“Our Sinking Sun” is just one of five tracks that will be available for free download on my Troubled Little Demo.

Bookmark my official music blog to stay posted, http://www.allisonfrancis.com.

I’ve started a new blog called Nifty Thrifty, geared towards college-aged Bostonians who constantly strive to have fun in spite of being constantly broke.

http://niftythriftyboston.wordpress.com/
http://niftythriftyboston.wordpress.com/
http://niftythriftyboston.wordpress.com/

Please check it out if you enjoy mouth-watering foodie pictures or silly plays-on-words about Boston’s Gay Pride week. And please leave feedback with your own suggestions for being broke in Boston! This project is for my New Media class and I’m graded on YOUR participation so I would appreciate the comments :) Thanks!

“‘Dead Hearts’ explores the idea that our past pain shades and stains everything we see and do.” 
Click here to listen to “Dead Hearts”!

This is the third song from the upcoming “Five Ghosts” album that has been released to the public and it’s classic Stars — ethereal, magical, and a bit heavy with beauty. They passed through Boston last week and I was lucky enough to see them play at the Paradise Rock Club — they played through the new album in its entirety and then did an amazing encore of 8-9 of their recognizable hits. If you get the opportunity to see Stars, you will not regret taking it.

Also please check out the fantastic, totally straightforward music video for their new single, “Fixed”: 

My updates have been infrequent due to busy-ness and the fact that it’s summer… if you are reading this, don’t forget it’s just a few months of the year!

Studies on babies prove difficult to conduct - a lot depends on the willingness of the baby to comply, and actually luck and good timing might be a better word than willingness.

But there have been a number of recent studies at Yale University that study babies’ perceived perceptions of right and wrong based on the motion of their eyes and reactions to certain circumstances. 

The NY Times published an interesting article earlier this month, read it here.

Two weeks ago, New York Senator Charles E. Schumer petitioned the FTC to review Facebook and other social networks’ privacy policies to ensure they do not intend to mislead their users. Schumer’s initiation was the result of Facebook’s recent privacy changes. 

Read the NY Times article, Tell-All Generation Learns to Keep Things Offline.