music you have never heard of because you are stupid. #4 Mozella
When 15-year-old MoZella failed to land a coveted role in her high school play, the Detroit native decided it was time to take her career into her own hands. With the stubborn determination that only a teen can muster, MoZella — who had fallen out the previous year with the members of her folk-rock garage band over “creative differences” — began to book her own shows at local coffeehouses in the Detroit area. “My first gig was the day I got my braces on and I could barely talk,” she recalls. Still, the owner was impressed enough to ask if she wanted to perform there on a regular basis. One night she made $80 bucks. “At the time, I thought I earned the money on my own, but now I’m sure my Grandma snuck a $20 in the tip basket,” she says.
From this auspicious beginning, MoZella has grown into a full-fledged singer-songwriter releasing her debut album I Will, which ..s the 24-year-old’s journey from leaving home at 18 and arriving in Los Angeles to pursue her dream of making it as a recording artist and performer. “I didn’t go to a four-year university,” she says, “so struggling to get my music heard was like my schooling. I learned a lot and wrote these songs about the experience.”
MoZella, whose confident, soulful voice can turn from seductively husky to girlishly vulnerable on a dime, sets her coming-of-age tales about love won (“Love is Something”), love lost (“You Wanted It”) the state of the world (“Killing Time”), loneliness (“Last Twenty”), and forgiveness (“Light Years Away”) to plaintive acoustic guitar and hip-hop influenced programmed beats — a style that one critic described as “balancing coffeehouse intimacy and subtle groove with jazz and electronica.”
MoZella says the R&B-soul inflections in her voice come from a childhood steeped in the music of her hometown. Her mother sang in a choir, tuned in the local Motown gospel stations on the radio, and favored Detroit spiritual singers Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder and Bob Seger. “Growing up in Detroit, the style of music — black soul combined with blue collar white rock — molds you as a singer in a lot of ways,” she says. “There is so much beat and bass-driven music. And I think the gospel thing itself has always been in me; there’s no way around it.”
Armed with nothing but her guitar, MoZella set out for the West Coast after graduating from high school. She worked as a waitress and cake decorator at a bakery by day and wrote songs and performed in coffeehouses at night. After several false starts, including a brief apprenticeship with rapper Warren G and a stint in London recording a demo with producer Tim Saul (Portishead), MoZella returned to L.A. and recorded a new demo. It found its way to Maverick’s A&R executives, who signed her in 2004.
MoZella began work on I Will with producer/songwriter Jude Cole (who has worked with Rocco DeLuca, Beth Orton, Lifehouse) manning the control board. “Jude is an amazing writer himself, so he understands how to work with a song,” MoZella says. “He knew instinctively how to bring out the urban feel of my music, without going over the top.”
MoZella has been busy jumping on high-profile tours with Lifehouse, Dave Matthews Band, Five For Fighting and Daniel Powter. Her songs have appeared on Vol. 2 of the soundtrack to the hit WB show One Tree Hill, and used in episodes of the NBC drama Las Vegas, the hit ABC series What About Brian, FOX’s Bones and top rated ABC Family show Wildfire. In addition, a ballad she wrote named “Amazed” was featured in a Mercedes-Benz commercial for the company’s high-profile “Framed Portraits” campaign last year.
With I Will, which was released November 7, and her first single “Amnesia” hitting radio airwaves in June ‘07, MoZella is a long way from her cake-decorating days. “I remember working there one day and hearing Macy Gray’s ‘I Try’ come over the speakers. And I was like, ‘Holy cow, this is a great song. I want to make great songs like this. I want to get somewhere with my music.’” If the title of MoZella’s debut album is any indication, she will.
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music you have never heard of because you are stupid. #3 Haystak
Haystak (born Jason Winfree on March 22, 1973) is an American rapper of Irish and German descent. He is native of Nashville, Tennessee and he is most renowned for his style of rapping which he refers to as “white trash,” which talks about growing up white, poor, and in the South.
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this year john and his wife gave me a sega dreamcast for my birthday. the dreamcast is a pre-oct2000 model…
over the past few days i have been learning about dreamcast backups.
dreamcast’s made before october of 2000 can play backup disks without needing a mod chip, they do however need either a boot cd, or the disks need to be self-booting.
the most popular boot disk is utopia… you can get it here
torrent sites are filled with self booting backups….
i realize this post is rather boring…
but fuck you, im playing JET GRIND RADIO!!!!!!!
letters from the past: Heather Boyette (part 1)
*alittle backstory: Heather was… well… um… fucking wierd. in highschool each of my friends had a unique way of greeting others… lucy would hug you, kc would punch you, i would pinch your cheeks and yell “PUFFY CHEEKYS!!!”, heather on the other hand… would bite the shit out of you.
she and i had this thing, for awhile. we werent dating… but we were close. she used to write me rather long notes about her horrible life and abusive parents, which i chalked up to teenage melodrama…
until i met her mother.
one day i was called into the principals office.
when i got there i found heather, heathers mom, the dean, and my mother all sitting around a table talking about how i was leading heather down a path of destruction. her mother said that i was supplying the school with drugs… and that i was the ringleader of a local satanic cult who called themselves 315c.
satanists surely could have come up with something better than 315c.
during the meeting, my mother sat and quietly listened to everything heathers mom said… then stood up… pushed in her chair and smacked heathers mom in the mouth…. then casually walked out.
later that week a letter to the editor was printed in the local paper.
it had a list of 6 names, all of whom were affiliated with 315c.
my name was listed as the “leader”
the article said that the cult was named 315c because rituals were held in a clearing off highway 315c.
Heathers mom never admitted to writing the letter….
*end of backstory
Loving God,
Just thought I would write you back I’m sorry if i made you mad about saying something about amber. Why were you upset last night? (editors note: i was at her house the previous night… dunno why i was mad… i was more than likley brooding, because i was good at it dammit!)
I’m sorry if it had anything to do with me. Don’t kill yourself, or hurt yourself. Then I’ll have a dead God that wont be good ………….thinking of something to say……………. Are you still going to the manson concert? I wanna go very badly. When im older im going to be a Vampire and I’m going to have a pet dragon.
Every God Dog loving people are talking about you belie3ving you are God. I tell people I worship you. Guess what? I slept with Joe today… forgive me for I have sinned (2nd hour) I fell asleep on Joe’s shoulder.
You need to write 13 commandments or something. you need to write all your stories in my book. Do you still have my Christian articles? I guess ill go because i have run out of things to say.
love me,
your faithfull servant
(editors note… Heather had really nice tits…. but she wasnt the brightest of the bunch.)
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Having grown up in the sweltering Florida heat, George enjoys staying indoors, and air conditioning. A Level 7 Elvish Photoshop Mage with +10 Dropshadow Power, George specializes in visual design & interaction design — two fancy terms he uses to make himself sound important and to explain that he cares about both how things look and how things work.