Till next time...

Luke Temple - Someone, Somewhere

So, I'm not going to be around for a couple of weeks, because I'm busy gettin' hitched. That's right! Me and my lady are making it official. But not to worry, the rest of the robots will be here holding things down.

For now though, here's something a little quirky and sweet from singer/songwriter Luke Temple. He has been making music for ages, but he has only been a professional musician for a few years now. Temple spent his first year out of high school living in the woods outside Mendicino California, then went to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, now calls NYC home.

He worked on recording a number of songs in his bedroom, which got passed around here in New York, which eventually lead to him recording an EP and a full-length album for Seattle's Mill Pond Records. The album, Hold a Match for a Gasoline World, sees Luke joined by Burke Sampson (guitar), Rob Stillman (keys, horns) and Matt Chamberlain (drums). Rob Stillman also records for Mill Pond as Robert Stillman's Horses and The End of The World, and he lives with Eliot, a member of Flying, (who you heard here a while back) who's album will be released by Mill Pond in the next couple of months. These members of Flying, Stillman's Horses, and Temple himself, are all also friends with Dave, from MFR Vol. 1 alumni The Subjects - the Boston connection is a strong one, as it is where these folks all met.

You can purchase Hold a Match for a Gasoline World from Mill Pond, and you can also download a few other tracks of his on the site - I recommend "Private Shipwreck" if you like this one. Also, according to my inside sources, he's busily at work on a new album that sounds like it will be downright amazing.

So, I'll be back in a couple of weeks as a married man! Huzzah!