Gabriela Michele Milkova fuses poetry, music, the visual arts and performance to create spellbinding audio and visual delights. Her latest single ‘Healing’ is part of a larger project Do You Know The Sea?, a series of five poems all of which will coincide with the release of a book by Metanoja Publishing House, an album and, finally, …
“Sometimes I feel like we’re just sleepwalking through our lives. We’re not really present.” Hazel English wants us to open our eyes. Through her shimmering, daydream-pop, the California based singer-songwriter is on a mission to rattle the cages of our very existence, asking us to dig deep and ask challenging questions of ourselves. ‘Wake UP!’, …
Here’s some global recombinant ultra-cool that I’ve just discovered. With new wave/reggae sounds reminiscent of Elvis Costello’s “Watching the Detectives,” this is Norwegian Rockabilly artist Vidar Busk’s take on the tender old Swedish hymn “Han har öppnat pärleporten” which I became aware of via Artur Erikson’s version. There is at least one other Norwegian rockabilly …
Driving for Peaches formed in late 2019 in Portland, Oregon, when three new friends from faraway places started jamming together. When jams became songs, the trio – Ditte Kuijpers from the Netherlands on vocals, and guitarists Alex Whitcher from New Zealand and Pete Harrington from the UK – turned their thoughts towards gigs, and started …
Exile And Redemption is a fitting description for a time of social distance, but have you ever attended a Neo-Hasidic Rock Opera? Enter Philadelphia-based songwriter Aryeh Shalom, a man of shattered dreams and transformation, who draws from Hasidic legend and existential family struggle to create an album that is Broadway meets Baal Shem Tov (the founder of the Hasidic movement). As Ringo Starr once said, “Got …
Fantastic Negrito, the Oakland blues howler who’s already scored two Grammys in the last five years, mixes in a healthy dose of retro soul on his third album, Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? All that groovin’ sweetens his gritty street tales. “How Long,” already released as a single for the record set to drop …
Twin Cities-based trio Semisonic released a new song “All It Would Take” from their forthcoming EP You’re Not Alone out September 18 via Pleasuresonic Recordings/Megaforce Records. The song follows “You’re Not Alone,” the title track to the forthcoming EP and the band’s first single in nearly 20 years, which just debuted at #40 on Billboard’s …
– Olivia Henry just dropped her debut music video and it’s pulsing with intimacy and magnetic attraction. Here’s how the mighty East Portland Blog reviewed her recent album Expectations: “Behold sleek, chic LA songstress Olivia Henry, whose impeccably tight new album, Expectations, is loaded with racy, noir-ish, power-femme, alterna-soul and has drawn comparisons to original torchlighters …
‘SWITCH’ is a bolt out of the dark, a harsh awakening. Empowerment. Sera’s album songs are all drawn from folklore and SWITCH is no different, drawing inspiration from Steam-punk, Frankenstein and the ‘Freak Lab-accident’ trope of the comic superhero. SERA’s music is rooted in folk, Americana, singer-songwriter, with this track taking a further leap into …
Photo: Eric Cacioppo “Cracking, punk-edged rock & roll from L.A. group Broken Baby that kicks, hisses, and snarls.” – Bandcamp “Broken Baby’s music is sonic lightning, full of confrontational excitement that gets the listener riled up and agitated, even if they don’t know exactly by what.” – Kerrang! “It’s enough to rile up a listener and become embedded in their brain without …
This is an incredibly good ’87-’96 tribute: Pixies, Posies, Replacements, Nirvana, Weezer, Matthew Sweet, the theme to “That 70s Show,” and (my favorite Seattle band of the era) Flake, all in a single song. What’s more, the official music video, below, is packed with dozens of smile-inducing visual homages to ’90s slacker film and TV. …
Listening to the Innocence Mission’s latest album – See You Tomorrow – is like waking from a delicious dream. You feel profound joy and sorrow, but can’t explain why. The Lancaster, Pennsylvania folk trio, which has now released 12 studio albums over a 30-year career, doesn’t vary from their distinctive, low-key sound, but the songs …
From her Wikipedia page: “Amy Elizabeth Macdonald (born 25 August 1987) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and musician. She has sold over 12 million records worldwide.[1] Macdonald released her debut album This Is the Life in 2007. The singles “Mr. Rock & Roll” and “This Is the Life” from it were chart hits. The latter charted at number one in …
““Pitch Dark” is a chill song about falling in love in a coffee shop during a thunderstorm,” says Abigail Fierce. “I wrote this song alone in a thunderstorm, in the dark…so some of the inspiration was quite literal. It’s a hopeful, feel good song, but it still has a melancholy edge, so as not to …
Images of Light I Will Go Where You Go A few years back, Dr Shines and Gene Lazerine sat down over another pint, discussing their latest musical ideas with which to impress their unaware public. They reviewed the great music they would have made if only they’d gotten around to it and found it conceptually …
Hi East Portland, Well, what can I say? Been making music as long as I can remember. Mostly old school blues-rock, but I have influences in all kinds of music. And it’s all done with the guitar. “No Reason” describes the condition/state you can come across, maybe more often now, these days. Hope …
BLACKPINK’S “HOW YOU LIKE THAT” SHATTERS YOUTUBE RECORD FOR THE BIGGEST 24-HOUR MUSIC VIDEO DEBUT OF ALL TIME VIDEO ALSO BREAKS YOUTUBE RECORD FOR MOST VIEWS IN 24 HOURS “HOW YOU LIKE THAT” HITS #2 ON SPOTIFY’S GLOBAL TOP 50 DEBUT PERFORMANCE LAST WEEK ON THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON June 29th, 2020 …
Most remixes are awful. Not this one. This one finds and enhances melodic parts in the original while prolonging the occasional understated dance kick. When Youtube says this is the “Berlin 12 Inch Remix” are they referring to the city or the nightclub under the EL stop on Belmont in Chicago, also called “Berlin”? If …
Grammy-nominated, Twin Cities-based, trio Semisonic has just released a video for “You’re Not Alone,” the group’s first new song in nearly 20 years. The single is the opening track from their forthcoming five-song EP You’re Not Alone out on September 18 via Pleasuresonic Recordings/Megaforce Records. The video for “You’re Not Alone” was directed by Minneapolis-based …
Here’s Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder joining Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on stage in 2006 and singing “The Waiting,” to our eternal gratitude. Tom Petty died like Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Elvis and Prince– of an opioid overdose– in 2017. Heartbreaker guitarist Mike Campbell was named number 79 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of 100 …
Pearl Jam contribute the inaugural live performance of “Dance of the Clairvoyants” to All In WA: A Concert for COVID-19 Relief today. This marks the first time a track from the band’s new album, Gigaton, has been performed. Watch it HERE. The concert livestreamed at 7pm PT at allinwa.org and broadcast locally in Washington on stations KREM, KING 5, KONG, and KSKN. It is …
The Psychedelic Furs have today made available a new song, “Come All Ye Faithful,” from their highly anticipated new album, Made Of Rain, released through Cooking Vinyl on Friday 31st July. “Come All Ye Faithful” is the fourth track to be released ahead of the album, alongside “No-One,” “Don’t Believe” and “You’ll Be Mine.” The video, …
Fifty years ago The Supremes invited audiences to go “Up the Ladder to the Roof” in order to see heaven much better. This week Amber Mark releases a stunning video which makes good on that rooftop promise… Mark is releasing the joyous imagery in support of her version of ‘My People’, a cover of “My People…Hold …
These potent summer songs confront the classic “playa” who refuses to value women and treats the protagonist as a pawn in his chess game of relationships. The vengeful messages in these tunes are heard in the anthemic pop production, cutting edge lyrics, and powerful vocals. Everyone that’s been “played,” who happens to be listening, will …
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“Daylight Star” is the debut single by Sun Cutter (aka Kevin Pearce), out June 19th on all digital platforms. Taken from an eponymous debut which will be released later in 2020 on Bronzerat Records. Two years ago Sun Cutter, who is from Colchester, England, suffered a heart attack on a golf course whilst still in …
There’s no doubt that Michael Stipe’s “No Time for Love Like Now” has become the de facto anthem of the COVID-19 plague. Here’s Zucchero’s gripping, first-ever performance of “AMORE ADESSO!” from a deserted PIAZZA SAN MARCO in VENICE. The song is a spicy Italian adaptation of “No Time For Love Like Now.” The video’s drone …
Eddy Lee Ryder has announced her forthcoming debut EP, Expected to Fly, through the release of this new single, “There In Dreams” (above). A ready and willing mistress of everything from murder ballads to love songs and upbeat party tunes, Eddy’s unconventional, theatrical approach to songwriting mingles contagious ‘70s good-time rock riffs and timeless, sparkly pop beats …