Danish pop sensation KING’s new record ‘S**t Show’ is sultry, tongue-in-cheek and instantly infectious: a kaleidoscopic neo-soul anthem to kick start your 2019. Produced by Berkay Birecikli aka VOID – whose credits include work with FKA Twigs and Lana del Rey – S**t Show creeps up on you. Starting with sparse chords and stripped back …
If my count is correct, this is four years running that Seattle gets a concert from NY ska band the Toasters. No complaints here. The Toasters are always fun. This time the line up (besides founding member Robert Hingley AKA Bucket on guitar & vocals), consisted of a very lively horn section (bass grillbert on …
Just have a good clean primary. Don’t let the Russian trolls and bots trigger you. They should be more obvious by now, unless you’re a dumb ass. Don’t be afraid of Bernie Sanders. Nobody is too old. Biden could wrestle a bear. Ignore the nonesense about Warren and that Pocahontas bullsh☆t. I found out in …
This is a great album, a must hear. Clara Baker’s voice is able to spin loss into beauty while her guitar playing and new approaches to sounding out and recording acoustic instruments give her songs an extremely contemporary context. Please listen. Destined to be one of the best albums of 2019, Clara Baker’s Things To Burn is said …
Bicoastal indie-pop duo EXES and LA-based synthpop duo JOME will release their collaborative EP, Nothing’s Out To Get You on March 8th. In anticipation, please listen to this advance single, “Stay Still,” a powerful ode to the feelings surrounding love, loss, and tragedy. About “Stay Still,” Allie McDonald of EXES comments: “‘Stay Still’ was the first …
Eda Green is an American Singer/Songwriter originally from Rochester, NY and New Jersey. Escaping domestic abuse at home, 12yr old Eda, her mother and brother moved to Los Angeles, California where she currently resides. When Eda and family settled into LA, they happened to coincidentally land at the same apartment complex as a “crazy amount of Viners” …
Paul Manafort knows that spending the rest of his life in prison is much better than what will happen to him and his family if he rats on his Russian handlers, I mean business partners, I mean the Mob, I mean the GOP…sorry I mean Vladamir Putin. Maybe he’ll get a pardon, but I think …
“There’s a blessing in the river that you’re only going to find when you’ve been to the bottom, you can talk about the climb.” – Nuela Charles, “Long Way Down” “This song came out of a session with production duo Towers,” says Canadian, Swiss, and Kenyan songstress Nuela Charles of her latest single, “As we …
Those lazy Corporations just want welfare handouts. If that is “just Capitalism” then so is a welfare mother trying to get the best deal to try to compete in a highly competitive market. It’s a slippery slope. Now all these corporations expect a FREE ride. But that’s just business! Well so is Pimping. And pimpin’ …
Freedom Fry is releasing their second single and third new song of 2018. “Junkie.” “This is our indie pop ode to being in love and hopelessly addicted to someone.” – Bruce & Marie FreedomFryMusic.com Looking back through my emails I found two wonderful videos from Freedom Fry. This is their video for “Classic,” of which …
Florida-based indie folk singer-songwriter Vesper Wood, the solo project of Christina Wood, has released another new single from her upcoming solo debut album Instar slated for release on March 1st. “Carson” is a raw, emotional track about being an outsider, inspired by the writer Carson McCullers. About the new single, Wood comments: “The tune has an American, nostalgic feel for me…and I tried to keep the …
The Portland-based indie folk group Shook Twins have released their 4th full length album, Some Good Lives. Everybody in your life will write his or her own chapter in your story. Take a step back, and you’ll see the influence of your loved ones, mentors, and friends in your decisions. Shook Twins refer to these folks in the title …
Lowland Hum have shared a new single from their highly anticipated new album Glyphonic out May 10. Titled “A Drive Through the Countryside,” the song is a serene rumination on nature’s expanse with ominous undertones. The band tell us, “This one stems from a poem Lauren wrote after feeling both moved and disturbed by the beauty of a drive through the …
Originally written and recorded by Eric Carmen in 1975, “All By Myself” went on to reach #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has been covered by legendary artists including Frank Sinatra, Shirley Bassey, and Celine Dion. “Shannon LaBrie’s haunting and immensely personal recording of ‘All By Myself’ blew me away,” remarks Eric Carmen. “Her …
“It was really hard to have fun without looking over your shoulder to see who was judging you for it,” Grace Acladna said of her recent experiences which inspired her to write “When I Saw You,” her latest single. “For me – fun and liberty go hand in hand – so finally I met someone …
This is truth, and it still needs to be heard occasionally. It is a sonic statement to power, “The potential for Auschwitz lies at the end of all your political exertions. Change your ways.”
It has become easy to forget, over the years, exactly how good those 1980s Trip Shakespeare live shows were, but this will bring it all back in a few seconds: And of course, everyone must see the newly rediscovered promo tape from 1990:
Los Angeles powerhouse Lauren Ruth Ward, has turned heads with her stunning voice and 70s psych-glam swagger. In addition to releasing her critically acclaimed debut album Well, Hell, she has shared stages with Keith Urban, Shirley Manson, Eddie Vedder, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Shakey Graves and Liz Phair, and played to sold out crowds in LA & across the US. Lauren recently went …
Walking through Forest Park listening to a kid that came up in Marysville named Ethan Anderson and his band Massy Ferguson. They have a record coming out in April 26th at The Crocodile. The new album is aptly called The Great Divides. Their breakthrough tour of Spain coming up in April. Can we help make good local artists like …
I always said that Bryan Adams was way better than Ryan Adams and it was NEVER cool. It was never ironic. I was just being honest. I would simply state that Ryan Adams is not a great songwriter and he will never write a song as good as ‘Heaven‘, which Brandi Carlile knocked out of …
“There are lies, there are damn lies, then there are statistics.” – Mark Twain Just do good work and you’ll find an audience is a damn lie in 2019. Even if that was once true there is too much noise. Do good work and have no marketing ploy and you’ll starve and die an unromantic …
I am going to leave this here. The Country Music Establishment has yet to embrace their greatest singer and one of their best songwriters because she is a Lesbian and will not play by their rules. Her name is Brandi Carlile and she can sing circles around anybody that has been left on their charts …
Already garnering an online following and millions of streams on multiple one-off singles, HBIC Emily Vaughn is kicking in the door, announcing the not-so-subtle Bitch Bops EP. Coming up first is the cheating ex kiss-off “Dead 2 Me.” Hooky with a punch, “Dead 2 Me” is a bop in the truest sense of the word. …
Look for audiobooks at SXSW. Here’s how the band describes themselves on their Youtube page: “If you’re going to call your band audiobooks, you’d better get your stories straight. Evangeline Ling and David Wrench have great stories. Their songs are full of them – discombobulating observations over discomfiting oscillations. There are woozy fly-on-the-wall accounts of …
Taken from recent personal experience, this song’s inspiration came about when Jess’ friends were all up in arms with the simplicity of her relationship, urging that Jess be more serious about dating. When in reality, all that Jess wanted was just to be in the moment and enjoy the beauty of dating, no matter where …
This is the guy from Trip Shakespeare: February 14, 2019: Today, GRAMMY-winning songwriter Dan Wilson released a new song “Fly Safe” following his announcement last year that he will begin releasing a new song each month in lieu of full length album in 2019. These songs, which include “Uncanny Valley” and “We Ain’t Telling,” follow the release of his critically-acclaimed 2017 solo album Re-Covered where he revisited …
So glad I came to work today, against all odds and islands of ice. It was wonderful and quite unusual. First my ace budtender I love to close with broke her ribs sledding on a fire hydrant. She came and I am her ride home. My bosses called and said to take good care of …
Capitalism in America has created social conditions that ills the land. Capitalism in America needs regulation and rethinking. Why does America, the world’s richest country, fare poorly on the “happiness index” whereas the democratic socialist Scandinavians consistently dominate the top five and all four of the Nordic countries rank in the top ten, according to …
I am proud of how many lovely Women I turned on to Brandi Carlile in the mid 2000s. A few were like, “I don’t know”, and I said, “give her another listen, she’s on another level.” Now they never miss her. Sometimes it takes a minute to remember what real food is supposed to taste …
This is video artistry right here, and definitely worth a watch. “For this music video, the label offered to hire someone to make a more ‘professional’ video than I’ve had before, but I decided instead to use a little bit of the money to buy another camcorder (my sixth) & a gigantic green screen & …