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Every month, the website Our Vinyl releases a playlist called 'Back of the Rack'...basically it's a compilation of new music that people have discovered that's off the grid...
And this month's edition proved to be full of great music finds.
The one that I instantly fell for was a track by the band I Am Apollo, called 'When The Shine's Off'...it's brilliant and beautiful.
Here's what you need to know about the band:
Genre: Rock, Pop
Region: Sydney, Australia
Members: jeremy. george. cuff. dan. mitch. pete
Influences: Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, John Lennon
Artist Website: www.iamapollo.com
So with the 2-hour special Grey's Anatomy Season 8 premiere just around the corner (September 22 at 9PM), I figured that the music video for the title track of all the TV promos was in order.
And the band behind the song? Scars on 45.
I've blogged about them in the past...they're my new fave UK band of the moment and I love their song 'Heart On Fire' a hundred times over.
And if you're a big fan of Grey's Anatomy, then this video is probably going to make your day because it features lots of footage from the show, including Doctor McDreamy having a cry (le sigh).
You can download 'Heart On Fire' from Volume 4 of the official Grey's Anatomy Soundtrack series on iTunes starting today.
I'll never forget the morning of September 11, 2001...walking in our radio station's newsroom right after the first plane hit the Twin Towers and watching the events unfold.
No one spoke. It's was a deafening silence. Seconds seems to pass in such slow motion and what I was seeing on TV seemed so incredibly surreal. The enormity of the situation seemed to take forever to sink in. Everything was so hard to imagine, let alone believing what was being broadcast live on our television screens was reality...that is was really, truly happening.
And it was equally as hard to accept and fathom the lives that had been lost...so senselessly. Fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, grandmothers, grandfathers, sons and daughters who would not be going home that day. It was a day that changed us forever. A sense of innocence was taken away.
As we reflect and commemorate the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, one song always comes to mind.
The band 'Live' was releasing an album the following week, called "V," and the single that radio stations had been playing from that new release was the track 'Overcome.'
Within hours that song became the song that expressed the sentiments that everyone was feeling....it became the song that would be forever associated with 9/11.
These women in the street
pulling out their hair
my master's in the yard
giving light to the unaware
this plastic little place
is just a step amongst the stairs
To all those who lost their lives on that horrible day ten years ago...we will never forget. And to all the heroes, that made countless selfless acts of courage that day...we thank you.