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It is usually a bad idea to cover any song recorded by Howlin’ Wolf. You’re likely to come out second-best. But there are the rare exceptions, and this is one of them. Do Etta and Harvey blow away the Wolf in this version of Spoonful? No, but they certainly put their stamp upon it. . . . → Read More: Etta James and Harvey Fuqua – Spoonful, By John Siscoe I really like this new Santigold single, but the video needs work: 36 million views for this video for Domino? Wow, Jessie J has come a long way fast… I heard her being interviewed about how this was written as a riposte to a feeling anything but ‘sexy and free’ but don’t be fooled by the schtick. It’s totally fabulous but also very deeply conventional, which . . . → Read More: Jessie J – Domino, By Mike Hughes Seattle’s latest and greatest baroque pop band, Tomten, will perform Thursday, 2/23 at Neumos with Pica Beats and Curtains for You. Tomten goes on at 9pm sharpish. KEXP describes Tomten, who hope to release a 10 inch vinyl EP in April and a full length work in June, in this way, “Well-crafted and . . . → Read More: Tomten with Pica Beats and Curtains For You at Neumos 2/23 This is the kind of stuff I listen to while driving sometimes now — YouTube files of Ted.com lectures and performances burned to MP3 CDs. This is a long file, but if you listen to a minute at the beginning, you’ll get the idea. Zoom to 16:38m, where Goldie Hawn picks some notes at . . . → Read More: Jennifer Lin: Magical Improv From 14-year-old Pianist, By Randy Rendfeld As I waited for the show starring The Presidents of the United States of America to begin, great music streamed from the break tape and I found myself hearing bands such as the Sweet, the Runaways and the Sonics. Then the show began right at nine as scheduled with some guy from LA called . . . → Read More: The Presidents of The United States of America Make a Triumphant Return to Seattle’s Showbox Market, By Holly Homan As the son of a preacher myself, when Dusty Springfield first released this record, I fancied it was about me — which was pure narcissism on my part, to say the least. Aside from that, it’s still a great record, and Dusty was at her peak when she made it. – Rich Horton . . . → Read More: Dusty Springfield – Son of a Preacher Man, By Rich Horton Kidd Russell has two new videos. He describes She Feels Like Home in this way, “We Shot this video on the last day of summer in Wisconsin. We had no plans, a bootleg camera, our ladies and a few cases of beer so we decided to have fun and shoot something authentic and fun. . . . → Read More: Kidd Russell – She Feels Like Home – Could it be the Juice? On Valentine’s Day 1985, he played this for, I don’t know, forever. A delicious forever… – Andrew Hamlin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIzzHHMLfd0&feature=youtu.be I never read the Hunger Games books about which the lyrics of this song were written. That being said, this is an artistically well done video. It has an eerie, yet light, other worldly quality to it. The natural world potrayed in the video would seem almost heavenly, with Taylor looking mystical and wearing . . . → Read More: Taylor Swift ft. The Civil Wars – Safe & Sound (The Hunger Games) By Lydia Cooper
The very DEFINITION of my very favorite Sludge Rudiment, “The Bryan Adams Part”, from a concert for Amnesty Int’l, no less! LOL And at Giants Stadium in ’86, the mullets, they ABOUND! 23428One comment Scientists have just discovered a lost transmission from Planet 1975: Last summer, Gordon Voidwell and his production crew created a music video which pays homage to Whitney Houston’s mid-80s “How Will I Know” video. He had been keeping it under wraps until the right moment, which unfortunately arose this week with the untimely passing of the legendary singer. Video director Steve Pristin says . . . → Read More: Gordon Voidwell – XO Boyfriend – Whitney Houston Tribute The Presidents of the United Sates of America Rock The Showbox Market, 2/17 and 2/18, By Holly HomanThis Friday and Saturday nights Seattle will witness the return of local icons, The Presidents of the United States of America (Presidents for short). The Presidents, fronted by the charismatic Chris Ballew came onto the national scene back in 1995 with catchy, poppy tunes like Kitty, Peaches and Lump (the latter of which . . . → Read More: The Presidents of the United Sates of America Rock The Showbox Market, 2/17 and 2/18, By Holly Homan
Ducky – Like Rain from Bicephaly Pictures on Vimeo. From Ducky’s press materials: “Ducky, aka Morgan Neiman, has a producer’s instinct and a powerful voice. She has been making music since she was 13 years old, and has played alongside the likes of Japanther, Ninjasonik, Roxy Cottontail, Trouble Andrew and Action Bronson. Her . . . → Read More: Ducky – Like Rain From the Spring Standards’ press materials: “In yellow//gold, The Spring Standards deliver 2 EPs that can be described as a set of fraternal twins, metamorphic stages, or acts in a drama. yellow is a nostalgic meandering through the trio’s shared childhoods—they started playing folk music together as teenagers in the rural landscapes of the . . . → Read More: The Spring Standards – Here We Go One Direction is a UK boy band which was formed on UK X-Factor at the suggestion of Nicole Scherzinger. This video with the babies is enormously popular across the globe:
I wrote a rather lengthy comment tonight for a friend’s largely critical thread re: the departed Whitney Houston, but, just as I was about to post it, it FUCKIN’ DISAPPEARED and I was far too pissed to attempt to re-create it from scratch. Anyhow, one aspect I’d included was the . . . → Read More: A Little-Known, Spare, Very Beautiful, and Extraordinarily Unlikely Example of the Artist Whitney Houston Might Easily Have Become, If Not For Clive Davis’ Greedy Intervention In Her Career, By Tom Kipp |
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