In the early morning hours of January 27, 2019 a series of three emails were sent from East Portland Blog headquarters to Rock’s Premier Autodidact, Tom Kipp. In recent years, increasing numbers of bands from all over the globe have cited Krautrock as an influence, or have described their music as “Krautpop.” EPB needed guidance …
Month: January 2019
Minnesota Golden Gopher Vern Gagne won four Big Ten and two NCAA heavyweight wrestling championships in the 1940s. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears to play football, but Gagne chose a different direction. Gagne decided to pursue professional wrasslin’. He ultimately became owner of the American Wrestling Association (AWA), based in Minnesota, which appeared …
Very cool! Great sound, great image and just uploaded to YouTube today. https://youtu.be/RI0Ki1NMsXY
Finally finished both Fyre Festival documentaries, then read about why the midwest is so cold — (due to climate change ice melt, the polar vortex is no longer contained to the North Pole) — and realized that we are all trapped at Fyre Festival. — Emily Pothast (@emilypothast) January 29, 2019 Finally finished both Fyre …
This EP is very, very beautiful, like a palm tree or a falcon, delicate, listenable and re-listenable. So deep and so smooth. So many colors. Listen again. I love this. This music cures cancer. This is what I want my neurosurgeon to be listening to when she opens my cranium next month. This music is …
I love Freedom Fry. I feel like EPB has been with them from the beginning and now they’ve reached an exalted level of radio-friendly excellence. Here’s what the band has to say: “The Seasons” is about how people’s moods are more up in the Summer and down in the Winter. It’s also about time passing …
FEMME is Laura Bettinson, formerly of Dimbleby & Capper. Truly positive pop. London based. This is still my fave. My dear friend Roger (The Gig Slut) is in this at 1:22. Dy – Peter Dysart
Bigotry is dumb on every side. Playing the music in your Soul is what it means to be human. These humans teamed up with other humans to lovingly record and collaborate on so many of the iconic productions we associate with the greatest fist in the air Black Power anthems of all time. This is …
Other than being the daughter of Johnny Cash, Rosanne Cash is best known nowadays for a conversation she had one day at eighteen on a tour bus with her famous father. They were talking about music, and when Johnny Cash found that his daughter knew few of the songs that to him were second nature …
While some consider pampering, face masks, and spa days to be self-care, “Gross” is about self-care as love and acceptance, giving yourself a break from the pressures in life and just surviving. Ponthier recorded the demo in her bedroom using GarageBand, never intending it to be a serious release, but during the creative process, she …
Bay Area Funknroll with an awesome vocal arrangement and killer horns. https://www.facebook.com/morefatterband/
Thanks to the great Luna Keller for translating this info: Sumergible are Carlos Aguirre (drums), Esteban Santos (bass), and the brothers Antonio and José Rojas (guitar and voice). Founded in La Laguna (Tenerife) in 2011, the band rocks an alt-pop vibe inspired by English music (and classic sounds from everywhere). In June 2016, Sumergible recorded …
Easily my favourite thing this week with Peter Dysart Freaking Out by Big Thing I love bands that follow songwriting formulas just long enough to set hooks. But that’s where I start looking for the bubbles boiling in pot and the smell of deviated recipes that send wafts of wonderful sounds up to my ears. …
That poor little rooster. So much work, so little time. Boo Boo Davis KuvVer Records ElectroBluesSociety
I want to have an old school kegger & listening party for the people that are actually reading my posts. I am trying not to write a song and a 1000 words a day, and striking out every time. I want to do something cool for those of you spending time to read my rants, …
Trump is really Putin us in danger with this shut down. But we shouldn’t be Russian to any conclusions about Trump’s real motivations. Anyone check the national debt lately? How is our border security now Donny? Do you think China is doubling the usual traffic Fentanyl traffic through our ports, or just like ramming through …
This is from www.kendlwinter.com “Kendl Winter grew up in Arkansas, but fell in love with Olympia, Washington even before she moved there after high school. When she is not on the road touring her music or hitting some trail, she is buoyed in the Puget Sound aboard her houseboat, the Dandelion. Her musical adventures have …
Wikipedia says it best: Soccer Mommy “was born in Switzerland and grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. She attended Nashville School of the Arts, a speciality high school where she studied guitar and played in the swing band.”
Simultaneously heart-wrenching and infectious, this single captures the post-breakup yearning for a do-over – and the realization that “Some things you can’t undo / and one of them’s you.” FLETCHER co-wrote “Undrunk,” which was produced by Malay (Frank Ocean, Lorde, Sam Smith). A retrospective of emotions from FLETCHER’s NYU college days, “Undrunk” is an honest …
Time to try to level up once more. My friend and fitness trainer Corey Galusha was always trying to get me to write down what I eat and keep track of it. I saw this last night for under $10, and it’s a small investment if I can fill it up. It tried to write it …
I love this. Destined to be a classic. Mike Hughes said he was obsessed with this, and for good reason. Give it a watch and you’ll understand. http://www.flowermoonrecords.com/azureray/
Los Campesinos formed at Cardiff University (Still Counts).
So this is what Mueller is doing and I mentioned it before. He is strangling a mob boss. But the challenge is that the boss is protected if he has enough of the mob of human miscrients on his side. Once Trump loses MAGA and even the Covington Nazi Youth realizes he’s just a stupid …
Entrancing the listener from the very beat, “We Own This” is an infectious tune that evokes an uplifting sensation that builds to a blend of tropical and nu-disco chorus and drop. Teaming up with French Producer and DJ L.B. One, “We Own This” blends multiple house, tropical and nu-disco genres to deliver a compelling single …
If you listen closely, you can hear that this song was recorded on a Selectric typewriter and not on the slicker Kaypro word processors that came along only months later. It’s a great album made with rudimentary technology. Yet neither Alison Moyet nor Vince Clarke were ever to be quite this thrilling again, despite many …
The dancer’s name is Autumn Miller. Given the memorably macabre mood of this unusual video, I will probably remember her name for a long time. Once you see this, you can never unsee it. Oy gevalt. As someone who confronts suicidality on a daily basis I can’t see much upside in this. It seems like …
The music of Abigail Lapell has beauty, optimism, texture, subtlety, power and gently humming overtones of transcendence. As soon as you hear her songs you will love her music. “Down By The Water,” (above) a lovely work of hopeful springtime chamber folk, evokes the fantasy of escaping to somewhere isolated and hiding from the world …
Quincy Jones once said that it’s hard to know what the future held for Tupac, because if you killed Malcolm X at 25, you killed a Pimp named Red. Well the same can be said for the weirdest muthaf☆cka in history, Rasputin. You kill Rasputin at 28, you killed a slutty farmer named Randy. No …
Singin’, thinking…trying not to write a hook a day. There are few things better to fail at that, than not songwriting. I can’t help it. I programmed my mind at the tail end of college to make playing my upside down guitar like a diary. A way to think outloud and collect my thoughts. To …
Well this is quite epic for me. This my dear grandmother Audi with her beloved Grandfather that raised her. She tears up every time she talks about this wonderful man. This is man is my strongest link to Africa, Jose Rosario. There is legend of his father being referred to as “The Frenchman,” which is …