Fyre Festival was our generation’s Woodstock. Our culture is dominated by Rich thieves selling fake things that are doomed to fail, because they are built on big lies. We create billion dollar companies that are built on nothing but disruption, in a less than zero sum game that is pushing the middle class out of …
Month: January 2019
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was a leader of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. He would have turned 90 years ago the other day had he not been assassinated. A Baptist minister, Dr. King championed nonviolence and civil disobedience as means to make society welcome …
This is fantastic. It’s short, just the promo, but you can get the point. There’s something solid here. This trio of hip-hop greats representing the east, midwest and west coast have united for the single, “Yesterday.” “Yesterday” is a nostalgic melodic song that speaks to the hearts and ears of hip-hop yesteryear and simpler times …
“I’ve stretched out—I’m singing songs that rock stars have written for me,” explained Mavis Staples, “but they know me and the kind of songs I want to sing.” This includes “Love and Trust,” composed by Ben Harper, which is also the opening song on Live in London. L“I love that song, it’s a beauty,” she …
Australia’s The Vaudeville Smash continue their ongoing musical evolution, teaming up with Nashville’s Grammy Award winning producer, Bobby Holland. The result is ‘La Plume De Ma Tante’… a bass popping, tongue in cheek, funk, jammation of the nation and first single off their third studio album, set for release in late 2019. ‘La Plume De …
Harkening back to the golden oldies with an infusion of rock, pop and blues, Jess McAvoy delivers “Do What You Want” with an astute lyricism that is seldom heard in music today. Coming about in a playful way, McAvoy wrote the single when she was seeing someone even though her heart wasn’t quite open to …
Check out this song idea! Should I call it ‘Old Bold Pilots’ or ‘Young Man’s Game’? This hit me when this story about Sinatra arguably inventing the album said “Sinatra was on the wrong side of 30 in a young man’s game.” Then before I could pull over to write this song a train stopped …
Stories give our lives meaning in a universe where there may be no meaning, by Davin Michael Stedman
Stories give our lives meaning in a universe where there may be no meaning. I like stories. They sound good with music. We have only been able to record them for a little over a hundred years. We’ve been jotting them down for centuries, passing them from one singer to another for thousands more. When …
My buddy Jeremy From-Steel Beans is on a level and frequency that is so high Hipsters can’t even hear him. People are missing this guy completely but he is pretty much the only Rock star I actually know. He is talented AF. Good singer, good writer, good comedy, good producer, multi-instrumentalist that can do one man band …
I have been a little gun shy about covering certain reggae songs that might have me sound too PUT ON. That is until this music really seeps into my bones like the Wailers did, which I easily connected with Motown. The bread crumbs I found to Kingston with BJ DjSticky were no coincidence… Bob, Peter, and Bunny …
Luna Keller has just released what is certainly the best song of 2019 so far. Titled, “We Are All Mad Here,” it is a fun piece of Beatlesque cabaret pop with a stirring vocal, kind lyrics and a welcoming message. Luna’s trademark alto reassures us as we listen and she invites everyone to join in …
For this recording ElectroBluesSociety went back to basics and teamed up with Mississippi bluesman Boo Boo Davis. Together they revisited classic Chicago blues and recorded seven songs. These will all be released as singles during the coming months. Here is the fourth track from that very successful recording session. This time it’s a Howlin’ Wolf …
No one believes me when I tell them that the finest wines in all the world come from Wales. No one, that is, except the national tourism board of Wales. Apparently they and I have the same tastes when it comes to grapes. 15 Welsh vineyards you probably never even knew were there – Whether …
It was great to visit Conrad Denke and his Victory Studios open house. I was told this is his third annual. I am seeing Bad Animals and Studio X Seattle in the building. I am seeing sci fi thrillers made like Forbidden Power, singer songwriters like Reggie Garrett. There were so many post production, preproduction, production experts of all kinds under one roof. …and …
“Shot Clock” marks the third official single from her album, Ella Mai. The breakout 4X Platinum single, “Boo’d Up” has earned her nominations for Song of the Year and Best R&B Song at the 61st GRAMMY Awards which airs live on February 10th. She has been nominated under the category of British Breakthrough Act at …
At the not so tender age of 15, Bella Rios rocks the tools to be a multi-instrumentalist Singer and Songwriter residing in the insanely tough town of Chicago, Illinois. Having mastered the guitar, piano, bass and saxophone, all before lunch, Bella is no stranger to raw, open musical talent. Her newest superheated single, “Under The …
Here it is, the latest from Ariana Grande, released just minutes ago. Just 24 views when I first hit it on Youtube: Here are the lyrics: Breakfast and Tiffany’s And bottles of bubbles Girls with tattoos who like getting in trouble Lashes and diamonds ATM machines Buy myself all of my favorite things Been through …
As soon as I saw this video I knew I had to share it. It’s the coolest, most articulate movie I’ve seen in a while. This video goes right to the heart of so many unnecessary things that are stupid and that we just put up with because they’ve always been around. Tennis is stupid. …
Today Yung Miami and JT – together known as City Girls — release the highly-anticipated video for “Twerk (feat. Cardi B).” In it, City Girls own the dance for themselves, rallying their troupe of women to get cheeks flying and take control of their own sexuality. Yung Miami – painted as a zebra – and …
Seattle guitar stalwart and dare I say legend, Stingshark Sting is laying down guitar on collaborations for ‘Going South’ and ‘Life Yard’. Working with Stingshark and Hold in Fyah is a big deal to me. I am doing some really cool Jamaican collaborations, but this is the part of West Indian Rock where we bring it all back home …
Saying Pence would be worse than Trump is the equivalent of being a flat earther. It’s no less true today as on election night. It’s simply for those who repeated such a falsehood, now as f☆cking senile a statement as I said it was the first time someone repeated such a claim in my presence. …
“This song is about a woman driving in the middle of the night after a traumatic experience,” says Verluna. “She’s lost, confused, hurt, and afraid. Luscinia is the name of the family of birds that the Nightingale is a part of and in myth, such as Philomela in Greece, the Nightingale symbolizes a lost soul …
To all you out there helping me, I salute you. Thank you. There is no such thing as a self made man. Some of us start a little closer finish line, but this race is about how we all can lift each other up. How we can be each other’s champions. I have a little …
You have to hand it to Vladamir Putin. He is the greatest Bond villain of our life times. Somewhere the real James Bond and Jack Ryan are as dead as Lincoln’s party, now a Confederated Zombie orgy of shameless stupidity. This my friends is MAGA. Russia is still screwed, because it is Russia, but for …
This 20 year old Australian artist has a penchant for writing sticky melodies, bubblegum pop, that you just can’t shake – her music has garnered attention from the likes of NY Times, NOISEY, Stereogum and more, including NPR- who said that the only downside to listening to her track, “Better” is that your heart may …
She HAS to be the G.O.A.T., the Greatest of All Time!
Oregon and Wales have a great deal in common. Both are ultramodern coastal states/provinces. Both places favor progressive ideas and political solutions. Marijuana is legal in both Oregon and Wales (Oregon: Definitely Yes. Wales: Soft maybe. Depends on who ya talk to.) And of, course, both places love Football. In Oregon we call it soccer. …
What planet is this from? How was anyone ever so young? I had forgotten Tabitha Soren looked like Leslie Gore. https://youtu.be/q9cxMsGFgQ8
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With all the hoopla surrounding the Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, I decided to post about songs I adore that I find extraordinarily unusual and weird, yet rawk. I have always thought of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the song, as a bewildering masterpiece, despite not having a clue what the lyrics meant. About two months ago I heard …