By Lee Levin

I’ve written about Color of Clouds aplenty on Knox Road and once here on CMag, so it’s with much excitement to provide you with this information. The Brooklyn trio who specialize in sweet, subdued electronic pop are set to digitally release their debut full-length, Satellite of Love, on April 6 along with a record release show at Pianos in NYC on April 8. Check out “Brother”, which was on their EP The Look, but has been remastered for Satellite of Love, below.

Color of Clouds – “Brother” [MP3]

Color of Clouds on MySpace

Satellite of Love Tracklisting:
1. Brother
2. Wonder
3. Satellite of Love
4. Left You
5. Lullysome
6. The Look
7. I Want You
8. Haunts Me
9. Let Go
10. Cinderella
11. Come Back to Me

[Photo courtesy of Color of Clouds' MySpace]

Lee is an author and co-founder of the popular music blog, Knox Road. You can find more of his work at http://www.knoxroad.com/. This post is syndicated and slightly modified from the original content here.

Lee Levin

Brooklyn’s ArpLine (formerly The Kiss Off) are destined for great things. Having finished recording a full-length with producer Chris Coady (Grizzly Bear, TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blonde Redhead) the five-piece crew are ready to release the album later this year and I have the first single for you in “Fold Up Like A Piece of Paper.”

This isn’t a typical “Lee” song, but I’m trying to expand my horizons a bit, so bear with me, eh? The song combines synth elements with energetic, frantic (but not hectic) vocals. The guitars are slathered in distortion and the beat is supremely catchy. Sure to hit dance clubs in the near future, “Fold Up Like A Piece of Paper,” is a techno superstar, with pop rock elements to boot. We also find the second half of “Fold Up…” getting all experimental on us, showing off the band’s talent (or maybe Coady’s…who knows.) We’ll check back in on these guys’ progress in the coming months.

ArpLine – “Fold Up Like A Piece of Paper” [MP3]

ArpLine on MySpace

Lee is an author and co-founder of the popular music blog, Knox Road. You can find more of his work at http://www.knoxroad.com/. This post is syndicated and slightly modified from the original content here.

image courtesy of ArpLine’s MySpace

By Amanda DeLuise

Last night right before I went to bed I was reading the news on Google (as I usually do) and I came across an article about a Penn State freshman who was found dead yesterday morning between two buildings on campus.  He went missing after leaving a frat party and was last seen around 3AM on Sunday morning.  Though the police don’t expect any foul play was expected, authorities say the cause of death was head trauma.  Dado apparently lost his balance and fell the fifteen feet to his death.

There seems to be more and more cases of these things happening at school all across the country.  It’s sad that Dado was just beginning a new chapter in his life when it got cut really short.

Meanwhile, my Saturday night proved to teach me a good lesson about looking out for your friends, especially in college.

We took a trip to Brooklyn (as we often do) and attended a party at a pretty hip looking space with a lot of lasers and a cheap bar.  A friend of mine (no names will be named here) got very, very drunk and was in no way, shape or form in any condition to go back to the dorm alone.  This happens to everyone sometimes and wasn’t a strange occurrence by any means; sometimes we tend to get overly zealous when given free range over alcohol.

However, we knew by now that even though she said she could make it home, we weren’t going to let her go alone.  We were right in our instincts, because as soon as we got to the subway station, she couldn’t stand up anymore.  By the time we got on the subway, she was puking at every stop between Morgan Avenue and Union Square. Once we got off the subway, we had to take a cab back to our dorm because she still couldn’t walk.  Once we got back home, one of us got her into PJs and put her into bed.  The next morning she woke up just fine (sans the bit of hangover headache), wondering how the hell she got home last night.

So the same girl who said she would be fine to go home alone wakes up and is the girl who can’t remember how she got there.

My saturday night, plus reading about Joe Dado’s saturday night, really compelled me to write this blog entry about looking out for each other.  Whether you’re a new freshman, or a sophomore, or a junior or whatever, please take care of your friends. It’s no secret that us kids go out and get drunk, but we need to leave it up to each other to make sure we come back okay.  To borrow a line from the NYC Subway: “If you see something, say something.”

If you can, take the extra ten or fifteen minutes out of your night to bring someone home who can’t make it on their own. If you’re ever “that” girl or “that” guy, you’d want someone to do the same. If someone had seen Joe Dado leaving the frat party alone and if someone had gone home with him, maybe he would have made it.