How about these apples? Friday June 14th I am going to be a guest on the Kingston radio station, Roots FM with Selecta Ras Isachar. He is going to listen to a wide variety of Northwest artists that submit music for this episode – and some of them will be highlighted on this evening and …
Moscow singer and producer, Kedr Livanskiy has just released her sophomore album, Your Need. The album places her in the forefront of Russia’s burgeoning electronic and experimental music scene. Your Need is a celebration of life and rebirth. It’s about a fighter’s spirit, audacity and courage. Dance music inspired a furious burst of creative energy …
Los Angeles psych pop band Amo Amo’s self-titled debut album – produced by Jim James of My Morning Jacket -has just been released! Amo Amo formed in June 2017 when a group of dear friends – Love Femme, Omar Velasco, Justin Flint, Shane Mckillop and Alex Siegel – got together for an impromptu session in …
James Micah Basnight is a Pacific Northwest rock’n roll superhero. He’s tough as nails. He was there for Seattle’s DIY-beginning in the late 70s and has been rocking around the Northwest and the world ever since. He had a good run in New York in the late 70s where he played legendary clubs like CBGBs …
There are some great vibes here from Ananya Birla – earlier this year she became the first Indian born artist to go platinum with an English track in India, landing white hot press in Ones to Watch and Billboard. Ananya is an Oxford grad from Mumbai, but spends most of her time in London and …
Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, Sabina Ddumba was born to Ugandan parents. She’s the youngest of 8 children. At the age of 14, she joined Stockholm’s prestigious Tensta Gospel Choir, an outfit with many notable alumni such as Lykke Li and Seinabo Sey. Sabina has just released ‘Blow My Mind’, which she co-wrote with MNEK. “I …
Everyone has a person in their life that has the ability to devastate, quickly and effortlessly,” she explains. “lowercase is a song about recognizing your power through awareness in a situation were you have been made to feel incredibly small by another. This takedown is detailed through a central metaphor, a reference to the millennial digital …
One of the only artists of her generation to achieve an astoundingly high level of fame both in Spain and internationally, Bad Gyal is positioned atop the wave of tastemaking urban stars now taking over the Latin and global arena. “Bad Gyal has already made massive inroads in the underground music scene in Spain, and …
Arthur Moon is the moniker of award-winning composer/singer Lora-Faye Åshuvud, who lives and works in Brooklyn, where she was raised, and collaborates on the Arthur Moon project with musicians like Cale Hawkins (Quincy Jones, Bilal, Wyclef Jean) and Martin D. Fowler (a composer forThis American Life). Åshuvud’s musical origins were in folk and rock, and …
…A bit like Pixies meets Elliot Smith with a dash of Radiohead. Years of performing, writing, and challenging himself creatively led him to believe things were on track for a breakthrough in the local scene, but after a devastating breakup with his long-term girlfriend, James decided to sideline his musical ambitions and spent his savings on …
Since Ibeyi released their critically-acclaimed sophomore album Ash in September 2017 the twins have kept busy touring the globe and collaborating on some incredible projects including: writing an original song “Cleo Who Takes Care Of You” for the ROMA soundtrack, lending their song “Exhibit Diaz” to the film Miss Bala, and contributing to Hamilton’s‘Hamildrop’ series with “Rise Up Wise Up Eyes Up.” Most …
Bittersweet Switzerland Switterbeet Switterbitzerland… SWEET AND SOUR, a new single from F.Way, a band from the Italian part of Switzerland, is accompanied by this music video, which tells the story of the song. It tells the story of a couple who are together from young to old and are still happy together in spite of …
The National recently announced their eighth studio album I Am Easy To Find due out May 17th on 4AD, and the companion short film of the same name written by Academy Award-nominated director Mike Mills (20th Century Women, Beginners), and starring Academy Award Winner Alicia Vikander. Today, the band released album track “Hairpin Turns,” featuring …
I am clearly a big fan of Casey Brookbush. I shot this at Hangar 420 Snohomish before the storm of 420 swept over us. It was a fun day working with old friend Jess Webb who was one of the people that can say she was there in 2002 when the The Staxx Brothers got started, hit the road, and wrote …
Thanks to numerous remixes for other artists, multi-talented Patrick Glassl, aka Patrick G-Spot, has made a name for himself in the scene over the last few years. His ‘partner in crime’ Danky Cigale is responsible for productions and remixes for artists such as Alphaville, Haddaway, Soultans, or Thea Austin (SNAP!). The two got to know …
Brooklyn Bred, Experimental R&B/Soul Singer/Songwriter, Corin Gabriella delivers her latest track “Recipe” “Recipe” is the first single off of the album Mortar & Pestle to be released January 2020. https://www.coringabriella.com/
Have you ever been in a relationship that never should’ve happened? One of those situations where you’re just having fun with someone on the weekends and all of a sudden they have a key to your apartment and 7 months later you’re like “what just happened?” Too often we stay in bad relationships for too …
Sofia Bolt, the project of guitarist/vocalist Amélie Rousseaux, is thrilled to announce her debut album Waves, due out June 28 on Loantaka Records. Rousseaux began releasing music as Sofia Bolt in her native France, winning acclaim for her early EPs from Rolling Stone and Noisey. In 2017, following a breakup, she relocated to Los Angeles and began recording music with a wide-ranging cast …
True Love of Crime is the astonishing debut album from Belaver, a singer, songwriter and musician alone but never lonely in New York City. Drawing influences from true icons like Neil Young and David Bowie as well as the more soulful alt-country stars like Bill Callahan and Townes Van Zandt, Belaver creates enervating, illustrating, deconstructing, …
Another Scottish band so enamored with old America, they do Americana better than Americans. Voice is off-putting, and line-by-line invokes every lyrical stereotype and standard in the genre… yet the sound is attractive, and the chorus seals the deal; overrides any hastily-conceived aversions. In short, quite a good song – Steve Stav
Amazon will pay $0 in taxes on $11,200,000,000 in profit for 2018 Amazon not only had all those benefits, it had the benefit of securing a market, building a business for years by not charging sales tax – a huge advantage over the brick and mortar stores it damaged or put out of business. People …
Near the end of the first half of the Portland Trailblazers’ first round playoff Game 1 last year against the New Orleans Pelicans, I noticed on the scoreboard that Damian Lilliard and CJ McCollum had combined for a total of 3 points. It looked like a misprint, but in fact it turned out to be …
Mike Scott has always had a little Jagger swagger, fancying himself a rock n roll troubadour, yachtsman’s cap and all. It’s not definitional, per se, to his wide-ranging song-writing cannon, but it’s there in anthems such as “The Whole of the Moon,” “Everything is Rags,” and, most notably, “The Big Music.” Nearly two decades ago …
If automation is so inevitable that we are just going to bend over and take it lying down without a fight, we have zero chance in hell of saving our environment. Zero. Chance. In Hell. We are so weak and lazy we have zero faith in our collective ability to organize to stop using self …
DajshaDoll is a majestically proud and hot female artist born and raised in ultra-Gangsta Youngstown, Ohio. She grew up around truth music and never forgot. The great ones never do. Her father, Soul, was a power artist who taught his little girl everything he knew before he passed away tragically in 2005. Doll grew up …
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I just got in a fascinating argument where I had to calm down an employee and supervisor, because I asked the Right questions. I refused to use the new Kiosk at Costco to order a Ceasar salad. I almost did it, but I just couldn’t. I pulled out my card. I told the girl I …