I’ve never fully bought into the mythology of Gram Parsons, I prefer to lay my head at the shrine of Gene Clark with LPs like No Other and White Light. Years ago, a friend of mine was working at Neil Young’s ranch and several ’employees’ were discussing the Byrds. Neil walked in, and said “it’s …
Month: July 2012
Wow. Can’t stop crying. This is so powerful on so many levels. – Marco Collins is currently working at JetCitystream. http://youtu.be/xUD_c9MqtEU
Best-selling author and onetime publisher of legendary Northwest music magazine, The Rocket, Charles R. Cross, is throwing a reunion for all of the writers, artists, phographers, staffers and anyone who ever contributed to the publication. The soiree will take place Sunday, August 5, 2012, from 2:00pm until 7:00pm at the Feedback Lounge in West Seattle. …
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This Sunday, New Jersey’s Bouncing Souls headline a show at Seattle’s Chop Suey on July 22. The Bouncing Souls play a unique brand of punk/pop that now many other bands try to copy, but few pull it off as well as the Bouncing Souls do. Their light-hearted songs transfer onto their stage performance with just …
Sunday July 15th, 2012 was a day I looked so forward to and now it’s gone. I wish it could have lasted forever. July 15th in Portland, OR was Ray Davies Day. The entire city, by decree of the mayor, designated this worthy affair to be so. The first event was at Portland’s historical Hollywood …
Portland, Oregon has done what no other US city has ever done (as far as I know), and that is declare by decree ad signed by the mayor, that July 15, 2012 was to be declared Ray Davies Day. To authenticate this, a ceremony was held at Portland’s historic Hollywood Theater, where the honored man …
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Maybe there really is a culture war going on. Family Guy made a Seventh Day Adventism joke tonight. It wasn’t offensive. Not really funny, either. But jokes about Seventh Day Adventists are pretty rare. I can’t remember any others, really. The Road to Wellville, maybe? The rest of the show was dedicated to belittling Christian …
Just found this – always been one of my favorite Tom Petty songs and this is a cool dedication to Levon Helm. The other member of the Band that he mentions is Richard Manuel who sang back up on the original recording back in 1986. It might be the last recording Manuel ever made… – …
When I learned there was going to be a fabulous ska show on the same night my hero, Ray Davies was playing, I was caught in a real dilemma. Of course I couldn’t NOT see my god, but the ska show was The Pietasters with Georgetown Orbits and Skablins opening. Solution: Pay for a choo …
Lol Coxhill has left earth for the great gig in the sky; the free improvising saxophonist collaborated with many others, including Kevin Ayers, Steve Miller (of Caravan), Mike Oldfield, Morgan Fisher (of Mott the Hoople), Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath, The Dedication Orchestra, Django Bates, The Damned, Hugh Metcalfe, Derek Bailey and street theatre performance …
I’ve discussed the incredible musical and vocal arrangements of “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” to death – and never tire of it. However, so much is said of Brian Wilson’s studio wizardry, the Beach Boys’ lyrics are often overlooked as key components of timelessness. “Wouldn’t it be nice if we were older Then we wouldn’t have …
This may be the only Holy Modal Rounders, or Unholy Modal Rounders, song you know. Check out more of them. The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders is an excellent way to expand your collection. – Dennis R. White http://youtu.be/Iwq55kt8x4g
Look out, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, Real McKenzies, you’ve got competition. The Roughneck Riot’s new record, This Is Our Day, starts out with the catchy yet powerful “Ignorance Is Easy,” a song that seems so apropos in these times. This six-piece band hailing from Manchester, UK is one to look out for. The band mixes …
A new protest organization has sprung up in Seattle. They are The Student Debt Noise Brigade. SDNB have organized to rally and march to protest the rising cost of tuition and the staggering debt students must now endure if they want a college education. The #SDNB (Student Debt Noise Brigade) was formed by by Seattle …
Happy accidents are a rare pleasure in music. However your marginal propensity of discovering a good new band are roughly multiplied by a factor of 100 when you attend a major music event like SXSW. So luck was running high when my colleague Mike Hughes and I were midway through a solid week of bands …
(Photo of Ian Hunter with Mick Ronson’s daughter.) ”I didn’t know if I was going to become a musician, because I couldn’t sing very good. In those days you really had to be a good singer. I didn’t know I had a chance until Dylan came along. I couldn’t really understand what he was saying, …
This youtube clip has had 1,580,728 people watch it (as of 7/10/12), can they all be wrong? You decide, cast your vote now… – Pat Thomas is the author of the recently released work, Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 Just when I’d come to believe I was safe from ever …
When asked: “What is a friend?” Aristotle replied: “One soul inhabiting two bodies.” In 1989, Dylan spent some time with Van Morrison in Athens, Greece. The two were at Philopappos (The Hill Of The Muses) on June 27, performing Van’s song “Foreign Window”, “it’s a song about suffering….it’s not about any one person or any …
Fats Waller (1904-1943) was literally the most well-rounded jazz pianist of the 20th Century. He was a song writer, singer, master of stride piano, a hit maker, and he often did it with a comic flair. Art Tatum was perhaps a superior contemporary pianist, at least technically, but few brought as much passion and energy …
Antonio Carlos Jobim is best known for having written this tune, “The Girl From Ipanema,” said to be one the most recorded songs of all time. Brazilians are quite aware, but Americans may not know, that there was an actual young beauty in the Ipanema section of Rio de Janeiro of whom the song was …
Mysterious Brooklyn-based duo, MS MR, have created excitement online with their latest single, “Hurricane,” a dark glitch pop track with equally hauntingly beautiful vocals. The 7” for “Hurricane” will be officially released on July 10th via IAMSOUND Records/Chess Club. Stream/download the single via the MS MR Soundcloud (over 210k streams) and watch the video that …
Saturday night, July 7, Studio Seven hosted the Tonight We Unite hardcore punk rock show. Though psychobilly gods, The Nekromantix, played last, it’s a safe bet to say that there were two headliners, The Nekromantix and The Casualties. I’d say the Casualties stole the show. They came on stage all punked out with singer Jorge …
I don’t like Jazz, much. Never did, perhaps never will. But when I do like it, it sounds like Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section. As legend has it, West coast Art Pepper, alto saxophonist, had no idea his wife booked him a recording gig with three seasoned “rhythm” players from the East coast, fresh …