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…I recall writing at the time that I knew she wasn’t from around here (Seattle). How? She pronounces Peter Bagge’s last name “baggy.” A decent presentation all the same. Is more Pop Conference stuff available? If so, where where where? Best, – Andrew Hamlin Seattle Channel Video can be played in Flash Player 9 and …
It is always such a dangerous thing, when you have loved what a band has done in the past, then they produce a new record. I can genuinely say that I am blown away by Wye Oak’s new album, Civilian. I have a short review of it at http://www.themusicfix.co.uk/content.php?contentid=13297&single=true I got to see them recently …
East Portland Blog’s own Andrew Hamlin has a review of “Withershins” by Smoosh posted in the prestigious San Diego Reader. You may view it here: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/mar/08/emwithershinsem-smoosh/ “I do hope you’ll avail yourselves of the album,” Andrew wrote in email, which is “available for free download, last time I checked, at www.smoosh.com. I recommend the live-on-KEXP …
This song kills me. My daughter and I had a running joke where I would shout at her: “Where’s your Dylan!? Where’s your Dylan?!” After I heard Suf’s first album, I thought, well my daughter’s generation now has their Dylan. Such a great storyteller. – Mark Handley . Casimir Pulaski Day – Sufjan StevensUploaded by …
Graig Markel and Zera Marvel– the first couple of Seattle power music are making three songs from their latest project, Dead Ship Sailing, available for free download:
I got an email from Barry Southgate this week letting us in the blogosphere know that his new single, Don’t You Think?, is available on iTunes. Indeed it is and you can hear it above. Sweet, smooth, reggae-inflected R&B which is very catchy, Don’t You Think? should be on everyone’s iPod and is a very …
. Gosh, it’s as long ago as Oct 2009 that I last saw Bat For Lashes, when they were touring in the UK with the Two Suns album. They are in Mexico at this very minute supporting Coldplay, I suppose someone has to. Anyway, this song has surfaced from nowhere – BFL covering Depeche Mode’s …
In the early 1970s, a surge of racial pride swept the United States and soon it found its way to the popular medium of broadcast television, where people of color had been entertaining the public since jazz pianist and vocalist Nat King Cole’s show debuted in 1956. The Civil Rights movement had elevated the status …
An oldie but a goodie. Gotta love Clem Burke’s drumming, so simple yet so hypnotic: .
The Rolling Stones—“Tell Me (You’re Coming Back)” (Decca 1964, 3:47—UK LP version) Sometime in the fall of 1981, well before my freshman year at Brown took its big nosedive, I finally had the opportunity to see Mean Streets, the movie that made Marty Scorsese’s rep in 1973. When, near the outset, Harvey Keitel enters a …
I was thinking about genius tonight. It starts with some talent; then these wunderkinds go off and work hard to hone it, like the Beatles did in Hamburg. Genius doesn’t just happen, it takes work. It took a lot of time to get these voices to blend so well (above). More on the subject of …
“At some point in young manhood, I fell in love with Sade’s stomach.” – from my upcoming autobiography, The Luckiest Unlucky Man. – Steve Stav
The Airborne Toxic Event is the best band out there named for a catch phrase from a Don Delillo novel. In this case, the novel is “White Noise.” Here’s “Changing,” their latest and grooviest yet:
Recently, the “Greatest Guitar Solo Ever” clip has been in circulation on the Tube of You, and might I say — “Wow! Up with hyperbole.” While there’s no question that this was supposed to be rock legends covering another rock legend’s song, the focus quickly shifts to who has the hottest lick. With Prince in …
Seattle alt-country songwriter Charlie Smyth has made his new album, “Leaves,” available for free download at CharlieSmythMusic.com. “Leaves” is pensive, spare, beautiful, emotive and distinctively American. It’s a lovely work from the softer end of the alt.honky.tonk continuum. It’s mostly Smyth’s voice with an acoustic guitar, punctuated here and there by drum, bass and piano. …
“Sting, the Jazz Man.” He DID have the sense to surround himself with the best jazzmen available. When this double LP came out, I played this song incessantly. Later, I find its mesmerizing-crescendo structure to be reminiscent of something Chico Hamilton would do. A great performance, Omar Hakim’s solo has become iconic in the drum …
. Bob Marley – Is This Love? .
Two nights sold out at the Troxy (London), so that’s 5,200 people keen to be there. I made it for the Monday night, queued from 4:40 pm, seal-cold in not enough clothes in the Commercial Road. It’s chill in Tower Hamlets. Thought I was eighth in the queue but some people it turned out were …