The following article can be found at Salon.com: Are “The Real Housewives” really flesh-eating zombies? Why do Bravo’s trussed-up middle-aged stars have so much in common with “The Walking Dead’s” rotting corpses? Click Here. Funny, how true the comparison of zombies to Real Housewives is. The “Real” word in the title is like a joke. …
Seattle trumpeter Thomas Marriott’s upcoming release on Origin records, Constraints & Liberations, is now available for preorder from Amazon (http://tinyurl.com/22rh3lh), and will be available in stores Nov. 16, 2010. The video above is the electronic press kit for Both Sides of the Fence, Marriott’s 2007 release (http://tinyurl.com/2aozvt7). The vid gives you a feel for Marriott …
If you love the Chicago Blues, you’ll count yourself lucky that Hubert Sumlin is still alive and playing guitar. His stunningly original and powerful technique, structured unlike any other in recorded blues, has many admirers but no successful imitators. As the lead guitarist for Howlin’ Wolf, he helped create a body of work that formed …
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – Portland actress hits it big in trashy bar comedy, by Steve Stav
. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia? How scandalously profane! My favorite episode has to be the one about “freedom” at Paddy’s, where Danny DeVito’s character is allowing a Chinese poker game in the basement that soon devolves into Russian roulette. I get a kick out of how most of the actors are married to each …
. I’ve always loved the sophistication of Joe Jackson’s “Night & Day” (1982) album — “Cancer” seemed like an ’80s update of Steely Dan, and “Steppin’ Out” showed Joe learning some melodic Cole Porterisms. I still like both those songs a lot, but at the end of the day, the album as a whole just …
According to Onion AV Club, in the true part of the Onion, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards says bandmate Mick Jagger has been “unbearable” since the ’80s and has a tiny penis which bored Marianne Faithfull. Richards states all this and more in his upcoming autobiography, Life. Click here. Thanks to Jon Chick for the …
This is the Max Raabe take on the old Britney Spears classic, Oops I Did it Again. According to the Wik, “Max Raabe (December 12, 1962 in Lünen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German singer and band leader of the Palast Orchester. He and his orchestra specialize in recreating the sound of German dance and film …
OK, hopefully rock bottom has been reached, though perfection is always possible… San Diego 8 ST LOUIS Can’t take a team that lost by 38 to the Lions. Chargers to cover. HOUSTON 4 Kansas City The Chiefs can keep it within a field goal in this one. NEW ENGLAND 3 Batimore The Ravens are a …
Boston! Come on. You can do better than this. This looks like socialist aerobics crossed with the worst high school half time show of all time. And why “Don’t Stop Believin”? Why not “More Than a Feeling” (Boston) or “Tonight She Comes” (The Cars), both from local bands? The next great flashmob will dance to …
It’s been getting colder at night, which really gets my Celtic blood pumping. With the sunlight fading and the ale growing darker, my senses are filled with the drifting sounds of pipe music and the lights that dance in the bonfire’s flames. It’s just this time of year that gets me thinking about fusion music …
Ben Greenman, a very smart, witty, great guy and editor of the New Yorker appears in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Chicago very soon. (Schedule is below). Q: WHAT ARE PARIS HILTON, OPRAH, JESSE JAMES, AND OTHER TOP CELEBS DOING IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE? A: BEN GREENMAN PUT ‘EM THERE This summer, the Brooklyn author and …
BALTIMORE 7 Denver The Ravens are coming off a very physical game. Denver should be able to keep it close. BUFFALO pick Jacksonville The Jags have to have a lot of confidence after beating Indy. The Bills, not so much. INDIANAPOLIS 8 Kansas City With two weeks to prepare the improving Chiefs should keep it …
Bjork could be rolling in ungodly piles of money just jiggling to formula bubblegum pop; her hotness is impossible to ignore and her vocal range is supernatural. But instead of settling, the empress of Iceland dares to be an rock’n’roll auteur, a colleague of Byrne not Beyonce. A cappella album? She’s done it. Jazz? Here …
Midday Veil released their first studio album recently, “Eyes All Around.” The first video, “Asymptote II” is lovely, joyous, innocent and drug-fueled. Expect great things from this young Seattle combo: . . Here is the press release. Read and learn, Philistines: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Translinguistic Other Recordings p.o. box 23326 Seattle WA 98102 MIDDAY VEIL …
Things are tough all over. Even legendary recordist Steve Albini, the famed audio technician behind classic releases from Nirvana, Liz Phair, Bush, Bedhead, Built to Spill, Bottomless Pit, Cheap Trick and dozens of others is having trouble paying the mortgage on Electrical Audio, his impeccably designed analog studio. Tim Midgett, guitarist, bassist and songwriter for …
This from John Moe via Facebook: “Norwegian Recycling is the mashup king. Survivor, Gnarls Barkley, Britney, so much here. Survivor? Survivor.” .
Well, I was a rather poor 6-10 vs. the spread last week. We’ll see if I can do any better this time around. Lines are from Danny Sheridan’s USA link and are accurate as of Wed. PM. Home teams are in caps. TENNESSEE 6 1/2 Denver The Titans pass D is playing well and the …
Thanks to Colette Moran for the link. The improvised comic prose is East Portland’s alone (Colette would never jest about energy drinks.): . “In Archie, Obama v. Palin – PATRICK GAVIN | POLITICO CLICK Obama is dubbed “The Chicago Kid” while Palin gets named “The Thrilla from Wasilla” on the new Archie covers.” Complete story …
The Gift-Giving Season is upon us, and here’s a classic stockingstuffer. Thanks to Kristen Anderson for this Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa gifting suggestion… ‘The Tea Party Coloring Book for Kids’ “The Tea Party Coloring Book for Kids,” published by Really Big Coloring Books of St. Louis, purports to be a “teaching and learning tool.” But many of the …
For name alone, I’ve always wanted to love Gogol Bordello. Rumored to be best heard live, they’ve got a big time video out now, “Immigraniada (We Comin’ Rougher).” I’ll leave it to you to decide if there’s a phenomenom aborning here, a Ukrainian Pogues, or just Yakov Smirnoff with a backing band. If Imigraniada strikes …
Not a bad clip at all. I wish that I had something enlightening to say but I don’t. I’ve got nothing against blues/rock encounters except that in my experience, rock always wins out. Not surprising when you consider the economics. The intermingling of the blues with rock is such a complex theme, with so many …
When “With or Without You,” 1987, was released in advance of The Joshua Tree, several years after this lesser known, 1985, Wide Awake in America, gem, longtime U2 fans derided “With or Without You” as a mere reworking of this, supposedly superior, song. Because The Joshua Tree and “With or Without You” went on to …
This is the story that keeps on giving. If we concentrate on KP and Elmo long enough, we won’t have to think about upcoming elections, insane religious wars, the second great depression, Brett Favre… A children’s themed Katy Perry video, recorded with Elmo, was struck from scheduled Sesame Street airing recently because it showed too …
. Seeing this clip, i’m more worried about the shitty music being thrown at kids before they can understand it. [Look and click below to see what Sesame Street was jammin out to in the 70s.] Do we really want to live in a world populated with musicians reared on Katy Perry’s music? Also, when …
The recent Katy Perry vs. the latte-drinking, Volvo-driving, PBS liberals at Sesame Street brouhaha does nothing if not remind us that the quality of musical guests in Oscar Von Grouchland, the Street of SezMe, has gone way down in the last 35 years. This version of Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” sounds like a live take right …
Or at least she didn’t read, the dress code, for entertaining children in the home of the brave. Katy Perry’s video, below, was removed from Sesame Street because it shows too much creamy white cleavage. Full story is here. . . . . . . .
[Thurs 9/23/2010, 8am Pacific Time.] This is the current line from Danny Sheridan, USA Today. Home teams in caps. The following information is provided for entertainment only. Don’t blame Ron for overleveraged bets you can’t cover. Gambler’s Anonymous may be reached via their home page: http://www.gamblersanonymous.org Chicago’s newest handicapper, Ron Swanson, will provide his weekly …
Although this clip looks as if it had been filmed at a Chicago Blues club, it actually took place at the Newport Folk Festival in 1966. The folklorist Alan Lomax had set up a faux juke joint where he could film blues players in a “realistic” club setting. Performers included Skip James, Bukka White, and …
An old time camp meeting hymn: .
This is the best 34 seconds of gospel music on network television ever. The harmonies tend to suggest Appalachian shape note singing, as they should, if the show was to be accurate in relation to its’ mountain setting. Griffith, a fine musician and singer in his own right, is joined by the Dillards, a sterling …