Well, the annual whirlwind of shows, parties and appearances that come along with Musicfest Northwest has, for this year, come to and end. What a fun, LONG weekend that was!
Thanks to all of you who came out to my MFNW showcase on Friday at East End! It was my first show performing with “Cars & Trains” and we had the best time! Tom (aka “Cars & Trains”) is so talented and I feel SUPER excited about working with him as my new live show collaborator. He has really helped pushed my sound on stage to the next level and I feel a renewed sense of excitement for performing these songs, having been re-interpreted a bit for the new diggz.
It’s been really inspirational to watch “Cars & Trains” in action, both at rehearsal over the past few months and then FULL BLAST at the East End show. I caught myself looking over at how fast his hands and arms were moving from computer to drumpad to electronic gadgetry the other night and wondering how it was even humanly possible for one’s limbs to be moving at such speeds and with such accuracy. So cool. I am, as ever, surrounded by talented folks who know what they are doing. All I really have to say about that is HELL YEAH!!!
“Cars & Trains” and I will be bringing our show back East next month for my CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival showcase at “The Bowery Electric”…Can’t wait to see ya! Thanks again, Portland, for showing up on Friday, for being there with your dancing shoes on, and for making my night…My MFNW 2009 RULED! Hope yours did too.
xxLL
“CARS & TRAINS” PERFORMING WITH LOGAN LYNN AT MUSICFEST NORTHWEST 2009.
“Y-Tron”
Y-Tron is an electronic artist based out of Portland, Oregon. His music relies heavily on vintage synthesizer and drum machine sounds, as well as the extensive use of vocoder and he has a slick little sound going on throughout his work, remixes and otherwise.
I met Bryan Cecil-aka “Y-Tron”-back in the day and now, years later and long-distance, we are working together on a new LL dance record which will be out next year sometime! Interestingly enough, “Y-Tron” also did the music for my cover of “The Dandy Warhols” song “You Were The Last High” which I am going to be releasing next month at some point as a little taste of what’s to come.
Check out his remix of “Write It On My Left Arm” in the music player on this site and bring home Volume 1 today to make it yours forever. For more information on Y-Tron, CLICK HERE.
I’ve been working with Y-Tron on a new record for next year and one of the tracks is a cover of The Dandy Warhols’ song “The Last High”. We’ve decided to go ahead and release it WAY in advance of the Y-Tron/LL EP and will be laying it on your ears at some point in the near future, so stay tuned! Y-Tron did the music and we have come up with a really cool new arrangement of their awesome song.
What was particularly cool about doing this was that I got to run the whole thing by Courtney (Taylor-Taylor) beforehand and he gave me his blessing and let me go into The Dandy Warhols’ studio with one of their engineers to record and mix the thing. I’ve said it before, but he’s RAD and when I was doing a last-minute lyric check with him he said “It’s yours now”, which made me grin ear to ear. I’m also happy to report that, upon hearing the first mix of the song, he still approved. WHEW!
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I met with Bystander Productions tonight about doing a video for the track as well…I’ll keep you guys posted as things develop with this. Jeremy Sherrer and I will be finished mixing this coming week at some point, then it’s off to mastering, then…TO YOU! In the meantime, you can watch the original video that the Warhols made when they first released it HERE.
DANDYS RULE OK.
