Lorenzo's Music - blog

Bryan's Top 10 Music Playlist

2012-10-17T15:55:00.003-05:00

More music, more problems... I don't know...
Anyway here's our saxophone player Bryan's top 10 favorite songs.

Hit play and enjoy! Let us know what you think of his picks in the comments below.

Eric's Top 10 Playlist

2012-10-07T01:43:00.001-05:00

Here's another in our on-going series of music we've been listening to.

This is Eric's playlist of his top 10 songs for October.

Let it play in the background, listen & enjoy!

Tell us what you think of his song choices below.

Cliff's Top 10 Playlist for September

2012-09-29T21:49:00.002-05:00

Continuing with our playlist mixes of music we've been listening to.

This time it's our bassist Cliff's turn.
Here are the top 10 songs that he's been diggin' on.

Bread & Water - Ryan Bingham
Missing Pieces - Jack White
Signs & Signifiers - J.D. McPherson
Orpheo Looks Back - Andrew Bird
Speak In Rounds - Grizzly Bear
Satellite - The Kills
Blackout - Hometown Sweethearts *(this wasn't on YouTube but left it in the list to prove he picked 10)
Gold On The Ceiling - The Black Keys
Vampire - Dr. Dog
Primitive Girl - M. Ward

Click play, let it run in the background and enjoy!

Let us know what you think of his song choices in the comments below.

Mark's Top 10 Playlist for September

2012-09-25T11:30:00.000-05:00

Sure, we post a lot of our own music. But we thought we'd also like to post some of the music that we've been listening to recently. So we're going to take turns showcasing some songs that we like.

The first playlist is Mark's music picks to date.

Cat Power - silent machine
How To Dress Well - When I Was in Trouble
Jamie Lidell - compass
Yeasayer - Fingers never bleed
Carla Morrison - Me Encanta
Atoms for Peace - default
Blue Sky Black Death - our hearts of ruin
Grizzly Bear - gun shy
AaraabMUZIK - Electronic Dream
The Chromatics - Back from the Grave
Tina Dico - Moon to Let

Yeah it says "top 10", but he snuck one extra song in there.

Enjoy the music, and while you're at it why not subscribe to our YouTube channel.

Let us know what you think of his song choices in the comments below.

A night of music

2012-08-09T15:01:00.001-05:00

Just practicing some new material at the warehouse.

Trashcan lid cymbal

2012-07-30T22:54:00.001-05:00

Just a look at Rob's new trashcan lid cymbal that he made for his triggered set.

Got a screener for a new movie using our music

2012-06-11T23:04:00.001-05:00

Just got the screener for the movie "The Longer Day Of Happiness" that has our song You Got to Feel It Tonight in it. Pretty psyched to check it out!

Question: European tour? Maybe with some help...

2012-06-02T13:41:00.000-05:00

Just a quick question...
We were talking at practice the other night about how in recent years a lot of our album downloads and purchases have been coming from Europe. And we thought wouldn't it be great if we could go to there and play these places even if it's just for a week long tour?

So here is our question:

Would it be crazy for us to start a fan funded campaign to tour Europe?
Let us know in the comments below.

Getting ready for our show next week

2011-12-01T00:55:00.001-06:00

While normally when we get together it's to work on new songs. Tonight we dusted off some of the old songs from our music library.

We're getting ready for our show next week at the Great Dane in downtown Madison.

So if you're in the Madison area on Thursday Dec. 8th, come down to the Great Dane and see us.

Puano - Work in progress

2011-11-30T01:19:00.000-06:00

A work in progress.
This is just a demo of a song we're working on. Recorded a second verse for it tonight and thought we'd share.

111129-puano demo by Lorenzo's Music

If you want to look at the making of the song so far you can see what lead up to it on our personal song wiki for this song.

Edison Museum Wax Cylinder Recording Session

2011-10-29T00:23:00.000-05:00

Fascinating.

Charles Bukowski "Bluebird."

2011-10-22T02:04:00.000-05:00

Charles Bukowski "Bluebird." - YouTube:

"Monkey Jazz" : BEARDYMAN & mr_hopkinson™

2011-09-30T13:26:00.000-05:00

"Monkey Jazz" : BEARDYMAN & mr_hopkinson™ - YouTube: ""

'via Blog this'

Here's Dante to sing a song for you "Theme from 'Exodus'" - YouTube

2011-08-30T16:03:00.000-05:00

Stairway To Stardom (1987) - Dante "Theme from 'Exodus'" - YouTube: ""

'via Blog this'

New EP's Just Arrived! Available soon.

2011-08-21T17:16:00.000-05:00

Just got our EP of collected song singles back from the printer.
They will be available here on our website later this week.

We'll let you know when you can order yours.
Keep checking back or if you're not already, follow us on Facebook or Twitter and we'll send you an update.

Scott is in the next Adam Sandler movie

2011-07-20T15:00:00.000-05:00

Just wanted to give a shout out to our friend and previous drummer Scott Beardsley. Both him and our previous bass player Chris Boeger are in a jazz trio in a scene for the new Adam Sandler movie "I Hate You, Dad" which is filming now.

I found out when I saw this post on Scott's facebook page:

So I called Mark and asked him about it and it seems that Chris knows the director and Mark recorded a demo for them to submit and they got the part.

We're really proud of them and can't wait to see what the outcome is like. I'm sure it'll be great!

And for the love of god I hope they give Scott a line in the movie, because he is one of the funniest people I know.

LEGO Album Covers

2011-07-03T15:55:00.000-05:00

LEGO Album Covers « Flickr Blog:

"The members of the LEGO Album Covers group have been recreating classic albums of Flickr for years. Today we bring you a selection but there are lots more wonderful interpretations in the group. Most of the photos include a link to an image of the album it pays tribute to so you can click through to compare."

Scrap Metal Planets

2011-06-30T16:24:00.000-05:00

P i c t u r e s: Scrap Metal Planets:

"Boulder-based artist Mark Castator creates planets and moons from hundreds of small scrap metal pieces called “droppings” leftover form other sculpting projects."

Playing a Cityscape as a Piano Score - information aesthetics

2011-06-15T14:15:00.000-05:00

A really great sounding idea in concept and visually. Still, very cool and wish I had thought of it.
Pianola City Music: Playing a Cityscape as a Piano Score - information aesthetics:

"Pianola City Music [akkogoldenbeld.com] attempts to overcome the almost inevitable urge to program and computerize our most imaginative ideas.
A physical model of the Dutch city of Eindhoven is rolled onto a drum and attached to a piano, so that its buildings hit the piano keys in a specific rhythm and the physical pattern of the city becomes expressed into a unique sound. The cityscape Eindhoven apparently produces a quite chaotic soundscape, although this might also be influenced by the methodology of it all, of which another beautiful example includes SolarBeat."

Ann-Margret and Charles Manson together at last! Bye Bye Birdie Reprise

2011-06-09T10:13:00.000-05:00

YouTube - Bye Bye Birdie Reprise: With Ann-Margret and Charles Manson: ""

awesome people hanging out together

2011-06-07T09:17:00.000-05:00

While this is my new favorite blog, this was the most impressive picture I found on it by far.
awesome people hanging out together

Charlie Chaplin and Helen Keller

Tom's personal podcast project featured on the Free Music Archive

2011-05-29T11:00:00.001-05:00

Sure I make music under creative commons licenses, but I like to talk about it too.

Last year I started a podcast called Music Manumit with Doug Whitfield, another CC music enthusiast, that was part talking to musicians and others involved in the Creative Commons movement and part playing music released using it. It's fun to do and I get to meet a lot of really cool people because of it. We've even talked with Eric Steuer, Creative Director at Creative Commons and Board member of CASH Music.

Well, one of my favorite sources of music in the realm is the freemusicarchive.org run by Jason Sigal of WFMU. And recently we were made curators for music on the site to add more CC Music artists to it ourselves. So I'm pretty psyched about that and just thought I'd share. There's a lot of good music out there owned by the artists and in a sense, by the fans.

One of our posts was recently a featured item on the home page (linking to the article itself cuz it won't be the featured post forever).
Free Music Archive: Isaac Graham and the Reds

How a liquor store sign became our last album cover

2010-11-21T15:14:00.001-06:00

Surprising i know. But here's a little story about how our last album cover was inspired by a liquor store sign from Las Vegas, Nevada (it's not as exciting as it sounds).

Mark and I were putting the finishing touches on the album that is now our BAZAR release. We wanted something that was like a bright neon corner of nowhere sign. So we went to Flickr and put in our keywords. Turns out Roadsidepictures, a guy that I already follow had the best stuff.

One of his pics in his signs set was of a liquor store called "Charleston Bazar".

We liked that it was the same concept as our Solamente Tres Palabras album cover but a different take on it. The Solamente cover was a lone street light poking out in a blue natural gradient sky. This picture was a neon light at night doing what it does-- burning it's message in the dark, offering a promise of who knows what'll happen tonight.

I drew up a version of it with our name in the sign to make it look like a neon sign but it never panned out just right. So I made a really gritty version of it and screen printed it to look like one of those old punk rock flyers where they would just draw and paste words on a page.
Except unlike those old flyers, ours was 3 colored.

Album Lovers Hand-Make Musical Objects

2010-11-02T14:59:00.000-05:00

Really inspired and creative music lovers over there at createdigitalmusic.com

Create Digital Music - Last Days of Compact Disco: Album Lovers Hand-Make Musical Objects:

"at NYC’s wonderful Culturefix, a handful of us got together and constructed some handmade discs. It’s definitely something you could do at an album swap meet with other artists and DJs in an afternoon or evening, and it makes the swap feel more meaningful. Pics at top; I hope we do more of these.

If this is the way the CD goes out, I think it’ll go out with style. And whatever the trends in the larger world, who’s to deny you your tangible album, really?"

Newest Member of the Lorenzo's Music Family

2010-09-29T21:24:00.000-05:00

On Monday September 27, 2010 Mark and his wife added another addition to the world. A baby girl!

We just wanted to welcome baby Zoe and congratulate Mark and family on this wonderful event.

Cheers!