Ahhh! My head is spinning, so busy with finals right now!! On top of an amazing 12 hour session with my 7 piece band, “The Makebelieves” at the beautiful live recording studio East Side Sound with 4 time Grammy winning engineer Marc Urselli, this past Saturday. I’m so excited!! We have such amazing material to work from to comp this album, we’ve been rehearsing for the past 6 months for this recording, and were able to lay down 9 songs in one day- the live energy was amazing-this was my dream come true. I’m blessed with an amazing band, and let me tell you its a lot of f-ing work to organize constant rehearsals and shows with a 7 piece band! But it’s all worth it at the end of the day. I’ve learned so much this past year leading my own band, and I have so much respect for musicians and the life they bring to a project. “Manhattan Makebelieve” the album will be coming this spring!! I’m going to LA in January to finish the vocals with my producer Ray Cervenka. It’s been 5 years in the making-I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am to get this music out there!!!!

Some pictures from the session below:

I’m like please no pictures, this was in the final stretch- I was oh so tired by this point.

Allan Mednard -holding it down on the drums, the rock of our group.

Sean Lewis-on the bass, all day every day holding it down

Sean also co-wrote two of my favorite songs on the album

Alex Violette-the character of all characters, Sax extraordinaire

Jud Neilson- piano man, keeping it funky at all times

Matt Meade- on the guitar, one of the most creative players I know

Marc Urselli- Engineer wizard, East Side Sound is his studio, which is one of the most beautiful live recording studios in the city- check it out if your looking to record: www.eastsidesound.com

listening through at the end of the day, making minor adjustments- Tim Shipman in the background, who held it down on the guitar as well- along with Robert Ball on the Trombone!!

I’ll have some video footage from the session up soon!

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And before I go, I’d just like to give a big shout out to my favorite British Singer Florence from

Florence and The Machine!!!

Who just won a Brit award!! The critics choice!! go Flo!! I discovered her on an MTV Europe contest keep a look out thing when I went to go vote for my girl Santi (Santogold) when she first dropped last year, and I got hooked on Florence and been following her ever since. We’ve been intouch via myspace, and she’s the best- so freaking talented and creative-she just signed her major deal and she’s on her way to the top!!!

I found these videos on youtube, to give you a taste inside the magical crazy world of Florence

Florence and the Machine “My Boy Builds Coffins” Video/interview

Until next week! When my finals are done!!! I’ll be on winter break!! woo-hoo! One more year left, almost finished with school!! New Media and Studio Composition, I can’t complain I’m a big nerd- I love school. Probably because I only study what I love, that always helps : )

be sure to go to www.mizmetro.com and check out my songs and videos

much love,

Laura O’ a la Miz Metro

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