On Saturday October 15, 2011 I took a bus to downtown Seattle from my North Seattle suburban home. I felt I could no longer sit by and be a spectator for the injustices caused by Wall Street. When I arrived at about noon, things were already in full swing in the heart of Seattle’s shopping …
According to a Youtube description, “Röyksopp is an electronic and chillout music duo based in Bergen, Norway, but the members were originally from Tromsø, Norway. The band consists of Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge. The group formed officially in 1998 and released their debut album Melody A.M. in 2001. The Norwegian word Røyksopp means puffball …
The King Blues are a London band who are just beginning to get noticed here in the US. They’re well known in England and other parts of Europe, having played in many European countries steadily over the last few years. The King Blues blend elements of ska, punk and even some hard core and rap …
Mahalia Jackson recorded a studio version of this song (or at least a clean live version) but all you can find on Youtube at the moment are disrupted live recordings, still, fantastic stuff. For a shining moment, Christian music was the most relevant, truest expression on the planet: And here’s a live version of “Trouble …
Key Lyric: “What you get is what you see.” The Message: Light some candles and break out the hot oil! Nothing gets me in the mood for love like the extended, “Come and Get It” mix of Gene Love’s Jezebel’s sex-drenched “Desire.” Back in the 80’s, I slapped “Desire” on the disc player before all …
Received the messages below from Ken Stringfellow saying the Posies will play Portland on 11/17 at the Doug Fir and Seattle on 11/19 at the Neptune Theater with their live shows of the entire Frosting on the Beater album. Also, the Disciplines new album is out: “The Posies latest is our finest hour…check the link …
The more I see this clip, the more I enjoy it. I like it because it was recorded at Jamestown (NY) Community College where the band, pre-Natalie Merchant, is said to have started and it’s an unusually upbeat, coffeehouse pop, version of Love Will Tear Us Apart:
I was quite liking the outdoor locations in this Cher video (City of London, the financial district, making me homesick for somewhere I never really lived) until that wanky boy started rapping “first date first base second date second base….” Jesus Christ on a bike, someone shoot him now before he spawns. And yet Cher …
I kind of want to like the Saturdays, they’re inoffensive, heaven knows they’re pretty, the music is hum along. In fact it would have passed the ‘Old Grey Whistle Test’ whereby the music makers of Tin Pan Alley would play something to the ‘old greys’ – the cleaners and domestic staff – and see if …
“Scorpio Rising” was the single off 10KM’s “The Wishing Chair” and had a video to accompany it which was so forgettable no one has even bothered to resurrect it on Youtube. I saw it in those days at Chicago club, Berlin, under the Belmont El Stop, across from Tuts/Avalon, while hanging with Mitch Hurst and …
There’s an inherent risk for some musicians to slow the tempo down, decrease the volume and eliminate most of the effects. It’s the risk that you might be giving away the secrets of your technique. For others it’s the risk of exposing that there’s truly little secret to any of what you’re doing. When you …
Gosh – the album is brilliant, Nika’s voice is full-on loaded with emotion as well as being mighty powerful. It is quite possible to imagine her wreaking the effects portrayed in the video. In fact, just a tiny bit of that is actually the case, the water vibration patterns are her voice. I cannot wait …
I last saw Dum Dum Girls back in April. Since then, they have grown so much that they can only have achieved this by climbing onto their own shoulders, if that makes any sense at all. I’ve been playing a preview copy of their new album to death. It’s called Only In Dreams and I …
Sadly Jessie J’s new video, “Who You Are,” is nothing like her smash-hit debut single of late 2010, “Do It Like A Dude.” “Who You Are” is pleasant enough standard R&B fare with a hint of ‘self-empowerment.’ Oh well, wait for the next one I suppose. I’ve posted this because I was so hugely enthusiastic …
I know very little about this guy – from Skåne Sweden and a recommendation from my friend Peter Dysart in the USA. Eeh ‘eck what a small world it is these days! I have to say it’s pretty understated and charming, something right for the dark days and endless rain of Portland. – Mike Hughes
[Re: Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here – Immersion Box Set – Price $118.33] Love the idea, hate the price, and yet I do feel just the slightest tingle of temptation! LOL Will NOT be making said purchase, but would love to see/hear its contents at some point, as it’s my equal-fave amongst The Floyd …
In 1983, a Wichita, Kansas band called the Embarrassment released the album Death Travels West. Fourteen years later, the Kent 3 from Seattle put out a record called Stories of the New West. Coincidence? Yes, according to Kent 3 leader Viv Halogen, who informed me that he had never heard of the Embarrassment, or even …
I understand that LeAnn’s voice stimulates the pleasure centers of the male reptilian brain, but I still prefer the Frankie Laine version.
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The accompaniments of fame just keep rolling in for The Joy Formidable. Here are Ritzy, Matt and Rhyd on no less than Letterman, and doing a mighty fine job. They have just played such a well thought out game. The thing that really, I mean REALLY blows me away is that I have played this …
In the news report above, two reporters try to explain the punk scene versus the new wave music scenes of Seattle in 1981. Although the report was pretty shallow, it also tried to discredit punk the way almost all the media did at the time. The reporters mentioned punk bands liked to use shock tactics …
Earlier Big Audio Dynamite tracks, "E = MC2" for example, are quite nice. But nothing really KICKS it like "The Globe" later did, for whatever reason. I suspect that Simonon, Headon and Strummer would’ve kicked a lotta that early-B.A.D. stuff into a higher gear, much as Jones might well have added considerable verbal or melodic content to …
Not only this song, but virtually all of The Who By Numbers should have been a Pete Townshend solo album. Magnificent stuff, but “Pete’s Suicide Note”, as it’s been called, should have been Pete’s first real solo effort. Except for maybe Slip Kid, and that god-awful Squeeze Box, which should have been taken out back …