Another Saturday night in Seattle and I have the esteemed privilege of seeing our very own Hollowpoints play the new Funhouse location with some phenomenal supporting acts to boot. The band just preceding The Hollowpoints were so wild I almost saw sparks fly off the stage. Besides being really adorable, this punk rock quartet churned …
I found this video while in a recent youtube vortex of Australian artists. It’s a lovely song and a nice little video issued last fall by Lanie Lane, a singer who had some chart success down under and even played a show with Sir Tom Jones. Alas, Lanie has decided, before ever becoming known on …
With 400,000 worldwide single sales and 80,000 worldwide album sales to date, 61 million streams, and over 70 million YouTube views – Blackmill’s Robert Card truly is one of the princes of melodic dubstep. In 2010 Blackmill reached number one on Hype Machine with their remix of ‘Your Song’ by ‘Ellie Goulding’, his music featured …
Graig Markel and the 88th St. Band are sharing a new tune and giving you specific listening instructions, “This new tune requires the windows rolled down,” says Markel. “Maybe a drive to Golden Gardens. Don’t be one of those jerks though that cranks it so loud it makes it miserable for others. 7 or 8 …
Celebrating over 40 years in music, one of the most pivotal reggae bands of all time, Third World, has released their first major song of the year “YimMasGan” on Ghetto Youths International. The Damian Marley produced song, which will also be accompanied with a new music video directed by Jamaica’s own Ras Kassa, is a …
Seattle’s Midday Veil has announced that their new LP, This Wilderness, will be released September 11th on Beyond Beyond is Beyond Records. A follow-up to 2013’s The Current, it’s a realization of self, size, and scope, told through the band’s cosmic, experimental brand of synth rock. You can stream lead single “Babel” — which features …
Easily the highlight from the mid-70’s “Brian’s Back” promotional campaign, this was done to celebrate the Beach Boys’ 15th anniversary and to promote their album, 15 Big Ones. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd play a pair of California Highway Patrol officers who burst into the bedroom of Wilson’s Bel Air home and force him to …
Renowned guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson will release Still, an album of new music produced by Jeff Tweedy, on June 23, 2015 via Fantasy Records (Concord Music Group). Today, Thompson is sharing another peek at this masterful new album with the track “Broken Doll.” Thompson said of the track, ” ‘Broken Doll’ deals with characters …
Directed by Matt Eastin (Imagine Dragons’ “On Top Of The World”), the video was shot at the Stratosphere Casino, Hotel & Tower in Las Vegas. IMAGINE DRAGONS braved the world’s highest thrill rides atop the iconic Stratosphere Tower. From 109 floors above the Strip, they slid, spun and shot into the night sky, then suited …
While Dream Letter remains the definitive live Tim Buckley album, I often prefer Live at the Troubadour 1969 recorded a year later. A year was a long time in the arc of his art, which now blended folky Tim with jazzy Tim, funky Tim, oversexed (but still horny) Tim, speedball (heroin meets coke) Tim – …
Take a fun-filled listen to “Long Way Down” (above). I like it. I really, really like it. It is the new single from London-based duo, Vienna Ditto. ‘Portishead doing a Tarantino soundtrack’ is how Huw Stephens of BBC Radio 1, described the band. Vienna Ditto’s upcoming LP Circle is said to epitomize the band’s flair …
For those who do not follow basketball, the Golden State Warriors have made the NBA Finals for the first time in 40 years. On this, I have two observations: 1. The members of the last Warriors team in the Finals are old enough to collect Social Security, if not Medicare. 2. If this were any …
Today is Miles Davis’ birthday – as Joe Zawinul said about him “a genius isn’t someone who invents one great thing and keeps doing it over and over again, a genius is someone who keeps changing and evolving” – In 1970 Miles and company (including tabla and sitar) cut a version of Crosby Stills and …
Today, Richard Thompson is sharing “All Buttoned Up”, a new track from his masterful new album Still, due for release June 23rd, 2015 via Fantasy Records (Concord Music Group.) Spiked with Thompson’s acerbic wit and masterful word play, “All Buttoned Up” is one of the lighter counterpoints on an album that is filled with emotional …
Within the last decade or so major league baseball stadiums have piped in player-selected songs when the batter approaches the batters box. The practice then spread to the high school level. When my son played varsity ball as a junior I noticed to my chagrin that all but two of the players chose a song …
I met two of the guys in this band this afternoon. I drove them from their hotel to the Rose Theater in my cab. It took two trips. We also moved a goodly amount of equipment. Like so many musicians these days, the lads were from Sweden. Nice fellas. little-dragon.net
Jennie Vee’s second EP, Spying, is due out this summer. With a sound that music blog The Autumn Roses describes as “guitars chiming like bells and with satiny melodies, gentle and humane, despite the heartbreak,” Jennie has earned comparisons to Metric, Slowdive, and Black Tambourine. Her songs capture her brilliant pop juxtapositions: radio friendly …
Already a strong contender on most ‘Ones To Watch’ lists thanks to his acclaimed inaugural releases of ‘Only Wanna Be With You’ and ‘Redemption’, Samm Henshaw’s hugely anticipated debut EP is set for release on 13th July. Having already garnered mainstream radio support from Radio 1’s Dev and Phil & Alice, not to mention James …
Fresh off the first leg of their first-ever national tour, a marathon stint of SXSW shows and a current string of west coast dates in support of Spoon, Sweet Spirit will bring its spiritual thrill-ride of garage soul joy and endearing mayhem for their first-ever Portland show, setting up shop at Kelly’s Olympian on Saturday, …
As an opponent of the militarization of American society, I always oppose the Pentagon’s continuous bloated budget and wasteful spending. In December 2014, the Wall Street Journal reported that in 2013, “the Pentagon’s top 85 major-defense acquisition programs experienced overruns of nearly $411 billion.” According to the same WSJ article, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter …
Formerly known as Y-O of Hip Hop duo U-N-I, Yonas Michael has always renounced the norm. Here Yonas Michael shares his new single, “South Pacific” the follow-up to his buzzin’ single “Blessed.” Both tunes will appear on his much-anticipated solo debut, Black Swan Theory, scheduled for release in June 2015. “Welcome aboard, we made it …
On Thursday night, May 7, I ventured out to what is now the new Fun House location. The venue which used to be known as the Lounge at El Corazon is now the new Funhouse. The five piece all women pop punk band from Minneapolis was playing. I’d seen Sick Of Sarah a couple years …
It’s a Tuesday night, but Seattle’s Crocodile Cafe is packed pretty tight to see super group Dead Men Walking. When I say super group, I mean Captain Sensible (The Damned), Slim Jim Phantom (Stray Cats), Mike Peters (The Alarm) and my personal favorite, Chris Cheney of the Living End. This was not a show to …
Eddie Murphy has just released a new video for “Oh Jah Jah,” his catchy and moving old-school reggae tune. I like it.
Take a listen to “Fate,” a tune I really like by a band called, XING, which is pronounced, “crossing.” XING is a London-Los Angeles duo made up of Jack Moore and AR Smith. Moore is the son of Gary Moore of Thin Lizzy and a stellar solo blues-rock career. Moore is also a friend of …
One of my least favorite guitarists of all time gives an ego driven guitar interview. – Richard Lloyd richardlloyd.com
It’s Friday night in Seattle and a lot is going on, not the least of which is a clash with Black Lives Matter protesters and Seattle police. I was at the Central Tavern in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood. Seattle’s own Boss Martians were headlining and though I’ve known of the Boss Martians for some time, …
As the dim light of dawn illuminates the eastern horizon and intensifies into awakening light, so too The Black Atlas’s single “Moonsong’s” tapestry reveals and unfolds itself, calling forth and drawing out an unseen virulent potential, until at last, unable to be restrained, “Moonsong” bursts forth in an explosion, a powerful, satisfying manifestation that expands …