“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.
Five Female-Fronted Rock Bands To Watch in 2013
I don’t seek the heaviest rockers or the baddest shredders. To me, that’s not what is rock’n'roll is about. Rock’n'roll is about laying it on the line.
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.
SEO isn’t enough. Your content needs creativity
Delight and novelty are also important as they give your website distinguishing features. They differentiate.
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’.
Song of the day – 477: The Maxines
Bands rooted in genuine friendship, with a great minimal garage sound. Inventive, disruptive, tied only by the understanding that the more basic you keep it the more freedom you have. In every respect.
It’s a hard thing to get hipsters dancing: The Maxines and The Shivas in Portland, Oregon
And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard/It’s a hard thing to get hipsters dancing.
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.
