All hooked up with Amy Kuney & Playing For Change

So i've done reviewing movie's trailer and theirs story. Now it's time for the music business!

These Friday review is the new rising start (soon) Amy Kuney.
I've put up one of her song in my older post. Which was her inspired song "Time Machine" from the book/movie The Time Traveler's Wife.
Once i've heard that song, I knew i had to spread the word about her.

One of her song was featured in the famous tv show, One Tree Hill.
The titled "All Downhill From Here"
Any OTH's fan couldn't find the mp3 you can ask from me.

Back to Amy Kuney.

Amy Kuney has been review in People magazine by Kate Voegele, which titled "My Myspace Faves" and also in Los Angeles Times, by Ann Powers which titled "Damien Rice goes all Youtube-y for Amy Kuney"

Here's some bio about Amy Kuney:
(taken from her official Myspace page)

With Amy Kuney, appearances are certainly deceiving. Sure, the singer/songwriter looks youthful, but just wait until she sits down at a piano and starts singing. The onstage presence and authority she displays is impressive for an artist of any age, and that’s before you even notice her songwriting, which resounds with finely observed details and engaging left turns.

Perhaps this is because Kuney isn’t your typical young artist. She has nearly 20 years of musical experience, having begun piano lessons at age four. Between church performances and piano recitals, she’s been onstage for most of her life, to say nothing of 100 live dates in the past year. And her childhood spent partially in Honduras has given her life experience beyond that of most Americans.

In fact, if you ask Kuney, it was more life experience than she was expecting. At 17, she and a group of friends were kidnapped by rebels while on a Guatemala sightseeing trip. (Their captors, by the grace of a higher power, eventually let them go), but the experience, harrowing as it was, threw Kuney’s nascent songwriting into high gear. “I built a studio in my basement using shower curtains and mattresses and I just put everything into my writing,” she recalls. “I wrote this song, ‘How The Wind Must Feel’, and sent a recording of it to a producer in Los Angeles named Peter Barker. That’s how it all started.”

Amy Kuney was born in Oklahoma and spent her early life in Tulsa, a middle child in a large family. It was an unremarkable suburban existence until her father decided, on the heels of Hurricane Mitch’s devastation, to move the family to Honduras to do missionary work. Amy was 13 at the time.

So exit suburban housing and trips to the mall, and enter a foreign culture via a cinder-block home, its courtyard surrounded by razor wire. At first, Kuney rebelled. “I had been very uncooperative about living in Honduras. And I very purposefully had not learned the language. I didn’t really embrace the culture. And even when I wanted to learn Spanish there was a subliminal block there and it just took forever.”

There was one thing, however, that Kuney got in Honduras that was largely unavailable in the U.S—silence. “It really jarred me,” she says. “I had to figure out how to entertain myself. At the very beginning we had no radio, no television and we didn’t know anybody there.” So Kuney spent even more time at the piano, and eventually learned the guitar, while writing short stories and poems before penning her first song.

But before long she was filling up her notebooks and sending songs to L.A. producers she randomly found on the Internet. This was how she found Peter Barker, who eventually signed her to his label.

Though she’s co-written with others in the past, all of the songs on Bird’s Eye View come straight from Amy Kuney’s notebook, voice and unique perspective. “I’m a bit of a control freak,” she admits. “I can’t put something out unless it’s something I can stand behind 100 percent.” And the album is all the better for being the direct result of Kuney’s life experiences, from the knowing exhortation that “there is life beyond the razor wire” in “Simple Things” to the intriguing situation of being “a third party at a table for two” in “Love Is Trippy.”

“I wouldn’t consider myself a songwriter necessarily; I really see myself more of a storyteller,” she says. “I’ll start by writing the story behind it before I actually turn any of it into a lyric.”

While the sheltered, suburban Amy Kuney might have been freaked out by these road rigors, the post-Honduras Kuney took it in stride. After all, she owes her musical career to that then-unwelcome sojourn. “If I had not moved to Honduras I’d probably still be in Oklahoma, wanting to do what I’m doing now but without the time or the energy to make it happen. Fortunately, I’ve gotten to live a very exciting life.”

Now, have I taken your attention?
Yes? Wanna see more of her songs and tours?
Here's the link!

Youtube Link
Facebook Link
Myspace Link
Tumblr
iTunes
Her record store
Her event concert

Amy Kuney's address are available on her Youtube page if you wanted to send her some stuff :D

It's pretty amazing. I thought she just some like other girl who love to make music.
Until I found out that she has her own album and one of the song is featured on a famous tv show, not to mention, one of my favorite was, 'Love Is Trippy'



Her songs are more into acoustics, and it will make you calm and just enjoy the summer season, or reading a book in the afternoon.

You guys should say a hi and encourage her to keep up her work!

Psst ladies, Amy Kuney is a fan of Robert Pattison and Twilight.
She made a parody of Miley Cyrus' Obsessed into Robsessed.
And yes, she's Team Edward.



Oh have i mention? She's joining the "Playing for Change" group.

Playing For Change is a movement to connect the world through music.

Here's what the founder has to say about the group:
(taken from the official Youtube channel)

""The act of playing music with people of different cultures, religions, economics and politics is a powerful statement. It shows that we can find ways of working together and sharing our experiences with one another in a positive way. Music has the power to break down the walls between cultures, to raise the level of human understanding."
~ Mark Johnson, founder, Playing for Change"

To join in the fun, you can go to this website and sign up!
Playing for Change

Sign up for exclusive content, news or updates from hundreds of musicians and students around the globe at Playing For Change Official Website

One of my favorites from the videos of Playing For Change is this:
From various people around the world



Like it? Wanna join?
Link is up there, i've put it up.

Wanna see more videos from Playing For Change?
Visit it's local official Youtube channel.

Youtube Page

You can also buy the CD of Playing For Change: Songs Around The World CD/DVD.
Which available now at amazon.com: http://tinyurl.com/c6mhgd

Great news for all Avril Lavigne's Fan!
She's back with her new album!

Yeah I've heard she divorced. Now would you look her, all grown-up!
Here's the reporting from ClevverTv



From the comments, it said her new single would be out in January 2010.
And the whole album will be in March 2010.

So keep your money and hold your mark for Avril's new album!

Dashboard Confessional is out with their new single, Belle of Boulevard.
And it's now my favorite song!



Gosh, the girl is soo cute. Wouldn't you just agree on me about it? D:
And from the last thing on the video, I'm guessing that the mother run away from the family and the girl and telling her to follow which lead to the father?

Well you'll be the judge. Overall, I love it.
That's the old fashion of Boulevard.

And maybe i'm late a little bit about this song/video.
But Island record has release Wiley's Official Music Video of Take That.



Creepyyyy, but the song is awesome.
Nice to download it and burn it or hook it up on your iPods/phone and take it down to the club!

That's all from me.
And I finally "step into" Owl City.
My 3 friends have urge me to listen. So I did.
I'm sorry if i'm soo late xD

Bai