NMT: 7.23.13 & 7.30.13

Unfortunately was out of town last Tuesday, so got to listening to things a little later in the week. Luckily, found a lot of great things and this week's releases were pretty light, so combining both weeks into one seemed pretty perfect.

7.30.13

• Sparks the Rescue's Ceara Belle (Truth Inside the Fiction)
• Backstreet Boys' Soldier (In A World Like This)
• The Family Crest's The River (The Headwinds EP)
• Jayme Dee's Love Whiplash (Broken Record EP)

7.23.13

• Hands Like Houses' Introduced Species (Unimagined)
• Secrets' Sleep Well; Darling (Fragile Figures)
• Sombear's Never Say Baby (Love You in the Dark)

• Wallpaper.'s Drunk Hearts (Ricky Reed is Real)
• Selena Gomez' Save the Day (Stars Dance)
• Hot Chip's Look At Where We Are [Major Lazer Remix] (Dark and Stormy)
• Classified's Inner Ninja ft. David Myles (Inner Ninja EP)
• Half Moon Run's Call Me In the Afternoon (Dark Eyes)
• Jace Everett's No Place to Hide (Terra Rose)
• James Bay's When We Were On Fire (The Dark of the Morning EP)

xoxo e

NMT: 7.16.13

• Them Swoops' Work Around It [Ben Browning Remix] (Glimmers)
• St. Lucia's Elevate (Elevate - Single)
• Tony Lucca's Reckless Love (With the Whole World Watching)
• Tallhart's Our Bodies (We Are The Same) Really, just listen to the whole album, it's quite beautiful.

• Matt Nathanson's Heart Starts (Last of the Great Pretenders)
• The Joy Formidable's Silent Treatment [William Orbit Remix] (Silent Treatment EP)
• Cody Simpson's Sinkin' In (Surfer's Paradise)
• Mayer Hawthorne's Robot Love (Where Does This Door Go)
• Smallpool's Dreaming; Mason jar (Smallpools EP)

Enjoy! 

xoxo e

NMT: 7.9.13

• *Jay-Z's Holy Grail ft. Justin Timberlake; Tom Ford (Magna Carta... Holy Grail) 
• **Like Moths to Flames' The Blackout; In Dreams (An Eye for an Eye)
• IamSu's Return of the Mac ft. P-Lo & Sage the Gemini (Kilt II)

• Skylar Grey's Back from the Dead ft. Big Sean & Travis Barker (Don't Look Down)
• Gregory Alan Isakov's Second Chances (The Weatherman)
• Stickup Kid's Good People In A Place I Hate (Future Fire)
• ***Josh Pyke's All the Very Best of Us; Bug Eyed Beauty (The Beginning and the End of Everything)

*I just now listened to this album which dropped last week, but it is seriously super good. Worth the hype.

**If you're into screamo, heavier than the usual.

***JUST BUY THIS ALBUM ALREADY. It's unbelievably beautiful. Perfect.

NMT: 6.18.13

Well!

It has been too long since I've last written, but I pick up writing for a new weekly feature: New Music Tuesdays. Aside from the weekend, I love Tuesdays because of new album releases. I'm going to try to keep this a weekly thing, milling through the music for you to find some good things.

I should preface this new tradition by saying I like most types of music, but I will particularly highlight songs from folk, alt. rock, pop, hip hop, & synth-esque genres most often.

So, without further ado, this week's highlights!

• GoldHouse's FeelGood; Runaway (Back to Life album)





• J. Cole's She Knows (Born Sinner)
• Stephen Kellogg's Lost and Found (Blunderstone Rookery)
• Empire of the Sun's Alive (Ice on the Dune)
• Hanson's Already Home (Anthem)
• Sleeping At Last's Light; You Are Enough (Atlas: Light EP)

And, I've actually been wanting to do this the past couple of weeks, but since I have been home I haven't had the time to devote to the task. Here are highlights from the past couple of weeks:

• Jason Isbell's Live Oak (Southeastern)
• The Almost's Fear Inside Our Bones (Fear Inside Our Bones)
• Citzen's The Summer (Youth)
• Anarbor's 18 [Acoustic] (Burnout)
• Little Comets' Jennifer (Jennifer)
• Said the Whale's Mother (I Love You)
• Saint Raymond's Fall At Your Feet (Escapade)

Hope you find something you enjoy,

xoxo e

erikah meets the world.

In a little over a month I will graduate and officially be done with my time here at the University of Oklahoma.

What's on the horizon?

I am not entirely sure.

I felt like my life was going to fall apart, but know that I am in power of keeping it together and I control my future. I can't just let it go by the wayside anymore and I can't expect things to just come to me (you think I would have learned this long ago.)

I've come to the realization that I don't think I want to completely saturate myself and work in the music industry, but I would love for my future career to involve music in some way, shape, or form. I have also opened myself up to many other career options, so it is going to be interesting to see what happens. Right now I think it would be interesting to work for a non-profit organization, beauty pageants, tourism.. probably other things as well. I will actually be very excited to just work on almost anything where I can perhaps do promotions or something. While this is all very 'scary' to think about growing up, it's amazing at the same time.

Within the past day my plans for the near future have changed. I hope to stay in Norman, Okla. for the summertime and work a summer camp position while also volunteering with OU's Lindsey + Asp Student PR/Advertising Agency and am also looking into summer virtual internships. My options come fall are to return home and find something there, or, if God allows, I am hoping to get an internship for a semester's time. I never thought about doing graduate school, but occurred to me today if I can score internships to last me until Fall 2011, perhaps I could just start graduate school then. So now doors are opened to look at grad schools, but I just am not sure yet what to major in. I am actually very divided on that subject, but I hope to find a school to where I can GA in someway.

Just trying to stay positive :) I know that it will take plenty of time, but I hope to find the job of my dreams through hard work and dedication to the process.