From the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Gospel Hall of Fame, and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Winners’ First African Tour Featuring hits “Let’s Do It Again,” Respect Yourself,” “Touch A Hand, Make A Friend,” and more April 1, 2024: Omnivore Recordings has announced a new live record from The Staple Singers, Africa 80, which …
Directed by Alexis Bloom and Svetlana ZillThe words of Anita Pallenberg read by Scarlett Johansson Directed by Alexis Bloom and Svetlana Zill, CATCHING FIRE: THE STORY OF ANITA PALLENBERG is a vital portrait of the charismatic and fierce rock ‘n’ roller, actress, muse, and mother who rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s after achance encounter with the Rolling Stones. Scarlett Johansson voices Anita (based …
Those of you crowing in your Cease Fire Now! regalia, seething at the Israeli flag and nodding in righteous agreement at Glazer’s speech: A cease-fire proposal agreed to by Israel continues to be rejected by Hamas. This is a good time to ask why. Bear in mind that Israel was brought to this terrible war …
Paving The Way For Another Decade Of The Premier Indie Music Festival On Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, OR (August 1 – 4, 2024; Limited Tickets On Sale Thurs @ 9 am PST) “The Best Indie Festival in the Country” –Paste “…Pickathon…stay[s] true to an ethos of careful curation and sustainability.”-Rolling Stone “sharp and idiosyncratic” –The New York Times …
Photos (courtesy of Pussy Riot) Today, Pussy Riot created an action in front of the Russian Embassy in Berlin. Given the horrific murder of Alexei Navalny, they brought a banner reading “MURDERERS” in Russian and English. They clashed with German police, who forced them to remove their masks, and threatened them with arrest if they did not comply. The action was …
Photo Credit: Guillermo J Lopez IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS THEY RAISED OVER $50K FOR PILAR WHO HAS A HEART CONDITION AND LACKS THE FUNDS TO RETURN TO HER FAMILY IN MEXICO AND RETIRE THIS MARKS JESÚS’S HIS BIGGEST CAMPAIGN TO DATE WATCH ON INSTAGRAM & TIKTOK DONATE HERE Mexican-American sierreño artist DannyLux teamed up with altruistic impact driven creator, Jesús Morales, …
Celebrated Oregon songwriters combine talents for Women’s History Month concerts (Portland, Ore.) – Eight performing artists join forces with a great band and hit the road in March and April to bring to seven Pacific Northwest cities their dynamic and joyful concert, She’s Speaking-LIVE: A Celebration of Women Songwriters. “Imagine eight powerhouse women singer-songwriters from a variety of backgrounds and musical …
Check out this interview with Brian ‘Head’ Welch on his journey from being in his heavy metal band, Korn, to finding Christ and surrendering his life to God. What an amazing testimony. CONNECT WITH US AT: ►Instagram: / lakelandcommunitychurch ►Facebook: / lakelandcommunitychurch ►Twitter: / lakelandcom ►TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lakelandchurc… ►Website:https://lakeland.church/
Network and learn from hundreds of music industry professionals like agents, record labels, DJs, festival and venue bookers, media, and more! The annual conference is the key business development and showcasing event for the folk music ecosystem with over 2,500 delegates, and 1,500+ private showcases. https://folk.org/programs/conference/2024-official-showcase-artists/ Genres represented include Appalachian, Americana, Blues, Bluegrass, Celtic, Cajun, Global Roots, Hip-Hop, Old-Time, …
www.everynoise.com is a fantastic music tool, exploring genres via Spotify metadata mining, created by ex-Spotify employee Glenn McDonald. The sheer volume of sub-genres that everything is tagged with within Spotify, that Spotify users cannot see, is staggering. And Glenn was a genre taxonomist and alchemist there. He was laid off in the early December rif. His personal …
“For What It’s Worth” YouTube and SpotifyWebsite When a band has been around for nearly half a century, you don’t necessarily expect their music to carry any particular message beyond “Yep, we’re still alive.” The legendary Martha and the Muffins are a blessed exception: Their jaw-dropping new single shows they’re less concerned with their own survival than with …
“This song was inspired by my engagement with the philosopher Walter Benjamin, who defined fascism as the aestheticization of politics, and who in response thought we needed to politicize art. He committed suicide shortly before being captured by the Nazis. I don’t normally make political art but I think the proto-fascist currents which have been bubbling up …
Saturday, May 18th – Sunday, May 19th, 2024 Ft. Curated Performance Blocks by Le Guess Who? RVNG Intl., Heavy Trip and Dripping ** Confirmed Artists Incl. Dragonchild, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Nadah El-Shazly, Linda Mary Montano, Cowboy Sadness, with more TBA Presented by Basilica Hudson and Le Guess Who? in collaboration with Sarah Van Buren 12pm …
Photo Credit A decade ago, Nike co-founder Phil Knight bequeathed a whopping amount of money to the University of Oregon to build a facility for only athletes. My memory is foggy, but I thought the structure was a hybrid dorm and training complex for football players only. Maybe not. A quick search found this: https://www.businessinsider.com/phil-knight-own-locker-oregon-football-facility-2013-9 …
PODCAST OFFERS RARE OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR HUNTER BIDEN IN HIS OWN WORDS ON FAR RANGING SUBJECTS – LISTEN FIRST EPISODE PREMIERS DECEMBER 8 WITH PART TWO DECEMBER 15 Listeners to Moby’s podcast Moby Pod will get a rare chance to hear Hunter Biden speak when he’s the guest on two episodes, the first debuting today, December 8 with …
Remembering Joan Didion at the Algonquin Hotel on December 7th A celebration of the writer featuring Evelyn McDonnell, author of The World According to Joan Didion, with Cara Buckley, Peter Noel, Alex Segura, and Tammy Faye Starlite RSVP HERE “Evelyn McDonnell has written a wonderfully fitting tribute to Joan Didion: one that avoids simple platitudes, approaching …
Last night I dreamt that I killed Henry Kissinger. ‘Twas a vivid dream. Setting: a beach with many people engaged in typical beach behavior. I noticed the former Secretary of State (or as I refer to him – Satan’s Emissary on Earth) to my left with his son. Henry stood and sauntered toward the water …
The film, directed by frontman Jack Grisham, details the 1983 destruction of the revered and highly influential American punk band from those that survived it. The soundtrack features music by Greg Kuehn and T.S.O.L. The original motion picture soundtrack of the T.S.O.L. documentary IGNORE HEROES is now available digitally and on vinyl via DC-Jam Records and record stores worldwide. …
Indianapolis, November 14 2023 – Today, Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova led the old-school protest art action GOD SAVE ABORTION at Indiana’s Supreme Court. GOD SAVE ABORTION is part of a bigger reproductive rights campaign of art actions that Pussy Riot are launching this upcoming year. This first piece is in collaboration with students from Indiana University. The lyrics state: GOD SAVE …
Having just turned sixty, I’ve become accustomed to seeing older crowds at events with the artists I prefer. I anticipated that possibility when I went to see Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan at the Chase Center in San Francisco last Friday, but the crowd turned out to be a mix of ages, with a number …
The original “Gun Class” has over 2 million Spotify streams and 8.4 million YouTube views (October 20, 2023 – Los Angeles, CA) — Geffen Records/ Flawless Entertainment – Mudbaby Ru is back with another lesson for fans with the release of the official remix to his viral breakout hit “Gun Class” featuring Nardo Wick and G Herbo. The new …
ISRAELI-AMERICAN RAPPER KOSHA DILLZ PENS NEW SONG “BRING THE FAMILY HOME” IN WAKE OF RECENT VIOLENCE
Today, Iaraeli-American rapper Kosha Dillz is sharing a brand new song penned following the news of Hamas’ most recent attack on Israel. Within just a few days Kosha Dillz (aka Rami Even-Esh), had written “Bring the Family Home” and recorded and a stunning video shot in old Jewish New York on the Lower East Side that includes shots …
MUSICALLY INTERPRETING POEMS FROM GINSBERG’S THE FALL OF AMERICA: POEMS OF THESE STATES 1965-1971 FEATURING: AI WEIWEI, PHILIP GLASS, ANNE WALDMAN, THURSTON MOORE WITH SAUL WILLIAMS, DEVENDRA BANHART, MIHO HATORI, JACK DANGERS, YONI WOLF, FENNESZ & TAYLOR DEUPREE, STEPHEN HILLAGE & MIQUETTE GIRAUDY, KAI CAMPOS & CJ MIRRA, AND DJ SPOOKY / AKA THAT SUBLIMINAL …
From the author of Listen Whitey! The sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 and Did It! Jerry Rubin: An American Revolutionary comes the next installment in Pat Thomas’ chronicling of the counterculture. Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg will be published by Powerhouse Books (distributed by Simon & Schuster) on December 1, 2023. The book is a visual treasure trove of previously unpublished …
Derek Smalls, the bass force formerly of the fabled heavy metal band formerly known as Spinal Tap, is back with a vengeance – this time with his sights firmly set on the movie phenomenon of 2023, that advocate of everything pink and fluffy, Barbie. The self-described embodiment of lukewarm water reaches boiling point with Smalls’ first track in …
Television content creators have had coverage/payment disputes with cable providers for a few years now. My first memory of such a standoff was connected to the Big Ten Network demanding more money for its content than cable operators wanted to pay. Currently, the nation’s second largest cable operator, Charter, has reached an impasse with Disney. The …
Experimental political pop artist Mary Ocher returns with a musical tour-de-force examining the collective dread of the impending future. Ocher, the eternal outsider, has an uncanny ability to craft curious intricate worlds. Unravelling our innermost fears (as described in the album’s essay), and triggering paranoia of the world we live in – which seems to be spinning out …
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Andreas Lawen “To me, that’s the world’s scariest band.” —Chuck D, Public Enemy Ever hear about the all-Black hardcore band that unleashed one of the greatest records of the nineties, and faced a censorship battle that went all the way to the President of the United States? Did you know that …
Magnolia Pictures will release JOAN BAEZ I AM A NOISE in NY theaters on October 6, 2023 – Expanding to LA & Additional Markets on October 13, 2023 Directed by Karen O’Connor, Miri Navasky, and Maeve O’BoyleExecutive Produced by Greg Sarris, Parri Smith, Josh Braun, Ben Braun and Terry Press Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert film, JOANBAEZIAMANOISE is a raw and intimate portrait …
When Seattle’s music and arts festival, Bumbershoot, rolls around every Labor Day weekend… I feel bittersweet pangs of poignancy. As I now write of it from 2,400 miles away, I’ve realized that my fuzzy-warm memories have even more to do with the festival’s site – the Seattle Center. The magic, the always-pleasant atmosphere of that …