Echoing more sleepy Santo & Johnny than hard-charging Pyramids, Rich Arithmetic’s summer single, “Saving Sunset (Last Surf Of The Day)” is a refreshing digestif for quasi-post Covid sundowns. With a Shadows-ish lead melody overlapping a traditional staccato rhythm (both played by north-of-Seattle guitarist Rich Horton (Arithmetic) – plus Ruppi Barnickel’s idyllic percussion – the instrumental …
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I love this “In Our Time” tune more than life itself. I hear the three B’s: Beatles, Byrds and Bach. Abbey Road Studios called, they want John and Paul back. Also, I’m serious about the Bach. They’ve got a beautiful, layered, joyful church music thing going on with amazing guitar sounds, beautiful vocal arrangements and …
You’re welcome. And I heard it on KMHD, Portland’s fine jazz station https://www.kmhd.org. And thanks to Seattle songwriter Rich Horton for finding this, more decorous, youtube version of the remix and for digging up the original. Rich has a new album coming out soon, check it out. First the remix. Here’s Sara’s original: And here’s …
Today is the 50th anniversary, not of the song, but of the peaceful protest in Northern Ireland which turned deadly when British soldiers fired at the crowd on January 30, 1972, killing 14 and wounding others. To commemorate the event, Bono and the Edge are releasing, via U2’s Instagram, a delicate, acoustic version of their …
The trailer for this movie makes the production look very deftly imagined and well-acted. This entire genre, however, the “my parents don’t understand my band and my long-suffering girlfriend can’t cope with my success” genre, is almost always disappointing. As my friend Rich Horton says, “To be fair, the whole ‘(our) band is daring to …
This youtube clip has had 1,580,728 people watch it (as of 7/10/12), can they all be wrong? You decide, cast your vote now… – Pat Thomas is the author of the recently released work, Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 Just when I’d come to believe I was safe from ever …
Fall of ’69, I’m in elementary school, my brother is in high school and we’ve got just a handful of LPs in the basement rec room of our house in western New York – including “In a Gadda Da Vida” and the “Easy Rider” soundtrack. Our two favorite bands are Iron Butterfly and Steppenwolf. (In …
[Update 4/19/2012 – On his website, the family of Levon Helm has announced, “Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon. He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul.” The material below was posted earlier in the week, prior to …
The photos below were taken September 1987 at the Puyallup Fair, Puyallup, WA. All photos property of Holly Homan, all rights reserved. Here is an excerpt from an excellent essay about the enduring appeal of the Monkees, by Rich Horton: “There was a time in the mid-’60s, roughly following the releases of “Rubber Soul” and …
Why is African-American gospel music of the forties and fifties, and for that matter, white country gospel music of the same time, usually perceived by critics to be more real, vital, culturally-significant, lasting and better than the Christian Contemporary Music which immediately followed thereon? Chris Estey – I could write a book. Wait, I am. …
http://youtu.be/qAkubiZhly4 “To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest …
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This is a moral issue. The fact that nearly 64% of the nation’s wealth is concentrated in the hands of 5% of the population is a scandal, while 80% of the population holds only 13% of the country’s wealth. Yet, the Right, particularly those with a “moral” agenda, concentrates its outrage on people’s sex lives …
“Weren’t Young Fresh Fellows more important in the grand scheme of things than Nirvana? And wasn’t Popllama more significant than SubPop? – East Portland Blog Critic’s Roundtable, Part 1 (This conversation has four parts.) Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Through the 1980s a couple of different strains ran through …
Prior to and contemporaneous with, Grunge, Seattle was a center for great melodic pop from such luminaries as the Posies, the Young Fresh Fellows, (whose leader Scott McCaughey went on to play in REM for years) Sister Psychic, Flake, Stumpy Joe, Model Rockets, Presidents of the United States of America and numerous others. Out of …
. He wasn’t the greatest of all time, but he may have been the prettiest. Mark Knopfler’s solos, in Dire Straits and elsewhere, were/are always the most melodic, the clearest, the brightest, the kind you’d most like to take home to Mum. He had/has at least four personas, all of them entertaining: the mellifluous athleticist, …
This hymn-like anthem is about selfless, freely given love that asks nothing in return. The singer wants to dry your tears, watch your back, comfort you when you’re down, and sail behind you and keep you safe. Can you think of any other song that packaged so much beauty and emotion into a few lines …
Lesley Gore – Deluxe Edition of Acclaimed Final Album ‘Ever Since’ w/ Never-Before-Heard Bonus Track
ECR Music Group is releasing the acclaimed final album of legend Lesley Gore as a deluxe edition today, fully restored, remixed, and remastered by the album’s original producer and ECR founder, Blake Morgan. This new deluxe edition of Ever Since features a never-before-released bonus track––Gore’s final studio recording––recorded during the album’s original 2005 sessions. “In the years since Lesley’s death in …
From: cory davis Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 9:56 AM To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: Mock Rock? Hi TK. What would you recommend for anyone who likes Weird Al? What’s out there that’s better? What’s the name of that one group that was two guys just sorta spewing stream-of-consciousness about celebrities of the time? Thanks!! ~FC Hi FC: …
Our upcoming record, “A Little Love,” is a collection of covers of songs we heart. We recorded Daydream Believer because we dig the tune and, of course, The Monkees. Needless to say we didn’t plan for it to be a tribute to Davy Jones, but his passing has inspired us to upload a video dedicated …
From MSNBC: “Singer Davy Jones of The Monkees has died of a heart attack at 66, the medical examiner’s office in Martin County, Fla., has confirmed to NBC News. A statement issued by the medical examiner’s office says that Jones complained Wednesday morning that he wasn’t feeling well and was having trouble breathing. He was …
2011 started out with my watching The Reverend Horton Heat play a New Year’s Eve show at Seattle’s El Corazon and ended with my watching The Reverend Horton Heat at Seattle’s El Corazon on December 30th. I have now seen the Reverend four times and will see him four more times if the opportunity arises. …
In the news report above, two reporters try to explain the punk scene versus the new wave music scenes of Seattle in 1981. Although the report was pretty shallow, it also tried to discredit punk the way almost all the media did at the time. The reporters mentioned punk bands liked to use shock tactics …
. So, there I was at SOFA-Chicago (International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair) last month exhibiting my work and not selling much when an employee of Ferrin Gallery, Lauren Levato, purchased a small beaded flower of mine. It is possible that I started gushing about the work of my favorite artist Sergei Isupov, who …