Gillian Gaar, longtime scribe to the Seattle scene, author of She’s A Rebel and other books, needs surgery and has no insurance. I hope you can donate, but at least please do try to spread the word around: – Andrew Hamlin http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/Eye-Care-Surgery-For-G3/46013
I like Don Was’ comment that this song isn’t really in a key. Was tried to arrange it for Wilson, and noticed that the chords didn’t follow any normal chord logic. Brian explained that he was trying to make interesting/weird shapes with his hands, and then plunk them down on the keyboard. – Andrew Hamlin
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
Only the Greatest Song Ever! – Andrew Hamlin
1. Joe Rigby Quartet: For Harriet A saxophonist meets a bagpiper and they circle each other almost but not quite (more rudeness) the way the heavens circle each other when you suck down too much of the good stuff. There’s two guys banging on things too, but I’ll leave you to discover them. 2. Freddie …
Here’s another ring to climb in, if you choose… the Rock Critic Roundtable. – Andrew Hamlin * * * Thanks Andy. I think you’re better suited to said realm than I, so DO IT! By the by, from the overall gist of this Tumblr.com roundtable, it seems as though my long-held/oft-defended (post-2001, if not …
Thanks to Andrew Hamlin for this urgent news from the Hall of Fame in Cleveland: http://rockhall.com/blog/post/6990_2012-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-inductees/
Thanks to Andrew Hamlin for this link: Here’s the AV Club’s list of the Best Music of 2011.
Thanks to Andrew Hamlin for these awesome links: 50 Favorites: From Adele To ‘Book Of Mormon’ Vote For Your Favorite Albums Of 2011
I am listening to the Cleaners From Venus, which is good Sunday music… – Andrew Hamlin
In the news report above, two reporters try to explain the punk scene versus the new wave music scenes of Seattle in 1981. Although the report was pretty shallow, it also tried to discredit punk the way almost all the media did at the time. The reporters mentioned punk bands liked to use shock tactics …
This question comes from an unnamed source via Daniel Housman – Just how many brilliant obscure singer-songwriters were there in the early Seventies? I’m still getting over rediscovering Emmitt Rhodes — and now here’s David Ackles. Nobody was listening to this stuff, yet “Gimme Dat Ding” went Top 40? Tom Kipp – Let us add …
Exhibit A: The Voice On The Tape, which sounds nothing like the Michael Jackson the world knew… …sounds uncannily like Sly Stone. Exhibit B: A thirtysomething father of two from the Deep South reports that he had no idea this was happening. I sat stunned. “You don’t read the papers?” I inquried. “Once upon a …
Joe Rigby Quartet: For Harriet Freddie Hubbard: Pinnacle Live & Unreleased: From Keystone Korner They Might Be Giants: Join Us Fountains Of Wayne: Sky Full Of Holes Catherine MacLellan: Silhouette Frank Fairfield: Out On The Open West Gang Of Four: Content New York Dolls: Dancing Backward In High Heels SYCH (Wally Shoup, C. Spencer Yeh, …
Go here. (Thanks to Andrew Hamlin for the link.)
For anyone missing out on the legendary "Rock Dreams" book… http://www.flickr.com/photos/82436511@N00/sets/72157625648134833/with/5354507573/ Best, – – Andrew Hamlin ******************************************* A lovely resource, Andy. Fortunately, I picked up many copies of that book from various Seattle remainder tables during the Nineties, so at least a few households known to me have a copy on hand, if not necessarily …
Sorry for the lateness on the halftime update. I met someone wonderful and lost track of time. Below find my picks for the Best Albums Of The First Half Of 2011 (plus links to selected cuts): Eleventh Dream Day: Riot Now! New York Dolls: Dancing Backward In High Heels Bill Callahan: Apocalypse SYCH (Wally Shoup, …
Salon story is here. Thanks to Andrew Hamlin for the tip.
http://marathonpacks.tumblr.com/post/7388842751/i-feel-like-you-seem-pretty-well-read-when-it-comes-to
You can find Andrew’s review of O Moon, Queen of Night on Earth, here.
Drummer Jimmy Cobb, alto saxophonist Sonny Fortune, bassist Buster Williams and guitarist Mike Stern range in age from 82 (Cobb) to 58 (Stern). Miles Davis, the man they play to honor, would have been 85 on May 26th. Sitting across from me at Seattle’s Jazz Alley, Tom Kipp wasn’t completely sure if four sidemen from …
Thanks to Andrew Hamlin for this link. He adds, “Smile if this reminds you of anybody you know!” http://www.avclub.com/articles/why-do-popculture-fans-stop-caring-about-new-music,55805/
. . [Apichatpong Weerasethakul just won the Palm D’or–the top prize–at Cannes for his feature film “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,” which opens June 17th at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle.] The Northwest Film Forum’s first screening of Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s short films, Program 1, saw four people walk out …
Obituary is here. I never knew Ms. Snow’s work well, but that is, to borrow a line from Blind Wille Johnson, nobody’s fault but mine. She showed remarkable courage and fortitude, in her decision to raise a mentally-handicapped child by herself. – Andrew Hamlin
Darlene Love is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Andrew Hamlin did a great interview with her for the Village Voice. Full story is here.
. My picks for the Best Albums Of 2011 so far, in order, below (plus samples for some); . Eleventh Dream Day: Riot Now! New York Dolls: Dancing Backward In High Heels Wanda Jackson: The Party Ain’t Over SYCH (Wally Shoup, C. Spencer Yeh, Chris Corsano, Bill Horist): Lunar Roulette Faust: Something Dirty Sonny Simmons …
East Portland Blog’s own Andrew Hamlin has a review of “Withershins” by Smoosh posted in the prestigious San Diego Reader. You may view it here: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/mar/08/emwithershinsem-smoosh/ “I do hope you’ll avail yourselves of the album,” Andrew wrote in email, which is “available for free download, last time I checked, at www.smoosh.com. I recommend the live-on-KEXP …
The latest from Andrew Hamlin: What if you threw your own sci-fi hip-hop musical, and [almost] nobody came? http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2011/feb/27/keven-darklight-the-man-the-musical-and-the-review/ …but wait, the guy’s actually pretty good! Find more artists like KEVEN at Myspace Music You can find more at: http://www.myspace.com/kevenstar4you/music/songs/keep-holding-on-78378328
A friend died last Wednesday. It might seem odd calling him a friend, since I never saw him in the flesh, never spoke to him on the telephone, and have no idea what he looked like. On the other hand, it might not seem so strange. Having such friends seemed and seems strange to me. …
“Although Dido has sold over 28 million records worldwide, I have never received a single telephone call from any record company or artist because of my involvement on those albums. In contrast, Talk Talk’s ‘Spirit of Eden,’ which was seen as a failure at the time of its release, has steadily brought me work for …