What is Soul Pancake?
Well, it’s more of a mission than a Web site...
Discussions about Spirituality, Creativity, and Philosophy cool again. Were they ever cool? I have no idea. But it seems like a good idea. Engage people to “Chew on Life’s Big Questions. Where do you go on the Interwebs if you want an irreverent, fun, and profound take on God and Art and the Soul and Faith and Beauty? Fox.com? Maybe. But maybe also at SoulPancake.com.
Soul Pancake provide some rockin’ content (interviews, blogs, challenges, contests, features, and more), but it’s really all about having YOU - the SoulPancake community - bring Soul Pancake to life. Say what’s on your mind. Be real. Talk about WHY WE’RE HERE. And if I say something that offends you, let me have it.
Just remember: Life is a rich, weird, difficult experience. So join Soul Pancake as we go on the spiritual and artistic journey that is SoulPancake.
What are Life's Big Questions?
Life's Big Questions are some of those big topics that everyone wonders about, but no one really talks about—you know, the ones that gnaw at our innards. We're hoping you can answer them because clearly, we don't have a clue.
Soul Pancake
Japanese Motors x Alex Kopps
BETTER TRENDS
This video was made for the song “Better Trends” by The Japanese Motors. The video follows the band into the streets of San Francisco on their hopeless, tongue and cheek search for a “better trend.” As the video progresses you travel through a variety of trend and fad graveyards, such as thrift stores and the now omnipresent vintage clothing boutique. The video eventually leads their search back to themselves and into a world of layered sun bleached video tape. You should be warned, this video was made in traditional no budget music video style with a baby stroller, boom box, skateboard and other antiquated tools of deception.
New Again
TAKING BACK SUNDAY. Now tell me, what is your favorite album/era of TBS? I honestly have to say that lyric wise, Tell All Your Friends really meant something to me. Where You Want To Be on the other hand changed my whole view on music. That album really opened my eyes to the band. Louder Now just capitalized on everything good they had going. So it is a 3-way draw for me, I just can't know which one is my fav. But now, we get to see a 4th album come out, with a new guitarist Matt Fazzi and a new era/album coming from this amazing band out of Long Island NY. I hear its combines classic TBS, whatever that is, with some balls out new stuff in the mix. One can only guess at what this is going to sound/look like and, or, become. Hopefully it won't let anyone down. They always left me satisfied. twss.
H3MA
My homeboy from way back when is now making music. I swear I remember back in high school when he picked up the guitar and it jerked me out, and how it was totally random. Now he is doing things with it. Seeing how I'm with him all the time, hearing his music isn't something that we do when we are with each other. So this whole trip is new. I designed his demo artwork, and he is always borrowing my PA system and such, so basically you can thank me for his success. Kind of, but seriously. Things are looking good for now. Just support the revolution (me) and Hema as he makes your ears cry when he plays those songs he wrote just for you. And you, and you.
Even tho I strongly believe MySpace should be dead, along with American Idol, you should check out his stuff.
myspace.com/hemamusic
myspace.com/hemamusic
myspace.com/hemamusic
JAMES BALDWIN
"All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within, and the music enters, what we mainly hear, or hear corroborated, are personal, private, vanishing evocations. But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for that same reason. And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours." -- James Baldwin
Daytrotter x Delta Spirit
Without really understanding all of the fine print and the allocation of the government’s stimulus package, our suggestion is that some of it – a nice healthy chunk of those Benjamins and Franklins and Lincolns – should be put into an inconspicuous manila envelope and given to, slid across the table to Delta Spirit. It could be considered a grant or an endowment, just something to ensure that they will keep doing what they’re doing forever. It’s a promissory note that makes for certain the guarantee that the band will never feel the sting of hardship.
The San Diego-based group doesn’t necessarily need the monetary support as it’s been selling out venues left and right, touring with the splendid support acts of Dawes and Other Lives, but Delta Spirit could literally be considered America and it makes the kind of music that the country should want to support more and be prouder of than an automobile manufacturing company based in the Motor City. It’s got the heart and soul of a Motown and a passionate passion for everything that it puts to tape, for everyone it reduces to blubbering, awestruck chills when it’s seen live and in person. It, they (these five guys) deserve everything and more, simply for the way that they make a person rethink what they knew or understood about electricity. They find multiple ways of exciting a person – whether that excitement leads them to move about uncontrollably or to have more conviction for the compassion that they might show toward their fellow man. It’s music and it’s so much more as you learn with Delta Spirit. So, this is the calling that these five guys have answered in their lives, but the music is just half of the equation, maybe less, for the lives that they lead both on and off the stage are in direct correlation to the words of activism that they put to their music. Matt Vasquez unquestionably has one of the best rock and roll voices going these days and his messages of loyalty, caring, concern and mental struggle with being the best person one can be are not at all placeholders or bookends, but the honest to goodness beliefs of all five members. When seen live or known personally, or listened to on record, there’s no hiding the fact that there is a desire to leave this world a less turbulent and more livable place that doesn’t have to go to hell in a hand basket or be written off as a lost cause. Vasquez has the shine of a whiskey bottle and the sound of both the contents and its shattered remains at times, bringing to the mood a countenance that recalls both the heart and the soul, the epitome of what it means to live uncertainly – in uncertain times and without two solid feet on the ground, just a wishful need. There’s an exceptional texture to everything this band does on its excellent debut full-length Ode To Sunshine, one of worn out eyes and resilient need for an epiphany. Sometimes those epiphanies come in, stamping and loud, during the middle section of a song, where there’s no use trying to pretend that they don’t exist. This is the most inspiring music for fellow men and women, made by men who can’t help themselves. This session, featuring the band recording four songs by their peers, was recorded into the wee hours of a night that had them driving straight through from Salt Lake City, Utah to Rock Island, Ill., not just to make a trip and to play a last minute show in front of a dozen people, but to share themselves in the form of music that can’t be taken lightly, that shouldn’t be heard as anything short of being autobiographical to all – the most exact form of unison that exists.
DELTA SPIRIT DAYTROTTER SESSION WITH FREE DOWNLOADS!
DAWES
The Dawes. Lets see here, as I said before, they opened for Delta Spirit. There music was like the good times, yet in a different form of awesomeness. After the show I really should have bought their album, little did I know, that would be the only place to get it. I went searching the internet up and down looking for it, I went to record stores looking for it, and so basically iTunes won this round. Their record label doesn't even have it for sell on their website. srs. In the end I am now listening and enjoying. I would throw up a picture of what their album artwork looks like, but the problem is, I can't find the dang thing. How am I supposed to support someone when they aren't out there.
You Spell it L.O.G.A.N.
I think I would be lying if I said that Delta Spirit is just ok. They killed it the other night at Kilby Court. Too bad I'm not 21 and couldn't catch the second show at Urban Lounge with the FURS. But never the less, I got to see the band that has recently changed the way I look at things in so many ways. Slip and Slide was my right hand man that night, and to top it off, a shout out to him as he is going to be serving in MEXICO. Anyways, the below picture is just some random one of from facebook of Matthew Logan Vasquez, and the other one was taken by Slip and Slid himself at the show. The opening bands were DAWES and OTHER LIVES. They really were a great opening for what was a memorable night. Thanks.
Real Pretty In Black
realprettyinblack.blogspot.com is a blog that I recently enjoyed stumbling upon. From the love of fashion and music, to the posts dedicated to Kurt Cobain, The Kills, Bob Dylan and to the other end of the spectrum including Erin Wasson. This is seriousness. At first I fell half in love with this blog, but after going through the archives, its more like a growing love and an understanding that somewhere out there, there is someone who actually cares about what I'm interested in, let alone, blogging about it. This new found love will now be added to my feed to what I check on the daily. This is almost as if I just found my blogging soul mate. This is all happening too fast, but I feel there is no need to stop it.
