This isn’t even one of my top 20 favorite songs by The Beatles , and there is still so much to learn in terms of composition, performance, and production from this deep ass cut. Great band, right up there with Kool & The Gang and Frankie Beverly’s band Maze. – Davin Michael Stedman
FULL DISCLAIMER: My father’s name is Bruce. I love My Dad Bruce’s new music video for “Popcorn.” Good song, nice video, BAD ASS BOAT. Not much more you can ask for accept I could have used a water ski and a chopper. Rappers been sleeping on the helicopter / water ski combo since The Fugees …
Acclaimed Oregon troubadour Tim Hardin is one of the most influential and respected singer-songwriters of all time, not that the man himself cared much for the title. “My songs aren’t personal,” he insisted before his death in 1980. “They sound it ‘cos it was me who revealed them, but it was my head that got …
Having spent nearly two decades creating uniquely affecting music defined by deep personal sentiment and attracting listeners across musical genres, Hayden announces his seventh full-length record, Us Alone, out February 19th on Arts & Crafts. To celebrate, Hayden shares “Old Dreams” off the upcoming album. An MP3 of the full song is below, a brief …
Since releasing a series of ghostly singles ft. The xx’s Romy Madley-Croft, Nina Sky & Holly Miranda and cinematic videos w/ directors Ellen Francis, Fischerspooner’s Warren Fischer & more, Brooklyn duo CREEP wanted to share an early taste of what’s to come from their debut album due out next year. Blending lush layered vocals over …
Decades ago, I was wondering around the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and stumbled upon Graham Parker playing at Barton Hall, and it was great- reminded me of the missing link between Elvis Costello and Van Morrison. The Rumour to me, were the post-punk answer to “The Band” – they’ve finally reunited and …
Deerhoof are a band I’ve been in the next street to but inexplicably never managed to see in the flesh. That’s likely to continue for a little while as, despite being over here for ATP, and furthermore playing a couple of gigs either side, I’m sadly going to be in fail mode yet again. I’ll …
LCMDF are more on the money than ever. We’ve been chasing their moves ever since seeing them in a dank dripping concrete cellar in Liverpool. That’s been a year or two, they’ve been through some slightly fallow and middling times with Kitsune, and have now totally found their bite with this new song “Paranoia.” It’s …
Whoa. Found out recently that Larry Hagman passed. Guess I’ve been under a rock. Sad to see a legend go, but damn that dude lived a full life. I had the pleasure of meeting Larry once in LA and we chatted for about an hour or so. He told me about the old days of …
The Stone Roses are one of those bands I never really got, probably because I was living in Seattle when they were on the way up and there was so much local music at the time. Here’s an interesting documentary about everything that is bad about the music industry… Self destruct now, and watch… and …
I can’t recall the last time a song had me at a single listen. No, that’s not true. I do recall and it just so happens it was from same band. So what is it, exactly, that’s going on here? “This Ladder Is Ours” is the third new release from TJF and the second song …
Mika has sold over 8 million records worldwide, and returned last month with his third DIY The Origin Of Love via Universal Republic.
There’s so few clips of Sandy Denny performing live and even fewer still that are of high ‘visual’ quality, but this solo piano performance from the BBC seems apt for today, which is, of course, “Late November.” – Pat Thomas is the author of the recently released work, Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of …
New York singer/songwriter Sophie Auster released her new album Red Weather earlier this month. Here’s the video for the lead single “Run, Run, Run.” The skittering beat and angular piano melody of “Run, Run, Run” underpin a seductively feral vocal from Sophie full of longing and caution. The haunting video conjures nervous splendor as Sophie …
“Spite” is the fourth & final single from 2011’s Dig Down Deep. Filmed in Paris, France & directed by Loic Gillpain, the video stars Alban Lenoir & pays artful homage to Kafka’s Metamorphosis – an appropriately dark treatment for this sinister little number. VANDAVEER is the song-singing, globetrotting alt-folk project penned & put forth by …
Amanda Palmer has had a hell of a year. Sure, Hurricane Sandy destroyed New York, but her self-released album, Theatre Is Evil, debuted at #10 on the Billboard charts – and #3 on the Alternative Charts and #2 on the Independent Charts – following a well-publicized Kickstarter campaign that raised nearly $1.2 million to produce …
I just got urgent word from England about Vienna Blood and “Caesar,” the newly released single which they’re giving away. The tune is lovely, smooth, completely hook-filled, and the singer definitely has what we used to call a “unit mover” voice, meaning that his voice has an inherently catchy quality which could sell many discs. …
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Wild Belle is Natalie and Elliot Bergman. Singer Natalie shows off her deliciously gamine figure and unforgettable voice in this video. The band is joined live by Kellen Harrison (bass), Erik Hall (guitar) and Quin Kirchner (drums). Wild Belle on tour: 11/29 Portland, OR Doug Fir & 11/30 Seattle, WA Neumos & 12/1 Vancouver, BC …
Vicki Anderson sang back-up with James Brown during the height of his career. She was married to Bobby Byrd the man credited with “discovering” James, and the leader of his band The Famous Flames. If anybody was gonna sing about the soul sisters she was the one to do it! – Dennis R. White
It’s not Currier and Ives, not a King Family Christmas Special, not A Charlie Brown Christmas, but it’s got a certain gritty Christmas honesty not found anywhere else. This moderately hopeful tune was lost on the otherwise dark Copperhead Road album and released in the late 80s.
Seattle band Quickie— Lou Trez, Joe Wolf, Kelly Lichtenwald– has made some eye-catching (and controversial) videos over the years, most notably, “Bikini Barista,” which featured buxom coffee servers and drew in hundreds of thousands of views and attention from all over the world. They also had some success with Seattle Superhero Phoenix Jones. Still, my …
BIG ASS BOOMBOX is a loud pop festival consisting of at least forty bands and fifteen writers performing in four venues over two days. This event is free and will take place in PORTLAND, OREGON on Jan 11 and 12, 2013. (This is after the end of the Mayan calendar, so no guarantees.) more info: …
Having just released the limited-edition, colored Body of Work 7” on Saddle Creek this week, The Mynabirds commemorate the occasion with the accompanying video for “Body of Work.” With syncopated beats and playful thumps, layered on top of Laura Burhenn’s gospel inspired tone, Burhenn illustrates a playfulness as she combines nature and art in the …
There’s no need to worry about coverage or co-pays when you get your health insurance through John Lee Hooker and Van Morrison:
The ISB was really at their best without Rose and Licorice, with their best LP probably being The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion – but I personally love their debut, when they were a power trio with Mike, Robin and their founding father, Clive Palmer. I spent a week at Palmer’s house …
Dude, you just know “Monster” — arguably R.E.M.’s best LP ever — was influenced by Peter Buck’s time spent living in Seattle, way back in the early-1994 day. Why, I’ll even wager that Kurt Cobain — frisky secret Japanophile — told R.E.M. to visually represent themselves for the “Crush With Eyeliner” video with a wild …
I saw the Go-Gos at Hec Ed Pavillion in Seattle. I think that was in 1982 — maybe ’83, but probably ’82. I remember I had the cheaper seat ticket and the staff on the floor was scrutinizing everyone’s ticket to make sure they really belonged on the floor. When no one was looking, I …
Asked recently by a friend to suggest the most dionysiac work of art I could remember. My personal vote was for something, anything from Coltrane. It could be any of dozens of his later compositions. I perceive him to have mastered (conjured? unleashed?) an art form which was wild, orgiastic and spontaneous while exhibiting a …