The best Rock & Roll singer combo in American history was with out a doubt Ike & Tina. And I’d put them up against Jagger/Richards and Page/Plant and Jeff Beck / Rod Stewart any night of the week in any decade Ike was alive. Tina is straining but this is what the Stones were really …
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Life’s deepest mysteries. How could Ike & Tina have been the best LIVE Rock & Roll band EVER while never once capturing that true lightning in a bottle in any recording studio? It’s almost not fair. This recording sounds terrible in terms of fidelity but holy SH*T, they sound incredible. Were they just the best …
[Update 4/19/2012 – On his website, the family of Levon Helm has announced, “Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon. He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul.” The material below was posted earlier in the week, prior to …
Hipsters and vintage Nazis have one thing in common: style and no substance. Oh you think what he’s saying is rubbish now? He was aight, but Morrisey was overrated. Being influential is not the same thing as being great. The world if full of consumers thinking the second lowest hanging fruit is like super special, …
Shooting music videos on the last day I am in Jamaica is quite an undertaking. Run and gun. These are not my videos per say. I wrote and recorded some songs with a dancehall singer and a producer in Port Antonio. I couldn’t make it back there before I left so they came to me. …
Shawn Smith, one of the Seattle music community’s most respected and beloved figures, has died aged 53. Cause of death [has been reported as complications from diabetes.] A solo artist for some years, the singer/songwriter made his bones in the 90s with the band Brad, and later, with Satchel and Pigeonhed. Smith’s music was featured …
This is why musicians need help. It’s why I am going to need help to continue to produce music. I really really really want to. But the systen is broken. Spotify and the major labels made billions as planned when Spotify went public. Phone manufacturers and carriers make billions every week selling devices and services …
How to conquer Puerto Rico. Go back to Puerto Rico, go on TV and suit up. Sing a medley of my cousin Daniel Santos’ hits with local musicians. Allow me to paint us both a picture of this stop on the march to promote ‘Free Your Mind’. You tell the hosts and the audience at …
I have a lot of nice things to say about the latest remake of A Star is Born. I can be a critic as well. But Bradley Cooper still has a better voice than Kristofferson. Kris is actually a terrible singer and a brilliant songwriter that makes Lou Reed sound like Otis Redding. But this …
Rex Tillerson said Russia is behind the nerve agent attack in England. Fired the next day. Russia hacks the RNC and doesn’t leak the goods through its front Wikileaks, and the Republican controlled Intelligence Commitee says there is no collusion. That’s the news…Today. Nothing to see here. Says lobotomized Uncle Sam, washing the shame down …
Books are powerful, but it’s really how you use them that counts. I am no Warmonger but I love the message of Art of War, because its great theme is that best move on the battlefield is to never have to go to the battle field. Now that doesn’t mean appeasing to a stronger, or …
Post-riot grrrl trio Blood Lemon — feat. bassist & 1st female member of Built to Spill, Melanie Radford — is back today with a headbanging love letter to ’90s alternative in a defiant new single + video “Whistleblower.” Off the band’s self-titled debut album (out April 23), Melanie says the song reflects on “the inner dialogue that occurs when a person is debating …
The following communique landed near Davin Michael Stedman during our modern equivalent of a V2 blackout of London, the Coronavirus Quarantine of 2020. These words are reposted here with permission: Hey Davin, did you know that I grew up with German Rocket engineers in Huntsville, Alabama? As a kid I used to play monkey bars …
Earl “Chinna” Smith (born 6 August 1955), a.k.a. Earl Flute and Melchezidek the High Priest, is a Jamaican guitarist active since the late 1960s. He is most well known for his work with the Soul Syndicate band and has recorded with many reggae artists, appearing on more than 500 albums. “Daniel in the Lion’s Den” …
Thanks to Davin Michael Stedman and Mell Detmer for this one. Mell is just back from Africa. Oumou Sangaré is a Malian superstar and a friend of Mell. According to her Wikipedia page, Oumou Sangaré was born February 25, 1968 in Bamako, Mali and “is a Grammy Award-winning Malian Wassoulou musician, sometimes referred to as …
2018 should be remembered as the “Free Your Mind” year. We tend to take Davin Michael Stedman for granted, but 2018 was his year and we should look back and celebrate it. Very few people will ever have as fancy a trip around the sun as DMS had in 2018. He traveled to Jamaica and …
Chris Mcfann the owner of Der Hinterhof and one of our greatest fans and a true friend, designed this ad and purchased by purchased the back of the local entertainment magazine. Definitely consider taking a road trip to see our last shows before the band goes on hiatus. Seriously, it’s a lot of fun. One of the great …
Tadiman has been a friend of East Portland Blog for a while. He is Slovenia’s finest reggae artist. We featured his tune. “Kdor drugemu jamo koplje” a few months ago. Tadiman can be seen in the background of the video Davin Michael Stedman took on what would have been Bob Marley’s 73rd birthday. Now he’s …
Burning Spear is that rare performer whose real name, Winston Rodney, was better– or at least as good— than his incendiary stage name. I would give my left nut to be named Winston Rodney today. Take a listen to this 1977 Spear tune recorded for Social Living. The rhythm section is one for the ages. …
In the recent discussion about San Francisco 49ers ex-QB Colin Kaepernick’s extended vacation, the focus has been much more on the politics of the situation than what he would likely contribute on the field. Some thoughts on the latter are in order. The Kap who came within five yards of adding a sixth Lombardi Trophy …
I’m not going to say a damn thing, except I LOVE Taj Mahal so much, and this song among others knocked my **** in the dirt tonight. Some people live their lives wrapped around the memories of catching 100s of Phish shows. What I wouldn’t give to be able to follow around Taj for a …
Many thanks to Davin Michael Stedman and everyone at Staxx Brothers for premiering “Corn Rows for Christmas” on East Portland Blog two years ago. “Corn Rows for Christmas” is the tune which really put East Portland Blog on the map. Here it is in all its original glory: https://www.eastportlandblog.com/2010/12/21/its-here-staxx-brothers-corn-rows-for-christmas-a-world-premiere-original-song-free-download/
Here’s the latest from my friend Davin Michael Stedman: The very first Soul United Film Festival takes place May 3rd, 2012 from 7 to 10pm at Cinebarre in Mountlake Terrace. The festival features a unique program of music videos and short films, produced on both a local and national level. The Soul United Film Festival …
[The Staxx Brothers will appear at East Portland’s Mt. Tabor Theater on March 16, and at the Hard Rock Cafe in Seattle on St. Patrick’s Day.] When the larger-than-life Staxx Brothers take action, they think big. For the band’s third video for Jungle Cat —an album with a young prizefighter’s legs under it — something …
I give the Rolling Stones a lot of credit for showing up at Chess Records, 2120 S. Michigan Avenue, in Chicago in 1965 and I give Jagger and Richards a lot of credit for paying for Hubert Sumlin‘s funeral in 2011. This is how it’s reported in Rolling Stone magazine: “The funeral for Chicago blues …
There was a notorious crash here in Portland in the early morning hours of December 3, 2011 wherein Ndamukang Suh, a professional football player, was driving. One passenger was hurt. Seattle musician, Davin Michael Stedman, a member of Staxx Brothers saw the accident and says in this article that Suh, the driver, watched too much …
This is such a fantastic album that I lack the clever, crisp, exacting, verbiage anyone would need to try and describe this work. This is fusion music in the best sense of the word. There’s urgent, powerful hip hop here in the form of living, urbane, rhythmic, visual poetry rapped mightily by Staxx Bros front …
. Seattle hip hop fusion ensemble, The Staxx Brothers, will perform a concert at the Historic Everett Theatre (2911 Colby Avenue, Everett, WA), with 20 Riverside, the Jackson High School Big Band, the Edmonds Community College Big Band, DJ Bebop and jazz-rockers Omega III from Everett High, on April 23, 2011, at 8 pm, with …
One of the many high privileges that comes with maintaining East Portland Blog is the opportunity to present music from anywhere, but particularly from the other Portlands of the globe. Anywhere His Majesty’s navy sailed, a Portland or two was sure to be left behind, like a lost anchor or a social disease. There are …
Engaging with wildlife can improve your cognitive health and give psychological benefits, according to research. Oregon currently ranks as the worst state for mental healthcare. Therefore, encouraging wildlife into your East Portland home’s backyard can be great for your mental health. Here are some of the most common species in the area and how to attract them to …