It’s Tuesday night in Seattle and do you know where your punk rocker is? Most likely at the Showbox watching Teenage Bottle Rocket followed by Pennywise ignite a firestorm of unadulterated punk rock! It’s been nearly a decade since I’ve seen Pennywise. When they finally hit the stage, it was like someone poured gasoline all …
Johnette Napolitano is best known for her role as lead singer & bassist for Concrete Blonde. When I sat down to do a phone interview with her recently I wasn’t sure what to expect. What I discovered is how easy she was to talk to. I felt like I was calling an old friend and …
Friday night on Seattle’s happenin’ Capitol Hill, the Highline hosted the 11th Annual Seattle Ska Fest. Two of my favorite locals, The Georgetown Orbits and Natalie Wouldn’t were headlining. Tres bliss! The Orbits were the last band to play, and again, many seemed to have left before the end of the show. What is it …
My daughter Jillian turned 16 just over a week ago. The day coincided with the San Francisco Giants’ first Orange Friday game of 2014, complete with a fireworks show afterward, so we naturally decided to go to AT&T Park to celebrate. The Giants had started the season reasonably well, winning six of their first ten …
On April 9 I bore witness to five bands at El Corazon who were beyond fabulous. Though the headliner was Creepshow, from Toronto, there really were two headliners — the other being The Phenomenauts. Hailing from the East Bay area, The Phenomenauts are part corny fifties TV sci-fi show, part comedy troupe, part rock band …
The Dixie Hummingbirds, one of the great Gospel vocal groups of the past half century, are perhaps best known to listeners as the background vocalists on Paul Simon’s “Loves Me Like a Rock.” (I’m posting their own version below.) One fact about the group has always fascinated me: After one of their members, William Bobo, …
Denyse Tontz is the darling of the Disney TV show “Dog with a Blog” and soap opera “All My Children” where she plays Erica Kane’s granddaughter and for which she won a pre-nomination for a Daytime Emmy. She describes this song as, “My weird little way of saying you’re awesome and haters aren’t.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ_9Gfu2sI4
Having walked past various coin-op kiddie rides in the neighborhood, I sometimes wonder if these contraptions provide a child’s first experience of being underwhelmed. Toddlers eagerly climb atop the plastic horses as their exhausted parents fish out the coins and drop them into the slot. Then, as soon as the canned music starts and the …
Hannah Lou Clark (TAPKA FOE) – new song, new video. Yup, different, but all still there for sure. – Mike Hughes
This is worthy-ish:
Jeff Tweedy, of Wilco fame, learns how to write an honest folk song on Portlandia:
On Friday April 4, Seattle band Poke Da Squid played a concert to celebrate the release of I Honestly Had Higher Expectations (click to see my earlier review of the CD). Poke Da Squid is a young band. I’m positive all members are under the age of 30. They’re also adorable and ooze charm from …
Hailing from Long Beach, CA, This Wild Life is Kevin Jordan and Anthony Del Grosso. Jordan and Del Gross grew up in the tightknit DIY punk scene in Long Beach. They quickly became friends after working at the same musical instrument store, bonding over the music of their teens. The conversations were about hardcore, punk …
Storied rock experimentalist and well-traveled collaborator, Brian Eno, is set to release Someday World, a spritely album undertaken with Karl Hyde of house and electronica juggernaut, Underworld, in May. The first two songs off the work are available for listening below. Eno and Hyde describe the work in this way, “Someday World is an album …
An amazing act which I’ve just discovered, The White Buffalo (aka Jake Smith), will be co-headlining a Wonder Ballroom show in Portland on April 8 with the equally amazing Chuck Ragan, unleashing the local manifestation of what their publicist promises will be the manliest tour on Earth. Both the White Buffalo and Ragan rock out …
At the 2013 San Francisco Giants Fan Fest at AT&T Park, I waited the entire day on the field for an autograph, left empty-handed and resolved never to do that again. This year, I had my daughter Jillian with me and didn’t want her to endure such a frustrating and exhausting experience, so we planned …
Both Portland, Oregon and Austin, Texas pride themselves on being weird places to live. In fact, each city has adopted the slogan ‘Keep [city] Weird” begging the question, who is actually weirder? Each city will claim they take the crown, and no doubt there are some unusual things going on in both cities, but only …
The Chicago Cubs will celebrate the 100th anniversary of playing at Wrigley Field this year! Think of the historic events. Babe Ruth’s “called shot.” Kid K’s breakout game. Harry Caray. The collapse of 1969. Jose Cardenal’s afro. Sutcliffe going 16-1. Andre Dawson’s magical MVP season. Bartman. All of the aforementioned took place without a World …
Here’s “Trouble’s Lament,” the engaging first single off Tori Amos’ upcoming album, Unrepentant Geraldines, which will be available May 13. Amos will tour the Pacific Northwest in July with concerts at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle on July 17 and at the Oregon Zoo Amphitheatre in Portland on July 18. “Trouble’s Lament” is an eerie …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUj3hVWdpv0
Celebrity update: Yesterday I drove Austin Carlile from Of Mice & Men in my cab. I had no idea who this person was. At the request of his very tough female tour manager, I had to back the van up into a roiling human sea of equipment movers and fans in order to pick him …
This is from Seasick Mama’s new EP, Tip Top Shape, which can be heard here. There’s another video at that location also.
This is quoted directly from the video description, “A coalition of satanic players have mounted a cunning, occult attack on Christianity, and every moral system, through the entertainment industry. Music and entertainment play a major role in Satan’s plan to destroy Christians, yet many are oblivious to the clever and effective ways by which that …
This tune wasn’t produced by Bob Clearmountain but it’s got three Clearmountain Pauses or at least Clearmountain-like pauses at approximately 1:18, 2:27 and 3:10.
This Quiznos commercial has gone viral in the Philippines for obvious reasons:
East Portland Blog is run by a man I’ve never met, but have become good friends with over the past few years. Let’s call him Davey. And just to prove that Davey takes notice of what he puts up on EPB, in one of our email conversations the other day, he asked “So what’s going …
Funny stuff. Why is the long-haired cat allowed on the hide-a-bed and not the short-haired dog?