Here’s the latest from my friend Davin Michael Stedman: The very first Soul United Film Festival takes place May 3rd, 2012 from 7 to 10pm at Cinebarre in Mountlake Terrace. The festival features a unique program of music videos and short films, produced on both a local and national level. The Soul United Film Festival …
Perennial L.A. punk-rockers, X, are touring the West Coast right now, before heading to Europe to join Pearl Jam this summer. Now celebrating their 35th anniversary as a band, X is the last musical group out of the iconic “class of ’77,” which featured such greats as The Ramones, The Clash and The Sex Pistols, …
On Tuesday evening April 24, I headed to Seattle’s artsy Fremont neighborhood to The Nectar Lounge – where legendary Ska band The Skatalites were playing. The Nectar Lounge is a great little club with an ample dance floor, a large loft and even a covered patio where patrons can go smoke and still watch the …
“Morning Sun” – Dot Allison. Swirl yourself around inside this strange, slow mystery. Take a deep breath and exhale into blissful relief. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
http://youtu.be/pl8j_nFpajI This movie includes all of the following 2 Tone bands and songs live: “Nite Klub” – The Specials “The Prince” – Madness “Ne-Ne-Na-Na-Na-Na-Nu-Nu” – Bad Manners “007 (Shanty Town)” – The Bodysnatchers “Three Minute Hero” – The Selecter “Ranking Full Stop” – The Beat “Big Shot” – The Beat “Concrete Jungle” – The Specials …
The following is from the artist’s Youtube description: Sámi artist Elle Márjá Eira performing in Sami Grand Prix 2009 in Kautokeino, but not as a part of the competition. She is singing/yoiking “Ruoššajievja”. Sami Grand Prix is a part of the Easter Festival in Kautokeino. The Sámi people: Sami people, also spelled Sámi, or Saami, …
“The State I’m In” – Sinead O’Connor. A “breeze blowing under the skin” that purifies and heals. PS. Get well soon, Sinead! – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
Here’s the catchy and cool new single from The Animals at Night. As you can read below, all profits from the sale of the single will go to PAWS. Here’s the band’s Youtube description: “One Down, One to Go – Official video by Marlon Schaeffer and the Animals at Night. Purchase the single here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/one-down-one-to-go-single/id517282887 …
“Lifetime” – Maxwell. “I can let my life pass me by / or I can get down and try / to work it ALL out this lifetime.” – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days Maxwell – Lifetime (Official Music Video). Watch more top selected videos about: Maxwell
“…Peace has come to Zimbabwe, Third World’s right on the one…”
There’s something faintly surreal about seeing Tim Midgett and Andy Cohen together onstage again. Five and a half years after Bottomless Pit played their last (and first) Seattle show, their recent Northwest engagement—Friday, April 13 at the Sunset and the following night at Bellingham’s Shakedown—felt like a long time coming, but it also felt as …
“Beau Soir” – Debussy. Learned it at 16 + still sing it to warm up my voice before shows. Hauntingly beautiful + nostalgic. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
“Secret” – Madonna. File under “Guilty Pleasures”, but somewhere near the top! – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
A fitting tribute, straight from Sammy Davis Jr’s pool house 43 years ago. Funny, even color movies of the Band at this time look sepia toned. You could prove me wrong pretty easily, but it sure seems like Levon sang fewer songs after the first two Band albums; that might explain why the later ones …
“Road” – Nick Drake. Reboots your system when the trials of being an artist feel heavy. He left this perspective for us. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
[4/19/2012 – On his website, the family of Levon Helm has announced, “Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon. He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul.”] A proud native of Arkansas, Levon Helm put the American, not to forget …
“It Makes No Difference” – The Band. Love + respect to the great Levon Helm. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys1pBhz5c9A
This CD is a compilation of songs by Seattle bands The Generators and Sledgeback and Hungarian band C.A.F.B. The songs by the latter are all sung and titled in Hungarian. The CD begins with The Generators Tears of Repentence, which is a catchy enough punk/pop tune with plenty of hooks throughout to keep the listener …
[Update 4/19/2012 – On his website, the family of Levon Helm has announced, “Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon. He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul.” The material below was posted earlier in the week, prior to …
[Update 4/19/2012 – On his website, the family of Levon Helm has announced, “Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon. He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul.” The material below was posted earlier in the week, prior to …
[Update 4/19/2012 – On his website, the family of Levon Helm has announced, “Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon. He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul.” The material below was posted earlier in the week, prior to …
“The Messenger” – Daniel Lanois. A deepwater dive. I’ve played + sung it a hundred times but never quite get to the bottom. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
Longboat’s Igor Keller doesn’t like it when I use a certain G-word to describe him. The word is not “gangsta.” Igor’s fine with that. He’d love it if we all called him our original gangsta. The G-word Igor doesn’t like is “genius,” which is a word I keep coming back to whenever I hear tunes …
“Blue” – Cat Power. Took me 10 years to get into CP but there is no better Joni cover than this. The sexiest of slow dances. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
When it comes to music festivals, there’s nothing like a little audience participation. To stoke the fires for the 12th annual Summer Meltdown Festival in Darrington, Wash., organizers have taken grassroots involvement to the next level. Featuring fans proclaiming “I Meltdown!” in a variety of ways, an e-commercial for the August 10-12 extravaganza debuts today …
[The Real McKenzies will rock the house at El Corazon in Seattle, Wa on 5/18.] Westwinds is the new release by The Real McKenzies and it’s traditional Real McKenzies. Westwinds is part traditional Scottish folk music, complete with bagpipes, with a heavy dose of drunken punk thrown in, then shaken so hard the music explodes …
What an astonishingly bleak life, artistically at any rate, must one have lead to be a full-fledged adult workin’ at L’ETRANGER and without the first clue about blues, jazz, or the very existence of the 20th Century Avant-Garde! Or even about wordplay or bizarro humor. And to be so utterly hostile & uncurious (as opposed …