Ultracool dude and longtime friend of East Portland Blog, Jason Matu, is inviting listeners to kick back, relax and watch the gorgeous and magical pink sun of Bisbee, Arizona, even if it is just for three minutes. “Pink Sun of Bisbee,” the new single from Jason Matu is a hopeful rendering of the words that …
Month: April 2021
Texas make a very welcome return with their exhilarating new album Hi, flexing their rock soul muscle with 14 tracks that easily rank amongst the best of their stellar career. Scotland’s finest, Texas, are a band in their prime, fuelled by the swagger of their recent acclaimed collaboration with the Wu-Tang Clan. Along with news of the new album …
Tuesday eating from your yard tip~Onion Chives (Allium Schoenoprasum). The pink flowers and the leaves have a subtle onion flavor making them both visually and palette pleasing. My favorite way to eat chives are chopped up and heated with a quarter size of oil, to flavor the oil, before I throw in my eggs. Today …
Photo by Anna Azarov Arguably the only happy song on Sweetlove’s new EP, GOODNIGHT, LOVER, opening song “Devil on Your Shoulder,” urges self-acceptance with heartwarming confidence. “It was a crazy, rainy day, and my co-writer Jay Stolar and I decided that we wanted to attempt to write something about being brave in honor of someone’s …
Flight of Icarus are a Swedish pop/rock explosion spewing symphonic metal fragments. For this video, imagine a hard rock version of the Frozen soundtrack on top of a Nike commercial. This is a powerful pop song in the vein of Roxette with the guitar punch of Heart and Starship and the vocals of Nightwish and …
With their pop-infused house music, grabbing inspiration from numerous of genres including garage/two step, disco and soul, DUNDER provides their own unique take on how to make the listener move. The duo, consisting of Simon Boustedt and Paolo Lira, started out as songwriting and producer colleagues. A collaboration which has now evolved into both a …
Rare photo of Jack Daniel (middle, white hat) next to George Green, son of Nathan ‘Nearest’ Green taken around 1900. Sometime around 1855, a young 6 year-old named Jasper went to work for a preacher, grocer, and landowner in Lynchburg, Tennessee named Dan Call. His mother had died from complications resulting from his birth, and there …