I am pretty excited about the risk we’re taking at my first show in Jamaica. We’re closing with a Mento song that we turned into a full on Rock Song. This band is two Jamaican cops and this Jamaican drummer that is the in the pocket reincarnation of Keith Moon. …and a Budtender from Seattle. …
The aptly named Matthew Sweet has hit La Dolce spot on several re-memberable and re-lovable singles. Underrated most of his career, a song like “We’re the Same” was certainly crushed at time of release by whatever Pearl Jam elegy ruled the airwaves. Eddie Vedder’s stentorian voicebox captured the concurrent dolour of those years and vibed …
Sometimes you find yourself at a Dancehall video shoot. Sometimes you end up in the video. Both of these things are true. This is enigma is pwile chile. His tale of British and Jamaican trade relations and the struggles of small business ownership in volatile free markets, is riveting. If you want to support these adventures …
Based in Los Angeles, California, Serena Foster was born into a musical dynasty, where she started singing in the womb and later penning songs in the cradle with a crayon. Originally writing and performing pure Americana, Serena recently reinvented herself and her music by diving into an inward soul-search for her voice and identity. This …
I will say this about Dr. John. He was my favorite vocalist from New Orleans. And I marveled at what he did with a voice that wasn’t even the 100th strongest voice in the city on any given day. That’s a compliment. He sold the Night Tripper, he sold himself, he sold those songs. Unless …
Tee Grizzley has released his sophomore album, Scriptures, out today via 300 Entertainment. The album was executive produced by Timbaland and during a recent interview with Zane Lowe, Tee called Scriptures his words of wisdom to live by and talked about how him and Timbaland came together to work on it. During a studio session with Kanye West in Miami the two connected and decided to work …
These two got CHEMISTRY! And Biology! Theygo senyoo bakta skoolies! Leading Lady: Jaycy Hernandez @jaycyhernandez — Youtube
Wanna see Rock reborn in East Jamaica? Something absolutely magic happened last night at rehearsal with Lenni I-Music and his Trail Blazer Band. We turned this little Mento song I wrote called, ‘Go Tell It To The Mystics’ into a genuine Arena Rock anthem. And the take after this was the most punk moment I have ever …
I am going to be as tan as I was back in high school in Summertime whether I like it or not. You can’t escape the sun. Jogging with your shirt on makes no sense. Miss 80’s, mid 70s humidity. The only thing I ate today are mangos and sweet cups, which are really passion …
Loss can be a very difficult thing to talk about. It’s okay to be sad. It’s okay to feel grief. It’s okay to profoundly miss somebody. “Every Single Day” is about the quiet emptiness that envelopes your home when someone you love is no longer there. Following the passing of Ashley’s mom from cancer, we …
Just A Brooklyn Girl is a very modest way of describing Neo-Soul sorceress Cherokee, but that’s how she’s titled her new release, a divine collection of sonorous-vocals, sweetly melodic storytelling, and hooked-filled art-R&B that brings her beauty and power back into the ears and before the eyes of perfervid new urban music fans. The bohemian, …
Take note, kids (and MacArthur Fellowship committee members), this is what a GENIUS looks like… Juno Roome, the ace honcho of a. harlana, recently got some of his many, many talented friends together and filmed several live video with loop oriented versions of his songs. This is similar to the way that Juno performs for …
Piercing and elegant in it’s concentrated beauty, I feel as though this piece has massaged my right temporal lobe. And my wrong one too. Mattia Cupelli is an italian composer/producer based in Rome, Italy. He merges Neo-Classical/Soundtrack/Ambient sounds with modern Minimal Electronic music.
ORG Music recently released a vinyl reissue of David Hillyard & The Rocksteady Seven’s debut album, Playtime, in celebration of its 20th anniversary. Available on vinyl for the very first time and originally released via Hellcat Records / Epitaph Records in 1999, Playtime is a mostly instrumental affair that highlights Hillyard’s deft compositional and saxophone skills with a blend of rootsy …
After many years living in Japan and working as a songwriter for the charts Joakim Björnberg (lodet) has now moved back to Stockholm. During his later years in Japan another type of songwriting took place, that of his own. With an outstanding sense of pop melodies and turns, lodet offers songs that fly over the …
“This classic has been ‘in my backpack’ for a decade or so,” says Johno. “I must have about twenty different sketches of it, each with different musicians I met on the road – one with Persian tar, another with Arabic saz, another with Balkan fiddle, and yet another with Moroccan gambri. I even have one …
Behold a testosterone trio of veteran Detroit songwriters and self-annointed Bus Stop Poets. They’re like the brawny lovechild of Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac and The Raconteurs, with a super tightass blend of harmonies and neon pop melodic proclivities. They’ve driven their tunes into big time Chevy commercials. You can take the musician out of Detroit, …
We need to talk about mangoes. All we are eating in this Country is mangos. Here we are at famed reggae singer Mark Wonders house and he takes us to the Mango tree and says, “Take all you like.” Isachar changed the game and told me to just not even bother peeling eat the skin, …
Sunday night June 2, CJ Ramone headlined a night of three punk bands at Seattle’s Funhouse. CJ replaced Dee Dee, the Ramones original bass player and played with them until the band retired. He had a stellar band of three other musicians playing with him (Steve Soto-guitar-vocals, Dan Root-guitar-vocals Pete Sosa-drums). They hit the stage with a vengeance opening …
I wrote some more cool songs with Ras Isachar this morning. Writing with a Selecta is like having a library of vibrations at your disposal. Isachar claims he’s not a singer, but that’s a pretty incredible vibrato you have there, Sir. If you dig that African medallion, Mamadou Diakite is your MAN in West Seattle. If you …
This was crazy to put together… 8 Elton John songs in under 1 minute pic.twitter.com/SMB1mLvkyx — Ali Spagnola (@alispagnola) June 3, 2019
Channeling Nina Simone and Sade, ya gotta love Zsela… In early 2019, NYC-based singer-songwriter Zsela quietly and independently released her first song “Noise”, a somber and sparse jazz-influenced ballad produced by Daniel Aged (Inc. No World) that captures an intimate moment in the early hours of solitude and longing. Today Zsela shares the official video for the song, capturing that …
This is very strong, a rock solid tune with a powerful message. Listen well! ‘Rabbit Hole’ is the first single from SERA’s collection of songs for 2019 and from her new collaboration with producer Andi Bonsai. SERA played a mellow acoustic ‘Rabbit Hole’ on her guitar to Andi one wet and windy October morning and by the …
This song is a cautionary tale, written in the international language of romantic disappointment. Listen, learn, repeat. Gionathan would be happy to introduce his new single “Friendzone”… …he would be happy if the song wasn’t taken from a true story: his own! As if writing about friendzoning wasn’t masochistic enough, the artist chose to embellish …
My view this morning as I drink my smoothie 6 miles from Kingston. Italee Watson is taking me to the beach for the first time in all of my adventures here. We’re going to run a few miles, write some new songs, and hang with her kids. The youngest probably has the cutest damn accent …
These are both Golden Five Star songs. Arrangements and performances cry out for your sympathetic ears. Arpeggiated string runs chime chords that mean business. The rhythm section vibrates to life as if drum and bass have hacked the computers of a top-line, ultra-secret, Swiss medical instrument manufacturer and stolen the launch codes from God’s own …
“We really loved what Mink Slide was doing,” Says Dee Rhodes of The APX, “and since we’re part of the same funk movement, it’s only right that we kept it going.” Official Link: smarturl.it/yourtouchsong Connect with The APX: Spotify: tinyurl.com/knunhzs Soundcloud: @theapxmusic Website: theapxmusic.com/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/theapxmusic/ Instagram: instagram.com/theapxmusic/ Twitter: twitter.com/theapxmusic Youtube: www.youtube.com/RadioMotionPicture
Good news, a new song from Sleater-Kinney! Note well the playing of Janet Weiss, long unrecognized but certainly one of the top five drummers of her generation, at least as ascertained by critics with spine enough to count.
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LIVE SHOW AT BIRMINGHAM’S SATURN ON JULY 11TH TO BENEFIT PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND YELLOWHAMMER FUND WATCH: “I MADE AN ABORTION” HERE (99 jakes track “225” + zeitguised’s textures + edited by nadya pussy riot) ALABAMA SHOW VIDEO FLYER HERE Photo credit: Andrew Boyle – hi-res HERE Pussy Riot announce that they’ll bring their digital protest punk to Birmingham, Alabama’s Saturn on July 11th to protest …