If you are a young person from Brazil and you want to make it in the American music scene, you basically have 2 options.  1) Play really ironic American disco music or 2) play neat lounge music for coffee shops.  OR you can do what former-pop-punker & guitarist Fabio Andrade has done, and that is create some old fashioned rock and roll songs.  After the break up of his long running band the Invisibles, the talented Brazilian musician focused his sights on the rock singer/songwriter format and came up with Driving Music.

‘I Am Trying Not to Break Your Heart’ is the most instantly accessible of the tracks and obviously deserves the Invisible Limb treatment.  Grab it and listen to it then check out the rest of the demo for free on Driving Music’s official website.  If you like it, please post a comment or donate a dollar to charity.  Just do something!

Driving Music - I Am Trying Not to Break Your Heart

If you’re looking for a weather update for the Los Angeles area, let me give it to you:  It’s midnight, I’ve got both windows open, and I’m still sweating like Ruben Studdard in a tuxedo.  Yeah, it’s that hot.

On the other hand, if weather isn’t your thing, and you’re simply looking for some top quality summer music, look no further than the Donkey’s newest mp3 ‘Walk Through a Cloud’.  The drummer’s easy, steady snare-drummy thingies, the playfully plucked guitar strings, and the laid back vocal harmonies all remind me of the Eagles or some really good 1970’s folk rock band with 4 accoustic guitarists and a dude in the background playing on one snare drum.  A qualified blogger can fill in some names here for me.  All I know is that ‘Walk Through a Cloud’ is immediately memorable and opens a pretty good door for the band’s September release Living on the Other Side.

The Donkeys - Walk Through a Cloud

Listen to more songs off the Donkey’s up coming album Living on the Other Side @ their Myspace page