Finally a good flash mob again. It’s been a while:
Staxx Brothers– superstars of hard-ass soul, “the closest thing to vintage Funkadelic ever witnessed,”* and longtime friends of East Portland Blog are offering you a party that starts now and ends (if ever) in 2012. Anyone who purchases an advanced copy of Jungle Cat, the band’s next album, before the official release party, Saturday May …
Via Boing Boing:
Here’s a gem of a scene from the Andy Griffith show. The embedding is disabled on this clip, but you can watch it on Youtube here…
…I recall writing at the time that I knew she wasn’t from around here (Seattle). How? She pronounces Peter Bagge’s last name “baggy.” A decent presentation all the same. Is more Pop Conference stuff available? If so, where where where? Best, – Andrew Hamlin Seattle Channel Video can be played in Flash Player 9 and …
It is always such a dangerous thing, when you have loved what a band has done in the past, then they produce a new record. I can genuinely say that I am blown away by Wye Oak’s new album, Civilian. I have a short review of it at http://www.themusicfix.co.uk/content.php?contentid=13297&single=true I got to see them recently …
East Portland Blog’s own Andrew Hamlin has a review of “Withershins” by Smoosh posted in the prestigious San Diego Reader. You may view it here: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/mar/08/emwithershinsem-smoosh/ “I do hope you’ll avail yourselves of the album,” Andrew wrote in email, which is “available for free download, last time I checked, at www.smoosh.com. I recommend the live-on-KEXP …
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This song kills me. My daughter and I had a running joke where I would shout at her: “Where’s your Dylan!? Where’s your Dylan?!” After I heard Suf’s first album, I thought, well my daughter’s generation now has their Dylan. Such a great storyteller. – Mark Handley . Casimir Pulaski Day – Sufjan StevensUploaded by …
Graig Markel and Zera Marvel– the first couple of Seattle power music are making three songs from their latest project, Dead Ship Sailing, available for free download:
Much better than it has a right to be: