life was beautiful. Read more...
Produced by Myles Crawley. Video shot and edited by Paul Giret. Audio recorded and mixed by Alan Sanderson. Photo by Danica Waters.
By Myles Crawley
Today is day 2 of our Josiah Leming coverage. His album released yesterday, and from what I hear it is charting well. Now its time for the second half of the material that we recorded with him on a recent visit to San Diego. This footage was shot at a little Irish pub in town called Stout. Read more...
Video shot and edited by Paul Giret. Audio recorded via Pro Tools by Alan Sanderson. produced by Myles Crawley.
By Myles Crawley
A few weeks back we met up with Josiah Leming at a little pub in San Diego called Stout. He was in town to play three consecutive nights at Lestats Coffee House. I met Josiah a few months back at Michele Clark’s Sunset Sessions. Project Rhythm Seed recorded a series of live cuts with him and presented the majority of them here on this site. We’ve stayed in touch since then. So when I heard he was starting his tour here, I suggested that we get together again. Read more...
Video shot and edited by Paul Giret. Audio recorded by Alan Sanderson. Produced by Myles Crawley. Guitars provided courtesy of Taylor. Drums provided courtesy of Page Drums.
By Myles Crawley
A couple of weeks ago we introduced you to a great new band from New York City called The Dig. As part of that introduction we posted an interview and an acoustic performance of their song “Penitentiary”. We are happy to now share with you the second two songs that these guys performed for us. The Dig’s first album, Electric Toys, is out now. if you like what you hear, you can buy the album here. For the time being, we hope you enjoy The Dig performing acoustic versions of “You’re Already Gone” and “Feel Like Somebody Else”. Thank you once again to Stout Irish Pub in San Diego for kindly allowing us access.
Video shot and edited by Paul Giret. Audio recorded by Alan Sanderson. Produced by Myles Crawley.
By Myles Crawley
One of the many things that I absolutely love about working with Project Rhythm Seed is the free music. We receive new CD’s and album downloads quite regularly from the many PR/publicity firms that we work with. So many that quite honestly there are times when CD’s pile up for a bit before getting opened and listened to. In the same such manner I recently became aware of a new band from New York called The Dig. I received their new CD, Electric Toys, in a stack with about 10 others. It took me about a week to get down to listening to them, but oh what a pleasant surprise for me when I finally did. Read more...
Given the current sentiment surrounding oil companies, this new video is extremely timely and poignant. When you dive deeper, you realize exactly how relevant this video and song really are. The track, “Ballad of the Black Gold” was written and recently released by Reflection Eternal, which is made up of two talented writer/producer/artists named Hi-Tek and Talib Kweli. Hi-Tek wrote the music on the eve of Barack Obama’s presidential victory. Talib Kwali wrote the lyrics after a trip to Nigeria, where he realized just how much the oil business controls segments of our world. He likened it to “hitting you right in the face.” Read more...
As a country, New Zealand hasn’t exactly been prolific in turning out music stars. But when they do, you can usually bet they will be guilty of producing some of the hookiest, down right infectious melodies known to man. Such is the case with Kids of 88. Jordan Arts & Sam McCarthy make up the band. They hail from Auckland, New Zealand. McCarthy covers vocals and programming, and is known for “complaining too much”. Arts is in charge of synthesizers and programming, and it’s been said that he “doesn’t complain enough”. I suppose that’s what makes them such a competent working duo. Yin and Yang – opposites attract! Read more...
Video shot and edited by Paul Giret. Audio recorded and mixed by Alan Sanderson. Produced by Myles Crawley. Guitars provided by Taylor (except the Kay guitar which belongs to D. Kulash)
Next week we will be posting some exclusive interview and performance footage that we recently shot at OK GO singer Damian Kulash’s house in Los Angeles. Damian and bass player, Tim Nordwind, sat down and spoke with us and played a couple of songs from their new album Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, which released on the bands own Paracadute Recordings label on June 2nd. This is exclusive footage that can only be seen here on Project Rhythm Seed. So tune in and find out how the band came up with the name OK GO, as well as other tasty tidbits. Read more...
On a late Monday afternoon in LA’s Silver Lake district, I walked into the local coffee house to find Lillian Berlin standing at the front counter. Black boots, black pants, black shirt, topped off with a black bolero gave him the look of a modern day Zorro. There was no missing him. I was here to meet up with Lillian and have a chat over coffee before his show later that night, at the newly renamed Satellite club, with his band Living Things. I introduced myself, we shook hands heartily and grabbed a table. 
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