Miriam aka Serious Stuff

Henceforth on this blog ... Miriam will also be known as Serious Stuff!

Flight Facilities - Foreign Language feat. Jess

So glad to get another track from Flight Facilities ("Crave You" being their hooky-as-hell first single). I was supposed to see them open for Bag Raiders in Australia, but they didn't show up.



Does anybody else desperately want to roller disco now?!

What is it with cute girls and strange love interests in videos lately?

Watch yo shit - Bag Raiders are about

Bag Raiders (another show at the Mid I recently had to miss cause Chicago's got just too much super stuff going on), a bouncy Aussie dance party outfit, came on my Pandora just now. And since I've got this line of communication open to me, I'm exploiting it.

Detroit Puts Out: Com Truise, Phantogram and Glitch Mob

I went to Detroit a few weeks ago and MOTORCITYBLOG hooked me UP! (Check them out - a super great site covering any and everything interesting happening in Detroit and chock full of swag opportunities.) Here's a mini version of the show at the Magic Stick they sent me (+ a few friends) to on their press list.

Com Truise


Phantogram

Glitch Mob




And my own vid of the show:

You Don't Know What You've Got Till It's Gone

Joni Mitchell never lie.

I fell in love with The Twelves' remixes 12 hours after they played the Mid (with a Junior Boys' DJ set opener no less!) last weekend... this is my dream mini version of the show.

I love the Lemon Jelly track they mix into, here it is in it's entirety. (*Trivia! I had a still of this video that I didn't know was a still of this video as my desktop background for a long time and only just this weekend discovered this song!)

Australian (pop-folk) Invasion

Sleep Decade are local lads from my neck of the woods. I swear they're gonna blow up quick.

 

 

The Holidays' first album (very island rock/pop) was my beach trip soundtrack last summer.

Finally, Gotye is a ridiculous musical mad genius who is seemingly obsessed with oh-so-raw break up songs.  Anyway, this single (with Kimbra - you know her 'Settle Down' track, right? Ah stuff it, I'll include it too) is from his new album that was released last week.

And this track of his still gives me chills 5 years later.

 And here's the Kimbra track

Not as bad as herpes

I guess I kinda knew it would happen eventually. I mean getting down and dirty so often and with so many others... and yes, I'll admit it, even by myself sometimes. Sharing sick grooves and raunchy rhythms with reckless abandon with numerous strangers, friends, now more than friends.. it couldn't be helped really. It was only a matter of time before I became infected. No not herpes, but maybe something just as annoying; the need to tell others what to listen to. Well, I was invited to this infection so I guess that's a good thing.

Hi, I'm Miriam and I regularly blog on emerging social and economic structures in the American Midwest at www.miriaminthemidwest.com. I met Noble a couple of months ago and have been regularly loving new music finds from this blog and bombarding him with silly suggestions for adult contemporary radio station dance floor grooves ever since. Now you've gotten in on this action whether you like it or not. I don't know much about music genres, i just know what I like. I'm super happy to receive comments and suggestions to help me learn. My music taste is vast and varied but mostly centers around tunes that make me groove, pop princess melodies and Australian pop/folk/roots/dance music.

Ok so enough words from me....

Here is an infectious minimal techno/dub/?? tune featuring vocals from my dear friend, Angela.
Heart On A Satellite by heelsup69

I went to the Sade concert and was blown away by this.

And I recently remembered how much me and my girls loved jamming to this on our way to raves in 1998.