Month: February 2012
It’s sad to say, but Sophia Grace and Rosie have jumped the shark: video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player
It is usually a bad idea to cover any song recorded by Howlin’ Wolf. You’re likely to come out second-best. But there are the rare exceptions, and this is one of them. Do Etta and Harvey blow away the Wolf in this version of Spoonful? No, but they certainly put their stamp upon it. Issued …
I really like this new Santigold single, and the live action video for it is fantastic. Here’s Santigold’s follow-up single, The Keepers. Live action: Animated:
36 million views for this video for Domino? Wow, Jessie J has come a long way fast… I heard her being interviewed about how this was written as a riposte to a feeling anything but ‘sexy and free’ but don’t be fooled by the schtick. It’s totally fabulous but also very deeply conventional, which is …
Seattle’s latest and greatest baroque pop band, Tomten, will perform Thursday, 2/23 at Neumos with Pica Beats and Curtains for You. Tomten goes on at 9pm sharpish. KEXP describes Tomten, who hope to release a 10 inch vinyl EP in April and a full length work in June, in this way, “Well-crafted and steeped in …
This is the kind of stuff I listen to while driving sometimes now — YouTube files of Ted.com lectures and performances burned to MP3 CDs. This is a long file, but if you listen to a minute at the beginning, you’ll get the idea. Zoom to 16:38m, where Goldie Hawn picks some notes at random …
As I waited for the show starring The Presidents of the United States of America to begin, great music streamed from the break tape and I found myself hearing bands such as the Sweet, the Runaways and the Sonics. Then the show began right at nine as scheduled with some guy from LA called Mike …
As the son of a preacher myself, when Dusty Springfield first released this record, I fancied it was about me — which was pure narcissism on my part, to say the least. Aside from that, it’s still a great record, and Dusty was at her peak when she made it. – Rich Horton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go7mSyRohII
Like fighters in a boxing match, raucous Seattle music writer Chris Estey goes ‘toe to toe’ with cagey music maverick Calvin Johnson about beards and other mysteries of life in the new film, Have You Ever Had a Beard? A study in contrasts, this film compares the lyric heavy songwriting of Calvin Johnson to the …
Kidd Russell has two new videos. He describes She Feels Like Home in this way, “We Shot this video on the last day of summer in Wisconsin. We had no plans, a bootleg camera, our ladies and a few cases of beer so we decided to have fun and shoot something authentic and fun. I …
On Valentine’s Day 1985, he played this for, I don’t know, forever. A delicious forever… – Andrew Hamlin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIzzHHMLfd0&feature=youtu.be
I never read the Hunger Games books about which the lyrics of this song were written. That being said, this is an artistically well done video. It has an eerie, yet light, other worldly quality to it. The natural world potrayed in the video would seem almost heavenly, with Taylor looking mystical and wearing a …
The very DEFINITION of my very favorite Sludge Rudiment, “The Bryan Adams Part”, from a concert for Amnesty Int’l, no less! LOL And at Giants Stadium in ’86, the mullets, they ABOUND! Enjoy everybody, – Tom Kipp Bryan Adams – "It’s Only Love" – Giants Stadium on June 15, 1986
Scientists have just discovered a lost transmission from Planet 1975:
Mood Swings is an animated online series about mom’s life when the kid’s aren’t around. In this clip, Janise, mother of Clementine and wife to Mathias, reconnects with her college days in a zany flashback.
Last summer, Gordon Voidwell and his production crew created a music video which pays homage to Whitney Houston’s mid-80s “How Will I Know” video. He had been keeping it under wraps until the right moment, which unfortunately arose this week with the untimely passing of the legendary singer. Video director Steve Pristin says “Gordon Voidwell’s …
Forgot to mention that I recently made a nice score at our (admittedly odious) Best Buy store up at Northgate, where I will occasionally buy TV shows on dvd when the “loss-leading” spotlight happens to shine on some portion of my Personal Pantheon! On the most recent visit, in addition to the hernia-inducing 57-disc 24: THE COMPLETE SERIES (list …
Neoconservatives accuse Barack Obama of leading the United States down the road to communism. In reality, mainstream Democrats have become more fiscally conservative since the Cold War era. Obama is no more economically radical than Richard Nixon, whose presidency produced the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, increased spending on social programs, …
How many weeks does Rolling Stone, the magazine, have left? I hadn’t seen a copy in six years (which says something in itself) and now, perusing the 3/1 issue with Paul McCartney on the cover I’m shocked at how small and ad-less the zine is these days. How can they possibly be making any money? …
[LISTEN, WHITEY! author Pat Thomas will be reading / presenting / playing music from the book and companion album on Sunday, April 22nd at Powell’s Bookstore in Portland.] Over a five year period in Oakland, CA, archivist Pat Thomas befriended key leaders of the seminal Black Power Movement, dug through Huey Newton’s archives at Stanford University, …
The Presidents of the United Sates of America Rock The Showbox Market, 2/17 and 2/18, By Holly Homan
This Friday and Saturday nights Seattle will witness the return of local icons, The Presidents of the United States of America (Presidents for short). The Presidents, fronted by the charismatic Chris Ballew came onto the national scene back in 1995 with catchy, poppy tunes like Kitty, Peaches and Lump (the latter of which was parodied …
Ducky – Like Rain from Bicephaly Pictures on Vimeo. From Ducky’s press materials: “Ducky, aka Morgan Neiman, has a producer’s instinct and a powerful voice. She has been making music since she was 13 years old, and has played alongside the likes of Japanther, Ninjasonik, Roxy Cottontail, Trouble Andrew and Action Bronson. Her latest release, …
From the Spring Standards’ press materials: “In yellow//gold, The Spring Standards deliver 2 EPs that can be described as a set of fraternal twins, metamorphic stages, or acts in a drama. yellow is a nostalgic meandering through the trio’s shared childhoods—they started playing folk music together as teenagers in the rural landscapes of the Pennsylvania/Delaware …
One Direction is a UK boy band which was formed on UK X-Factor at the suggestion of Nicole Scherzinger. This video with the babies is enormously popular across the globe:
I wrote a rather lengthy comment tonight for a friend’s largely critical thread re: the departed Whitney Houston, but, just as I was about to post it, it FUCKIN’ DISAPPEARED and I was far too pissed to attempt to re-create it from scratch. Anyhow, one aspect I’d included was the fact that there is a little-known, spare, very beautiful, and …