Tonight I started trying to collect some photos of these adventures to Jamaica and England before they are lost in the ether and die in the coldness of the cloud. If a picture is worth a thousand words, I have 10,000 words and 100 hooks to say about this shot of a Sick Donkey Records …
Chills, baby, Chills… These songs are a punch to the uterus of all humanity… Janis Joplin, Patti Smith, Vilma Flood… This album is audacious, internal, personal, portable, emotive, routinely powerful, protruberant, bleakly beautiful, true, clear, expertly played, precisely recorded, deeply felt and extremely important… Prick up your ears and listen! Coming out of a 2 …
The Portland Diamond Project is a group of wealthy investors dedicated to bringing Major League Baseball to Portland. Most of those loaded individuals and corporations are secret, but two of the backers known to the public are this lovely singer, Ciara, and her even lovelier Seahawks Quarterback Husband, Russell Wilson. The more you watch this …
Vibrantly colorful, Karmic disorients your mind while synchronizing your feet through savage electro-pop and fresh transmutations of instrumentation. “X Marks The Spot” has power baby and so do the twin battle tigers that sing and dance their hearts out in every Karmic tune, Kylee Katch and Laura Baruchwill. They are the fast-moving leaders of tomorrow. …
‘In This Dim Light’ may be Beverly Kills most compelling single to date and further encapsulates the bands signature sounds as they suck you in with dreamy and infectious hooks then spit you right back out with raw and thumping energy.The initial tone of the song is set by Alma Westerlund’s beautiful vocals that flow effortlessly over …
Dan Wilson released a new song, “The Rules,” in keeping with his announcement last year to release a new song each month in lieu of full length album in 2019. These songs, which include “Fly Safe,” “Uncanny Valley” and “We Ain’t Telling,” follow the release of his critically-acclaimed 2017 solo album Re-Covered where he revisited songs he wrote with other artists including Adele, Chris …
I haven’t had time to do an edible or any of that in a while I’ve been so busy. And I work in a Shop. So this was nice. A day off. I sat down and instead of writing a song, I wrote the first page of a book. My apprehension with a novel is …
I’ve got the killer debut single here from Norfolk guitar slinger Michael Paul Lawson, whose visceral lyrics recall the Sam Stone–Paradise work of John Prine. You can smell barroom pheromones and coagulated blood in the air on this one. This is carnal (which means both “meaty” and “sexual”) Americana with cinematic overtones. Suffice to say, …
Look Homeward, Angel from Cellista on Vimeo. CELLISTA is an avant, savant cellist with long, strong fingers and a missionary’s visionary mind who brings new, true, acoustically rustic elements of Kronos Quartet, Merzbow, Rasputina and Zoe Keating into her music and thensome, baby!
As fleet afoot as a Bavarian in November, fashionized like an occupied Parisienné, Madonna channels Eva Braun in this Boys (and girls) from Brazil – La Isla Bunker Bonita video. “Your escape submarine is waiting in the harbor, Frau/Señora Ciccone.” It’s not only Argentina that’s crying…
From classical church boysinger to radical march songwriter and queer, inscrutable pop artist of his time, Antony Carle is a talent who leaves nobody indifferent and always finds somebody to listen. As a “woke” child, Antony was very fond of his family’s 20th century album collection. He was fascinated and sometimes stimulated by the powerful, overfull voices, the residual, unusual sounds of bedroom lovers and …
Having been compared to the late and great James Brown, Lee Fields is taking over the horned soul and jazz stratosphere. He has released several exceedingly smooth albums, including My World, Faithful Man and Special Night. Fields may have started in the 50s, but his music is just as influential today as it was then. …
TSHEGUE are fronted by no-f*cks-given French-Congolese singer Faty Sy Savenet (she’s pretty striking, more via her Insta), who relocated to Paris aged 8 from music-obsessed Congolese capital city, Kinshasa. Her lyrics tap the struggles faced by the African diaspora, and the band’s name – also Faty’s nickname growing up – is slang for the boys …
OKC had James Harden, Durant, and Westbrook and never got the ring. This shot may be the bullet that rolls the body of The Thunder into the dusty basement of playoff-less irrelevance. I don’t know if you believe in purgatory. The whole story of the Zombie Sonics is full of curses and karmic vendettas and …
This song is quite special too. Everyone should stop for a moment and give it a listen. This DC/NY based alternative-pop duo, CUTTS, began as a personal project of singer Lillian Cutts, who at the time lived in Washington, DC. After suffering a tremendous loss, she threw herself into music in an attempt to move …
TONY DANZA!!! This is one of those moments where songwriting, comedy, collaboration, and concerts collide. This 4.20 Hangar 420 Snohomish and The Soul United Allstars collaborated on a wonderful little experiment. We threw a pop up funky reggae party with just a flat bed, the little PA equipment I rehearse with, and Pat Canavan’s carvings …
Khalid Salaam drops “Plenty of fish” from the new Barehand Fisherman album. The song was produced by himself and features Detroit’s own, Boog Brown, whom you may be familiar with from her Mello Music debut Brown Study album produced entirely by Apollo Brown, as well as her other phenomenal projects to follow. This was a beautiful …
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THIS WAS ENGLAND: Some pretty incredible things are happening. I have been lucky to capture some stunning moments of songs being developed and created. This is where I wrote ‘Free Your Mind’ in Brighton, England. I also wrote this song, ‘I Don’t Want to Leave’ right when I got back from Glasgonbury when the Brexit …
I love this, and all of global East Portland should love this: a top notch bluegrass band with an environmental message. They can play and they can represent. Husband and wife artists Zoe (Natalya Weinstein) and Cloyd (John Miller) blend their long-crafted folk harmonies with fellow bandmates Kevin Kehrberg on bass and Bennett Sullivan on …
This might be worth a quick scan. I love Gould’s angel boy appearance. So tortured, so genius: it is as if he were cast by DeMille. Then there are his long, glowing, ivory fingers…
ATUSJI is the solo-project of Terkel Atsushi Røjle (Girls’ Night Out, Virgin Suicide). He writes, performs and produces everything himself. His experiences both personal and professional are clearly reflected in the music – a warped and fresh take on the singer/songwriter-tradition, made modern in its fusion of Soundcloud-rap and music from the alternative hitlists of …
Here is a little Easter egg! I was filming myself singing the lullaby ‘Andrea’ that I wrote for my niece minutes ago, and Andrea pops in. It’s sweet. I wrote this for her in this house soon after she was born, as her grandmother she now calls Abuela was holding her. My mother looked up …
In the decade when Tiger Woods was in his prime, he won his fourteen major championships in large part by his ability to out-drive his opponents, often by thirty or forty yards off the tee, and even more by the intimidation he wielded on Sundays, when he could show up on the course in his …
Of “you were good to me,” Chelsea says, “Jeremy and I stayed in a cabin in Connecticut last year where we wrote our song ‘better off.’ That trip inspired some of our best writing, so we decided to go back a year later. ‘you were good to me’ is the first song we wrote up …
dnny slows down the tempo a bit in this one, delivering a hip-hop and dance-infused, feel-good vibe about getting caught in the friendzone with a girl he’s been close with for a long time. Spotify link: https://spoti.fi/2PkEdT8
Too good to pass up. Suddenly the sun rises and this gaudy reptile from the early 70s shimmers with amber transcendence.
Maybe it’s the fatigue talking, but this has to be one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen in a long time. I especially like the petulant ladies beating the trash can lids at the very beginning. Kevin Morby, “OMG Rock N Roll” from the album Oh My God out Apr 26, 2019 on Dead …
Here it is. After discussing this with my team, including the folks I am working with at Tuff Gong International, and my dear friend Bluejay who brought me to Jamaica to represent his label, …I am offering 50 friends a stake in the publishing of ‘Free Your Mind’. Patreon.com/davinmichaelstedman We all know that song is …