Trump is really Putin us in danger with this shut down. But we shouldn’t be Russian to any conclusions about Trump’s real motivations. Anyone check the national debt lately? How is our border security now Donny? Do you think China is doubling the usual traffic Fentanyl traffic through our ports, or just like ramming through …
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Time to try to level up once more. My friend and fitness trainer Corey Galusha was always trying to get me to write down what I eat and keep track of it. I saw this last night for under $10, and it’s a small investment if I can fill it up. It tried to write it …
So this is what Mueller is doing and I mentioned it before. He is strangling a mob boss. But the challenge is that the boss is protected if he has enough of the mob of human miscrients on his side. Once Trump loses MAGA and even the Covington Nazi Youth realizes he’s just a stupid …
Quincy Jones once said that it’s hard to know what the future held for Tupac, because if you killed Malcolm X at 25, you killed a Pimp named Red. Well the same can be said for the weirdest muthaf☆cka in history, Rasputin. You kill Rasputin at 28, you killed a slutty farmer named Randy. No …
Singin’, thinking…trying not to write a hook a day. There are few things better to fail at that, than not songwriting. I can’t help it. I programmed my mind at the tail end of college to make playing my upside down guitar like a diary. A way to think outloud and collect my thoughts. To …
Well this is quite epic for me. This my dear grandmother Audi with her beloved Grandfather that raised her. She tears up every time she talks about this wonderful man. This is man is my strongest link to Africa, Jose Rosario. There is legend of his father being referred to as “The Frenchman,” which is …
Fyre Festival was our generation’s Woodstock. Our culture is dominated by Rich thieves selling fake things that are doomed to fail, because they are built on big lies. We create billion dollar companies that are built on nothing but disruption, in a less than zero sum game that is pushing the middle class out of …
Check out this song idea! Should I call it ‘Old Bold Pilots’ or ‘Young Man’s Game’? This hit me when this story about Sinatra arguably inventing the album said “Sinatra was on the wrong side of 30 in a young man’s game.” Then before I could pull over to write this song a train stopped …
Stories give our lives meaning in a universe where there may be no meaning, by Davin Michael Stedman
Stories give our lives meaning in a universe where there may be no meaning. I like stories. They sound good with music. We have only been able to record them for a little over a hundred years. We’ve been jotting them down for centuries, passing them from one singer to another for thousands more. When …
My buddy Jeremy From-Steel Beans is on a level and frequency that is so high Hipsters can’t even hear him. People are missing this guy completely but he is pretty much the only Rock star I actually know. He is talented AF. Good singer, good writer, good comedy, good producer, multi-instrumentalist that can do one man band …
I have been a little gun shy about covering certain reggae songs that might have me sound too PUT ON. That is until this music really seeps into my bones like the Wailers did, which I easily connected with Motown. The bread crumbs I found to Kingston with BJ DjSticky were no coincidence… Bob, Peter, and Bunny …
It was great to visit Conrad Denke and his Victory Studios open house. I was told this is his third annual. I am seeing Bad Animals and Studio X Seattle in the building. I am seeing sci fi thrillers made like Forbidden Power, singer songwriters like Reggie Garrett. There were so many post production, preproduction, production experts of all kinds under one roof. …and …
Seattle guitar stalwart and dare I say legend, Stingshark Sting is laying down guitar on collaborations for ‘Going South’ and ‘Life Yard’. Working with Stingshark and Hold in Fyah is a big deal to me. I am doing some really cool Jamaican collaborations, but this is the part of West Indian Rock where we bring it all back home …
Saying Pence would be worse than Trump is the equivalent of being a flat earther. It’s no less true today as on election night. It’s simply for those who repeated such a falsehood, now as f☆cking senile a statement as I said it was the first time someone repeated such a claim in my presence. …
To all you out there helping me, I salute you. Thank you. There is no such thing as a self made man. Some of us start a little closer finish line, but this race is about how we all can lift each other up. How we can be each other’s champions. I have a little …
You have to hand it to Vladamir Putin. He is the greatest Bond villain of our life times. Somewhere the real James Bond and Jack Ryan are as dead as Lincoln’s party, now a Confederated Zombie orgy of shameless stupidity. This my friends is MAGA. Russia is still screwed, because it is Russia, but for …
I have to go to sleep early but thankfully I have an incredible sleep aid: British lectures from Gresham College. Gresham died in 1597 and left behind enough money to fund lectures in London until London ceases to be inhabitable. As long as there is a Bank of England, Gresham’s lecture circuit lives on ad …
Davin Michael Stedman, East Portland Blog‘s notorious songwriter, singer and thug historian has signed to legendary reggae label Tuff Gong and you can read all about it at Seattle Music Insider!
The most gangster move by The GOP was using social media ad buys, bots, and trolls to dupe the Left into attacking the Left. The most mobster thing of all is who they teamed up with. The most demonic thing about this new found power to manipulate the masses is that never before have we …
dma Trump is not a negotiator. He is the nut case that is taking hostages. Watching his surviving supporters lower themselves out to the whorish depths of Stockholm Syndrome, as they try to explain Trump’s brilliant tactics is just a type of mental sickness cognitive dissonance can reliably provide. Oh I know I am stigmatizing …
You want a true story? How about a true story about how I dealt with Westboro Baptist Church today at the game? Take note. Because I unleashed mental Jazz on those evil muthaf☆ckaz. Ever since I saw the meme of ‘Satan’ offering free hugs next to them, my wheels have been turning. Because you have …
My earth angel, my sonic Queen, my guiding light in the booth, my Everythang, Mrs. Mell Dettmer is heading back to Mali with her husband Mamadou Diakite for the first time in YEARS. She is planning on doing some recording with some of the greatest West African artists you have yet to discover. Please consider contributing to her campaign. …
If you don’t know Dan Tyack, get to know Dan Tyack and his music. This is one of the greats you can afford to see around town. Impress your date, by taking them to show where you actually get to hang out with The Stars of the night. You might catch Dan at Rhythm & Rye. It’s …
This melody came to me in the closing minutes of Christmas. A little gift from the universe? Or is this somebody else’s song? It sounds too perfect. Like an old pentonic blues riff; how could only little ol’ me have been the first to do this with these notes? Is it mine? “This fire won’t …
Merry Christmas. Whether you’re off brand, or on brand, remember that this all only means a damn if we’re good to each other. Lets pause and remember how we can do this life by next year even better. The road is uncertain and we do need each other. Enjoy the moment, and this strange vortex …
A big theme for me that I keep thinking about is this: I don’t want to waste people’s time. Time is a treasure beyond measure. We don’t know how much of it we have left. People are willing to give it if they don’t feel it is going to be squandered and unappreciated, and that …
Fun story about my Dad, a DNA test and my British rock band Sherlock Soul. One of the reasons my Dad is really giving me a DNA test for Christmas is because he is hoping myself and his brother come up German. He thought we had this German blood. We were supposed to be related …
The tragic passing of my friend Dakota Nelson‘s lovely wife Ream Alameel Nelson has been on my weighing on my mind for sometime. This touching local news video featuring Dakota and his kids being surprised by new cameras with a check is really touching. What Emeri TeAroha and others have done to help raise money for our dear friend is …
Ah Conrad Denke I had no idea the Band in Seattle Christmas Special is including our ‘Slow Jam’ again. It’s so good to be a part of this tradition. Check out Eva Walker and her brother Cedric hosting! This year I have been so focused on trying work this Jamaican magic, I have been just thrilled to see this evolve in …
This is the Wall America needs. This is a 50 ft wall of nothing but Snatchee Records show posters at the Wenatchee Museum. AndyandJas Peart took a dive bar that had once been feared and written off by SOME folks in their community, and turned this carpeted 75 capacity wonder into Central Washington’s own CBGB’s. Soon legendary punk …