LeBron James, like his predecessors Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, is a star whose appearance in any city draws fans to an NBA arena like pilgrims to Mecca, and like the latter, he is a sight to behold in person at least once in your life. Accordingly, there were a lot of LeBron …
Well WTF? Who has heard about the lost invention, Starlite? It’s one of those stories that seems like the plot for a science fiction film and a comedy, but it’s actually kind of a tragedy. You feel like this a hoax…but tell me this isn’t too strange to be fiction: An eccentric (yet marvelously talented) …
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 …
In the buildup to last Sunday’s game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Jacksonville Jaguars, even the most gushing admirers of rookie 49er quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo anticipated a rough time. The Jaguars had allowed the fewest points and passing yards of any team in the NFL, and their defensive line, nicknamed “Sacksonville,” was so …
If Extra Terrestrials took a knee during the National Anthem, maybe more Americans would care that the Department of Defense confirmed the existence of UFOs via The New York Times. Redneck #1: “You little f_ckers need to respect the f_cking flag. Our troops fought and died so you lazy sons of b_tches had something fun …
Articles like this one, are why paying $20 a month for The New York Times is a nice investment. Maybe the news we get for free is typically hot garbage for primarily that reason. Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program – https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html Why pay for news? Because this story about the …
Remember when bands were super depressed in the 1990s but everything was pretty awesome? That’s clinical depression. Listening to Nirvana unplugged with Megan Lueck on the late night tip. My heart goes out to those dealing with that struggle. …also the 90s were awesome. Yet today I also dig doing back strokes in Olympic swimming …
The most unbelievable part of quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo’s fledgling career in San Francisco is that it happened at all. In any other league, a player of such other-worldly talent would never have been traded for anything less than a king’s ransom, and yet the New England Patriots let the 49ers have him for a 2018 …
Golly, the late Adam West had some superb comedy cameos in the later years of his life– the mayor on Family Guy, appearances on The Simpsons and King of Queens come to mind– and this song for an upcoming Dr. Demento recording is another humdinger of comic brevity for TV’s classic Batman. Give it a …
At the age of five Alice Merton started taking classical piano lessons, four years later she was introduced to vocal training. After spending many years being classically trained, Alice discovered the art of songwriting through one of her high school courses in Germany. She then went on to study songwriting and pursue her dream of …
I have been tending lately to fixate on artists for a while, given the wealth of video on YouTube. I have spent time looking for new, i.e., old, material from Alice in Chains, Yes, Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis, Don Rickles, Sam Kinison and others. Recently, I researched the early 1970’s video catalog of Joe Walsh. …
Here’s the bio Brains Gad requested to promote our shows in Jamaica: Seattle songwriter Davin Michael Stedman is best known as the lead singer of The Staxx Brothers. His work with the emerging British act Sherlock Soul is also presently garnering him acclaim. But it his work in Jamaica as an emerging solo artist that …
Chi Ching Ching is this generation’s brightest talent combining his strengths: dance and vocal performance. He is gearing up for his 2018 debut album Turning Tables and dropped the LP’s first single “Rock Di World” on Friday, Dec 15th, 2017.
This year I got to host Band in Seattle‘s Christmas Special with my friend Stephanie Anne Johnson. Tune in December 23 at 8pm and 11pm on CW11 Seattle – KSTW and again on Dec 30 at 8 & 11. The Christmas Special is one hour long, as apposed to the usual 30 minute time slot… …
Hey Donny, There’s a New Santa in Town… We might not love our President this Christmas, but our Santa Claus is on point. Obama is still young, he has accomplished more than any of us, and yet…he still gives us hope we might reach our own potential as he did. I hope Obama gives the …
In light of last Tuesday’s special election results, we now know that if a Republican gets outed as a child molester in Alabama, he might actually lose an election by the landslide margin of one and a half percentage points. This was also with the Democrat, Doug Jones, running a vigorous and intelligent campaign and, …
You might have heard that I started a band in Britain called Sherlock Soul that is dropping our first single on Christmas Eve. But have you seen the Sherlock Holmes robot John Loud made to celebrate the release? John is a very talented sculptor, MC, and star of his Tales of a Time Lord radio …
NBA super teams reflect the spirit of our economy. The haves and the have nots. Like our economy the f_ckery is accelerating and it’s damaging the true competitiveness that well regulated capitalism provides when more individuals and companies can compete. I like Golden State but what a Cartel! Monopolies are emerging, even if the NBA, …
I just watched Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown episode in Lagos, Nigeria as I sipped homemade Hot Chocolate on this cold December night. Lagos. This is where I will be one year from now. I am not passing up on this opportunity to visit West Africa. I have accepted that invitation. As I got a glimpse …
Do you have what it takes to be a spy? Do you have the physical ability to be completely forgettable? We are talking Spies, not the classic Military traitor like Benedict Arnold or Michael Flynn. This is 007 stuff. Can you walk into a room full of 15,000 people like Steve Miller and entertain them …
I love my friends but I don’t believe them when they tell me this Flynn / Trump thing is a Nothing Burger. This is like if Richard Nixon had the KGB breaking into DNC offices. You know, instead of those Cuban agents Nixon soon wished the CIA would have left for Fidel, to feed to …
I don’t know about you, but for me this is the video for which I’ve waited all my life. “Welcome to the world of chaos! A kitschy, dirty and unglamorous plastic world. We created this video by using old plastic bags, cuddly toys from our childhood and a wedding dress. The video was recorded in …
There are two things to never ever forget about America: What America is about, and what it’s supposed to be about. You forget either one of those facts, and it’s dangerous, and so are you. I know it’s ethically and technically back pedaling, but for practical purposes can we just meet in the middle? Half …
If James Brown saw this Bruno Mars show in his prime, he would have shot his ass. James missed Joe Tex. Maybe those were warning shots. But he would have finished the job on Bruno and would have sang his pledge of guilty with his Famous Flames singing back up as the legal team. Because …
“I wanted to tackle fear. I wanted to explain it to my children with words and music that they could feel now and grow to understand later. I opened up stories of the past as they informed the future. Fear is still a powerful tool being used to either save or to tear down.” – …
Mr. Kipp – Do you have any latter-day thoughts about Guadalcanal Diary? Their music may have aged better than the REM of the same period. Perhaps I’m only enjoying it because I hadn’t heard it in 30 years and wasn’t listening closely the first time. Sincerely, Ricky in Enumclaw I’ve loved their “Always Saturday” from …
In a politically challenging era, it’s our time to stand up against the machine. Brass Against the Machine’s first and foremost goal is to make exceptional music. Yet we would be remiss to not also note the unfortunately exceptional times we live in. We want our music to not just sound inspiring; we want our …
Four Waters, the Stockholm band’s debut EP, is a striking and diverse 4-track release, one that’s set to propel the band to great heights. “Four Waters is about not being enough” the band explain. “The frustration of not being able to do more, or doing something you thought would be the right thing but turned …
The name Helen Kelter Skelter may call to mind a visionless disarray, but the Oklahoma band’s sophomore full-length, Melter, is anything but. Set to be released January 19, The aptly named album showcases what H/K/S does best—-a relentless fusion of everything good about rock ‘n’ roll. There are vintage organ flourishes over frenetic bass lines. …
Watch the Throne. They should name their first son Winston and their 4th son Churchill. Americand Mommas make British heroes. This is like Barack Obama marrying the Queen and I love it. Never forget Jenny Jérôme. America f_ck yea. Let’s make some kings. – Davin Michael Stedman