Today Yung Miami and JT – together known as City Girls — release the highly-anticipated video for “Twerk (feat. Cardi B).” In it, City Girls own the dance for themselves, rallying their troupe of women to get cheeks flying and take control of their own sexuality. Yung Miami – painted as a zebra – and …
Seattle guitar stalwart and dare I say legend, Stingshark Sting is laying down guitar on collaborations for ‘Going South’ and ‘Life Yard’. Working with Stingshark and Hold in Fyah is a big deal to me. I am doing some really cool Jamaican collaborations, but this is the part of West Indian Rock where we bring it all back home …
“This song is about a woman driving in the middle of the night after a traumatic experience,” says Verluna. “She’s lost, confused, hurt, and afraid. Luscinia is the name of the family of birds that the Nightingale is a part of and in myth, such as Philomela in Greece, the Nightingale symbolizes a lost soul …
To all you out there helping me, I salute you. Thank you. There is no such thing as a self made man. Some of us start a little closer finish line, but this race is about how we all can lift each other up. How we can be each other’s champions. I have a little …
This 20 year old Australian artist has a penchant for writing sticky melodies, bubblegum pop, that you just can’t shake – her music has garnered attention from the likes of NY Times, NOISEY, Stereogum and more, including NPR- who said that the only downside to listening to her track, “Better” is that your heart may …
She HAS to be the G.O.A.T., the Greatest of All Time!
Oregon and Wales have a great deal in common. Both are ultramodern coastal states/provinces. Both places favor progressive ideas and political solutions. Marijuana is legal in both Oregon and Wales (Oregon: Definitely Yes. Wales: Soft maybe. Depends on who ya talk to.) And of, course, both places love Football. In Oregon we call it soccer. …
What planet is this from? How was anyone ever so young? I had forgotten Tabitha Soren looked like Leslie Gore. https://youtu.be/q9cxMsGFgQ8
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With all the hoopla surrounding the Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, I decided to post about songs I adore that I find extraordinarily unusual and weird, yet rawk. I have always thought of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the song, as a bewildering masterpiece, despite not having a clue what the lyrics meant. About two months ago I heard …
Abstract: Okinawa Japan, one of the world’s “Blue Zones”, where people aged over 100 years are most intensely concentrated, is home to the Shikuwasa citrus fruit, a member of the mandarin orange family. Shikuwasa fruit is 40X more potent in flavonoids than oranges. Senior residents have enjoyed this fruit their entire lives on a frequent …
Rookie Bear GM Ryan Pace decided against resigning placekicker Robbie Gould who at the time was da Bears all-time leading scorer and had a FG kicking success rate that exceeded the “legendary” Kevin Butler by over 10 percentage points. (Butler kicked for da Bears around their Super Bowl season and finished his career as the …
Four String Nomad is a great work of art, a composition so beautiful it brings tears to the eyes of all who dare listen. Imagine a great novel of Asia-rising written a hundred years ago, a document of bending and not breaking, a tome of agility, wisdom and wit, a story to vault technology, water, …
For those who don’t follow the NFL, the Chicago Bears experienced a heartbreaking end to their season, losing to the Philadelphia Eagles when the potential game-winning field goal hit both the upright and the crossbar before bouncing back onto the field. It was, as the following post noted, a double doink: https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2019/1/6/18171422/cody-parkey-doink-chicago-bears-wild-card-playoffs-philadelphia-eagles To add insult …
This is smooth, probably the classiest, most high-end video in a long time. “I’m fascinated by Love – the many moods of love,” Arita says. “The heartaches, the heartbreaks, the good side, the bad side, the forever and ever, the make-ups and the break-ups…I’m a bona-fide ‘love junkie,’ addict and dealer – all in one.” …
East Portland Blog has been featuring the excellent music of Wales for a long time now. Perhaps the best example of this is seen in the coverage and analysis Peter Dysart gave to the Joy Formidable in East Portland Blog as far back as 2010. This made EPB an early, even an eccentrically early, adopter …
After their face plant in the first round of the NBA playoffs last season against the New Orleans Pelicans, it was widely expected that the Portland Trail Blazers would acknowledge the competitive ceiling of their roster and trade one or more of their stars in the hope of finding a path at least to the …
This is smooth, this is beautiful, this is true, this is totally in control, you have GOT GOT GOT to see it! Having weathered the worst and basked in the best, New York City singer/songwriter Jennifer Denali shares a full array of feeling in her songs, bringing her audience along for a powerful and moving …
I have to go to sleep early but thankfully I have an incredible sleep aid: British lectures from Gresham College. Gresham died in 1597 and left behind enough money to fund lectures in London until London ceases to be inhabitable. As long as there is a Bank of England, Gresham’s lecture circuit lives on ad …
Prior to seeing the Blazers play the Kings on New Years Day, I took a slight detour to the northern California coast to get a therapeutic dose of nature. The state may have its share of problems, but it’s got some things, such as the tallest trees on earth and ocean sunsets to die for, …
Though my last two trips down to Sacramento have seen losses for the NBA Kings, there is a feeling of optimism there perhaps greater than any since Chris Webber and Mike Bibby brought the Kings within a questionably officiated 2002 Western Conference Finals Game 6 to a likely championship. At 19-18, the Kings are just …
Davin Michael Stedman, East Portland Blog‘s notorious songwriter, singer and thug historian has signed to legendary reggae label Tuff Gong and you can read all about it at Seattle Music Insider!
It’s a Sunday night in late December – post-Christmas blah, still a day to go before New Year’s eve (when I MIGHT have screwed up the energy to go hear a band), when my wife and I heard about a ska-punk band we wanted to hear playing on a bill at Southgate – a bar …
Growing up in God’s Country The first memory I have of Third Ward Elementary School is the sound of my father shooting his rifle. I had moved to Bradford, Pennsylvania just before I began Kindergarten. I went to Third Ward one summer night for the first time with my Dad. He was a marksman and …
Beneath the Hollow is a four piece metal animal from Chicago, IL. With their sophomore album Nihilist, the band offers a dark, agressive and hauntingly melodic sonic landscape. I’d go see this band. The vocals on “Nihilist” and “Omens” from the new album sound similar to Corey Taylor of Slipknot, and that is a compliment. …
(New York, NY) Walk Off The Earth has confirmed that band member Mike “Beard Guy” Taylor passed away from natural causes on Sunday, December 30th. “Mike had a love for life that was unmatched and a willingness to give that went beyond ordinary means,” the band says. “Our deepest sympathies are with his two children, …
‘No be Joke’ is the first video to be released off Sean Dampte’s debut EP The Awoodah Begins. The video was shot in locations around London, UK and directed by renowned Video Director Doyin Ajakaye aka Simplicity for DMA Studios. Song was produced by Joey Benks and mastered by DXL da Beat for Savage Music Inc. Listen …
“I wanted to shoot out in the sparseness of the desert and then in a ‘pay by the hour’ motel,” says Shaylen. “I feel like the energy and loneliness of both locations add to feeling the song conveys. In the end, even though heartbreak sucks and is lonely and isolating and a little desperate, like …
Luna Keller is a “once in a generation voice.” She has Lara Nyro’s range and aptitude for whimsy combined with the smooth, soothing reassurance of Norah Jones. Luna describes herself as “a young singer-songwriter making honest music with passion” and while her saintly humility is disarming, it’s hard to overstate her talent and potential. Her …
The Portland Literary Festival was a hopping place a few weeks ago. Its biggest event was a visit by Tom Hanks, who last year had published Uncommon Type, a book of short stories with a recurring theme of antique typewriters. His talk, which required special tickets, was sold out weeks in advance, and the line …