The Staxx Brothers need your help. They are shooting another video and are on the verge of releasing, The Jelly Roll, a DVD collection of their music videos. Give ’til it hurts: The Jelly Roll is almost here!!!!! We set up this special order page for our friends to support us. You can see the …
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour are a delicious pop combo from Denmark consisting of the fetching, statuesque singer Mette Lindberg and the generally out of the spotlight but no less beautiful, producer Lars Iversen. Adding touches of psychedelia, funk, soul, and jazz to contempo dance grooves, they found an audience across the world when a 2009 …
In 1944, six weeks before D-Day, Warner Brothers filmed this gem of a jazz session, boasting a stellar lineup led by Lester Young in his prime. But it’s Marie Bryant who steals the show, first with a fine rendition of The Sunny Side of the Street, and next with an astounding dance number with Archie …
This is one of the most famous jazz performances ever recorded for television. When it aired live on Dec. 8,1957, Billie Holiday and Lester Young were both in terrible health and far past their artistic best. Formerly close, they were now estranged, but the jazz critic Nat Hentoff had persuaded them to share the stage …
I was at a hospital today visiting a woman that 30 days ago, I thought was dead. I saw her today, and she is recovering so remarkably, that I was brought to tears. This song came to mind. How great is our God???!!!!” – Anne Seymour Mette
Broke DJ Kidd Russell ft. DJ John Blaze aka the homeless DJ beat: sleigh bells -infinite guitars off the new mixtape: RUDY RUETTIGER MUSIC Free download: http://hulkshare.com/cponzmu79u06 Here’s a message from Kidd Russell: If you’ve been to our live shows you know this song well and it is a fan favorite. We appreciate everyone whose …
Another all-star celebrity cover of The Weight. Thanks to David Handelman for this, who adds, “Take a load off your fanny.” Bravo to Mavis Staples for her spunk and enthusiasm after all these years. Is Nick Lowe praying, shoegazing or reading the lyrics off an iPad? If he’s only reading lyrics off a piece of …
This is why LA will never be New York — a melting pot and a scene out of “ONCE” all in one glide between two stations. – David Handelman [Ed. Note – There are unconfirmed reports going around that this jam session was not a chance meeting on a train and that the singer has …
Late to the party, as usual, but this is hilarious. http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/shredders The good stuff is at his website: http://stsanders.com/www/pages/videos.php I especially like the Eagles and Queen, though the Steve Vai and Jake E Lee are works of, well, not art, but something. – Tom Fredrickson is the proprietor of the unparalleled music blog, Lost Wax …
Here’s an interesting version of Pachelbel’s Canon in D on bass guitar. Be sure to wait for it:
Only the Greatest Song Ever! – Andrew Hamlin
Jonathan Toubin is a New York DJ who was on a tour stop in Portland and sleeping in his downtown motel room Dec. 8 when a cabbie had a medical episode and crashed his cab into Toubin’s room, injuring Toubin severely. He’s still in ICU and Gail Worley writes here about the upcoming fundraiser for …
How WILL we resist the lure of the fabled….STYX?! LOL In their way they remain “The Definitive Havre Sludge Band”, if only because they actually (and somewhat disastrously) played Havre during The Golden Age (@ Northern Montana College’s Armory Gymnasium, March 1976!). A performance which inspired the following deathless phrase from the subsequent Styx review in …
1. Joe Rigby Quartet: For Harriet A saxophonist meets a bagpiper and they circle each other almost but not quite (more rudeness) the way the heavens circle each other when you suck down too much of the good stuff. There’s two guys banging on things too, but I’ll leave you to discover them. 2. Freddie …
Here’s another ring to climb in, if you choose… the Rock Critic Roundtable. – Andrew Hamlin * * * Thanks Andy. I think you’re better suited to said realm than I, so DO IT! By the by, from the overall gist of this Tumblr.com roundtable, it seems as though my long-held/oft-defended (post-2001, if not …
In the mid ’60’s, my ex-girlfriend Antonia introduced me to the concept of “go” songs. These were the songs we heard on the radio that we had a powerful affinity for. Nowadays, you could say a “go” song is one you put on your iPod. Antonia and I tended to have the same ones, although …
This unusual performance took place at New Years Eve 2012 party at Mala Restaurant, Wailea, Maui.
Click here to view Freak Folk Origins Part I, by Peter Stampfel. The Weavers had their last hit in 1952 with “Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)” after which they were shot down by the House Un-American Activities witch hunt. Guy Mitchell, who had a number of folkish hits in 1951, promptly recorded “The Only Red …
This is a sort of P.S. coming at the beginning instead of the end–when I started writing, I wasn’t sure what point I was trying to make, and this stumbles and fumbles a lot. Generally speaking, it’s about emerging musical and social trends that I see as hopefully growing, due to their being useful, fun, …
2011 started out with my watching The Reverend Horton Heat play a New Year’s Eve show at Seattle’s El Corazon and ended with my watching The Reverend Horton Heat at Seattle’s El Corazon on December 30th. I have now seen the Reverend four times and will see him four more times if the opportunity arises. …
Every year, we are bombarded by “Best Of” lists including my own submitted here on the East Portland Blog. However in hindsight, as much as the best of the 2011 albums (sorry, I still call them that) made me very happy and satisfied, I need to warn you of the bottom-of-the-barrel, waste of plastic, what-were-they-thinking…Crap …
Famed British record producer Steve Lillywhite was named a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) today by the Queen of England in her annual New Year’s list of honorees. A Knighthood is one step ABOVE the estimable CBE designation, with OBE & MBE below CBE. I could be wrong, but that’s my recollection… The tunes …