Seattle Band Quickie Releases New Song About Real-Life, Masked, Crime-Fighting Superhero Phoenix Jones

Seattle band Quickie trades in bikini baristas for latex-clad superheroes! “Got a Jones to be a superhero, rise like a phoenix, fight like DeNiro,” begins the cheeky new anthem from Seattle power-trio, and apparent Phoenix Jones supporters, Quickie. “We have a real life superhero patrolling the streets of Seattle. Fighting crime. How could we not …

The Beach Boys – Surf’s Up

This tune gets better as the years go by. The title is misleading, “Surf’s Up” generally means, “The swells have begun, the waves are cresting, let’s get out there…” but in this song the title is to mean, “Surf’s up, time’s up, the California dream is over,” and the music, the lyrics and the harmonies …

Mudhoney, Thee Emergency, Lovesick Empire: A Night at Neumos On Seattle’s Happenin’ Capitol Hill, By Holly Homan

Originally I planned to see two legendary Seattle bands at Neumos, The Fastbacks and Mudhoney, but The Fastbacks cancelled so I saw just Mudhoney. When I arrived, the opener, Love Sick Empire, were in full swing. Front woman Alicia Amiri has an intense stage presence and gutsy pipes making her sound like a cross between …

Pearl Jam – Last Kiss

A disaster of this magnitude should have been predicted in the quatrains of Nostradamus. Sonic leviathan, Pearl Jam, the greatest band ever named for neck-borne ejaculate, dipped into early sixties pop for “Last Kiss.” Written by Wayne Cochran about an actual Georgia car crash and popularized by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers in 1964, …