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The Holiday Cover Round-Up Part 5
Less than a week left til Christmas… bring on the covers! It’s our 5th Holiday round-up with appearances by Lily Bee, Jayesslee, Kat Badar, TNB, Erin Kim, Megan Lee, and Verseatile. Get your egg nog ready and munch on some candy canes cause there’s a good amount of music here. Enjoy!
Lily Bee Covers “A Snow Globe Christmas” by Pink Martini
Jayesslee Covers “The Christmas Song”
The Nehemiah Band Perform “Hey”
Continuing with their guerilla acoustic performances video series, two members of The Nehemiah Band present a new clip of them singing “Hey”. As has been the case thus far, this is another guitar/cajon assisted piece – self described “sing about a rescue”. I’m beginning to wonder if they should try their hand at a completely organic/acoustic EP. Their music has a certain appeal when stripped down to the basics.
The Nehemiah Band Performs “To the Fatherless”
In the same style of their last clip, “1 thru 7″, members of The Nehemiah Band have posted up a nocturnal performance of their song “To the Fatherless” off their Break of Dawn album. This video is a lot less goofy and I’m personally glad they chose to do this song as it was one of my favorite cuts from their album. Hopefully we’ll start to see some clips that include the whole band too soon.
The Nehemiah Band Performs “1 Thru 7″
This is gonna be one of those clips you think is annoyingly silly or epic and hilarious. Two members of the Nehemiah Band perform their song “1 Thru 7″ off their Break of Dawn album from a couple years back. It’s a self-described “song about freedom”, and well… I’m gonna have to let you see/hear this rendition for yourself. It’s definitely… unique!
The Youtube Collabo Cover Round-Up – 11/19/11
Today, we got a handful of videos where the common theme is that each cover is done via artist collaboration. Some of the pairings are common musical teams, others are welcome and newer make shift groups. As per usual, the genres are pretty diversely represented here, with everything from Pop/Rock to Rap to R&B to CCM each making an appearance. Check em all out below and don’t miss the ones after the break!
Gerald Ko x Aly x Noah Mash Up “Stereo Hearts” by Gym Class Heroes
Sam Tsui x Kurt Shneider Cover “Moves Like Jagger” by Maroon 5
How You Can Help Produce The Nehemiah Band’s Next Album
SoCal group, The Nehemiah Band, haven’t exactly been super active as of late, but that’s because they’ve been hard at work behind the scenes, preparing their sophomore full length album – Morning Came to Me. This will serve as the follow up to their 2009 debut, Break of Dawn, however they are looking to step up their game, and as a result have chosen to enlist the services of more seasoned professionals in the industry to make the album a reality. But like most artists we cover, this requires support and fundage that they just can’t quite afford and this is where you all come into play. If you are so inclined, click through to their Kickstarter page to find out exactly how you can contribute to their next release.
[Album Release] The Nehemiah Band – Awaken the Dawn EP
The fellas behind The Nehemiah Band have been on the quiet side as of late however I was pleasantly surprised to learn that they have a new EP out called Awaken the Dawn. It’s very short in length, at only 3 tracks it’s actually more of a demo and serves as a rehash of some older and unreleased material. There’s actually quite a bit of history behind each of the tracks but I’ll let you read their words about it because they describe it better than I ever could.
“Awaken the Dawn” and “Rice, Kimchee and Eggs (RKE)” are two songs we play at nearly every gig, but we haven’t properly released either of the songs.
Awaken the Dawn was originally found on Mike’s collaborative effort with Jaeson Ma (Namesake: bit.ly/kdChko) that was released back in 2007. We tried to release an Awaken the Dawn 2.0 on Break of Dawn, but after we started recording…we didn’t like what we created. Thus, scrapped it and told ourselves we’d re-record it someday.
RKE on the other hand, could be found on the Break of Dawn album if you popped in the cd and searched for it on your computer; however, we feel that this new version is finally in-line with how we want the song to sound. Descry thinks it’s because he actually cooked an egg before the song started, but Kevin thinks it’s because of his enhanced opera man section. You be the judge.
Both versions were recorded/mastered by Feats in Inches drummer (and Descry’s younger brother), Steve Lee (check out Feats in Inches here: featsininches.bandcamp.com)
The Nehemiah Band Releases MV for ‘Press Into You’
Last night, the Nehemiah Band premiered their debut MV for their single ‘Press Into You’, from the album Break of Dawn, on uStream. I caught some of it but the connection quality was a little bit lacking so I wasn’t able to fully appreciate it. Well thankfully they’ve posted it up on youtube this morning.
After watching it in full, let me say it’s not exactly perfect but this is one of my favorite MV’s in quite some time.
I really liked how the group tried something fresh and different from your typical MV, and the acting was pretty decent. All the band members were present in some form or another and it all matched the feel of the song very well. A great video debut for TNB. I’m glad this one dropped.
Lyrics after the break.
TNB to Premiere MV for ‘Press Into You’ via Live Ustream
The Nehemiah Band is gearing up to debut their first ever music video for their single ‘Press Into You’ off of their album Break of Dawn. To do so, they are hosting a premiere event that will be broadcasted live over Ustream on April 1st, 2010. The icing on the cake is that Clara Chung will be present as the opening act of the evening! So if you got some time and an internet connection that Thurday, tune in for the debut!
Get up close and personal LIVE with the Nehemiah Band at the premiere for their first music video, “Press into You,” produced by Nine Finger Productions. The video will be streaming on Ustream!
The LIVE stream will open with a performance from the FAMOUS Clara Chung and continue with an introduction by Mike Whang (lead singer of The Nehemiah Band) and Anthony Ma (director of the music video).
After the premiere, stay for a Q&A session with the band and the cast and crew of the music video, hosted by the FAMOUS Garland Hunt.
Feel free to throw us any questions or comments you may have about the band, video, or anything on your mind and they will be answered LIVE!
PLEASE JOIN US AT: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-nehemiah-band
Thursday, April 1, 20107:00pm – 9:00pm
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