Tag Archives: Steve Stav

A Lament For A City, An Enduring Love Of Its Center, by Steve Stav

When Seattle’s music and arts festival, Bumbershoot, rolls around every Labor Day weekend… I feel bittersweet pangs of poignancy. As I now write of it from 2,400 miles away, I’ve realized that my fuzzy-warm memories have even more to do with the festival’s site – the Seattle Center. The magic, the always-pleasant atmosphere of that …

Tina Turner, Singer, Dancer, Force of Nature Capable of Redefining Middle Age, Dead at 83, by Steve Stav

You have to be of a certain age – to be able to remember the year 1984 very clearly – to begin to understand the impact of Tina Turner’s famous “comeback.” To understand that her resurrection was multi-layered; to comprehend how important that was to countless women. Yes, there was the incredible music… but the …

Irene Cara Dead at 63, by Steve Stav

You’d have to be at least Generation X-age to fully appreciate the enormous impact that singer/songwriter/actress/producer Irene Cara had on pop culture in the 1980s. A gigantic meteor wouldn’t have made a deeper impact, really. The theme to Flashdance? Omnipresent for years; in the public consciousness for decades. But perhaps a bigger contribution, in the …

Behold the World Premiere of Rich Arithmetic’s Double-A Sided Single: “YOU ARE ALWAYS RIGHT” and “UP TO YOU” by Steve Stav

In the Golden Age of 45’s, we would’ve called Rich Arithmetic’s latest single a Double-A side.  On YOU ARE ALWAYS RIGHT, Rich opens one of his most vital arteries, and with his longtime singing partner Lance Morgan, they spill sweet harmonies on to a canvas of late ‘60s folk rock (by way of mid-’80s Athens jangle). Kansas guitar …

Rich Arithmetic Adds Summer Single, “Saving Sunset (Last Surf Of The Day)” by Steve Stav

Echoing more sleepy Santo & Johnny than hard-charging Pyramids, Rich Arithmetic’s summer single, “Saving Sunset (Last Surf Of The Day)” is a refreshing digestif for quasi-post Covid sundowns. With a Shadows-ish lead melody overlapping a traditional staccato rhythm (both played by north-of-Seattle guitarist Rich Horton (Arithmetic) – plus Ruppi Barnickel’s idyllic percussion – the instrumental …

Canadian Children In Mass Grave – A Crime Against Humanity, by Steve Stav

One oft-overlooked aspect of the residential schools in Canada – run mostly by the Catholic Church and the Church of England in Canada, in conjunction with the government – is that the perpetrators documented their activities. Documented experiments such as introducing a child with tuberculosis to a classroom, and seeing how many others would contract …

JORJA CHALMERS “I’LL BE WAITING” (Official Video), by Steve Stav

Seemingly influenced by the likes of Vangelis and Tangerine Dream, deep-steeped in Bryan Ferry’s uber-sexy atmospherics… Ferry/Roxy Music saxophonist/keyboardist Jorja Chalmers has forged an impressive and distinct solo career while she’s not stealing spotlights from her employer. “I’ll Be Waiting” – the second video/single from her second album on the Italians Do It Better label …