Eliza K.

Presumably, one starts a blog because they have something to say about the music they are listening to. Presumably, a “music blogger” creates a space where he/she can share thoughts, impressions, arguments against the bands they dislike, and justifications for the bands they champion. However, there are these “music blogs” popping up everywhere that...
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“…and women-folk raised me and I was full grown before I knew I came from a broken home Sent to live with my grandma down south when my uncles was leaving and my grandfather had just left for heaven , they said And as every-ologist would certainly note I had no strong male figure...
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There was a time when we updated this blog about two to five times a week. Sometimes I only had time for one post a week – and Steven would supply the other one – but most times I wrote every other day. Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Nothing on weekends because people were out. No...
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I first discovered Best Friends Forever through Last.fm. Someone commented on their artist page saying that they are “everything I need in a song”. At the risk of being hyperbolic I’ll go further than that and say they are pretty much everything I need in a band. You can start throwing stones on my...
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If you were wondering what bands make up the soundtrack to LHNA’s summer so far, here are some albums and EPs I’ve had on repeat as of late: Learning by Perfume Genius Pitchfork may have named “Mr. Peterson” Best New Track but really this is an album that must be heard as a whole....
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Lesley Gore – Maybe I Know Lesley Gore – Look of Love “She wasn’t the most soulful girl group singer by a long shot, but she projected an archetype of female adolescent yearning. Her best songs survive as classics, particularly the irresistibly melodic “Maybe I Know” and “Look of Love” (both written by Ellie...
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ~pic~ LHNA readers! I’ve been away for a long time- though Steven has been posting some wonderful stuff lately so I don’t think my absence was heartily felt, which is a good thing – and the...
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We’re looking at places for rent – online for now and next week in person. Two very annoying things keep happening. One is that the really really great places are just enough over our budget so that we might trick ourselves into thinking we can afford them when really we can’t. Two is that...
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Take It Easy Hospital are bound to get their 15 minutes of fame after the release of No One Knows About Persian Cats. By ‘fame’ I don’t mean they’ll actually have a chart-topping record and get rich off their music, but that certain indiehead bloggers in the Hype-machine-world are going to write about their...
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Illustration: Amy Adele I’ve undertaken the task of ordering moving boxes. Kallogiannakis. Pakohart.gr. There are choices. Do I want a Full Overlap Box, a Five Panel Folder, or a Half-Slotted Container? How many of them? 5, 11, 20. The non-dilemma of what comes and what stays behind. Books, Cds – they come with. Keep...
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Coma Cinema is the band furry, cuddly, squishy, huggly Snowshoes are known to play to their kittens when they want to get them to sleep. As most people know, Snowshoe cats are notoriously light sleepers and often prone to insomnia.  Luckily, researchers in the field of feline sleep patterns have found that a bottle...
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illustration by Robin Joseph - Big Tree – The Concurrence of All Things We are expanding and expanding and expanding… We received this in the mail last week and obviously I could not resist that title so I had a listen. Everyone knows any songs that mention the Universe, planets, astronauts, rockets, and words...
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When I was in second or third grade, my mother gave me a set of books on Greek mythology. Whether it was her genuine love for ancient Greek culture (she was certainly always going on about how things are better over there as I was growing up – my grandmother used to tease her...
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Chasing Dorotea – In April I met her one summer in Prague She had just dyed her hair dark as my soul I think she said she liked Nick Cave and the Bad  Seeds but I could be wrong ‘Take no kisses’, she said ‘You don’t look well enough and I’m in love with...
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The Light Footwork – Rock Island Arsenal The Light Footwork, the band who penned one of our favourite songs of 2005 finally have a new album out. I’ve only listened to a couple of songs so won’t hasten to lavish praise on it just yet. However, so far, I’m liking what I’m hearing. You...
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