. Hey, there’s an ad in my sidebar now that says Rick has signature cases for iPads and iPhones — limited edition checkerboard! hehe: – Andrea Miller .
. This could be useful also: Youtube has assembled a playlist of 50 awesome videos from acts to perform at SXSW. Click on this link and the Youtube page which opens in a new window will start and run continuously through all fifty vids or just click the “Up Next” option in the video screen …
Here’s Meklit Hadero, one of the many artists showcasing at South By Southwest. This delicate sonic flower of modernity, called “Leaving Soon,” is informed by jazz, hip hop, folk, moody, string-laden chamberpop and a grownup’s instinct for romantic risk vs. reward analysis. Nonetheless it’s playful and catchy from beginning to end and makes my adrenal …
Mats Paulson will have to do. I couldn’t find the definitive– Artur Erikson– version: .
No shoes on the dance floor, please. Remember, there’s a big game right here tomorrow right after school… Oh, please don’t play this on your 78rpm turntable because it’s a 45 on ViK Records or United Artists or RCA: – John Markuson
I have no memory of Sting’s video for this song at the time of it’s 1985 release. This was the first single off Sting’s first solo album, The Dream of the Blue Turtles, and whatever the video happened to have been in those days, there’s no way the visuals could have been nearly as good …
Buck Owens was the top-grossing country music artist of the 1960s. In his later years he often said that taking the job of “Hee Haw” co-host in 1969 (alongside Roy Clark) effectively ruined his career. This clip may shed some light on this statement. – Jim Demetre is a Seattle-based writer and the publisher and …
. Here’s a fantastic version of “Lattes.” Legendary Seattle Musician Jim Basnight is touring Washington and Oregon. Go out and see him. You’ll be glad you did. – EPB . Jim Basnight Tour Schedule: Saturday March 12th at Bender’s Bar in Renton WA at 9PM Thursday March 17th at Tri-City Country Club in Kennewick WA …
This is my personal fave Supremes number because it is a sweet, soothing, detumescent lullabye with lyrics hinting at big city summertimes and forbidden roof-born romances struck with both hoody squalor and electroluminescent skylines in view. Coming towards the end of the Supremes run, this tune was the first single to feature Jean Terrell on …
Also in the Michael Jackson Suite at EastPortlandBlog.com: Tribute to Michael Jackson From Patrick Stump of Fallout Boy Brazilian Cab Driver Impersonates Michael Jackson Spectacularly On the Occasion of Michael Jackson’s Death, by Andrew Hamlin Smells Like Rockin’ Robin (Nirvana vs The Jackson 5) – A Mashup Michael Jackson – Thriller (A Cappella) Three Year …
. . Here’s the latest from Kidd Russell & The Homeless DJ: “We are going to be debuting lots of new show footage from reggies rock club over 80% of the show was new music from my mixtape RUDY RUETTIGER MUSIC and EP PULASKI DAY! Peep how the crowd was waving like my neighbors to …
. Seattle alternative hip hop band, Theoretics, are offering a free download of Wind Comes to Change prior to their April 9, 2011 record release party at Hard Rock Cafe, Seattle. For more info, go to http://www.reverbnation.com/theoreticsmusic .
. Click here for Paste Magazine’s Review of Collapse Into Now by Stephen M. Deusner . .
Staxx Brothers– superstars of hard-ass soul, “the closest thing to vintage Funkadelic ever witnessed,”* and longtime friends of East Portland Blog are offering you a party that starts now and ends (if ever) in 2012. Anyone who purchases an advanced copy of Jungle Cat, the band’s next album, before the official release party, Saturday May …