Earl “Chinna” Smith (born 6 August 1955), a.k.a. Earl Flute and Melchezidek the High Priest, is a Jamaican guitarist active since the late 1960s. He is most well known for his work with the Soul Syndicate band and has recorded with many reggae artists, appearing on more than 500 albums. “Daniel in the Lion’s Den” …
Month: March 2019
Thanks to Davin Michael Stedman and Mell Detmer for this one. Mell is just back from Africa. Oumou Sangaré is a Malian superstar and a friend of Mell. According to her Wikipedia page, Oumou Sangaré was born February 25, 1968 in Bamako, Mali and “is a Grammy Award-winning Malian Wassoulou musician, sometimes referred to as …
When it comes to leaving a game, there are generally two conflicting principles involved. The first is to beat the crowd to the exits and avoid having to wait an extra hour or two to make it out of the parking lot. The second is to be loyal and not bail early on your team. …
It’s nearly impossible to have a lousy time at a ska show. I’ve seen only a couple of ska bands really, but small sample size be damned; it would be madness not to move your feet My wife and I bounced around like a couple of kids Wednesday as the Cat Empire took over the …
Ahoy! Rough-hewn Icelandic crooner Kahnin is a modern-day, real-life, Old Spice Man. He’s home from the sea and all the beautiful women are opening their doors and windows to blow him kisses as he gambols through town whistling a familiar tune. He’s got an EP full of sea shanties for you to unpack from his …
Canada is a special place. It’s like the States but without the conspicuous leisure and homicidal violence. Only in an unspoiled place like the Great White North could Moon King incubate such an innocent gem as this short-ish dance film. Watch and learn. Celebrate life for a change. This video does. When talking about “Come …
I love this one too. Give it a listen. This work has a beating heart of it’s own. I know, if you need this record, one day it will find you. all the best all my love, Love Luke View this post on Instagram The GOAT 🐐- MewithoutYou : We gave up on our dreams …
THIS IS TEYANA TAYLOR’S STAR-STUDDED, SELF-DIRECTED VIDEO FOR “ISSUES/HOLD ON” GUEST STARS INCLUDE ASAP ROCKY, ASAP FERG, TYLER THE CREATOR, KRISTEN CRAWLEY & LORI HARVEY LISTEN TO K.T.S.E. HERE
The band says of the video: “It is a bit of a sequel, but mostly it’s a tribute to landline phones and answering machines. We wanted to continue the narrative we began with [previous video for single] ‘Landing’. We’ve always adored videos like ‘Just’ from Radiohead and wanted this one to capture that similar uneasy and …
Enigmatic alt-rock artist Meg Myers is back with an empowering cover of Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill,’ the first taste of her next project, slated for release later this summer. “Growing up, I was never really interested in covering other artist’s music.” Myers explains, “I always wanted to write my own songs because I …
Here’s the latest from the mighty Jong SL and what do I think? Well, this is a fantastic song! I love those jazzy guitar chords/vocal harmonies on the back end. Jong SL’s got the gift! Listen to him! This is only the latest in a spate of great music from the music capitol of the …
Natalie Lynn describes her new single in this way, “The whole vibe of “One” is like the feeling of being at the top of a roller coaster. Not the part when you actually start going down, but right before that. Pure excitement and vulnerability. The feeling like you might just be on the top of …
With a voice as bewitching, bold, and brilliant as her quixotic presence, Amaal entrances with earth-shattering emotion and an unbelievable story. Her family traded their native Somalia for Toronto at the height of Civil War during the early nineties. Acclimating to a whole new world, she immediately gravitated towards music and singing. In between honing her blockbuster …
Here in otherwise secular Portland, during the month of March, we celebrate St. Patrick, the man who brought Christianity to Ireland. Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland too, or at least that’s what I was taught as a child in County Cook, in the then-Irish Republic of Chicago, where they still dye the …
Saturday night March 9, Tacoma’s Alma Mater club was the place to be for anyone hip enough to know that Girl Trouble was playing. But this was no ordinary Girl Trouble show. This was their 35th anniversary extravaganza of being a band. Thirty-five years later and just as energetic and just as entertaining as ever. …
For a Beatle-crazed boy who had exhausted available content, the Bee Gees were but a short hop away, and not just in the record bins. Their greatest hits albums of 60s and 70s stuff scratched an itch for tunefulness and harmonies I couldn’t find elsewhere. Some cuts, like “Lonely Days,” boasted Beatlesque structural innovations that …
Is it a coincidence that Europe is fracturing as the generation of WW2 is fading into graves, burying their hallow points of truth into the boneyards of history? I speak of these times, only months before my father was born in the beginning of the Boom, and young adults look at me like I am …
Ever since CBS’s 60 Minutes did a feature last year on Giannis Antetokounmpo, otherwise known as “The Greek Freak”, I decided to make a point of paying a visit to Sacramento when the Milwaukee Bucks came to town. Though I made the trip a few days ago, I was very nearly disappointed. Giannis, a Greek …
Colleges and cities have been wrestling as they consider monuments and buildings named on behalf of men who supported and profited from slavery or outwardly displayed racist tendencies in the earlier half of the 19th century and beyond. Tensions and protests have recently intensified across the country. On one side, people do not want to …
We went to the Mountain Top. I brought 11 musicians in my Soul United Allstar squad for a 4 hour session at Stevens Pass Mountain Resort. It won’t be the last Summit. This is something I want to do around the world, with King Porter Stomp alums like Ras Jones, Badj Whipple, and Jonathan Waller. We played my English Sherlock Soul …
I miss my brilliant English pals. Jonathan Waller is one of the sharpest and most talented gentleman on that island. He’s one of the few people I would consider not debating on National TV, because he’s so charming and witty, and he has that quintessentially British ability to cut you and you don’t even know it… You …
Bicoastal indie-pop duo EXES and LA-based synthpop duo JOME have released a collaborative EP, Nothing’s Out To Get You. “Stay Still,” the song above, is one of the singles from the work and a powerful anthem to love, loss, power, guilt, cleverness and tragedy. About “Stay Still,” Allie McDonald of EXES comments: “‘Stay Still’ was …
Tuff Gong International adventure update: my Ace on the squad just got me added to some radio stations in South Florida, and he asked me… …to record my first drops and radio promos for ‘Free Your Mind’ with Mell Dettmer. He’s giving me a list of stations. The program director said the same thing Conrad Denke mentioned to …
The Black Keys return with their song “Lo/Hi”, the first new music from the band since their 2014 album, Turn Blue. And it’s excellent. “Lo/Hi” was written and produced by Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, and recorded at Nashville’s Easy Eye Sound studio. Formed in Akron, Ohio in 2001, The Black Keys have released eight …
While in college on the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, I rode in a car, a behemoth Buick Wildcat, with four other people en route from Chicago to Minneapolis. A winter storm pummeled Wisconsin as we drove, and we saw dozens of cars and semi-trucks* in the ditch. Tow trucks kept busy that night…ca-ching! We were …
After living in Japan and a long stint signed to Sony, Rie Fu (pronounced Ree-ay Foo) returns with a new sense of musical freedom. The video for ‘Mirror’ follows the life of a young girl seemingly alone in London. Rie describes it as: “A powerful story with a very intriguing ending, representing the spiritual existence …
This video which tells a fanciful story of a young girl’s space exploration is one of the great videos of all time. I’m not kidding. Check it out. Swimming Bell is the solo project of Brooklyn-based folk singer Katie Schottland. She began to write after she broke her foot in the fall of 2015, learning …
March may have come in like a lamb in Western Washington, but inside Tony V’s Garage in Everett, a Tsunami was under way. More precisely the Bay Area’s Tsunami Bomb headlined. Sporting a new lead singer (Kate Jacobi), who performed duets and the occasional pas de deux with keyboardist Oobliette Sparks. Flirtatious and charismatic, Kate …
Halfway between Love Battery and Presidents of the United States lies the catchy, lovable, guitar pop sound of “Pick a Number” by up and coming band, Gypsy Temple. I chose two old school Seattle bands for the comparison because Gypsy Temple is Seattle through and through and their video shows old school Seattle in a …
The Wait is Over: Luna Keller Fans Delirious as Official Video for “We Are All Mad Here” is Released
The long-awaited video for Luna Keller’s burgeoning hit, “We Are All Mad Here,” has just been released. It’s darling. Take a look, listen closely, join the madness, and you will be happy. In this song, “mad” does not mean “angry.” This song is much more positive. Here “mad” means, “crazy in a good way, eccentric …