The following is from the artist’s Youtube description: Sámi artist Elle Márjá Eira performing in Sami Grand Prix 2009 in Kautokeino, but not as a part of the competition. She is singing/yoiking “Ruoššajievja”. Sami Grand Prix is a part of the Easter Festival in Kautokeino. The Sámi people: Sami people, also spelled Sámi, or Saami, …
Month: April 2012
“The State I’m In” – Sinead O’Connor. A “breeze blowing under the skin” that purifies and heals. PS. Get well soon, Sinead! – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
Here’s the catchy and cool new single from The Animals at Night. As you can read below, all profits from the sale of the single will go to PAWS. Here’s the band’s Youtube description: “One Down, One to Go – Official video by Marlon Schaeffer and the Animals at Night. Purchase the single here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/one-down-one-to-go-single/id517282887 …
“Lifetime” – Maxwell. “I can let my life pass me by / or I can get down and try / to work it ALL out this lifetime.” – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days Maxwell – Lifetime (Official Music Video). Watch more top selected videos about: Maxwell
A seed packet of nasturtiums is the best $3 you will ever spend! Nasturtiums only flower if they are planted in crappy soil, they are beautiful, and you can eat them; what is not to love? Both the leaves and flowers are edible and taste like black pepper. They are beautiful in a salad or …
One of the teachers in our high school, a Mr. Blake, was a former actor and knew Jonathan Frid (of TVs’s Dark Shadows) from those days. One day, Frid came to visit Mr. Blake at the school and to talk to his classes. My Humanities class with Mrs. Bertaccini met in one of the rooms …
“…Peace has come to Zimbabwe, Third World’s right on the one…”
There’s something faintly surreal about seeing Tim Midgett and Andy Cohen together onstage again. Five and a half years after Bottomless Pit played their last (and first) Seattle show, their recent Northwest engagement—Friday, April 13 at the Sunset and the following night at Bellingham’s Shakedown—felt like a long time coming, but it also felt as …
“Beau Soir” – Debussy. Learned it at 16 + still sing it to warm up my voice before shows. Hauntingly beautiful + nostalgic. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
[What follows is a work of fiction. None of this ever happened or will happen. No one wants any harm to come to President Obama. The author is using stories which exist only in his imagination to tell a political parable and thereby challenge readers to think in a new way about politics. Once again, …
During my first night at Herb Study it was mentioned that anise hyssop made a nice tea. I asked what part of the Anise Hyssop was edible and I was promptly assigned to find the answer and report back at the next meeting. I had grown anise hyssop for years because it is a tall …
“Secret” – Madonna. File under “Guilty Pleasures”, but somewhere near the top! – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
A fitting tribute, straight from Sammy Davis Jr’s pool house 43 years ago. Funny, even color movies of the Band at this time look sepia toned. You could prove me wrong pretty easily, but it sure seems like Levon sang fewer songs after the first two Band albums; that might explain why the later ones …
[At CBS.com – Jonathan Frid, actor in original “Dark Shadows,”dies at 87] He was one of the greats, for certain! Sadly, this makes three fixtures of my Montana childhood and adolescence departed during the past two days—Dick Clark, Levon Helm, and now Jonathan Frid. Talk about leaving legacies! By the by, I’m …
“Road” – Nick Drake. Reboots your system when the trials of being an artist feel heavy. He left this perspective for us. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
Thanks to Anne Seymour Mette who adds, “Long, Christ-centered, healing and amazing”: http://youtu.be/Rp9tWc35Zhw
[4/19/2012 – On his website, the family of Levon Helm has announced, “Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon. He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul.”] A proud native of Arkansas, Levon Helm put the American, not to forget …
“It Makes No Difference” – The Band. Love + respect to the great Levon Helm. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys1pBhz5c9A
This CD is a compilation of songs by Seattle bands The Generators and Sledgeback and Hungarian band C.A.F.B. The songs by the latter are all sung and titled in Hungarian. The CD begins with The Generators Tears of Repentence, which is a catchy enough punk/pop tune with plenty of hooks throughout to keep the listener …
[Update 4/19/2012 – On his website, the family of Levon Helm has announced, “Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon. He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul.” The material below was posted earlier in the week, prior to …
[Update 4/19/2012 – On his website, the family of Levon Helm has announced, “Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon. He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul.” The material below was posted earlier in the week, prior to …
[Update 4/19/2012 – On his website, the family of Levon Helm has announced, “Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon. He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul.” The material below was posted earlier in the week, prior to …
“The Messenger” – Daniel Lanois. A deepwater dive. I’ve played + sung it a hundred times but never quite get to the bottom. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
Longboat’s Igor Keller doesn’t like it when I use a certain G-word to describe him. The word is not “gangsta.” Igor’s fine with that. He’d love it if we all called him our original gangsta. The G-word Igor doesn’t like is “genius,” which is a word I keep coming back to whenever I hear tunes …
Today is April 17th, which means it’s tax day in the good ol’ USA . Last year on tax day I stood outside at a Bank of America branch chanting, “Pay Your Taxes.” This year the Occupy Movement held a huge event starting in downtown Seattle’s Westlake Center Square and marching to the downtown Wells …
“Blue” – Cat Power. Took me 10 years to get into CP but there is no better Joni cover than this. The sexiest of slow dances. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
When it comes to music festivals, there’s nothing like a little audience participation. To stoke the fires for the 12th annual Summer Meltdown Festival in Darrington, Wash., organizers have taken grassroots involvement to the next level. Featuring fans proclaiming “I Meltdown!” in a variety of ways, an e-commercial for the August 10-12 extravaganza debuts today …