Here’s a song for every musician whose songs never got played on KEXP:
Is Grimes Too Punk to be a Pop Star? She started as an experimental electronic musician and drew a devoted online following. Now she wants to infiltrate the mainstream. BY KELEFA SANNEH – NewYorker.com I’ve been writing a lot of music lately, so the New Yorkers have fallen by the wayside. But I did manage …
Written by Serge Gainsbourg, sung by France Gall who (according to the internet) was 17 at the time. This was a bit before her voice became a device that caused widespread madness. Like many female French pop stars during the sixties, she recorded and performed like a crazy woman. As in the US, they thought …
One of the best French pop songs of the sixties. OK, Sylvie has crazy teeth and this video is all cheesy sci-fi robo-bondage, but the tune endures. If I ever go on tour beyond Spokane or Walla Walla, I’m gonna figure a way to include this in the set. And yeah, I’ll sing in French. …
Longboat’s Igor Keller doesn’t like it when I use a certain G-word to describe him. The word is not “gangsta.” Igor’s fine with that. He’d love it if we all called him our original gangsta. The G-word Igor doesn’t like is “genius,” which is a word I keep coming back to whenever I hear tunes …
Longboat’s Igor Keller is, of course, a genius. This became clear last May when I beheld Beyond the Moon, a nifty song, video and nostalgia trinket of the 1960s space race. Keller’s talents also shine through his blog, Hideous Belltown, a first person blog of cosmpolitan stories and button-cute squirrel photos wherein he invites readers …
Here is a new music video from the band Longboat (Igor Keller) of their song “Beyond the Moon.” It embodies all the hopes and dreams of the post-war era. – Jim Demetre