Killin’ it Live! : St. Paul & the Broken Bones at KEXP (Saturday Video Roundup)
I’m getting my weekend off to a soulful start. You should, too. Happy Saturday.
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Two perfect indie pop songs by Veronica Falls: Saturday Video Roundup
Many of us quest for the perfect pop song. There are any number of candidates for the title, too – I could probably spend the day rummaging through my iTunes and come up with dozens of worthies. What’s amazing is that I have discovered two more, and they’re back to back – tracks #2 and 3 on the new Veronica Falls
Read moreDir En Grey: Japanese Metal from Hell (Saturday Video Roundup)
Godzilla ain’t the only hardcore badass from Japan. I’m not the Japan expert around here – that distinction falls to blogger, poet, photographer and Japanophile extraordinare Dan Ryan – so I won’t pretend that I know anything about J-Pop. It just felt like a nice day to do something a little different for SVR, and I’ve been thinking about Dir
Read moreBeat the Meetles: Beatles mashup mania (Saturday Video Roundup)
The Beatles have collaborated with some of the world’s most popular artists through the years. Mashups have become their own art form, and perhaps nobody has been more important to perfecting the genre than The Beatles. Take their famous collaboration with Motley Crue.
Read moreThe grimm reality of Matthew Grimm: Saturday Video Roundup
It’s Matt Grimm Day at S&R and we’re celebrating music with a social conscience. Join us? We love great bands and artists of all stripes around here, but by now it’s probably no secret that we’re champions of the overlooked genius. I don’t know. Maybe I’m projecting because I think more people ought to pay attention to me and as
Read moreUs Weekly Digest with Jay Frosting (Saturday Video Roundup comes a day late this week)
If Max Headroom were an actual person with a YouTube channel, he’d be Jay Frosting.
Read moreSaturday Video Roundup: Get lucky!
Periodically I like to surf through YouTube for interesting song mashups, which are as pure a postmodern art form as exists. Today was one of those days, so here, for your listening pleasure, are some things that go together like peanut butter and basketball. Up first, Ozzy vs. a-ha. Folks, this just ain’t right.
Read moreRIP JJ Cale: a brief remembrance
JJ Cale is dead at 74. Many years ago I worked as creative and production director at a radio station. Cale, on tour, was scheduled to play a local venue and that venue, one of our clients, wanted to run a series of spots promoting the appearance. Simple enough. These kinds of ads were fairly boilerplate – you developed maybe
Read moreSaturday Video Roundup: the Spanish Inquisition Mashup Edition
I’m a sucker for wack-ass mashups that no normal human being could possibly have seen coming. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition Mashup, bitches. Make sure you stick around for the whole show – I saved something special for last. You didn’t expect a Nirvana/Europe mashup, I’ll bet. Nobody expects Metallica meets Herbie Hancock. Adele vs. The Eurythmics? Okay this is
Read moreSaturday Video Roundup: “Imagine the Band,” by John Lennon and Wings
If you play it backward you can hear Paul singing “eat your vegetables.”
Read moreSaturday Video Roundup: Natalie Maines, out on her own
Natalie Maines has a new solo CD set to drop Tuesday. It’s entitled Mother, and it’s simply wonderful. If you’d like a preview you can stream it at NPR. I think we can now safely call Maines a former C&W artist. Mother, which is largely a collaboration with Ben Harper and his band, lies solidly to the Americana side of the
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