Yesr 6, Day 326

Good Morning! Today's song is Sucker by the Jonas Brothers.

I think everyone has heard of the Jonas Brothers comeback by now, in fact I might have even mentioned it around the time it happened. Personally I'm glad that they got the chance to live their own lives and made the choice to join up again. I also super approve of the fact that this is basically just a love song to their wives. It's nice seeing former Disney stars get to be happy, because most of them ended up fucked up in some way. By the time these guys were big I was at the end of my Disney phase, not the age group they were looking for, but of the stars I grew up with only one comes to mind that had a somewhat good life after Disney. So congrats to these guys for staying sane, finding love, and still doing something they enjoy.

Peace.

Year 6, Day 325

Good Morning! Today's song is Uptown Funk covered by Against The Current featuring Set It Off.

I've featured one of these groups before, but not both so I'll do a quick summary for both. Against The Current has been active since 2011 and is currently made up of Chrissy Costanza, Dan Gow, and Will Ferri. Their first EP came out in 2014, followed quickly by another in 2015. They toured for the EP through that year, then released their debut album in 2016. In 2017 they collaborated with a gaming company and made the music for the League of Legends World Championship that year. Since then they've been releasing more singles. Set It Off is a rock band active since 2008, and currently made up of Cody Carson, Maxx Danziger, and Zach DeWall. They started gaining a following through Carson's YouTube channel, releasing music independently until being signed in 2011. They re-released an EP through the label before releasing an album in 2012. Since then they've released three more albums, along with two EP's and a bunch of singles so give both bands a listen if you like the sound.

Peace.

Year 6, Day 324

Good Morning! Today's song is Drive It Like You Stole It from Sing Street.

I'll be honest, I had no idea this wasn't a real band until I started writing this. Turns out Sing Street is a movie musical that was released in 2016. It's a coming of age story where a boy starts a band to impress a girl, and is set in Ireland in the 1980's. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and got nominated for a Golden Globe. Most of the music for the band in the movie was composed by Gary Clark, who is the frontman of a Scottish group called Danny Wilson. Other people with writing credits on the songs include Graham Henderson, Zamo Riffman, and Carney, Ken, and Carl Papenfus from the Irish rock band Relish. So if you like this and you're curious about it go check out the movie and it's soundtrack.

Peace.

Year 6, Day 323

Good Morning! Today's song is Bad Boy by Dan Croll.

Photo by: Mai Le

Dan Croll is a British musician active since 2010. When he was a student at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts he won a national Songwriter of the Year award and got to meet Paul McCartney. He joined a record label and first debuted on a compilation album of the label's new artists. That song was a huge success, and he followed it with more singles in 2013 that got used in various video games. His first album came out in 2014. He released another single 2015, then one in 2016, before releasing his second studio album in 2017. I don't know if there is much from after that, but for all I know he's working on more stuff so keep an eye out to see if he pops up again sometime.

Peace.

Year 6, Day 322

Good Morning! Today's song is Hard Love by NEEDTOBREATHE featuring Andra Day.

NEEDTOBREATHE is a christian rock band active since 1998 and made up of Bear Rinehart, Bo Rinehart, Seth Bolt, and Josh Lovelace. The name comes from a Greek parable from Socrates about seeking God. They released an album and two EP's independently before signing with a label in 2005. Since then they've released six albums, a number of EP's, and have toured with a lot of different artists. They've also been nominated for and won a ton of awards, so check them out. Andra Day is a singer active since 2012. She got discovered by Stevie Wonder's wife, and then he introduced her to Adrian Gurvitz who she started working on songs with. She also secured a record deal because of the popularity of her YouTube covers. Her debut album came out in 2015, leading to a Grammy nomination in 2016. Since then she's done other performances, been nominated for more awards, and released a Christmas EP. She hasn't made any other albums but there have been some singles so check it out.

Peace.

Year 6, Day 321

Good Morning! Today's song is All My Love by Cash Cash featuring Conor Maynard.

Cash Cash has been active since 2002 and is made up of Jean Paul Makhlouf, Alexander Luke Makhlouf, and Samuel Warren Frisch. Jean Paul and Sam started as The Consequence in 2002 and released music under that name before Alexander joined them in 2007. By 2008 they switched to Cash Cash because of issues from the rights to the old name. Cash Cash came from a joke about all the people after their nonexistent cash at the time. Since then they've released four albums and three EPs. Conor Maynard is a British singer active since 2012 that I've featured in previous years. He started out by releasing covers on YouTube with his friend Anthony Melo, before being discovered and mentored by Ne-Yo. His first single came out in 2012, followed by his debut album later that year. He wrote a book in 2013 about his rise to fame, the released a single before taking part in recording the 2014 English World Cup song. He kept releasing singles in the following years, but his covers on YouTube (that he's still doing) were gaining so much popularity that he decided to release an album of mostly covers. That came out in 2016. He's in limbo right now about original content because he's dealing with his contract with the label, but he does plan to make more. So keep an eye out.

Peace.

Year 6, Day 320

Good Morning! Today's song is Wolves by Selena Gomez and Marshmello.

I've written about both of them before multiple times so instead today I'm going to address what is most likely going to be happening today because pandemic + April fools = people making jokes in bad taste. I've already seen a false news statement about restrictions leading to a rickroll, and while there is a place in serious times for humor, stuff like that doesn't fly. So please remember to get your information from official sources. Look at the World Health website, your government's website, specific news sites of the ones you trust, and if you're looking into the global scale of the pandemic the Johns Hopkins University map is a great resource despite it sometimes taking awhile to update. So stay safe, don't believe things unless it's from an official source, and please don't be one of the people who I'm warning about.

Peace.