Thanks to Art Chantry.
Month: July 2015
The ‘I For An Eye’ video is a short, sharp two minutes and forty four seconds of revenge, reflection and revelry. Lead singer Marie De Vita storms into her friend’s houses, slightly crazed and on a mission to destroy any trace of vanity she can find. Introspective themes of comparison and envy emerge as the …
One sick jam from charismatic Portland Trailblazers point guard Damien Lillard aka Dame Dolla:
Heard a ruckus in the backyard, only to discover a Cooper’s Hawk trying to catch some lunch unsuccessfully. (a baby robin hidden in the bushes that hadn’t quite found its flying wings). Lots of upset robins trying to distract the hawk, but it was my appearance at the screen door that caused the hawk to …
Love knows no boundaries in dreambear’s animated video for Amana Melomé’s “Save My Soul Tonight.” Pastel colors and abstract masses create a vast, open style, matching the sensuous tone of the music. The main character, portrayed by Melomé, travels through varying periods of time and space, stopping at nothing to find her true love.
This is awesome: The culmination of a flute player, drummer, keyboardist, guitarist, and vocalist, Tribe Society has created a sound that blurs the lines between alternative rock and electronic music à la Imagine Dragons and AWOLnation, or 90s rock legends Smashing Pumpkins and Nine Inch Nails. Simply leveraging the magnetism of the hustle and bustle …
As every Portland cab driver knows, Stumptown is an awesome town with music on every street corner. Homeless men will stumble upon a decorative outdoor piano like this one and burst into song. Or attempt to play something like a song. This photo was taken saturday night on Burnside. “Needless to say these guys can’t …
Samm Henshaw’s new video for “Better.” His hugely anticipated debut EP The Sound Experiment is set for release on 7th August: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8kDjlVKCJU
This is how Swedes had fun in the 70s while ABBA was out of town. Though I continued to expect it to turn into an Ikea commercial– yes Ikea dominated the north country in those days, too– a quick Googling shows this to be a bona fide Swedish short…
Director Lil Internet (Beyonce, Diplo, Skrillex) brings his postmodern swag to “Hula Hoop,” the first music video from Brenmar’s Award EP. The Fool’s Gold party starter is joined in this uber-stylish clip by Jersey club queen Uniiqu3 and a gang of the absolute coolest dancers ever, including Guinness World Record hula hooper Marawa The Amazing. …
As rock ‘n’ roll evolved into Rock in the later Sixties, there arose a distinct category of bands, the “Superstar Bands” in which each individual member was a so-called superstar instrumentalist (Cream, Blind Faith, Led Zeppelin, for example). During that period it became rather popular to say that The Beatles and that Ringo in particular …
Watch out kids! Officer Krupke is on his way to chase you out… TMZ adds in the description, “Ariana Grande’s new boyfriend got upstaged by her tongue — which got dangerously close to some powdered donuts … pissing off the people who busted their asses making ’em.”
Different from similar victuals served elsewhere in the world, Chicago style pizza is more of a gourmet casserole to be enjoyed slowly, sitting down with friends, than it is like New York pizza, which is a convenience food, a slice to be eaten on the run. I’ve been away from Chicago for 25 years and …
Layla Khepri was born Marissa Arguijo, native of Fort Washington, MD. She began her M.V.P. days as a star athlete and fitness buff. Excelling in basketball and soccer, she walked away from a soccer scholarship and a hard to achieve slot in the US Navy search and rescue to pursue success in music. With the …
At the end of last season, the baseball Triple-A Sacramento River Cats changed their major league affiliate from the Oakland A’s to the San Francisco Giants. Naturally, this enhanced their appeal greatly for me, so I paid them a visit. Raley Field, a 10,000-seat ballpark, gets good online reviews, and I rated it just a …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bnup_lNF5w
Color Collage started as a side project for Shane Conerty while living in Asheville, North Carolina playing in a touring band called Now You See Them in late 2010. After NYST was put on hiatus, Conerty relocated back to Brooklyn where he currently resides. The project was initially based on sampling mp3’s of brand new …
It’s a hot Friday night in Seattle and the beginning of the long holiday weekend. Mustard Plug is headlining a show at El Corazon. I’ve been waiting a long time to see Mustard Plug and they didn’t disappoint. Everyone in this band is a showman, but particularly front man/singer Dave Kirchgessner. This guy NEVER stayed …
Tuesday evening in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood the legendary Crocodile Cafe hosted ska masters The Slackers from NYC. This time they were minus two members (Jay Nugent, guitar and Glen Pine, trombone) due to illness or injury, so Jesse Wagner from the Aggrolites saved the day stepping in as a replacement with only one week’s notice. …
Playing raw, trashy blues, Johnny Stewart introduces himself through ‘Flesh, Blood, Skin & Bone’, an electrifying single steeped in the power and fire of traditional blues. Stewart’s distorted vocals rush in accompanied only by weighty foot stomps and handclaps, hinting at the force that follows. Exploding into a raging chorus resplendent with heavy garage rock …