Hey East Portland, My newest single, “Less or More,” was inspired by the loss of inspiration – losing sight of a dream, a dampened spirit, and the journey you take to find yourself again. The desire to reach for this dream, that all the mundane tasks are worth something, that even when I am not …
Month: April 2020
Lisabel · A Work of Art Lisabel was born in Italy and moved to London in 2013 although due to her family’s relationship with the UK, she had spent a fair amount of time in the country before her relocation to London. With a mixture of Motown meets jazz and contemporary R&B meeting the ringing …
Felixity just unveiled her intense diabolical video for the latest single ‘Twisted Love featuring (and jointly choreographed by) dancer Joshua Jung, who has performed with Mabel at The Brit Awards and also appeared on ITV’s The Greatest Dancer. “Given the confessional nature of Felixity’s lyrics, it was important to create a dramatic soundscape; a cinematic …
User 276674346 · Marie'sBees.bright – 1 This is a Bellingham, Washington company which has a fantastic jingle. I have no connection to them. I just like the jingle. Please buy the honey soon. They are located near the outbreak of murder hornets (aka the Asian Giant Hornet) up in Washington State and basically no bee …
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/apr/27/coronavirus-map-of-the-us-latest-cases-state-by-state The chart reveals the startling death toll in the top ten states exceeds 49,000 or 16 times the number of deaths on 9/11. I know some will interpret the following to be extraordinarily callous, but I do like the visual display of the quantitative information on the map. Look at New York! “Patient Zero” …
Tuesday eating from your yard tip~violet leaves and flowers are edible and high in Vitamin C & A. I add violet leaves and flowers to my lunch salad. The flowers make a lovely edible garnish on fruit salads, soups, desserts, drinks or frozen in ice cubes. Before commercial food coloring, dark purple violet flowers were …
Cae Gwyn Records · Dan Amor – Is This Reality? Y sengl newydd gan Dan Amor Allan 15/05/202 The new single from Dan Amor Out 15/05/2020 The hot new single from Welsh sensation Dan Amor has smooth, lovely harmonies and engaging psychedelic surprises. It is reminiscent of White Album-era Beatles, Pet Sounds Beach Boys and …
This new song from Baby Chemist is serious, and seriously good. Please give it a listen. If you haven’t heard and seen “Ride In,” their disarmingly hilarious masterpiece, please do so at once. View this post on Instagram Swipe for our shoot with ⁽ⁿᵒᵗ⁾VOGUE.COM 🐴🐴✨✨✨ Thanks again #EastPortlandBlog for the kind words! A post shared …
https://www.azureryder.com/ View this post on Instagram I definitely hadn’t imagined that my birthday this year was going to be spent in a wounded world but with rollercoaster emotions I think like anyone having birthdays in this time it truly becomes a real celebration of the delicacy of life and holding onto those little things full …
For the most part, life while sheltering in place hasn’t been that much different since my last entry three weeks ago. Same routine of working from home, exercising in the evenings, grocery shopping on the weekends in a mask while using a precious bottle of sanitizer in my car in between stops. My supply comes …
His daughter Diva steals the show: View this post on Instagram A reminder that even in these uncertain times, music can be a uniting force to bring us together ❤️ A post shared by Tears For Fears (@tearsforfearsmusic) on Apr 13, 2020 at 11:36am PDT Tweets by tearsforfears
danwilsonmusic.com April 24, 2020: Today, Grammy-winning producer and songwriter Dan Wilson continues his monthly single release series with an existential new song “The Real Question,” which was written and recorded over the last two weeks. “I wrote ‘The Real Question’ two weeks ago when the strangeness and the dread of our self-quarantine was sinking in,” …
Lolo Zouaï is releasing her first new music of 2020 today with the single “It’s My Fault”, a creeping ballad about taking the blame for fleeting romance. It’s been a year since the Bay Area artist / producer released her debut album High Highs to Low Lows, which has now garnered over 60M streams worldwide …
Ahead of releasing their new album ‘Radical Innocence’ via A Turntable Friend Records, Sweden’s celebrated 90s indie rock darlings Easy present the single ‘Day For Night’, a powerfully catchy track highly reminiscent of True Faith-era New Order or the Bernard Sumner / Johnny Marr offshoot Electronica. The accompanying clever and beautiful animated video was produced by Ian Holmes, who also created the …
View this post on Instagram Footage of Prince and 👁performing “Clouds” on SNL in late 2014 This was one of the best days of my life and I have Prince to thank 💜I can’t believe it’s been 4 years since his passing. My dear friend, you are very missed and eternally in my consciousness… A …
Following the success of their latest single “Caution,” which hit #1 on the Alternative radio chart this week, THE KILLERS are thrilled to share an incredible new song, entitled “Fire In Bone,” from forthcoming album, Imploding The Mirage. View this post on Instagram Ted, we’ll have to reschedule your all expense paid birthday trip to …
“Most of what I know about songwriting I’ve learned by covering other people’s songs,” says Dave Hollier of King Ropes. “But I’ve never been interested in copying the original version of a song. The covers I love to hear are when someone takes a great song, and makes it into something new.” “On this album, …
View this post on Instagram // I F Y O U R E T O O S H Y ( L E T M E K N O W ) – O U T N O W // L O V E A post shared by The1975 (@the1975) on Apr 23, 2020 at 12:37pm PDT …
I love the music of David Åhlén. There is nothing more calming than his compositions. Others have described him as “the Swedish Arvo Pärt.” If I were ever asked to describe Arvo Pärt, I’d call him “the Estonian David Åhlén.” (It says a great deal about my American lack of sophistication that I had never …
The White Buffalo (Jake Smith) has released the official music video for “Problem Solution” from his recently released album On The Widow’s Walk (Snakefarm Records). “This is a song in two parts about mental states. The first half, “Problem”, is about heartbreak and self-doubt when things are bleak and hopeless. The abrupt release and uplift into …
A handful of words often tell you everything you need to know. When asked, who is Kate Tempest? She gives a brief, albeit telling answer. “Kate Tempest is the words,” she responds. You haven’t ever seen, heard or experienced anyone quite like her. Tempest uncovers the missing link between the Golden Ages of literature and hip-hop. The …
New Rolling Stones song, “Living in a Ghost Town,” was just released. Sounds amazing! Enjoy! ‘LIVING IN A GHOST TOWN’ a new song from The Rolling Stones. written by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards released on April 23 via streaming & download only created & recorded in Los Angeles, London and in isolation Mick Jagger …
Marchelle Bradanini Shares Politically Charged, Goth-Noir New Single “Red White & Blues” feat. Tristen 100% first month proceeds donated to Fair Fight and No Kid Hungry LA-based singer/songwriter, Marchelle Bradanini has grown artistically and politically as well as growing her family since her last musical release under the Pony Boy moniker. As the primary caregiver for her two young …
NIALL HORAN PREMIERES THE VIDEO FOR “BLACK AND WHITE” TODAY HORAN’S NEW ALBUM, HEARTBREAK WEATHER, OUT NOW Today, Niall Horan debuts the video for his new single “Black and White,” watch it above. Written by Horan with Julian Bunetta, Teddy Geiger, Alexander Izquierdo and Scott Harris, the track was produced by Bunetta and is from Horan’s new album Heartbreak Weather, out now on Capitol Records. Heartbreak …
Who has not rewatched Contagion 2011? So, right now I am watching Queen at Live Aid in 1985. I have watched numerous Queen documentaries and the movie. There are a few performances that literally give me goosebumps and this is one of them. Some of it, is, of course, retrospective understanding the 1970s and 80s …
La Furia was born in 1983 with a combative, fighting and feminist vision. In other words, she was a smart girl. She also had a profound, poetic and powerful sense of life which she had to communicate. Words were going to be important and music would be central. Hip hop seemed like the genre for …
As diverse as Kayobe’s sound is, his influences carry just as much variety with the likes of Daphni, Thom Yorke, DJ Shadow, Frank Ocean, Caribou, Bon Iver, Thundercat, Foals, FKA Twigs, Björk, Portishead, James Blake and Nick Hakim all appearing on his playlist. His own sound sits closer to the likes of Bonobo, Massive Attack, …
Tuesday eating from your yard ~ dandelion flowers are the most abundant in the spring. Collecting enough dandelion flowers and removing the petals in large enough quantities to make dandelion wine or syrup takes some time~making the current pandemic lockdown the ideal time. My most favorite use of dandelion flowers is to make dandelion syrup. …
Matthew “Murph” Murphy, guitarist and lead singer of The Wombats, today unveils the second part of his solo project Love Fame Tragedy’s debut live session EP, Live From SIR, Hollywood, released via Good Soldier Songs / AWAL Recordings. The live EP is made up of selected tracks from Love Fame Tragedy’s first two EPs I Don’t Want To Play The …