Damn, at 2:15 AM, I feel like Donald Fagen on the cover of The Nightfly album. A Valentine’s Day postscript, this song and video from the Dark Prince. Meant to post it earlier, as it is one of the most exquisite love songs of my generation. I’ve heard him sing it on stage many times, …
Month: February 2020
Imagine how much money was invested in making people believe the New Deal wasn’t a success. Imagine how much it took to get all these Americans to believe The Civil War wasn’t about Slavery. I just knock old people out with facts like the preacher who touches parishioners and they pass out with facts they …
I love the Ocelots and now you will too! Listen hard, listen strong! It’s delicious, crisp, fresh music! View this post on Instagram Thanks for all the love on our new track guys! We continue our excursions this week with a trip down to Tassie! Catch us at @republicbarcafe @monamuseum @williesmithsappleshed and @marakoopacafe . More …
My countdown to Valentine’s Day continues with one of the most romantic songs I can think of. Paired with a brilliantly unusual video that’s somehow absolutely perfect… they have literally brought me to tears, on occasion, for over 30 years now. It. Is. So. Fucking. Great. At the band’s peak, Bono and the Edge evoked …
View this post on Instagram We're really looking forward to 2020 with new tunes and gigs wherever we can get to.. Look out for us turning up in the UK in August where we'll be at Boomtown Festival and around. Wishing you all lovely people a fantastic and happy new year! ❤ #rocknrollband #rocknroll #rockduo …
oh?no!ok. play the kind of music you’d hear blasting forth from a suburban garage in the height of the 90’s alt-rock boom. But with songs which probe entitlement, video game addiction and idolization, it’s clear we’re dealing with a wildly fresh take on slacker rock. “Candy Crush” is about a kid who becomes obsessed with …
On Sunday night February 9, I headed back to El Corazon. This time it was for a night of ska with two great bands headlining – the Toasters and Mustard Plug. Mustard Plug was the last to play, but the previous bands did such an excellent job of warming everyone up, that there was no …
Yang could not keep up financially. He would make a great Director of the Small Business Administration! “Humanity First” and MATH were Mr. Yang’s campaign slogans. MATH= Make America Think Harder. That message still applies, America. Mark — Thank you for your incredible support these past months. You all have uplifted me and inspired …
Behold the intensely smart, womanist, ascendant, electronic statement single from LA-based songstress and historian Surrija. Inspired to create— and potentially change the world in the process— by painter Pablo Picasso, aspiring surrealist Surrija moved in her own blue period to Barcelona and cubistically composed her debut album, only to find out there that the Spanish …
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The HorrorPops Long Awaited Return to Seattle Brings a Maxed Out Crowd to El Corazon, by Holly Homan
Several months have passed since I last attended a concert. Most everyone who came through town I’d already seen many times and I longed for something new. That opportunity came when I learned the HorrorPops were coming on February 7th. After a seven-year hiatus, the HorrorPops were returning. I first saw them live in 2003 …
I clipped the following quote and it sat on my dresser for a short while. I cannot remember the source and I do not recall the writer. “But what I find most abhorrent about lawyers is how they play games, use word tricks, set traps, are not so much after justice as after winning, outfoxing …
“Don’t you love, ‘us?’ My fault I fear…” While I was searching for the Van Morrison-Chet Baker version displayed above I discovered this live take (below) of Sarah Vaughan doing the same tune. Van and Chet have their moments, particularly Chet’s subtle trumpet emoting under Van’s cooler than usual voice, and their version should have …
We started the week with the Iowa caucus. More like, Io-what??? Technological problems led to chaos and embarrassment, and state officials apologized for not being able to call a winner. With Biden sliding toward Styx, billionaire Michael Bloomberg could capture a prominent spot as a moderate. Then on Tuesday President Trump delivered his State of …
This weekend I have two of my most challenging gigs. And it represents some pretty awesome news. Over the last two weeks Tony Verhey, his son, and the amazing women that tend his bar taught me to be a bartender. From scratch. He asked me what I knew about bartending and I told him the truth. …
On the rainy evening of February 5 I joined about two to three-hundred others in downtown Seattle to protest the blatant cover-ups of the crimes of one Donald J. Trump. It was a day that pounded a final nail into the coffin of democracy and pushed the United States one large step closer to full …
Founded on the notion of waking up within one’s own dreams, “Silent Sleeper” is a tale of bringing the peaceful bliss of desired reality out from the mind into the shared experience of day-to-day life. Throughout the journey of the single, Kendra & the Bunnies transports us into a trance-like musical experience. Like the sound …
“Heart of Mine was recorded in 2016 at Kleine Audiowelt at Sandhausen, Germany and produced by Daniel Deboy (The Late Call). Percussion was added by Peter Hinz. This song is about fear, anxiety and panic but also hope and finding a way out. Annika writes about the songwriting process: “I was lying in bed, worrying. …
This song was at one Youtube view when I first clicked on it. Let’s watch that number of views grow into the millions. “By the way, why is that song called “Danny’s Run”? When Stella and I in the 80s were making a living with jingles and film music, one of our clients was an …
ADAF by Noisebody We’re so happy to share with you ADAF, Noisebody’s first release on Openers Records, and a video for “Stolen Pleasure”. Noisebody, the keyboard fronted pop outfit based in Louisville, creates an aquatic world full of soft wavy keyboards and a beat that keeps the damn boat moving. Noisebody has been steadily releasing music over …
Andrew Yang is that guy, where someone said , “you should run for President dude”… …and dude did. The fact that he got up there at national televised debates and got across “wild Liberal” ideas Nixon almost implemented like Universal Guaranteed Income, is a major accomplishment. In a world lacking debate skills, because of the …