Underground Bands and Indie Music Reviews

Still disappointed about the Obama Socialized Health Care.

It is not too often you hear a punk rock band inspired by 1920’s string bands! But here they are, Blackbird Raum delivering a ferocious sound that I do not think everyone would like, but for those who do, will love!

You are most likely to see them performing at street festivals or at small local venues. I first saw them at Seattle’s Folk Life festival. The girl playing the saw and the guy playing the washboard caught my eye and immediately after the sound did as well.

They are like a modern Anarcho-Punk band with lyrics dealing with our economy and civilization. While singing “I want something much more different not these factories of prisons I wish that the earth was green again…” and seeing them play with raw emotion you can tell they have an opinion and feel it’s important.

Check out this video of a house show played in California.

Whether you like it or not you cannot deny they have passion and are unlike most you see and hear.

Most wouldn’t even recognize the band’s name or many of their song titles as being from historical events, books or mythical creatures. Silent Spring (one of my favorite songs) is in reference to Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, and Raum is a mythological creature who is depicted as a black crow that can change shape into a man.

They recently released a new album and have one other as well as an EP. To listen to more check out their myspace: http://www.myspace.com/blackbirdraum

I am quite aware that the soundtrack for New Moon has been out since before the movie was in theaters and I know I am probably being judged by some of you right now for even posting about New Moon, but whether you love or hate Edward Cullen, you have to admit that the New Moon soundtrack is pretty terrific.

So in honor of the New Moon dvd coming out last week and my roommate buying it and already having watched it at least 3 times, I want review one one the songs on the soundtrack, Lykke Li’s Possibility.

I absolutely love Li’s voice. It is absolutely unique. Her voice says something somber, quiet, eerie, and yet sustaining and piercing. She has a perfect voice for this movie, for vampires and for such a deep and confusing love.

If I am not mistaken, Li’s song, Possibility, is played as Bella sits in a chair and watched all the seasons pass in depression, and writes to Alice in lingering sick hope that Edward will come back. These lyrics with Li’s voice create such a perfect tone for what seems a foolish depressed hopeful person (as much as a contradiction that seems). They are simple but with Li they are also sincere.

There’s a Possibility
There’s a Possibility
All that I have was all I’m gon’ get.

There’s a Possibility
There’s a Possibility
All I’m gonna get,is gonna be yours then
All I’m gonna get is gonna be yours then

So tell me you hear my heart stop
You’re the only one that knows
Tell me when you hear my silence
There a possibility I wouldn’t know

Know that when you leave
Know that when you leave
By blood and by me,you walk like a thief
By blood and by me and I’ll fall when you leave

So tell me when you hear my heart stops,
You’re the only one that know
Tell me when you hear my silence
there’s a possibility I wouldn’t know

So tell when my silence’s over
You’re the reason why I’m close
Tell when you hear me falling
there’s a possibility it wouldn’t show

By blood and by me and I’ll fall when you leave
By blood and by lead,I’ll follow your lead

Here’s her song put to a few different clips from Twilight and New Moon. Hear her sincerity for yourself and come to love the New Moon soundtrack (if you don’t already).

Lykke Li is a Swedish indie singer-songwriter. Although it seems she could not exudes as much emotion as she did Possibility, she does so in her other songs. check her music out.