Finally a good flash mob again. It’s been a while:
Staxx Brothers– superstars of hard-ass soul, “the closest thing to vintage Funkadelic ever witnessed,”* and longtime friends of East Portland Blog are offering you a party that starts now and ends (if ever) in 2012. Anyone who purchases an advanced copy of Jungle Cat, the band’s next album, before the official release party, Saturday May …
Via Boing Boing:
Here’s a gem of a scene from the Andy Griffith show. The embedding is disabled on this clip, but you can watch it on Youtube here…
…I recall writing at the time that I knew she wasn’t from around here (Seattle). How? She pronounces Peter Bagge’s last name “baggy.” A decent presentation all the same. Is more Pop Conference stuff available? If so, where where where? Best, – Andrew Hamlin Seattle Channel Video can be played in Flash Player 9 and …
It is always such a dangerous thing, when you have loved what a band has done in the past, then they produce a new record. I can genuinely say that I am blown away by Wye Oak’s new album, Civilian. I have a short review of it at http://www.themusicfix.co.uk/content.php?contentid=13297&single=true I got to see them recently …
East Portland Blog’s own Andrew Hamlin has a review of “Withershins” by Smoosh posted in the prestigious San Diego Reader. You may view it here: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/mar/08/emwithershinsem-smoosh/ “I do hope you’ll avail yourselves of the album,” Andrew wrote in email, which is “available for free download, last time I checked, at www.smoosh.com. I recommend the live-on-KEXP …
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This song kills me. My daughter and I had a running joke where I would shout at her: “Where’s your Dylan!? Where’s your Dylan?!” After I heard Suf’s first album, I thought, well my daughter’s generation now has their Dylan. Such a great storyteller. – Mark Handley . Casimir Pulaski Day – Sufjan StevensUploaded by …
Graig Markel and Zera Marvel– the first couple of Seattle power music are making three songs from their latest project, Dead Ship Sailing, available for free download:
Much better than it has a right to be:
I got an email from Barry Southgate this week letting us in the blogosphere know that his new single, Don’t You Think?, is available on iTunes. Indeed it is and you can hear it above. Sweet, smooth, reggae-inflected R&B which is very catchy, Don’t You Think? should be on everyone’s iPod and is a very …