Heard this first on KCRW, still can't get enough of it.  Amazing song, incredible, passionate vocals, Ruby!  <3

We share our favorite songs of the year on The Mega, Mega Playlist of 2018.

The Mega, Mega Playlist for 2018

Players: Lead Vocals: Ruby Friedman Keys: Ben Crippin Taylor, Drums: Matthew Steer, Violin/Voice: Imani Coppola, Banjo: Conor Mueller Bass: Jesse Murphy Guitar: Dirk Freymuth
Engineer of Sound: Bill Mueller


Needle In The Hay - Ruby Friedman (Live in Tribeca Turn Gallery/2013)

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Flower Whore
Words: Ruby Friedman
Music: Ruby Friedman/Ben Landsverk

I’m not tryna wannabe a queen living a basic dream
I’m gonna wrap you ‘round my finger have you wonder have you linger

We don’t have much hope and we both know we may have only today
Does it matter if I last or if I stay?

Leave ‘em by the door
I’m a flower whore

Why do you keep bringing up my pain and all that’s buried
I told you it’s just me nothing’s wrong with my family move along
Everybody gets beat and hit on when they’re just little kids
My friends had it worse than me
Just give me dope money

Leave ‘em by the door
I’m a flower whore

I don’t know any other way
I tried my best to keep wolves at bay
When night comes and I finally wake
Just let me go or I will break
<floating above her body>
My hands are sewn to bed
The line is flat red
My legs don’t touch
The floor in my head
Don’t come close
Don’t go away
Does it matter anyway?

I’m not tryna wannabe
We don’t have much hope and we both know we may have only today 
Does it matter if I last or if I stay?
Leave ‘em by the door.


Ruby Friedman: Vocals, dying piano
Ben Landsverk: Viola, banjo, piano, acoustic guitar, bowed bass
Scott Healy: Accordion
Mark Pender: Trumpet
Adriana Wagner: Trombone, dying trumpet
Steve Williams: Drums
Drums engineered by Merle Chorunuk, Atomic Sound, NYC

Flower Whore

OUT NOW, ON LOLIPOP RECORDS!!!
Jacklen Ro - "Falling For You" (DIGI SINGLE)
www.lolipoprecords.com

JACKLEN RO - "Falling For You"

Moment of Truth

Stone's Throw

NOTE: This track has already been non-exclusively licensed to other companies.

Majestic Mayhem

Majestic Mayhem (Action/Adventure, Orchestral)

A song about humankind achieving...
 
IDIOCRACY
(Martin Olson & Jeff Root)

Idiots and imbeciles 
our love will never die
saps and fools and cretin brains 
sing along with this refrain

i am stupid but i am free 
and i'm happy as i can be 
all right okay so long good night

the foolish think that they are wise 
the wise think they are fools 
things are not as they may seem 
am i crazy or am i a dream?

i am stupid but i am free 
and i'm happy as i can be 
all right okay
so long good night

sleep tight it's alright 
no need to fight 
just say goodnight 
everybody's happy chachacha 
everybody's happy lalala

Idiocracy

Me hearties. It's a bloody miracle. 
 
How many great tracks can you get on one album? 
 
My new album Glue Moon is finally being loosed upon the world on the 2nd of November, and I thank you for your patience! I also want to thank all the genies, daemons and muses hiding in the walls, waiting to inspire us.
 
I'm so proud of Glue Moon. I hope you enjoy hearing it as much as we enjoyed making it.
 
The songs on the album are written with a specific place in mind, 'Glue Moon'. It takes place in the wee hours, in the woods, by a lake, under a big pale duck egg blue/green moon.
 
Glue Moon is a positive farewell to things you can’t control. It's about letting things happen organically.

"Like a bird of prey, I will not feed it, it will not stay."

Glue Moon

Lonely

Buy/stream 'Seelie': idol-io.link/Seelie
(Double Black 140gr Vinyl)
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CLANN - Closer

Buy album: https://LateNightTales.lnk.to/contodoelmundo

Globetrotting Texan trio Khruangbin present 'Maria También', the first single from their upcoming second album ‘Con Todo El Mundo'. Formed of Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald “DJ” Johnson on drums; Khruangbin’s sounds are rooted in the deepest waters of world music infused with classic soul, dub and psychedelia. Their 2015 debut album ‘The Universe Smiles Upon You’ was heavily influenced by 60’s and 70’s Thai cassettes the band listened to on their long car journeys to rehearsal in the Texan countryside. ‘Con Todo El Mundo’ takes inspiration not just from South East Asia but similarly underdiscovered funk and soul of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, particularly Iran.

Khruangbin - Maria También

Black Hole

Black Hole (feat. Anderson .Paak)

Un4GvN
Produced by Two Beards Productions (Alex Elena, Steve Baughman) 
lyrics: Ruby Friedman 
music: Alex Elena, Steve Baughman, Ruby Friedman

"...circle the wagons, hire mercenary dragons to burn all the evidence, and build your case to preserve your fake empire of smoke and mirrors and incense...you took away her only home..."

Un4GvN (Feat. Two Beards)

Beauty

Our demo for "Keep on Building." Recorded at Disney Studios by Dan Povenmire, Swampy Marsh, Martin Olson and Jon Colton Barry. Demo produced by Martin. Mini-doc of us writing it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV6_29p2GYk

Floor After Floor-Song Demo by Dan, Swampy, Martin & Jon

"Modern vintage sounds that will make you laugh and cry and dance like there’s no tomorrow, Ruby Friedman is an electrifying performer and songwriter"-- KCRW, Gary Calamar  
“You don’t need to know Ruby Friedman’s life story to get a sense of who she is. Just hearing her, and better seeing her perform, tell enough. Her voice and manner are as bold and brash as her flame-red hair. But she’s telling you anyway, with ‘Fugue in L.A. Minor,’ the opening song of her long-in-coming first album, Gem…It’s quite the curtain-raiser, fitting as what follows has some theatrical punch, Vaudevillian in some spots, Brechtian in others. Well, really it’s Vaudeville-y and Brecht-y, not fully either, or any one thing at any time. Bluesy also applies. Jazzy maybe. But brassy, always…another highlight is a last-minute addition to the album, the powerful ‘Ballad of Lee Morse…’ Friedman sings the tale with a kind of force that can only come from someone who sees something, or a lot, of herself in it. It’s part celebratory, part cautionary. And all Ruby Friedman.”
--Steve Hochman, KPCC (NPR Affiliate)
"One hell of a frontwoman with a completely unique and transfixing voice laden with passion... {Gem} is a necessary addition to your music collection." --  POP MATTERS, Sarah Zupko  
"Songs of Quiet Devastation - Gem is full of intense emotion, dark and menacing, full of violent frustration and shattered expectation"  -- MAGNET MAGAZINE, J Poet

We are not music snobs. We prefer music connoisseurs.

Un4GvN (Feat. Two Beards)

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