Ian hunter on on rock n roll, Cleveland and how Mott the Hoople, Roxy Music and Bowie caught on first in the midwest… – John Petkovic and his band, Cobra Verde, enjoy life to the fullest in Cleveland, Ohio.
Author and Semisonic drummer Jake Slichter has been gigging and recording in NYC lately with Resistor, a post-modern post-punk ensemble of the first order. Slichter keeps the rhythm solid. Doug Halsey, operator of the fine animal rescue website, Ready4rescue.org, is the main songwriter/singer/rhythm guitarist. Shawn Tracy, a veteran of some excellent 90s bands such as …
Here’s the description from the video’s Youtube page: “For those of you who never knew. And for those of you who haven’t forgotten.” The video contains 69 cuts from the three hour Woodstock documentary directed by Michael Wadleigh and released in 1970. Song: Jefferson Airplane – Wooden Ships (written and composed by David Crosby, Stephen …
When Girl In A Coma hit the stage they come out covered in tattoos and ready to rock. GIC is a powerful all-female trio from San Antonio, Texas which features Phanie Diaz on drums, her sister, Nina Diaz, on guitar and vocals, and the mighty Jenn Alva on bass, who answers the questions below. Whoever …
Country music legend George Jones has announced plans for one more tour before retiring from the music business. He is also said to be working on a final album with Dolly Parton. Full story is here.
The air is permeated by the sounds of delicious jam bands, filling the valley with soulful guitars, tight hypnotic grooves, and the occasional scream of ecstasy at the top of some festival goer’s lungs. Nighttime arrives with myriad lasers, smoke machines, and possibly the happiest family of festival goers in all of Washington. While Summer …
This ad is from an August 1975 issue of Billboard reminds me that although I’m long since tired of Rumours – I’ve never tired of this album, as the quote at the bottom says, “Their best album ever.” – Pat Thomas is the author of the recently released work, Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds …
This could be one of the best things I’ve ever seen. – Marco Collins is currently working at JetCitystream.
Thought you might enjoy this early Christgau piece (Village Voice, Jan. 1970, see attachment), which makes some interesting points and distinctions re: what you and I now refer to as “Conceptual Panache”, and about the late-Sixties Music Biz more generally! It’s also a nicely tart summary of the terminal phase of “Super Group Syndrome”, taken …
Jesca Hoop has been compared to Kate Bush, Björk, and Fiona Apple. She has also previously toured with KCRW’s Nic Harcourt, Elbow’s Guy Garvey, and most recently the Punch Brothers. Last month she released her third album The House That Jack Built, and 8/16 she will be in Portland, OR @ The Alberta Rose Theatre, …
And here it is. As if you didn’t have enough to do… I have launched a second blog, which can be found at http://www.burningluv.blogspot.com/ Why Burning Love?? Burning Wood (my original blog) is approaching its 4th year, and if there is one thing I’ve learned in four years, aside from how many of you hate …
Legendary Two Tone band The English Beat played to a packed audience Saturday night August 11th. From the entrance all the way to the stage was nothing but packed bodies waiting in anticipation for Dave Wakeling and friends to emerge. Wakeling came on stage commenting about our (rare) sunny day and thanking us for it, …
Paul Ryan liked Ayn Rand in high school and now he gives her books to all his staffers. Maybe I should give all my co-workers cassettes of Black Flag’s Damaged. – NPR’s John Moe is the host of Marketplace Tech Report and Wits.
At Western Recorders in Hollywood on July 25, 1966, The Monkees recorded Mike Nesmith’s song “Mary, Mary” – meanwhile at nearly the same time, at Chess Studios on 2120 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, the Paul Butterfield band with Mike Bloomfield was recording it as well. I’ve always loved it when doped up, kick ass …
The legendary Joe Jackson (the musician, not the shoeless ball player) is on tour in the US in September and October. His only Northwest date will be in Seattle on October second at the Moore Theater. Jackson, who started out in the punk/new wave scene over thirty years ago, has now switched to more eclectic …
Total Victory is a band I know next to nothing about. I came across this track very randomly on the internet and was moved to share it here. The vocal starts off feeling Fall-esque but once it gets into its stride, the whole thing is quite a hypnotic sucker-inner. The lyrics are straaange …. sci-fi? …
Producer Ted Templeman remarked that he went through three engineers during the recording of the LP, due to Morrison’s “ability as a musician, arranger and producer”: “When he’s got something together, he wants to put it down right away with no overdubbing … I’ve had to change engineers who couldn’t keep up with him.” Morrison’s …
“I never saw a frown,” recalled Tom Robbins, who wasn’t yet a famous author but was writing for The Helix, Robbins also had a radio show on KRAB-FM, “Notes From the Underground.” “Everyone was happy and smiling. It was such a utopian event. There was a feeling of freedom and sharing and loving.” The germ …
[Howlin’ Hounddog & the Infamous Loosers will perform Saturday, August 11, at the East Burn (1800 E. Burnside, Portland) from 10PM to 1AM. A good time will be had by all who attend, so make certain to be there.] I met Howlin’ Hounddog at the recent Rocket party where he told me that he and …
August fifth, Saturday, was a beautiful day in the Seattle area. After a cloudy and rainy June and July, I welcomed the sunny, hot weather as I headed to The White River Amphitheater for the 2012 Warped Tour. For those of you unaware of what the Warped Tour is, allow me to briefly explain. The …
The True Spokes‘, “Back Porch” video was directed by feature film director Jeff Ferrell (Ghostlight) and produced by Soul United Productions with assistance and support from Summer Meltdown. The True Spokes recently changed their name from Flowmotion and released a self titled debut that reflects new aspects of their maturing sound and development as a …
Hello, dear readers. August 5 proved to be another hectic day for Mr. Renton. Sunday began by covering the Seafair Cup races at Lake Washington, including another mindblowing aerial display by the Blue Angels. Nighttime found yours truly catching, simultaneously, JESSE SYKES at Gainesbourg and KASEY CHAMBERS at The Triple Door. In between, Mr. Renton …
Recorded in the summer of 1969 at 1457 National Street in Memphis with Terry Manning on bass, Richard Rosebrough on drums, and Jeff Newman on steel guitar. Produced and engineered by Terry Manning (who had mixed Led Zeppelin III that summer at the same Memphis location). Manning and Chilton flew to LA with the tapes …
This lovely clip of the fabulous Lena Horne in Ziegfield Follies (1946) is a joy and a treasure: a reminder of just how talented she was. It is also a reminder that, for all her star quality, Horne would never be offered a major role in a Hollywood movie. Horne’s left-wing sympathies were a major …
Diana Darby grew up in Texas, went to film school in Los Angeles and has been living in Nashville for years – yet, if you were to sit down and talk to her for an hour, you’d swear to god that she was born and raised in Manhattan. She’s got the piss and vinegar of …
A COLLECTION (2000-2012) from the Be Good Tanyas is a 16-song career retrospective. The collection features two brand new tracks, “LITTLE BLACK BEAR ” and “GOSPEL SONG,” and two new mixes of previously released tracks. The album is already available in North America and will be released around the rest of the world on the …
http://youtu.be/Ug1AS3yyWtw That’s the pre-Partridge Family Hal Blaine [playing drums in the above clip]! I have no specific memory of playing Peggy Lipton’s album, which actually came out on Ode in 1968, shortly after MOD SQUAD took the country by storm, so I’ll have to dig it out sometime. Didn’t recall that she sang such buoyant …
Monday night, July 30, I had the pleasure of not only setting foot inside The Triple Door in downtown Seattle for the first time, but also seeing new-comer Sarah Jarosz. Sarah Jarosz is only twenty-one, but her songs and musical capabilities sound like they could have come from someone twice her age. She holds a …
I keep meaning to unsubscribe from Groupon for a whole slew of reasons, but occasionally the comedic value is far too high to risk missing out on gems such as these. Noteworthy descriptive quote: “Instrumental musicians can communicate a great deal without language, from the passion of romance to the misery of dropping a piano …
I’d ask you all to think of the women in Pussy Riot who stood up to Putin in a celebration of free speech in Russia. Three of them have been held incommunicado in prison for several months and are today in court. They’re a reminder that music can still have a strong political voice: – …