Just took a trip down memory lane, no actually a gigantic memory highway, while writing this blog post for the Grooveshark blog. A summary of the night I partied with Thievery Corporation and Seu Jorge (with lots of cool pictures) can be found here:

http://tinyurl.com/587y9s

Oh man. Good times.

1) I've learned how to trick hula hoop ( Read more... )

I feel like just copy and pasting my twitter updates would be a good brief update. My favorite update is that I'm playing heavily delayed and reverbed electric violin for a dark gothic electronic dance band called Hipnautica. Oh yeah, not included is the fun hot tub party with fellow couch surfers from all over the world, tour of the town, and the ( Read more... )

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If you're not on Twitter, here are my Austin updates:

I hung out with an Austin Air Guitar Finalist yesterday and am meeting Thievery Corporation tomorrow. I really appreciate this good luck.


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I'm leaving for Austin, Texas on Monday. I'll be working with the Austin Chamber Music Center and the Austin Music Foundation. I'm staying with somebody I found on couchsurfing.com and then after, with her friend who teaches fire dancing lessons, hooping, does henna tattoos and has a sauna in her house ( Read more... )

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So Sweet City Action is now Christina, Vilma, Quinn and Brett. You can see what they look like here.

Here's a really cute flyer with funny sheep advertising our first show with the new line-up: clickety click!

Instead of reposting stuff here, I'm going to continue using this as a semi-personal update kind of thing. But if anybody is ever curious about what I'm writing about, check out:

http://www.grooveshark.com/blog/author/vilma/

Recently, I had an interview with Madison House on Rothbury Festival, an interview with the Conscious Alliance executive and I ( Read more... )

So you’re going on tour with your EP in tow and you need to get your name to the top of the huge haystack of promotional noise. You definitely will want to go beyond just handing out your EP (unwrapped of course), business cards, stickers and t-shirts. Here are some of the most creative ideas that I’ve either seen or done myself:
1) Networking with ( Read more... )

Sometimes I just feel like dancing. And sometimes this feeling happens at the most inopportune moments, like when I’m studying in the library or working. My solution: I’ve created a head-bobbingly great synth rock mixtape.

Synth rock usually falls under the New Wave umbrella along with synthpop, electropop and other subgenres. Synth rock artists ( Read more... )