Harkening back to the golden oldies with an infusion of rock, pop and blues, Jess McAvoy delivers “Do What You Want” with an astute lyricism that is seldom heard in music today. Coming about in a playful way, McAvoy wrote the single when she was seeing someone even though her heart wasn’t quite open to …
Check out this song idea! Should I call it ‘Old Bold Pilots’ or ‘Young Man’s Game’? This hit me when this story about Sinatra arguably inventing the album said “Sinatra was on the wrong side of 30 in a young man’s game.” Then before I could pull over to write this song a train stopped …
Stories give our lives meaning in a universe where there may be no meaning, by Davin Michael Stedman
Stories give our lives meaning in a universe where there may be no meaning. I like stories. They sound good with music. We have only been able to record them for a little over a hundred years. We’ve been jotting them down for centuries, passing them from one singer to another for thousands more. When …
My buddy Jeremy From-Steel Beans is on a level and frequency that is so high Hipsters can’t even hear him. People are missing this guy completely but he is pretty much the only Rock star I actually know. He is talented AF. Good singer, good writer, good comedy, good producer, multi-instrumentalist that can do one man band …
I have been a little gun shy about covering certain reggae songs that might have me sound too PUT ON. That is until this music really seeps into my bones like the Wailers did, which I easily connected with Motown. The bread crumbs I found to Kingston with BJ DjSticky were no coincidence… Bob, Peter, and Bunny …
Luna Keller has just released what is certainly the best song of 2019 so far. Titled, “We Are All Mad Here,” it is a fun piece of Beatlesque cabaret pop with a stirring vocal, kind lyrics and a welcoming message. Luna’s trademark alto reassures us as we listen and she invites everyone to join in …
For this recording ElectroBluesSociety went back to basics and teamed up with Mississippi bluesman Boo Boo Davis. Together they revisited classic Chicago blues and recorded seven songs. These will all be released as singles during the coming months. Here is the fourth track from that very successful recording session. This time it’s a Howlin’ Wolf …
No one believes me when I tell them that the finest wines in all the world come from Wales. No one, that is, except the national tourism board of Wales. Apparently they and I have the same tastes when it comes to grapes. 15 Welsh vineyards you probably never even knew were there – Whether …
It was great to visit Conrad Denke and his Victory Studios open house. I was told this is his third annual. I am seeing Bad Animals and Studio X Seattle in the building. I am seeing sci fi thrillers made like Forbidden Power, singer songwriters like Reggie Garrett. There were so many post production, preproduction, production experts of all kinds under one roof. …and …
“Shot Clock” marks the third official single from her album, Ella Mai. The breakout 4X Platinum single, “Boo’d Up” has earned her nominations for Song of the Year and Best R&B Song at the 61st GRAMMY Awards which airs live on February 10th. She has been nominated under the category of British Breakthrough Act at …
At the not so tender age of 15, Bella Rios rocks the tools to be a multi-instrumentalist Singer and Songwriter residing in the insanely tough town of Chicago, Illinois. Having mastered the guitar, piano, bass and saxophone, all before lunch, Bella is no stranger to raw, open musical talent. Her newest superheated single, “Under The …
Here it is, the latest from Ariana Grande, released just minutes ago. Just 24 views when I first hit it on Youtube: Here are the lyrics: Breakfast and Tiffany’s And bottles of bubbles Girls with tattoos who like getting in trouble Lashes and diamonds ATM machines Buy myself all of my favorite things Been through …
As soon as I saw this video I knew I had to share it. It’s the coolest, most articulate movie I’ve seen in a while. This video goes right to the heart of so many unnecessary things that are stupid and that we just put up with because they’ve always been around. Tennis is stupid. …
Today Yung Miami and JT – together known as City Girls — release the highly-anticipated video for “Twerk (feat. Cardi B).” In it, City Girls own the dance for themselves, rallying their troupe of women to get cheeks flying and take control of their own sexuality. Yung Miami – painted as a zebra – and …
Seattle guitar stalwart and dare I say legend, Stingshark Sting is laying down guitar on collaborations for ‘Going South’ and ‘Life Yard’. Working with Stingshark and Hold in Fyah is a big deal to me. I am doing some really cool Jamaican collaborations, but this is the part of West Indian Rock where we bring it all back home …
Saying Pence would be worse than Trump is the equivalent of being a flat earther. It’s no less true today as on election night. It’s simply for those who repeated such a falsehood, now as f☆cking senile a statement as I said it was the first time someone repeated such a claim in my presence. …
“This song is about a woman driving in the middle of the night after a traumatic experience,” says Verluna. “She’s lost, confused, hurt, and afraid. Luscinia is the name of the family of birds that the Nightingale is a part of and in myth, such as Philomela in Greece, the Nightingale symbolizes a lost soul …
To all you out there helping me, I salute you. Thank you. There is no such thing as a self made man. Some of us start a little closer finish line, but this race is about how we all can lift each other up. How we can be each other’s champions. I have a little …
You have to hand it to Vladamir Putin. He is the greatest Bond villain of our life times. Somewhere the real James Bond and Jack Ryan are as dead as Lincoln’s party, now a Confederated Zombie orgy of shameless stupidity. This my friends is MAGA. Russia is still screwed, because it is Russia, but for …
This 20 year old Australian artist has a penchant for writing sticky melodies, bubblegum pop, that you just can’t shake – her music has garnered attention from the likes of NY Times, NOISEY, Stereogum and more, including NPR- who said that the only downside to listening to her track, “Better” is that your heart may …
She HAS to be the G.O.A.T., the Greatest of All Time!
Oregon and Wales have a great deal in common. Both are ultramodern coastal states/provinces. Both places favor progressive ideas and political solutions. Marijuana is legal in both Oregon and Wales (Oregon: Definitely Yes. Wales: Soft maybe. Depends on who ya talk to.) And of, course, both places love Football. In Oregon we call it soccer. …
What planet is this from? How was anyone ever so young? I had forgotten Tabitha Soren looked like Leslie Gore. https://youtu.be/q9cxMsGFgQ8
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With all the hoopla surrounding the Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, I decided to post about songs I adore that I find extraordinarily unusual and weird, yet rawk. I have always thought of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the song, as a bewildering masterpiece, despite not having a clue what the lyrics meant. About two months ago I heard …
Abstract: Okinawa Japan, one of the world’s “Blue Zones”, where people aged over 100 years are most intensely concentrated, is home to the Shikuwasa citrus fruit, a member of the mandarin orange family. Shikuwasa fruit is 40X more potent in flavonoids than oranges. Senior residents have enjoyed this fruit their entire lives on a frequent …
Rookie Bear GM Ryan Pace decided against resigning placekicker Robbie Gould who at the time was da Bears all-time leading scorer and had a FG kicking success rate that exceeded the “legendary” Kevin Butler by over 10 percentage points. (Butler kicked for da Bears around their Super Bowl season and finished his career as the …
Four String Nomad is a great work of art, a composition so beautiful it brings tears to the eyes of all who dare listen. Imagine a great novel of Asia-rising written a hundred years ago, a document of bending and not breaking, a tome of agility, wisdom and wit, a story to vault technology, water, …
For those who don’t follow the NFL, the Chicago Bears experienced a heartbreaking end to their season, losing to the Philadelphia Eagles when the potential game-winning field goal hit both the upright and the crossbar before bouncing back onto the field. It was, as the following post noted, a double doink: https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2019/1/6/18171422/cody-parkey-doink-chicago-bears-wild-card-playoffs-philadelphia-eagles To add insult …
This is smooth, probably the classiest, most high-end video in a long time. “I’m fascinated by Love – the many moods of love,” Arita says. “The heartaches, the heartbreaks, the good side, the bad side, the forever and ever, the make-ups and the break-ups…I’m a bona-fide ‘love junkie,’ addict and dealer – all in one.” …