So, we all know how much time I spend tinkering around the internet – particularly, that vast vortex we all get sucked into known as YouTube. If you guys think I’m a YouTube junkie now, I was even more so back in my early college days. As I’ve written all winter, it’s because of these […]
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Lately, I’ve been feeling like Versions needs to get on a happy kick – a lot of the songs I’ve been analyzing of late have leaned on the sadder side of the scale, so this time around I’m goin’ the other direction, Pharrell-style (Only, y’know…without the help of a dancing Lupita Nyong’o). So in this […]
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One of the hardest things to do as a performer is to play a child when you’re, well…not a child. While the idea of it definitely carries a comedic aspect that would benefit you, there is also the risk of making it too much of a cartoon. Part of what can help such a performance […]
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For the next couple of installments of Versions, I’m hitting you guys with a Kerrigan-Lowdermilk two-fer! First up is a song that I (gasp!) didn’t actually like until much later. In the early developmental stages of The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown, the show in which the song is featured, “Freedom” had already seen many […]
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While I could go on and on about the wonderful intricacies of a Kerrigan-Lowdermilk’s music, I could just as easily launch into a whole verbal thesis on a Scott Alan piece. For now, I’ll spare you the book report and simply put it this way: his music has the ability to melt this cold, dead […]
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This week, I thought it best to go from my first ever brush with NMT, Kerrigan-Lowdermilk — to my latest obsession, Kooman & Dimond. Comprised of Michael Kooman (music) and Christopher Dimond (lyrics), the two met while at school at Carnegie Mellon University and have since then collaborated on various projects, one of which being their […]
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I don’t know how or where exactly I first learned of songwriters Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk (also collectively known as Kerrigan-Lowdermilk) but whatever the source, it led me straight to their YouTube channel, which has garnered 3,182,254 views and launched 195 videos (and several careers in the process) since its inception in 2007. Their […]
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