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If you have a second, please listen to this short and quite excellent piece of art music that was sent to our lowly East Portland Blog. Also, please read the composer’s email to me. I love his confidence.   hi East Portland Blog, “1” will be on the playlist for humankind leaving planet Earth. my …

Yonatan Gat To Tour West Coast With New 7-Piece Band | Including Native American Group The Eastern Medicine Singers and Swans’ Christopher Pravdica

A Yonatan Gat live show is or should be a bucket list item for every true, undefeated, honest, unsatiated, seeking, lurking, living and loving music fan out there (FULL STOP). He’s touring the west coast of America and BROOKLYN soon and the shows are listed below. You know who you are. You know you need …

5 Seconds Of Summer – Easier

 5 Seconds of Summer (5SOS) explore rich sonic textures and rhythms – and reach exhilarating vocal heights – on their new single, “Easier.” The track, which marks the band’s first release since signing to Interscope Records, was produced by Andrew Watt, Louis Bell and Charlie Puth. Grant Singer (The Weeknd, Lorde) directed the mind-bending official video. Listen to “Easier”HERE. View the video HERE. Says lead …

JNY HZD – Flying

This is incendiary instrumental guitar BIG rock from Chester, U.K. for which the title says it all. Great stuff, give it a listen. There’s an anthemic feel good vibe here which is all too rare at the moment, absolutely no pretence, think Big Country mixed with The Darkness and TURN IT UP! https://jny-hzd.com https://www.facebook.com/johnnyhzd/ https://twitter.com/johnny_hzd …

Rema – Dumebi

Telling the tale of teenage love and the heartache often attached to it, the visual sees Rema trying to express his love for Dumebi, even though she is in a relationship with his friend. Directed by Ademola Falomo, a videographer who’s previously worked on campaigns for Nike and Puma as well as with fellow Nigerian …

Shenseea – Blessed

Los Angeles, CA — May 22nd, 2019 — It’s a big day for dancehall with the news of ‘Jamaican Dancehall Princess,’ and rising artist, Shenseea signing to Rich Immigrants/Interscope Records, a joint venture headed by acclaimed Jamaican producer Rvssian. The twenty-two year old celebrated the signing by releasing her debut label single titled “Blessed” which also premiered as Zane Lowe’s “World …

Local Suicide feat. Nicki Fehr – Leopard Gum EP

Rising ‘technodisco’ duo Local Suicide and esoteric artist Nicki Fehr have teamed up for the release of the unearthly Leopard Gum EP on Lumière Noire. This is the second release of 2019 for the intimate French label curated by influential Parisian DJ and producer Chloé; coming quickly on the back of Bajram Bili’s cerebral Reshaped Distortion EP and Chloé’s own Endless Revisions Live, and following on from last …

Fauvely – This is What the Living Do

Great stuff! It’s right as rain! Check it out! Fauvely is the project of Chicago-based singer-guitarist Sophie Brochu, who creates deeply personal dream-pop music.W After completing her master’s in fiction writing and feeling frustrated with the constraints of her craft, Sophie turned to music for its raw and immediate release. The title of her debut …

Hasty Mess of Items in Post 9/11 Survival Backpack Illustrates Government Waste, Fraud and Abuse, by Mark Erickson

I have been an employee of the Federal government for over 25 years and never planted my arse in a Federally-owned building. Since that arrangement will change in a couple of weeks I have been purging my 10’x10′ cubicle of “institutional knowledge,” various reports, and documents I have not perused in over 15 years. Basically, …

GIA “RATHER BE”

It’s a real snake. The video was shot in the breathtaking Bonneville Salt Flats of Tooele County, in northwestern Utah. Choreographed by Charity and Andres, both finalists from the hit show World of Dance, the message of the song is expressed through their contemporary dance. Gia takes inspiration from her own life experiences to convey …

Q&A With W.C. Beck: Why He Loves Portland, Why He Ultimately Left, and Why You Should Listen to His Music

W.C. Beck is a great singer, songwriter and musician. Just listen to his stuff, like the videos above and below. It’s delicious! There was a time, not too long ago, when he lived in Portland, Oregon and worked hard as a musician in various roles with The Dandy Warhols, Decemberists, The Portland Country Underground, Blue …

Halsey – Nightmare

Halsey, the first singer to be named after a street in Portland, Oregon, examines the expectations placed on women in our society – and then shatters them – with her powerful new single, “Nightmare.” (Debbie Harry, the lead singer of the groundbreaking 70s-80s band Blondie, makes an all-time great Easter Egg appearance aroung the 3:30 …

SEBA KAAPSTAD – Thina

Thina by Seba Kaapstad Mello Music Group’s Seba Kaapstad have just released their highly anticipated debut album Thina, streaming exclusively today on OkayAfrica and available on all streaming platforms tomorrow May 17th. Seba Kaapstad offers an effortless unity, one which can only be yielded from an embrace of different ideas, cultures, and sounds. Thina conjures beatific grooves that radiate with hints of soul, jazz, …

Tiny Fighter – Katrina

I love Tiny Fighter. They’re back, and this time they’ve got an ultracool video. Check it out. They are fierce little, tiny, tiny fighters: Swedish-Australian indie pop outfit TINY FIGHTER presents ‘Katrina’, a heartfelt Americana-inspired ballad about personal strength and renewal in the face of challenge. The accompanying video was directed by Swedish photographer-producer Rikard …