This may be our last chance to sell a screenplay, and here’s the premise: “Lady Gaga is a single mom working for the Mining and Minerals Management Service in New Orleans. She’s just trying to do her job and bring home the etouffee for her dead sister’s adorable child from [whatever country is hot next …
From Jeffy: “These guys I did see live back then/thereabouts – The Suburbs, and i just realized that their song “Cows” must have been stewing in my head for years before i wrote a Pathetic Wannabees tune called “Bovine”!” Jeffy has found something here, an eighties video which is truly of it’s time, but still …
I received this from BernardStreetCred a while ago. Summer’s here and the time is right for acoustic Beach Boys covers:
I hadn’t heard from BradfordBoy60 in a long time, but today he broke radio silence and submitted the following for your unadulterated enjoyment. He writes, these “19 year olds from Ireland, I believe, have released a great pop record,” and later, “TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB’s cd is 35 minutes of 100% beef pop, not a …
A lovely, dark, deep, vesperlike version of “Vanlose Stairway,” done by Van Morrison and crew for BBC Four:
It’s time for the annual posting of “Summer’s Almost Gone,” East Portland Blog‘s guilty pleasure Doors song. And this year there are two bonuses. First, for your consideration, is Juan and Guido’s guileless jungle cover. It’s not perfect by any means, but quite comfortable overall, and almost lifelike in several important spots. And here’s the …
Above is Tom Jones and Wilson Pickett performing a Medley of “Barefootin,” “Midnight Hour,” and “Hey Jude” on This is Tom Jones television show in 1970. Below is Wilson Pickett‘s legendary studio version of “Hey Jude,” which included energetic session guitar work from a then-unknown Duane Allman. Allman’s biting, emotional, guitar work at the end …
“Hold my life, until I’m ready to use it.Hold my life, because I just might lose it.”— From “Hold My Life” by the Replacements No band has propped up my world the way the Replacements did in the ‘80s. Although I’ve had favorite musicians before and since, those performers’ music was just life’s soundtrack, often …
From The World, Pato Fu, a Brazilian band, performing Paul McCartney’s 1973 tune “Live and Let Die” on toy instruments with adorable performing children:
“The Weight” off The Band‘s 1968 album, Music From Big Pink has become the favored cover tune for every flavor and sector of Americana rock. Something in the loping, star-spangled bounce of the tune gives voice, meter and harmony to subtle, reassuring myths of rural America and has found appeal, not just in the land …
From “Jazz on a Summer’s Day,” filmed at Newport Jazz Festival, 1958. Lovely clip. It’s the hat and the crowd that make it special. Here’s her version of “My Funny Valentine” from around the same time. According to John Siscoe, “Ah, the forever lovely Anita O’Day. The hat, the dress, the heels, and holy mackerel, …
My old friend and one of Pandomag.com‘s stellar photographers, Justin Renney, was involved in putting this amazing project together. He was Director of Photography, Music Director, filmed every scene, and is listed as an Associate Producer on the page called “The Team.” It’s an interactive movie, out now on DVD and available for a limited …
Disarming gospel standard “There’s a Sweet Sweet Spirit in This Place” has been loved and covered by many, including Elvis Presley, who included it in his shows. There are vibrant, life-restoring dimensions and layers to the song which make the listener feel as if the author truly knew the Creator. Written by Doris Akers, the …
NRBQ was one of the best, perhaps the best, touring act of the late 20th Century. This cover of Elvis’ “Too Much” is a historical record of live rock at it’s best, an expansive tapestry of precise cacophony. And, according to NRBQ.com, they’re still touring.
This little Youtube clip is a national treasure. Click on the photo above or view here – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1__zadGXR3A
Thanks to Mark Erickson for this:
My UW friend Lou Trez and his band, Quickie, released this song on April 11, 2010 and since then it’s been viewed 120,000 times. Now the video is drawing attention in China, where it is discussed in this Chinese language news report. Only in America, only in Seattle…
The latest from Seattle‘s Unnatural Helpers is a video expressive of club rock’s gut level punch and fevered intensity, featuring anger, barbecue and vomiting (in a good way). To go straight to the vomiting, click here:
A few things. Grynch‘s new tune is lovely, hook-laden and sweetly touching. Song is about a car and not remotely obscene, but uses connection word obscenities to denote generational authenticity. Be warned, if suchlike bothers you. AND, for those of you who don’t live in Seattle, this video shows exactly what Seattle looks and feels …