“Fragile Earth”
Composed by Mark Hawkins
Published by Atmosphere Music LTD. (PRS)
“Steak Knife”
Written by Steve Hit Mike
Performed by Steve Hit Mike
“Hour of the Pearl”
Written by Steve Mayone / Suzanne Cope
Performed by Steve Mayone
Courtesy Umver Records and SESAC
“Pocketful of Promises”
Written by Steve Mayone
Performed by Steve Mayone
Courtesy Umver Records and SESAC
“Learning Curve”
Written by Kevin Grant
Performed by Waiting For Sully
“Snow Shoes”
Written by Greg Eklund, Mark Eklund and Olivia Stone
Performed by The Oohlas
Courtesy of Stolen Transmission and
The Island Def Jam Music Group under license from Universal Music Enterprises
“Sunday Mourning”
Written by Michael Martin
Performed by Michael Martin
“Catch Me”
Written by Christopher Sobiech and Sisely Treasure
Performed by BoyGirl
Courtesy of ASCAP
“Krush”
Written by Christopher Sobiech and Sisely Treasure
Performed by BoyGirl
Courtesy of ASCAP
“What Label”
Written by Future Joyner
Performed by Future Joyner
Courtesy of Spithitz Records
“Midnight”
Written by James Major Clifford and Evan Bivins
Performed by Jump
Courtesy of Brash Music
“Slowberry”
Written by Duncan Arsenault,
Roger Lavallee and Ron Mominee
Performed by The Curtain Society
Courtesy of Orcophat Records and BMI
“Your Smile”
Written by Sam James
Performed by Sam James
“Bishop Allen Drive”
Written by Justin Rice and Christian Rudder
Performed by Bishop Allen
“Blue Sky”
Written by Hank Marley
Performed by Hank Marley
Produced by John Menides
“Wasted”
Written by Mike Barnhill
Performed by Mike Barnhill, Patrick Barnhill, Vuk Kapetinic
“Military Operation”
Composed by Jean Yves Rigo
Published by Ste Cezame-Argile (SACEM)
“Hit and Run”
Written by Chris Page & Red
Published by DeWolf ASCAP
Under License from DeWolf Music
“Chemical”
Written by Duncan Arsenault, Roger Lavallee and Ron Mominee
Performed by The Curtain Society
Courtesy of Orcaphat Records and BMI
“Daylight”
Written by James Major Clifford
Performed by Jump
Courtesy of Brash Music
“Pyretic Eyes (The Same Soap Opera)”
Written by Orange Island
Performed by Orange Island
Courtesy Rise Records
“The Day the Fears Came True”
Written by Jediah Jarvais
Performed by Jediah
“Still Green”
Written by John Menides
Performed by Steve Mayone
Courtesy Umver Records
“Busted Heart”
Written by Justin Rice and Christian Rudder
Performed by Bishop Allen
“Gone”
Written by Silka Tobias
Recorded by Steven Skullr
Music
The Still Green Soundtrack will be available for digital download
on September 30th. The CD will be available in October.
The soundtrack release party will be Friday October 23rd
at the Tin Can Ale House
San Diego, CA
To hear samples of the music, visit amazon.com
Liner notes from the soundtrack
Written by Georgia Menides
This soundtrack for the controversial coming of age film Still Green
features some of the hottest up and coming indie rock and acoustic bands
from New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami, Hartford, San Diego and Charleston.
Bishop Allen are staples of Brooklyn’s alternative rock scene. Fans often compare them to Modest Mouse. Their album Charm School was given a 4 star review in Rolling Stone and they have multiple songs and cameos in teen cult classics such as Saved, and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.
The album also features the rich melodic music of Charleston based Jump, nationally acclaimed and highly publicized by soundtrack Grammy award winner Zach Braff of The Garden State. Personally, the first time I heard Jay Clifford sing Daylight at the Dock Street Theatre, I felt like I was listening to a 2006 Radiohead show for a minute.
Strange twists of events brought Music Supervisor Doug Lloyd and I and to Worcester, Massachusetts for six months during post production where our paths crossed with platinum recording artist, Kaz Gamble. Originally from Massachusetts as well, Gamble was part of the legendary Los Angeles dance music duo The Cooler Kids started with Luscious Jackson singer Jill Cunniff.
After the platinum success of The Lizzie McGuire Soundtrack, The Cooler Kids song Punk Debutante raced up the Los Angeles pop and dance charts. This pushed Gamble and his sultry partner in crime Sicely Treasure (now the lead singer of Shiny Toy Guns) to form an alter ego band purely for the LA dance scene, Boygirl. We collaborated with Kaz on some of Still Green’s track selections and are psyched to have Boygirl’s most energetic and popular hit, Krush, on our soundtrack.
Still Green’s post production began in Charleston, SC where Doug and I discovered young Southern power punk trio Steve Hit Mike, the reggae hillbilly sounds of Hank Marley and the Serious Side Effects, and Tom Waits style crooner Michael Martin.
Being from New England, Doug and I were both already immersed in the regions’ alternative music scene from past film and music video projects. The beauty of looking for music in New England is that the scene is so insular. Any night, you can drive to Boston, Providence, Hartford, or Portsmouth to see a good show, so the bands play shows in multiple states on a weekly basis. This means the bands coming into venues like the Paradise in Boston or the Middle East in Cambridge are the same bands that are coming to the big venues in these other cities. Great music is easier to find.
Producer Andrea Ajemian, director Jon Artigo, Doug, and I were already fans of Jediah, New England’s slightly darker answer to Dave Mathews. Doug and I already loved Hartford Connecticut’s Emo kings, Waiting for Sully. I used play my favorite Waiting for Sully album when I was writing Still Green, singer Kevin Grant’s nostalgic cries making me feel like I was listening to Jeff Buckley play So Real.
Orange Island was a Boston based band we didn’t know, but they had won so many local awards in the punk and alternative genres that we tracked them down, and their tragic song Your Pyretic Eyes became the song for “the grieving montage” scene in the movie.
I am particularly excited about the release of the song Gone on our soundtrack. I found Gone on a make shift demo recording from a young brooding songwriter Silka Tobias (lead singer of San Diego’s urban funk group Buried Under Carrots). I’d heard that she had written the song when she was 17 about a girl she was secretly in love with. I thought Gone was one of most beautiful songs about unrequited love I’d ever heard in my life and I wanted it in the movie. To get it I tracked Silka down in San Diego, while Doug lined up a recording session with friends at Skullr Records. On Sunday January 4th 2009, we brought Silka to Skullr’s recording studio in Long Beach. Six hours later we emerged from the recording studio with the first ever professional recording of this gem of a song.
From the bands we already knew and admired to the artists we discovered during the 3 year long search for the perfect music for Still Green, Doug and I geminately feel that this compilation represents some of the best alternative songs of the late 2000’s.
The music supervisors are Doug Lloyd and Georgia Menides.
The following bands have music in Still Green
