From: J Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 9:04 AM To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: RE: Brand new praise for TK’s 1982-83 stint w/ Diction, from a thoroughly unexpected source! So what exactly makes something grunge and how was the DD song the beginning of it? I know that back in the day (when I walked …
Parini, the great 90s Seattle band which featured Lisa Orth– a longtime Seattle artist and musician, founder of 66 Saints and designer of cover artwork for “Bleach,” the first Nirvana album–on guitar and Dan Paulus on drums, passed into history a long time ago, but Rob Hursh has found, digitized and resurrected this fantastic clip:
Capt. Spaulding, tending to overgrowth in the garden of love, declares: “This is simply a decent-to-good song that could use some pruning — it’s too long by at least a minute — and which expresses a sociological statement of some sort with all the classic earnestness of youth. That is to say, it’s by turns …
From: J Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 9:04 AM To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: RE: Brand new praise for TK’s 1982-83 stint w/ Diction, from a thoroughly unexpected source! So what exactly makes something grunge and how was the DD song the beginning of it? I know that back in the day (when I walked …
This just in, from Claude Iosso: “Where is Black Francis’ mind? We have a better idea these days — aliens from outer space and Mexico and the triumph and emptiness of L.A. life are recurring themes in the great man’s oeuvre. However, the Pixies were fascinating and kind of scary at least partly because their …
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Yaz’s “Don’t Go” synth riff lives on in: ********************************************************** And here’s a link to a report from Change.org about discriminatory practices at hip hop concerts in Chicago’s Millenium Park, the first of which was a Kid Sister show: Hip Hop Prompts Discriminatory Security Practices – Chicago’s Millennium Park is a local, national and global treasure. …
From Signonsandiego.com:
The No Depression blog has a nifty, proud, duly diligent entry about the rising popularity of covers of Old Crow Medicine Show’s Wagon Wheel. Covers of Wagon Wheel are becoming so common that the song is described as the new “Brown Eyed Girl” after Van Morrison’s oft-covered 1967 hit: Against Me’s version of Wagon Wheel …
From the Huffington Post: “…In addition to describing James Carville as “a space alien,” Beck said of [Urlacher,] the 2005 NFL Defensive Player of the Year and frequent Special Olympics volunteer, “I think this guy’s a neo-Nazi…” For the full story, click here or on the photo below.
Brian Salisbury at Hollywood.com tries and fails to answer that very question, saying in part: “For all my (admittedly limited) fluency in critical analysis, I am stymied. I honestly don’t know if I think Jolie has real chops as an actress or if her eyes manage to trap me in some kind of sex trance …
And here’s the same pug accompanied by the Batman Theme. *************************************************
This just in, from Pete Erickson: “A few weeks ago you posted the Banana Splits theme song. Of all the Splits hits, “Doing the Banana Split” was always my favorite. Even if I didn’t know what the Motown sound was about, it always hit the right groove for me. This comes complete with an obligatory …
As leader of the group responsible for starting a youth cult, Generation X, BILLY IDOL was one of the original British punks who gave the rock establishment a good kick up the arse with such classics as “Ready, Steady, Go,” “Wild Youth,” “Your Generation” and “Dancing With Myself,” all of which are among the classics …
Crime author James Lee Burke has a new Robicheaux novel out called, The Glass Rainbow. Here’s an interview with Mr. Burke, call him Jim, about the book at Blogcritics.org. A review from Oregonlive.com. A review from the Seattle P-I. A review from Detnews.com. Blog review from Tricia Weight. A review from Bookhound. A review from …
Here’s a great blog post from Frances Archer about the neighborhood up in which I grew, North Park, in Chicago: A few weeks ago I told you I grew up in what amounted to a shtetl, an Old World Jewish town, on Chicago’s Far North Side. That’s not quite the whole story. A single point …
Frank Schaefer, author of “Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back” has a great piece about the “counterintuitive contradictions” of the tea partiers bringing down their movement: Thank God For Sarah Palin’s Picks! (Good …
University of Washington Alum Amanda Knox declares her innocence in an interview from prison with an Italian magazine: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
I have discovered a tersely excellent blog, Hands On, “Life and art in all their moving parts,” which is written by David Handelman, a journalistic veteran, an inked up old soldier, a printmag workhorse which rocks in it’s quality and rolls in industry access. Hands On is NOT about music, but Handelman did write for …
“I moved to Chicago for Major League Baseball, I might leave for the same reason.” – Jethro Burns I skimmed The Original Curse: Did the Cubs Inspire the Black Sox by throwing the 1918 World Series against Babe Ruth’s Red Sox? by Sean Deveney in the library and it’s fabulous, a well told sports story …
Bulldogs, pugs and similarly beautiful breeds tragically made up about half of cargo hold dog deaths in past 5 years. Never allow your dog to ride in the cargo hold of a plane. It’s that simple. For the full AP story, click here or on the photo below. ***************************************
Some Adventist pot sellers traveled from village to village across northern Madagascar. One Friday afternoon they arrived at a village and asked someone whether there was an Adventist church in the village. “No,” the person replied. “Does anyone in this village worship on Saturday?” they asked. “Yes,” the villager answered. “They meet in a house …
Here’s some bona fide, positive, East Portland news. Food trucks have opened for business at 43rd and Belmont in SE Portland, in the formerly vacant parking lot next to the Movie Madness DVD rental establishment:
This is BernardStreetCred’s take on PJ Harvey‘s version of “Wang Dang Doodle“: “I like PJ, and I love almost all covers on principle — but here’s an instance where the singer and song don’t quite match up, despite what seems like a clever fit (her cover of Highway 61 Revisited that’s floating around out there …
This in from LA-DSH: I watched and enjoyed the pilot of this new show COVERT AFFAIRS on USA last night. I’ve met one of the writers, Chris Ord, a fellow Westsider here in LA. I’m sure they’re repeating it throughout the week, but it’s also STREAMable on their site. It’s quite entertaining and well-done, if …
Here’s is John Siscoe‘s take on Koko Taylor and “Wang Dang Doodle“: “Despite the antiseptic setting and lackluster backing, this is a valuable clip. Any blues performance from the ’60s is a relative rarity, and this gives us a look at Koko Taylor when she was young and in her prime, plus a fleeting glimpse …
Yankees owner George Steinbrenner dies at 80 – Yahoo! News So the ol’ goat finally kicked off. World will be a bit duller, sans doubt! I’ll never forget his greatest quote, offered up during the 1981 World Series, when I was amidst a ton of New Yorkers during my first month at Brown. That was …