Occasionally, music comes in via our Contact page and I’m always surprised at the variety that makes its way through. Here are two such submissions:

The Flamingo’s are a “Hip/Hop, Electronic, and other various kinds of art collaboration” that recently released “Garden State of Mind” – a hip-hop track based on Zero7 sample. You can hear more of their various offerings over on their Soundcloud or Facebook page. They cover a lot of ground in terms of genres so be sure to click around if you’re not entirely smitten with the first thing you listen to; it’s entirely possible there is a gem in there waiting to be unearthed for you.

Paul Horton, also known as No Stress is by his own description an improvisational pianist that started tinkering around with beats the past five years. His first EP, available here, is a laid back journey of break beats and various movie samples. Definitely piqued my interest to hear more as he creates it.

Gotta love it when you get a random track emailed in from an unknown band and it’s actually a worthwhile listen. “Thing Love” is a very low key piece of work but there’s something appealing about the languid drawl of the vocals. And that cover art is a slightly terrifying and disgusting pairing with the song (well played!). I’m certainly looking forward to future offerings from Beat Bums; whomever they may be.

Brothers Joshua and Jason Moore are probably best known for being two-thirds of Murfreesboro’s The Katies but it’s been a long time since that undertaking and they’ve been plenty busy since then. The latest project is a two-fold undertaking; Lost Pages is the new rock band from Jason and Bro Bro Productions is the duos Songwriting For Licensing outfit. They recently released the track “House” that falls somewhere in between; straight ahead rock band and intentional throwback to 90’s style delivery. It’s solid and worth taking note of all the music they’ve been creating.