Meals For Children

Happy Valentine's day everybody! Especially those of you who are without someone to share it with. Don't worry, I'm in the same boat, so you can all be MY valentine this year, and we'll go burn down a local Hallmark together. Anyway, this Valentine's day, I wanted to give all of you something special, and so I present to you, a lovely little band dubbed, Meals for Children.

Meals (pictured above), in my mind, is how a light hearted Death Cab For Cutie would sound. You know? Like if Ben Gibbard didn't get the girl again but realized 'Hey...There's plenty of fish in the sea'. They definitely give off that same cool desert/warm ocean vibe, though, with a softer, dryer acoustic sound, and not to mention the striking resemblance between Gibbard (pictured left) and Meals' front man/song writer Mario Luna. Don't get me wrong, they're definitely still an underdeveloped band. They don't have the strongest recordings or the luxury of producers' side notes, but that only means everything you hear is completely their own, which is what I started this whole blog to bring you--new talent. But I understand that it's hard to know what I'm talking about in regards to how Meals sounds in sense of deserts and oceans, and if you've never heard Ben Gibbard then you definitely have no idea what I'm talking about. So let me just link you to their myspace so you can listen to them yourself and decide whether or not you like them enough to invest reading on about them. Might I suggest starting with hits such as Feverish Browsing and Geebot. They also have a purevolume, but who the hell purevolumes??

Moving on!...

Meals For Children is a young college band I was lucky enough to run into about three years ago, back before there was even really a band formed to meet. Most everything on their first LP, We Bid on Stronghold Mountain, was written and composed by, and in the bedroom of, Mario Luna, who is now, I'm proud to say, a really good friend of mine and a really tremendously musically talented individual. I have to admit, that from what I've been hearing and seeing, Meals might be on somewhat rocky grounds. It's hard to tell whether they're coming or going. Luna is currently pursing other side projects (which I'm sure we'll get into at a later date), but is also, from time to time, giving us children fans our well loved musical meals. But, in any case, this is a band I really wanted you guys to hear and discover before it could possibly be too late. If you happen to be in Los Angeles around March 14th, Meals for Children will be playing at the world renowned, Troubadour theater in Hollywood, which I'm going to be doing my best to make it down for.

Anyway, I hope you can hear and find that something special in this band that I did. I also hope you're having a great new year thus far. Lot of good stuff coming up: new president, new batman film, new chance for music to redeem itself, new... eh, whatever. Much love. Keep happy.