I’m always interested in what Sasha Frere-Jones has to say about music, especially hip hop, as he has a great knack at being clear and concise in his overviews. I recently read his take on Lil Wayne’s single A Milli. That’s the link to the whole piece but here’s the relevant clip -
“Lil [...]
I had a lot of fun last night playing with Boy Eats Drum Machine at the Wonder Ballroom, my first bass outing in a while. Dat’r, The Xploding Boys and Caves were the other bands on the bill reinterpreting classic songs from The Cure and Talking Heads. Dat’r re-imagining music from Talking Heads’ Remain In [...]
Towards the end of David Byrne’s sleevenotes for the recent reissue of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - the album the former Talking Heads singer made with the band’s producer and mentor, Brian Eno, in 1981 - he describes the duo encountering a novel problem. The vocals on the album had been taken [...]
This week the Third Annual Pendleton Rock Camp takes place. It’s a week-long event and I am out here in Eastern Oregon volunteering along with members of Point Juncture, WA, Laura Gibson, Casey Jarman, Paul Collins of Beirut and many more. It’s free for the kids and they love it. This morning, Day 1, I [...]
Rock star careers come and go. Many have typical arcs - obscurity, notoriety, the drugs, the drink, the fame, Success!, the REALLY BIG album followed by flameout, the REALLY BAD album, the band split, the solo career, start new band with remnants of other bands….solo career….Timbaland! How did Chris Cornell get to this point? And [...]
Yacht performing at PDX Pop Now! CD Release Party 2007. Pic Jason Quiqley
PDX Pop Now!, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to stimulating and expanding participation in the music of Portland Oregon, has announced the lineup for the 2008 PDX Pop Now! Festival.
To celebrate the festival’s fifth anniversary, PDX Pop Now! will be returning to Rotture [...]
Rearrangerologyistics is the anomalous musical pop of Jordan Blum, an ecstatic revelation, an exalting singular upbeat and revealing half hour of music, where instruments weave in and out of falsetto vocals acting as golden anchors. All told, the album is the most complete work to date for Dykeritz, the latest in a line of 14 [...]
Ryan Dombal in a review over at Pitchfork gives the hollow and twee Coldplay a 6.5 out of 10 on those now famous P4rk rankings for the band’s new album, ‘Viva La Vida.’ He also has the balls to call them a rock band [his italics]. If Coldplay can seriously be called a rock band [...]