We'll learn to live for this | 2/11 playlist

Song of the week: "Waves" by Magic Man in honor of them being announced on the lineup for the Chipotle Cultivate Festival, which I get to review for COTMA! So many exciting shows coming up this spring, but I'll get to those in a bit.

As always, here's my playlist from today. I tried making it special and played songs only by bands coming into the area over the next few months, and I did pretty well except for one. I'm seeing most of these bands this year and I am way beyond stoked for it. Listen here.

• "Karaoke" - Smallpools
• "I Thank You" - The Mowgli’s
• "Blue Sky" - Banana Gun
• "Next In Line" - Walk The Moon
• "Acres of Lust" - Sonny & The Sunsets
• "Cameras" - Matt & Kim
• "The Way We Talk" - The Maine
• "Flashed Junk Mind" - Milky Chance
• "Where The Streets Have No Name" - U2
• "Waves" - Magic Man
• "Reality" - Never Let This Go
• "Kings & Queens" - MisterWives
• "Holding On To You" - twenty one pilots

I'm limiting my concerts this year, but I'm going to four festivals between March and April, but the lineups were way too good to pass up. March brings the Pot Of Gold Festival (I'm seeing Bleachers, New Politics, Echosmith, Chromeo, New Politics and Fall Out Boy all in the same weekend, oh man), the Viva PHX mini festival (Halsey, Young Rising Sons, Smallpools, and so many of my local favorites), FestivAltAZ (MisterWives & Panic! At The Disco are playing, the only two reasons I needed to go) and then the Chipotle Cultivate Festival, which was announced earlier this week (my loves twenty one pilots are headlining and Magic Man are slated to play).

My Future Sunsets dudes have been hard at work in LA, working on covers and music with all of their pals over there.  The most recent is their cover of Taylor Swift's "Style" with the always dazzling Tori McClure. They've done so much over the past few months and I'm so excited to see everything come together when everything's finally released. Check the "Style" cover out below:



In other music news, The Maine finally set a release date for American Candy, which is one of my most anticipated albums this year. If you're tuned in to The Blaze, we're giving away tickets to their show at The Marquee Theatre on April 3, which is the first date of the entire American Candy Tour. I'm excited for a lot of albums this year, but this one having a piece of home in it I think makes it the most special to me. I finally get what Jared said when he said a few months back that this record is pop songs dressed up as rock songs, but I dig it. I'm also so into that this album is the polar opposite of Forever Halloween. Oh, and I stayed up late on Monday night just to watch the premiere of their lyric video for their first single. It was well worth the wait.



Lastly, with my next huge concert being the Pot Of Gold Festival (I'm seeing Panic! At The Disco headline my school's spring-fling-type concert next week though, and I'm shooting some shows hopefully in early March), I didn't get to talk about Fall Out Boy last week. Two years off of hiatus, it seems like yesterday, to be honest.  I remember leaving my English class to go to the bathroom to check Twitter and my entire timeline was all Fall Out Boy. They're my favorite band, they always will be. Two, three, four, five years in the future, they'll still be my favorite band. I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing without their music. I wouldn't like half of the music I like now with their music.

Last year, they uploaded a one year later video on their account, narrated by Patrick & Pete, and honestly, it brought me to tears. How much one band could do in one year with being away for so long. It's incredible.


That's it, I suppose. Off to do homework.

Deanna