“I know it’s stupid but I love you.” Said The Whale.
It’s two minutes and 47 seconds. It’s stupid. It’s perfect.
AKB48 | The opposite of girl power
Minegishi’s apology came hours after a tabloid newspaper published photographs of her leaving the apartment of her boyfriend, Alan Shirahama, a dancer in a boy band…
15 bands for those who are sick of serious music
Independent music is actually growing sillier, weirder, and more irreverent.
Four Fun War Songs From The 20th Century
I have to admit: sometimes momentary comfort is better than no comfort at all.
No Doubt’s new video is not so hot
No Doubt’s new video takes this real history of rape, theft, forced migration, and genocide, and turns it into some kind of bondage fantasy role play.
Three IWW songs (and one poem) for musicians (and other bums)
It takes a long time to shut up and listen – Utah Phillips
Surfing with the Orca Team at Record Room, Portland
Orca Team is Pacific northwest surf music: cool, biting, sweet.
Playing for love instead of money: On Amanda Palmer, Punk Rock, and Compensating Musicians Fairly
It’s a mistake to write musicians and band out of the payment equation, and it’s a complete insult to do so when you’re making money off of their work.
Riot Grrrl Karaoke Portland Part II: Not Enough! and Punk Start My Heart
That’s the whole point of the thing, right? That’s what riot grrrl was about too. It was about finding that core connection in feminists and supporting other girls in whatever endeavors they are pursuing.
Riot Grrrl Karaoke Portland celebrates, connects, creates
GO ON TAKE EVERYTHING, TAKE EVERYTHING, I WANT YOU TO…
Jan Terri meets Thë Ünïcörnz and conquers Seattle
Many people have told her that they conceived their children to ‘Get Down Goblin’.
Gilly Ann Hanner – VI: Braille Stars and beyond
Now I like being in someone else’s band because I don’t have time to write, but I still get to play
Gilly Ann Hanner – V: Nirvana, Riot Grrrl and aftermath
I felt like the perception at that time of females in bands was that maybe somebody else was doing a lot of the stuff for them. Especially if there was a guy in the band.
Gilly Ann Hanner – IV: Calamity Jane in Portland
Questioning the tactics of the police, while occasionally spitting on them, outspoken guitarist Gilly Hanner … was grabbed by the hair by one of the cops, summarily smashed into a wall and dragged towards the door as well.
Gilly Ann Hanner – III: Evergreen and Olympia
Everyone was dancing – the plate glass window got broken by dancers slamming through it while Nirvana played. It was amazing.
Gilly Ann Hanner – II: Cave Junction childhood
When we arrived, my aunt and uncle were already in Cave Junction with their three daughters. We stayed in tents while my parents remodeled this grain barn into a house.
Gilly Ann Hanner – I: Intro
Maybe this profile can at least serve as a keyhole view into the life of an tenacious and brilliant musician.
Jan Terri to appear in Seattle at MAGMA FEST 2012
I didn’t understand at first. I thought he was talking about some kind of soda pop. Sub Pop?
Things to consider when adding a female to your band
So your potential female member is young, sexy, and malleable. Great! Is she sexually available? And how does her status as “taken” or “available” affect the rest of the band?
Tunabunny is Awesome Because Sometimes the Wrong Time is the Perfect Time
Tunabunny is light without being trite, and heavy without being sodden.
Split Lip Rayfield: 100% Fat
Bluegrass and punk … folk and punk … punk is folk! My brain was melting.
