Photo of John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed The temperatures at night are falling, this week we see the transition to Fall, and here in Nebraska it is time for the annual Applejack Festival in Nebraska City. As all you arborists out there know, Nebraska City is the home to Arbor Day, the brainchild of J. Sterling Morton, one of Nebraska’s most famous citizens. But the season – …
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a pioneer in the women’s rights movement and the second woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, died Friday at age 87 due to complications of pancreatic cancer. She was a survivor of previous battles with cancer. I have read that Justice Ginsburg could not get a job with a law firm …
Take a look at “Home,” Makeout‘s first song with new frontman Kyle Dee (formerly a Season 11 American Idol contestant, and lead singer of Chicago mainstays, The Frantic) and bassist AJ Khah (who was previously a member of Sleep On It). Dee and Khah join founding members Tyler Young (Lead Guitar) and Scott Eckel (Drums) for a more mature sounding yet still super melodic new version of …
Here’s a beautiful, spot on, seventies nostalgia video from Scottish singer-songwriter Amy Macdonald whose next album, The Human Demands, will be released Oct. 30. “We were running riot,we were playing the game…” “True love is only something you hear in songs,It doesn’t really last that long…”
“All the Pieces Fit” is the first single off of Jason Matu’s debut album, Dumb Ecstatic Bliss, coming this fall. Produced and mixed by Justin Craig. Mastered by Greg Calbi. The song posits that “all the pieces fit how the pieces fit.” It is a daring position to take, to be sure, but it is …
Ulf ‘The Wolf’ Nilsson has released another single, “Shoot Me Down,” ahead of his second solo album Make A Move, which is due out October 23rd. This heartfelt breakup ballad was written by Ulf himself and produced by Chris Rehn, who also produced Ulf’s hit song “Little By Little.” The video was recorded in an …
A couple of weeks ago the local “alternative” radio station, WKQX aka Q101, announced it would devote the entire weekend to playing the “greatest alternative music from the last 50 years”. So all the way back to 1970, I guess! Now, I do sometimes listen to this station for one or two songs, but only …
Platinum crossover electronic artist and producer/DJ ILLENIUM has released the highly anticipated video for his single “Nightlight”. The single is his first release via his recent partnership with 12Tone Music, led by industry veterans Doug Morris and Steve Bartels and has over 3M global streams in the first week of release and over 4.5M collective streams to …
Supreme electronic duo Kaleida’s eagerly anticipated second album, Odyssey, is now on the market, and quite awesome. These three songs are the first three singles from the work. Last year, Kaleida’s vocalist, Christine Wood, released Instar, a monumentally great work of ultracool Americana under the name of her alter ego, Vesper Wood. She also agreed …
Tuesday eating from your yard tip ~ there are many basils with different tastes, colors of leaves and flowers. I have it on good authority from two elderly tipsy Italian women that purple opal basil is the key to a good marinara. Both the basil flowers and leaves are edible. A traditional basil pairing is tomato, …
The Negroni. The drink you order when you want to impress your date. The drink you order when you want to look sophisticated to your friends. The drink you order when you want to feel grown up. It’s the drink that James Bond reached for during the day, and was a favorite of Orson Wells at night, “The bitters …
Kima Otung describes herself in this way: “I grew up with my 4 brothers and sisters in the Pontypridd, in the valleys of South Wales. My parents are Nigerian and the sounds of gospel music and Motown defined my childhood. When I was 14 years old I got accepted as the youngest member of the Welsh National …
New Zealand songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Emily Edrosa has released a punchy new single and video, “Wade Thru.” It’s off her newly announced upcoming album Another Wave Is Coming Out – out November 20 via Park The Van Records. Mixed by legendary producer John Agnello (Kurt Vile, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr.), the record has touches of Courtney Barnett and The Beths (singer Liz Stokes actually helped …
Two nifty Bruce Springsteen covers from a few years back. MacDonald’s new album, The Human Demands, will be released on October 30.
Gabriela Michele Milkova fuses poetry, music, the visual arts and performance to create spellbinding audio and visual delights. Her latest single ‘Healing’ is part of a larger project Do You Know The Sea?, a series of five poems all of which will coincide with the release of a book by Metanoja Publishing House, an album and, finally, …
“Sometimes I feel like we’re just sleepwalking through our lives. We’re not really present.” Hazel English wants us to open our eyes. Through her shimmering, daydream-pop, the California based singer-songwriter is on a mission to rattle the cages of our very existence, asking us to dig deep and ask challenging questions of ourselves. ‘Wake UP!’, …
The Mint Julep – recipe below. Horse racing and drinking have had a symbiotic relationship – likely since someone was drunk enough to try to jump on the back of a wild horse. There is some irony in this, considering the term cocktail (cock-tail) comes from the 17th and 18th century (illegal) practice of shoving a peeled ginger root up an …
Tuesday eating from your yard tip~the tomato glut is upon us! The go to is of course BLT, salsa or slices of tomato, motzerella and basil drizzled with olive oil and basalmic vinegar. How about~stuffing cherry tomatoes with pesto? Combine onion, ginger/garlic paste curry, sugar and vinegar cooked down to make lovely tomato chutney or …
Here’s some global recombinant ultra-cool that I’ve just discovered. With new wave/reggae sounds reminiscent of Elvis Costello’s “Watching the Detectives,” this is Norwegian Rockabilly artist Vidar Busk’s take on the tender old Swedish hymn “Han har öppnat pärleporten” which I became aware of via Artur Erikson’s version. There is at least one other Norwegian rockabilly …
Driving for Peaches formed in late 2019 in Portland, Oregon, when three new friends from faraway places started jamming together. When jams became songs, the trio – Ditte Kuijpers from the Netherlands on vocals, and guitarists Alex Whitcher from New Zealand and Pete Harrington from the UK – turned their thoughts towards gigs, and started …
There are very few rules in the bartending world. Since the cocktail was invented in 1803, bartenders and drinkers have been on a 200-year search for the best cocktail. Men and women have been mixing alcohol with virtually everything (there is an entire series of drinks that mix alcohol with beef broth!) and experimenting with any crazy technique they can think …
It is wise to eat the garlic chive flowers, otherwise left to their own devises these prolific self seeders will take over the garden. The leaves and flowers are edible garlic goodness. I look forward to their flowering to put a couple in my cooking wine to infuse some garlic into the wine. It is …
“Cultural Institutions are important. Being an integral part of one is an honor bestowed and to uphold,” says Chuck D. “Public Enemy songs are forever sonic prints in the sands of time. And it’s time – it’s necessary – to bring the noise again from a place called home. Def Jam. Fight The Power 2020.” – …
This song is a great work of art. It offers a proud, declarative, narrative of it’s own while illuminating similar hurts, failings and triumphs within and around the listener. Caley Rose describes it in this way, “We all know someone who is struggling and could use a song of support right now. “Even When” is …
Download / Stream BADLANDS (Live From Webster Hall) HERE Today – in celebration of the fifth anniversary of her debut album – Halsey released her first-ever live album, BADLANDS (Live from Webster Hall), via Capitol Records. The 21 tracks were recorded live on May 8, 2019, the first of two sold-out shows Halsey played at the historic New York City venue. That evening, she …
August 28th, 2020 — Santa Monica, CA — Today marks the highly awaited release of “Ice Cream” — the electrifying new single from global pop sensations BLACKPINK andmulti-platinum singer/songwriter Selena Gomez. Another powerhouse performance from BLACKPINK, “Ice Cream” is the second single from the K-pop quartet’s massively anticipated debut album, set for release via YG Entertainment/Interscope Records on October 2nd. Pre …
My grandson with his first cucumber crop. My most favorite use for cucumbers is skinned and thrown in a blender with limeade frozen concentrate substituting mint tea for the required water ~ optional alcohol of your choice. When I worked at a local garden center I noticed older men would come in looking for burpless cucumber …
Pearl Diver – recipe below. During the early 1970s I lived in Salt Lake City for several years in my late grade school/junior high years. As a gentile living in the land of LDS, we would occasionally visit an iconic restaurant in SLC called Johnny Quong’s The Hawaiian. The crazy Polynesian themed Tiki restaurant had lightning storms every 20 minutes where lights would flash, thunder would …
This past weekend, three months after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd, which sparked national protests, and protests which are continuing in Portland, a white police officer in Kenosha , WI overreacted and shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, in the back multiple times as he walked from the officer to get into his car with his children inside. …