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Month: March 2012
[The Staxx Brothers will appear at East Portland’s Mt. Tabor Theater on March 16, and at the Hard Rock Cafe in Seattle on St. Patrick’s Day.] When the larger-than-life Staxx Brothers take action, they think big. For the band’s third video for Jungle Cat —an album with a young prizefighter’s legs under it — something …
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No, the last Fleet Foxes record, Helplessness Blues, wasn’t quite as good as the first. That doesn’t mean it didn’t hold some bits of magic. The not-so-simple, tragic beauty of “Lorelai” was one example; this is another. Robin Pecknold‘s gifts are so seemingly divine in nature, they’re almost enough to prompt someone to get religion. …
Starting today Alicia Dara will be tweeting 100 awesome songs in 100 days. “It’s taken months,” she says, “to assemble the list, but these are the ones I don’t want to live on earth without!!” You can follow her on Twitter @thevolcanodiary and the hash tag for the whole project, in which many people are …
This is so Portland (see Portland Bike routes, Portland sustainability). The Argentinian bamboo bicycle. I want one. The web page is in Spanish, but here is the Google translation of some the company’s descriptive language about their bamboo bicycle. (Say “bamboo bicycle” out loud. It’s fun to say, isn’t it? Well, the Spanish, “Bambubicicleta,” is …
Saturday night, March third, I ventured to The Funhouse for the first time to see Guttermouth, the So. Cal punk band I also was seeing for the first time. The Funhouse is a cozy little club sitting in the shadow of Seattle’s iconic Space Needle. This is are Seattle’s foremost punk club. When I arrived, …
I kinda got off the Springsteen bandwagon back around Born in the USA [with the exception of The Seeger Sessions]. The new record, Wrecking Ball, is pretty good. It has flashes of the old stuff, the soul that we heard on The River and even Greetings from Asbury Park. The production isn’t as stripped down …
The esteemed Mr. Mason painted on the moustache so we’d know he wasn’t serious. It’s the 50s version of air quotes:
I wrote this song because I love Chicago. Casimir Pulaski Day has always been a great Illinois holiday. When we were growing up we got a day off from school. Now we get a day off from work which turns into a great 3 day weekend which reminds us that summer is just around the …
This debuted during the Bruins-Rangers game today… very moved by it. If you don’t know who Brendan Burke was, I highly recommend his Wikipedia entry. http://www.broadstreethockey.com/2012/3/3/2842761/you-can-play-gay-rights-hockey-philadelphia-flyers – Steve Stav
I was sorry to hear that Ronnie Montrose lost his battle with cancer. Saw him at least twice with this band and once as a solo artist right after he’d released the album with the great instrumental version of “Town Without Pity” on it (he was opening for “Terrible” Ted Nugent and Rex Smith‘s “metal” …
The photos below were taken September 1987 at the Puyallup Fair, Puyallup, WA. All photos property of Holly Homan, all rights reserved. Here is an excerpt from an excellent essay about the enduring appeal of the Monkees, by Rich Horton: “There was a time in the mid-’60s, roughly following the releases of “Rubber Soul” and …
http://youtu.be/8YgyU5yFwR8
Just when I figured I’d heard all the really good Postpunk bands in the world (after 32 years of incessant digging!), and whilst searching for some discographical info re: a rare Italian/Austrian Velvet Underground-related cd ep I own called “b.v. Before Velvet”, I came across this impressive, heretofore never-heard-of-by-me band from Denmark, with the happily Ein …
Our upcoming record, “A Little Love,” is a collection of covers of songs we heart. We recorded Daydream Believer because we dig the tune and, of course, The Monkees. Needless to say we didn’t plan for it to be a tribute to Davy Jones, but his passing has inspired us to upload a video dedicated …
“[March 1] Justin Bieber’s birthday; banks are open. Post Office delivering but Middle Schools all closed.” – Jan Erickson http://youtu.be/vkSmjkI50ew