Wisely: Live In Japan

In the tradition of Bob Dylan and Cheap Trick comes WISELY LIVE :: TOKYO DOKI-DOKI

A new download-only, Wisely album. Featuring a live set from the 2008 tour of Japan. Available exclusively at:

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Artist Of The Week: Wisely

If you haven’t heard Southern California-based singer/songwriter Wisely’s self-titled album, then you haven’t heard one of the year’s best collections of cohesive California pop.

Wisely/Wisely
2008 Oglio Records

From the opening note of On My Way, the first song on Wisely, (Willie) Wisely’s new album, be prepared to get hooked. On My Way is my favorite song of 2008. It’s that rare type of song that is so catchy and warm it reminds one of going to the grocery store with their mother in 1975, listening to Top Of The World by The Carpenters blaring on the AM radio.

I love Am radio rock–The Carpenters, Sweet, Andy Kim, America, Bread, The Box Tops, The Archies, etc. Although Wisely may be the perfect soundtrack for riding the California Coast, it is way more than that. Like Fancey, the brainchild of New Pornographers member Todd Fancey, which is one of my favorite bands, it reaches far beyond the warm production values with songs that are extremely well-written and catchy, so catchy in fact, you’re going to want to hear them again…and again and again.

It’s Gonna Be Beautiful is another standout track on an album full of great songs, as is Through Any Window, a piece of acoustic pop that’s very reminiscent of The Beatles and has a video starring Jenna Fisher.

Like Beck’s The Golden Age, Fancey’s Fancey, The Autumn Defense’s Circles and the Neil Young masterpiece Harvest, Wisely is an album that will fit perfectly against the backdrop of a setting sun, whether you’re in California or Alabama. But while sunsets never last, Wisely shall always exist.
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10 Questions With Wisely

1: And in the end, The love you take Is equal to the love you make.
True or false and Why?
There’s a lot of people in this world that make a lot more love than they take… and it’s rather criminal. There’s also a lot of people who think they make love… but it’s actually something else they are creating… Donald Rumsfeld comes to mind. I actually see this as inverse… If all you do your whole life is “making love” *wink, your aggregate take is probably rather small. The lyric sounds profound, seems circumspect, I’m sure it costs a couple pounds and falls easilly of the lips… but it’s never made any sense to me.

2: Hey Mr. Big Stuff, Who Do you Think You Are?
If I thought I was something bigger than I am I would be a household name by now… in LA the cocks name what day of the week it is.

3: I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain? I’ve heard it never rains in Southern California.
I don’t need rain, I was raised in Minnesota and I’ve shoveled more snow than most. My first tree fort was actually a labyrinthine igloe, dug from a parkling lot worth of snow, piled high by a bull dozer. That was back in the 70s when snow used to accumulate in Minnesota. Now it’s just a gray season with intermittent patches of white grass.

4: Ever Fallen in Love With Someone You Shouldn’t Have?
Yes indeed. The first 12 times. THank god I didn’t marry any of them… and I’ll bet they’re saying the same… that is unless they went ahead and married schlumps that they shouldn’t have.

5: What’s Love got to do with it?
I’ve been wondering if the definition of love should be legislated? Too many people say they love, but they aren’t. THere should be a test you have to pass before you say it. Like a drivers Ed. I have no idea what the questions would be… but saving people from their own misguided love could really save a lot of time and resources in this world… maybe environmentalists who want to reduce carbon imprints should gander at this subject and see what the imprint of wasted-time, no-starter love affair is?

6: How soon is now?
THis would be a marvelous name for a canned beverage.

7: Do you remember rock n roll radio?
I remember going to third base on a water bed listening to ‘Comfortably Numb’ the year it came out. I remember “Little Willie” on the AM radio while my dad painted the deck. I remember the “rock” station playing Iggy’s “I Wanna Be Your Dog” and thinking (I musta been 6) “what is this crap”. THen right afterward they played Billy Joel’s “Glass Houses” and I though “this is great”.

8: Can your monkey do the dog?
THis sounds like one of those colloquial, New Orleans ciphers that I never understood.

9: What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding?
Nick Lowe wrote it, not Elvis Costello.

10: Why don’t we do it in the road?
I did it by the side of i-35W once, right near where the bridge collapse would be, years later. Hmmm, I remember her complaining about something, and not fully following through on what which my desires dictate for such a romantic event.

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John Cabrera: A Man For All Seasons

By Amanda Brumfield
Pop- Rock Candy Mountain

John Cabrera is an actor, perhaps best recognized for his roles as Brian Fuller on the tremendously popular television series, “The Gilmore Girls” and as Elliot on “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”. He is also a writer, producer, director, tech geek, painter, illustrator, designer and I’m guessing that, under the right circumstances, he can do the Robot like nobody’s business.
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