Broke DJ Kidd Russell ft. DJ John Blaze aka the homeless DJ beat: sleigh bells -infinite guitars off the new mixtape: RUDY RUETTIGER MUSIC Free download: http://hulkshare.com/cponzmu79u06 Here’s a message from Kidd Russell: If you’ve been to our live shows you know this song well and it is a fan favorite. We appreciate everyone whose …
So there was a guy in a wheelchair on the corner of Belmont and Broadway in Chicago. He had a paper cup and was shaking coins. I grabbed about 50 cents and tried to throw it in his cup. He stared at me, and smiled a bit, and drank from the cup. The “coins” were …
We’re in the second week of January and America has yet to crown the national champion. And the Rose Bowl Parade took place on January 2. My response will be brief, but could be a graduate thesis. The Illinois/UCLA game was emblematic of numerous problems. I forget the name of the bowl game in which …
“How much does the weather in Portland affect the spirit of the city, and the sort of things you explore and satirize?” http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-et-portlandia-20120106,0,6119096.story
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Another all-star celebrity cover of The Weight. Thanks to David Handelman for this, who adds, “Take a load off your fanny.” Bravo to Mavis Staples for her spunk and enthusiasm after all these years. Is Nick Lowe praying, shoegazing or reading the lyrics off an iPad? If he’s only reading lyrics off a piece of …
This is why LA will never be New York — a melting pot and a scene out of “ONCE” all in one glide between two stations. – David Handelman [Ed. Note – There are unconfirmed reports going around that this jam session was not a chance meeting on a train and that the singer has …
Late to the party, as usual, but this is hilarious. http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/shredders The good stuff is at his website: http://stsanders.com/www/pages/videos.php I especially like the Eagles and Queen, though the Steve Vai and Jake E Lee are works of, well, not art, but something. – Tom Fredrickson is the proprietor of the unparalleled music blog, Lost Wax …
Here’s an interesting version of Pachelbel’s Canon in D on bass guitar. Be sure to wait for it:
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Only the Greatest Song Ever! – Andrew Hamlin
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Jonathan Toubin is a New York DJ who was on a tour stop in Portland and sleeping in his downtown motel room Dec. 8 when a cabbie had a medical episode and crashed his cab into Toubin’s room, injuring Toubin severely. He’s still in ICU and Gail Worley writes here about the upcoming fundraiser for …
How WILL we resist the lure of the fabled….STYX?! LOL In their way they remain “The Definitive Havre Sludge Band”, if only because they actually (and somewhat disastrously) played Havre during The Golden Age (@ Northern Montana College’s Armory Gymnasium, March 1976!). A performance which inspired the following deathless phrase from the subsequent Styx review in …
1. Joe Rigby Quartet: For Harriet A saxophonist meets a bagpiper and they circle each other almost but not quite (more rudeness) the way the heavens circle each other when you suck down too much of the good stuff. There’s two guys banging on things too, but I’ll leave you to discover them. 2. Freddie …
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Apparently the world is not going to end this year after all:
Here’s another ring to climb in, if you choose… the Rock Critic Roundtable. – Andrew Hamlin * * * Thanks Andy. I think you’re better suited to said realm than I, so DO IT! By the by, from the overall gist of this Tumblr.com roundtable, it seems as though my long-held/oft-defended (post-2001, if not …