All right...

So this is sort of a continuation of my myspace blog, which was really only about shows that I played. I sort of always wanted to expand the blog, but since it was my music page, I didn't really feel like just writing about just anything. This is still the case here on VIRB, but I realized that I do more musically than just play shows! So I will hopefully be writing some more blogs on albums I buy (probably the most frequent), shows I go to, and any recording I do in addition to blogs about shows I play (probably the least frequent!).

To start off I'll mention the three albums I bought just yesterday. They were the first albums I bought in over a month, so I was really excited and had been thinking about what to buy for a while. So after a little deliberation in the ol' Sonic Boom records in Fremont, I chose "5 Sparrows For 2 Cents" by The Procussions, "These Friends of Mine" by Rosie Thomas, and "Cities" by Anberlin.

"5 Sparrows..." was my token hip-hop record which I've decided to try to do regularly since my hip-hop collection is very lacking. So far I'm loving this one. It's very energetic, great beats, and very good positive lyrics. It has awesome instrumentation too, which is always a plus for hip-hop. "These Friends of Mine" is a great mellow album which Thomas recorded with two of my favorite indy/folk artists Denison Witmer and Sufjan Stephens. It's very relaxing and calming. I bought it after seeing Rosie and Denison at the Tripple Door (best venue EVER!) a couple weeks ago, they were very fun, funny and played some fantastic music. Finally "Cities" was my standard 'rock' selection and it does just that: rock. I like it.

All right, hopefully that's not too boring. I'll try to keep this interesting... I'm still new to the whole blogging thing, so bear with me.

Take it easy.
-Travis