This will be a great show. Just listen to the live KEXP session below and you’ll hear how fantastic Warren Dunes are, and also follow these links for Mr. Vales Math Class and Luke Messimer, who are two excellent Portland acts. The Fixin’ To is up in the St. John’s neighborhood of Pdx. Here’s a …
On Saturday May 14 I attended the Seattle Women’s March/Rally to support women’s reproductive rights. Seattle’s light rail system now goes north and is about six miles from my house. So I drove to the transit center and hopped a train and was at the rally in no time. When I arrived there was already …
The last two years have been tough on everyone. In fact, there are very few of us whose lives haven’t been altered in some way or another as a result of this recent change of events. For many artists, including musicians, Rolling Stone notes that this unexpected change of life events has affected their livelihoods …
Altın Gün is an Amsterdam-based Turkish psych band that was signed to ATO Records after King Gizzard championed them. Success has continued to follow them, including wide-reaching praise for their third album Yol, and sold-out shows around the world. Now, they are embarking on their own headline US run, which includes sold-out dates and a …
April 5, 2002 – the day Layne Staley of Alice in Chains died due to heroin addiction. 20 years ago today. (Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain died on April 5 also, eight years earlier. It’s a rough calendar day for Seattle musicians.) AIC, from the Pacific Northwest, got the “grunge” label along with Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Pearl …
This is an incredibly fun punk pop tune, as it should be. No one should fear the good health which comes from a plant-based diet. Whalien will perform in Portland at Starday Tavern on April 10th, and at Goodfoot Lounge on April 16th. East Portland Blog has been known to frequent at least two of …
Are you a nature enthusiast dreaming of becoming a digital nomad and taking your business on the road? Are you tired of office life and looking for ways to work in the great outdoors? Courtesy of East Portland Blog, here are some things to think about before zipping up your backpack. Become a Full-Time Remote …
The above photo has been floating around Facebook the last few days, to much chortling hilarity. Anyone familiar with the northwest side of Chicago will recognize not just the public Catholicism of this picture, but also the style of boxy, brick-only, housing built in the far north end of Chi-town where tradition holds that homeowners …
Jeremiah Moon says, “Sugarbrain is a word from the back of my brain, a tic to hold onto when the lights go out. There have been moments in my life where things felt like they might keep getting worse without ever turning around. So far, luckily, that fear has been found hollow every time. “his song …
Hey Carrie Anne… What’s your game now, can anybody play? Topic of the evening: what up wit Carrie Anne Moss (CAM), the actress in The Matrix series??? Now, I’ve never been a Matrix fan – they’re just so overwrought (in fact, I pretty much swore off since the 1st one)- but I just stumbled on …
I heard a blurb on the NPR this morning that the classic Charlton Heston sci-fi movie Soylent Green was set in 2022. Surely Rimkus must have something to say about that? Well he DOES! People eating just isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. It’s hard to get a uniform fat content (or ANY lean …
I’ve been seeing the TV ad (above) with Matt Damon hawking Crypto currencies recently; the angle of the ad is that participating in cryptocurrency speculation is the (almost literal, per the ad) equivalent of the greatest adventures of discovery the world has ever known. Huzzah! So what does Average Joe Investor make of this? Is …
On another chilly, drizzly night in Seattle I headed back to El Corazon this time to see Fishbone. Hailing from Southern California, Fishbone combines elements of funk, ska, some punk and a smattering of everything else in their unique sound. Started in 1979, they’re still going strong. These guys have more energy than bands half …
So I was in Tacoma on a soggy, dreary December Saturday afternoon (btw, few stories end well with this beginning), and I happened across the old Brown & Haley candy factory and their cute, less dreary, octagonal sales kiosk outside on the corner. I’ve always known of and enjoyed their mainstay product, the Almond Roca; …
On the very chilly evening of December 4, I headed to Seattle’s foremost punk club El Corazon to see NYC ska masters the Slackers. Due to a miscommunication it took awhile before my name was at the door so sadly I missed the openers (Simple Minded Symphony & the Bandulus). I did arrive inside in …
Photo by Craig Mitchelldyer / Portland Timbers Quoting former NFL coach Jim Mora from his famous postgame rant is kind of a cheap shot, but after the Portland Timbers fell 6-2 to archrival Seattle Sounders at home Sunday night, it’s apt. Despite an uneven season so far, the Timbers are still in line, somehow, for …
Bela Koe-Krompecher‘s new non-fiction book titled Love, Death and Photosynthesis chronicles the lives of several friends in the midwest independent rock scene of the late 1980’s and 1990’s. Today he has released a curated playlist of songs from the book and that inspired the book alongside a Book Trailer video, both debuting alongside a New Noise Magazine feature. With acclaim from Hanif Abdurraqib, …
On May 29, mighty Manchester City will take on fellow heavyweight Chelsea in the final of the European Champions League, but the soccer match could have featured scintillating Ajax battling Leipzig. It is the glory of the Champions League and Europe’s domestic leagues that the minnows can swim with the tunas. Give a hearty cheer …
Photo Credit: Brian Fox “It doesn’t matter what year this music was recorded cause it is undeniable …. but the fact that Duff, Greg, Todd and John created these fully realized songs in 1982 gives credence to the idea that this band, The Living, are ground zero for the Seattle sound.” – Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam, …
John Lomacang Delivers the Best Sermon Since the Sermon on the Mount. It is titled, “Shaken.” https://www.amazingfacts.org/
“Seattle, Washington’s Society of the Silver Cross’s has just released a new video for their latest single, “Dissolve and Merge,” off their debut full-length album, 1 Verse. An epic musical journey crossing over to mystical landscapes and otherworldly terrains, 1 Verse deals with concepts of life and death, shadows and light, and going beyond the …
I have seen a few of my stock market worshipping friends post about how much money there is to be made of this disaster as markets “inevitably” rally as this virus “fades” and things go back to “normal”. But what they don’t understand about disaster capitalism is that history is undefeated and there is a …
On Visalia, the third studio album from Tobias the Owl, Elijah Dhavvan wraps his most confessional, vulnerable lyricism to date in shimmering, ethereal indie rock. A somber reflection on his journey from homeless dropout to physician, cancer survivor, and professor of medicine at the University of Washington, the record is marked by a dramatically different …
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 …
Seattle has always since day one been a sick place. If my grandparents were alive they would tell you without a twitch what they thought about it. They lived here in the seventies as transplants from Knoxville. My grandfather was a racist to the extreme, the amount of race mixing here drove him to a …
The handwashing scene, “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand…” is Act 5 Scene 1 of MacBeth. It may come up in conversation this week, if it hasn’t already. –
On President’s Day February 17 I ventured down to Tacoma, WA with two others to see and hear Senator Bernie Sanders speak. As I approached the Dome, I saw long lines snake around the structure approximately a mile long and often as many as three people deep. The event began with some entertainment, a couple …
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 …
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 …