It’s amazing, surprising, frustrating, and scary how a month can change thoughts, feelings, energies, things, people, and the list goes on and on. Some things felt over night. Somethings felt over the course of days, week, or the month but whatever it was August kicked me in my imaginary gonads. I felt it beat the shit out of me until the full moon on the 18th. … Continue reading Songs of My Life: August 2016
SONG: “Follow the Leader” ARTIST: Matthew Ryan If you know me, you know I love the music of Matthew Ryan. I cannot express what talent this man possesses. It is insane how brilliant of a writer he is and how wonderful of an artist he is. His music is absolute works of art without a canvas to be seen. A few months after I discovered this … Continue reading #13: “Follow the Leader”
I never know if the songs of my life will have a consistent theme or message each month. Sometimes, it’s obvious as each song connects but most of the time, I don’t see a theme/message until I sit down an reflect and write this post. The theme/message of March was one word: RELEASE. I have/had a lot of pent up stress, frustration, emotions, thoughts, blah, blah, blah and … Continue reading Songs of My Life: March 2015
I posted my Top 5 albums list over at 16 Clefs last week, but wanted to give my Top 10 here. I was really doubting that there would be decent albums for the first half of the year, but the last half of the year did not disappoint. In order from 10 to 1: #10: STUCK by ADELITAS WAY: I’ve always enjoyed this band’s music. From their … Continue reading TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2014
Continuing in the spirit of INFIDELITY (the movie), we give you our (Amy and Shelia) TOP 5 ALBUMS OF 2014. For our TOP 4 SONGS, click HERE Amy’s Top 5 Albums STAY GOLD by FIRST AID KIT – another Swedish band that I just love. Their first single of this album, “My Silver Lining”, is haunting and sad and I love the lyrics “I try not to … Continue reading Top 5 Albums of 2014
I had to narrow it down to just full length albums from 2014. I have so many favorite songs from favorite albums. On my favorite albums this year is Boxers from the super talented and poetic Mr. Matthew Ryan and I love they lyrics to his song “Then She Threw Me Like a Hand Grenade” “It took me years to understand the weight. If you’re a prisoner … Continue reading 30 Day Song Challenge Redux (Day 19): Song from Your Favorite Album
ARTIST: Matthew Ryan SONG: “Boxers” ALBUM: BOXERS, available on iTunes | Bandcamp | Amazon I am very excited to get my hands on BOXERS, MATTHEW RYAN‘s brand spanking new album that’s due out tomorrow (Oct 14th). In honor of his new album, we feature the title track “Boxers” as our song by the Letter M. My favorite lyric is “How do you say goodbye to a dream that … Continue reading Music Brought to You by the Letter: “M” – Matthew Ryan
Here at 16 Clefs, we’re super excited to share with our followers the album cover for BOXERS by Matthew Ryan. Yes, we know we could have just tweeted or posted a photo, but that’s so cold and hope that we connect with you over the combine passion of music, so we are writing this post. Yes, it was completely inspired by just the news of an … Continue reading NEWS: Boxers by Matthew Ryan
July…blistering hot sun and days where it’s 99 degrees even in the shade and I loved every moment of it. “Fortune Teller” by Xavier Rudd These lyrics: “Need to be the one. Redefine yourself. See it in your mind, this is all a game. Do it all again. Redefine yourself. See it in your mind, this is all a game. This is my fortune…” [youtube … Continue reading Songs of My Life: July 2014
Matthew Ryan is one of those artists that no matter what he puts out I’ll buy it. He’s just such a prolific artist and a phenomenal writer and musician. This song “This One’s For You Frankie” is from his forth coming album, “Boxers” and I cannot wait to hear it in its entirety. The song is signature Matthew Ryan and such a wonderful song. From … Continue reading WATCH: “This One’s For You Frankie” by Matthew Ryan