Twilight Music Happenings

This upcoming week has a lot of Twilight music happenings. Check out the list below and if the shows are close to you I highly suggest checking out some of these amazing musicians.

Bobby Long will be arriving in the states for his first tour.  He will be kicking it off in NYC on Monday 4/13 at the Lakeside Lounge and then on Tuesday 4/14 at Arlene’s Grocery.

You should definitely stop by and make Bobby feel welcome.  I’ll be there with NoMoreMarbles.  Hope to see all of you there too!  Something of note both of these shows are 21+.

For all you Canadian fans Sam Bradley will be performing in Toronto on 4/16 at The Drake Hotel (19+ show) and 4/17 at The Gibson Showroom which is an all ages.   show.   US fans do not fear Sam will be playing a show with Bobby in Nashville at the Lindsley Bar and Grill on 4/22 and 4/23.

And last but certainly not least the Twilight Music Girls will be performing a 18+ show in LA at Whiskey A Go Go.  The show will also feature Bobby Long (are we sensing a theme here?) I have seen the girls perform live and they are not to be missed. You can pre-order tickets for the event on the TMG myspace page. I also suggest checking out their latest contest.  Win an Ashley Greene autographed Special 2 disc DVD. Check out all the details here.

Hope to see some of you at the show on Monday or Tuesday

Be My Escape

Goodnight Juliet

This week feature band is relatively new to the Twilight world however they have been performing together for quite sometime. Goodnight Juliet started out as a father daughter team that has since expanded.  You can read the story of Goodnight Juliet below as well as see our video interview with Niki Leigh, lead vocalist and foudner.  The music has a haunting .  You can hear  the music at Goodnight Juliet’s myspace page and check out Goodnight Juliet’s upcoming events.  There is a discussion thread started for the band in our forums.

Niki Leigh started writing songs at the age of 15 years old. Her father, Ross, a seasoned musician encouraged the shy introverted Niki to begin performing her songs at local venues. After a few short years of behind closed doors work, the singer/songwriter on vocals, and Ross on guitar, set out to play little spots all around Northern California. After just six months of entertaining, the duo was nominated for a Modesto Area Music Award. Only a few months later, Niki decided that she wanted to take her sound to the next level. Surrounding herself by Punk Rock bands like My Chemical Romance, Green Day, and Billy Talent, she realized that her heart was somewhere else. She wanted a band.

Ross then began posting advertisements at local music shops, in search of a bass guitar player, and a drummer. Almost immediately, Drummer Apollo Tull, known for his wild and crazy rock star perspective on life, heard the makings of something that was anything but ordinary, and climbed aboard. Shortly after, they received a phone call from Russell Scott. Russ was an intelligent, outstanding bass player, with a rare knowledge and passion for music, and just like that, Goodnight Juliet was born.

The band began playing small shows at the same venues that Niki and Ross had already played, but this time with a completely different impact. With an extreme amount of originality, but also with a Paramore/Evanescence type feel, Goodnight Juliet’s songs are written with an incomparable amount of raw emotion, with inspiration ranging anywhere from heartbreak, religion, and faith, to politics, eternal damnation, and love. They soon found themselves looking to pursue bigger shows, bigger venues, bigger dreams. In the following months, the rock quartet graced the cover of The Modesto View Magazine, along with being nominated once again, for another Modesto Area Music Award.

Niki has written a song aptly entitled “Let’s Never Die”, inspired by Eclipse, third book in the blockbuster Vampire series, The Twilight Saga. Goodnight Juliet was recently asked to perform “Let’s Never Die” at the Twilight Convention in San Francisco, and received and overwhelming response.  The band will continue to play Twilight related events all through 2009, and are currently in talks of performing at conventions.

Music Feature Saturday

For today’s music feature we bring you a  new voice in the Twilight universe.  This week the Lexicon is proud to feature Aaron Galbreath.  Aaron wrote the song “Bleed” after being inspired by his wife’s love of Stephenie’s books and the amazing love story between Edward and Bella. The lyrics tell Bella’s story of longing while Edward is away.  You can hear Bleed at Aaron’s website.  You can check out Aaron’s recent performance of Bleed below.  We also conducted an interview with Aaron.

Why did you become inspired to write a song for New Moon?

My wife and her best friend are huge fans, so I gave it a shot. Turns out, it’s a great book, great epic love story. I tend to write songs about love and relationships so I was immediately connected to the subject matter.

Check out the rest of the interveiw here.  We also have the lyrics to Bleed for you to check out and comment on.

UPDATE:  If you would like a free download of the song, you can get it here.