Light bulb idea: I want to shoot a video for our first regional hit, Easy Rider with Decurrian Rapmusic rolling in a hooptie… But he’s driving and I’m in Shotgun. We never address the fact he’s blind. We released this song in 2007 on our first album, The 12th Street Blues. It always bummed me out that …
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Well that was a wild ending. I didn’t want to strip tonight. But I mentioned off hand last night that I would get down to my boxers if people came back the second night to my last Staxx show. Well f☆☆☆☆☆ck. I drank a bit last night and I usually don’t, and I forgot that …
Chris Mcfann the owner of Der Hinterhof and one of our greatest fans and a true friend, designed this ad and purchased by purchased the back of the local entertainment magazine. Definitely consider taking a road trip to see our last shows before the band goes on hiatus. Seriously, it’s a lot of fun. One of the great …
I have a $100 budget. Who is ready to make a memorable show poster out of this image of Eric Struthers to celebrate his first show in Seattle with The Staxx Brothers? The show is Saturday Nov 3rd. We did some standout posters for the nights Ras Jones (Jonezy) came to visit us from England and when Matt Fink (Dr. Fink) rocked …
The latest from Staxx Brothers both looks and sounds so much like a Stax-Volt homage that no one would be surprised if Booker T. Jones or Steve Cropper themselves showed up for a cameo. Enjoy!
Seattle’s magnificent hip hop fusion ensemble Staxx Brothers has announced that one of their songs will be included in the upcoming horror and revenge flick, The Anniversary. Here’s the plot description, “On the anniversary weekend of the death of a young women’s husband, five girls head out to a cabin to help their friend move …
Many thanks to Davin Michael Stedman and everyone at Staxx Brothers for premiering “Corn Rows for Christmas” on East Portland Blog two years ago. “Corn Rows for Christmas” is the tune which really put East Portland Blog on the map. Here it is in all its original glory: https://www.eastportlandblog.com/2010/12/21/its-here-staxx-brothers-corn-rows-for-christmas-a-world-premiere-original-song-free-download/
[The Staxx Brothers will appear at East Portland’s Mt. Tabor Theater on March 16, and at the Hard Rock Cafe in Seattle on St. Patrick’s Day.] When the larger-than-life Staxx Brothers take action, they think big. For the band’s third video for Jungle Cat —an album with a young prizefighter’s legs under it — something …
The Staxx Brothers need your help. They are shooting another video and are on the verge of releasing, The Jelly Roll, a DVD collection of their music videos. Give ’til it hurts: The Jelly Roll is almost here!!!!! We set up this special order page for our friends to support us. You can see the …
This is one of my fave tunes from The Staxx Brothers recent album, Jungle Cat, and I’m glad to see that it has a video now:
This is such a fantastic album that I lack the clever, crisp, exacting, verbiage anyone would need to try and describe this work. This is fusion music in the best sense of the word. There’s urgent, powerful hip hop here in the form of living, urbane, rhythmic, visual poetry rapped mightily by Staxx Bros front …
Here’s the latest from Davin, “Check out and please share our first single WARPATH. This is one of the songs we’ll be sending out soon to folks that bought advanced copies of Jungle Cat. Bump it right here Jukebox style! (this site rocks).” Warpath – single by The Staxx Brothers . And here’s the video. …
Staxx Brothers– superstars of hard-ass soul, “the closest thing to vintage Funkadelic ever witnessed,”* and longtime friends of East Portland Blog are offering you a party that starts now and ends (if ever) in 2012. Anyone who purchases an advanced copy of Jungle Cat, the band’s next album, before the official release party, Saturday May …
. Seattle’s classic, fantastic, “hard ass soul” band, Staxx Brothers and East Portland Blog are very pleased to announce the release of “Corn Rows for Christmas,” a powerful, fresh, new, original, soaring, heartfelt Christmas song which is presented here as a gift for Staxx Brothers fans, Christmas fans, music fans, everyone… View the very fun …
This is a nightmare. I better come out of this thing like Robert f☆cking Johnson. Not the dead version. Well at least Woody Guthrie. Not the one Bob Dylan sang to in a hospital bed. There a few possible outcomes and endless variations. At a certain point as touring and venues either collapse or stay …
If destroying the dominance of the American dollar was your game, Donald Trump is your name. In less than four years he not only undid what Obama rightly did, he is taking it back. Way back. Way past Eisenhower. He’s going back to Hoover. The American dollar is now backed by Trump Steaks and sweat …
What time are we getting quarantined here in Washington? You name it, you win the first the first jar of BBQ Sauce The Staxx Brothers produce. It’s going to be delicious. And it’s about to get way more weird. People came in the shop and I asked people how they felt. They for the most …
People be like “just stay home for two weeks and self quarantine” But that’s not how America works. That’s how Bernie Sanders’ America works. But America just wants to project that we are a livable country full of livable wages. But the truth is that a lot of people that have been talking a lot …
I didn’t realize how garbage the state of popular rap and music in general was until I heard the so called hits they are using over the PA at the Hawks game. It is indefensible. The bar is so low for music that the #1 Country hit of our generation was a beat some kid …
Tim Alexander’s lovely wife apologized to me after the concert. She admitted she didn’t recognize me and marveled at how The Staxx Brothers replaced their singer with another guy that could sound so much like him and had so many of the same moves. She didn’t see the transformation play out on social media so that is …
If The Original Jazz Cabbage works out, that group is going to sharpen my mind and transform me as drastically as you watched my appearance change in the last year or so. I sat there smiling today at two 21 year olds and a 19 year old talking circles around me about theory and chord voicings as …
THIS IS WHAT WE CAN DO: Trade with Jamaica is pretty awesome and very productive. Noel, one of the photographers I am working with that did more great work for me than I could possibly afford suggested this, I should buy him a camera bag because he could really use it. He left behind a …
I hit the ground running. Jogging 4.20 K at Forest Park as I type. Listening to Stones, as Gleaner writer messages me that she went to Port Antonio to interview the legendary Jolly Boys and she slipped in another mention of me. I hit a wall in Seattle. I did. Jimi Hendrix didn’t get very …
Shooting music videos on the last day I am in Jamaica is quite an undertaking. Run and gun. These are not my videos per say. I wrote and recorded some songs with a dancehall singer and a producer in Port Antonio. I couldn’t make it back there before I left so they came to me. …
A great moment yesterday was sitting down with Chinna as he listened to what we did with his ‘Bush Doctor’ production. It’s been over two years since he produced me. Andrew D.B. Joslyn added strings. An incredible string arrangement. When the strings came in, he just kept saying “maaaaaad”. He was smiling so bright. He gave me …
Once every trip to Jamaica I conform to the social norms of the island and eat KFC. I always regret it with a certain type of indifference and FOMA, knowing there was a dish I could have eaten which better reflects their society than this soggy ass chicken. The only people that should eat this …
Driving to Kingston to a radio station in a tough neighborhood, to play 6 Northwest artists on the air with Selecta Ras Isachar. Roots FM is excited to hear more artists from our scene. The streets of Kingston are about to be ringing with the sounds of Stingshark Sting, Sarah Christine, Stay Grounded, and more. If I …
These are the eyes of guy who is hungry for hits. I am not going to play that game where I pretend to be indifferent and that this or that was beyond my wildest dreams. Bullsh☆t. My wildest dreams involve a really nice outdoor show on the moon. I want hits. I want to parlay …