{holiday gift guide} for the music lover

This post can be for the ladies & the gents that are appreciators of all things music [and #2 is a special treat, just for fun, for those creative types with a kittums at home].

1. Nixon RPM Over-Ear Headphone w/ 3-button mic

2. Suck UK turntable scratching post

3. Great Plains Griffin's Coffee Tin Ukulele

4. Geneva sound system model s

5. Libratone Live Speaker

6. Ceramic Speakers 

{David Byrne} bedazzlement!

I headed to EXIT ART's part at 505 West 37th last evening, with the hopes of winning David Byrnes' Biomega Copenhagen Bike which he bedazzled with no less than 1,200 crystals.  Though I am in a slight depression not riding home on it, there was good company, good beer and good tunes [Birdlips are now on my radar].

Photos: Robin West

Photo Diary: Kiss Each Other Clean

Saturday was one of those simple, fun days in NYC with a friend made in London...a trip to the MoMA to see the Andy Warhol:Motion Pictures, good conversation over food & de-lish white ale (with an adorable fat owl on the bottle) and, most importantly, Iron & Wine for my first experience at Radio City Music Hall.  Love these days.

Photos: Robin West

Music to your ears

Taking a road trip up north, I fell back in love with Eisley's cd "Room Noises". I have been telling my friend she would like this for at least a year and finally got her to listen it, after convincing her that fist-pumping music wasn't really the kind of music to get us in the mood for a wine & jazz festival.
I came across Eisley from my friend Jake (whom is the reason that my curiosity with music was awakened) at Academy of Art in 2005, when this album first came out and ran off to Amoeba Music on Haight to purchase my very own CD. The band is considered a 'melodic indie-rock' band-for me to describe what they are, the songs are very calming, a little 'folkish' and just down right enjoyable to listen to. It's the kind of CD that I can find myself listening to all day...whether I'm laying on the beach, driving around, or listening to while walking around in a city while trying to ignore passerby's comments.