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Melanie Martinez's creative drive and talents have always distinguished her from other musicians. After releasing her platinum-certified 2015 debut album, Cry Baby—which reached No. 1 on Billboard's alternative albums chart and has amassed over two billion streams worldwide —she conceived and directed a video for each song on the album. These mini-movies traced the traumas and insecurities experienced by the album's character, Cry Baby.
 
Melanie’s sophomore album and film, K-12, is another ambitious triumph. K-12's music is a vibrant and singular melting pot of low-key hip-hop, soulful pop and indie-leaning electro. K-12's universe is an expansion of the one introduced in Cry Baby. Using lyrics rich with metaphor, songs address the struggle to find a place to belong—including within friendships, the physical world and romantically—even when fitting into society feels like an uphill battle.
 
To accompany the album, Martinez wrote and directed a 90-minute movie (also called K-12) that incorporates the album's music and mirrors the themes and characters introduced. Filmed on location in Budapest, Hungary, the movie focuses on Cry Baby (portrayed by Martinez) and a class of students who find themselves trapped in a horror house-like residential school. As they experience the usual grade school rites of passage—a lunch room food fight, the embarrassment of gym class, a romance with nefarious intentions, courses taught by checked-out teachers— they have to figure out a way to escape.

LIFE ROLLS ON available now: https://FGL.lnk.to/LifeRollsOnMP

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Featured in Guitar Player Magazine back in November of 2006 with a review by editor & chief Mr.Michael Molenda for the track "Mind's Collide" with Begley's former project Solartistic.
Here are Mr. Molenda's comments of Begley's work- (“Mind’s Collide” Trippy stuff, here, but it’s also very commercially smart in the sense that it inserts a beguiling melody amongst the song’s bizarre swoops, noises, and cascading echoes. Guitarist J.S. Begley evokes Bridge of Sighs-era Robin Trower, and then starts playing like a Tasmanian Devil on crack. Fabulous. 

Although his guitar playing is a sound & style of it's own, he's been compared to such artist's as Robin Trower, Jeff Beck, Frank Zappa & a Tasmanian Devil !? just to name a few by fans & critics.

 J.s. Begley is a true artist in the sense of his passion & love for the music.



stay strong. live on. pass on these songs.

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