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Garage Rock vs. Quirky Indie Pop: Weren’t Young Fresh Fellows more important in the grand scheme of things than Nirvana? And wasn’t Popllama more significant than SubPop?, Critic’s Roundtable, Part 1

“Weren’t Young Fresh Fellows more important in the grand scheme of things than Nirvana? And wasn’t Popllama more significant than SubPop? – East Portland Blog Critic’s Roundtable, Part 1 (This conversation has four parts.) Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Through the 1980s a couple of different strains ran through …

“I Never Heard a Man Speak Like This Man Before!” Song, Horror and Tragedy in Jonestown, and a Convincing Simulation of Hell

A/V script for presentation at the 7th annual Experience Music Project Popular Music Conference; Saturday, 12th April 2008, 4:00 to 5:45pm. By Tom Kipp [A/V deployed by Dan Mohr] [Slide 1: title] Just a few words of caution before I begin—much of the material you will see and hear during this presentation is disturbing, some …

flowerovlove updates you with “Breaking News”

Photo Credit: Finn Waring Fresh off her hit “BOYS,” which SZA proclaimed “fire as hell,” flowerovlove returns with “Breaking News” – a shimmering anthem for lovestruck summer nights. Produced by Duck Blackwell (Louis Tomlinson, Icona Pop) and co-written with her close friend Ines Dunn (Maisie Peters, Astrid S), the euphoric track emerged as the singer-songwriter turned to music to express complicated feelings …

MUNI LONG RELEASES NEW EP ‘PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION TOO’

MUNI LONG RELEASES NEW EP ‘PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION TOO’ VIA SUPERGIANT/DEFJAM RECORDINGS  ‘BEST NEW ARTIST’ NOMINEE DELIVERS TRIUMPHANT PERFORMANCE OF HER #1 PLATINUM SMASH “HRS AND HRS” AT THE 2022 BET AWARDS  LISTEN TO PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION TOO  July 1, 2022 – Today Muni Long – the breakthrough R&B superstar of the year –releases the highly-anticipated follow-up EP to her 2021 debut, Public Displays …

Blair Lee – Less or More

Hey East Portland, My newest single, “Less or More,” was inspired by the loss of inspiration – losing sight of a dream, a dampened spirit, and the journey you take to find yourself again. The desire to reach for this dream, that all the mundane tasks are worth something, that even when I am not …

Reykjavík Iceland emotional post-rock collective VAR has a new song, Run

Reykjavík Iceland emotional post-rock collective VAR is debuting a new track titled “Run” off their upcoming album ‘The Never-Ending Year,’ out April 24 on Spartan Records. Stream “Run” on PopMatters: https://www.popmatters.com/var-iceland-run-premiere-2645584078.html. Guitarist Arnór Jónasson says, “Run” came together very quickly in the writing process. We had gone through it at rehearsals but weren’t sure if it fit on …

Be the ones to discover: Welshman TJ Roberts Premieres Double A Side Single entitled ‘The Party’ / ‘Midnight Stores’

‘Midnight Stores’ yw sŵn trip acid Lynchiaidd yng nghanol siop gornel. Dyma gymysgedd anhygoel o organ junk-shop, arswyd a dynwaredwr Roky Erickson gwael. Mae ‘The Party’ yn hip ond sgwâr, mae’n tynnu’r gwrandawr drwy brofiadau breintiedig partis tŷ stiwdants prifysgol. Wedi’u dylanwadu gan steil ymlaciol ysgol gelf Roxy Music, Steely Dan a Mac Demarco, mae …

Oh the humanity: Kiss’s Paul Stanley wears concert platform shoes held together by duct tape

There’s a photo going round the net that’s started everyone talking. It depicts Paul Stanley’s feet on stage, ensconced in thigh-high platform shoes held together by duct tape: From: Howard Brown Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 11:13 AM To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: Paul Stanley’s boots Paul Stanley’s boots (click here): “Last night, my pal …