So January ended with this playlist on the way into work. Sometimes the lights go green, the tunes hit right and everything is copasetic. Bad Meets Evil – Eminem Blow (Cirkut Remix) – Ke@ha We Are the Champions – Queen When You Love Somebody (iTunes session) – The Decembrists I Want to Break Free – [...]
Flyleaf Releases 1st New Album New Horizons in 3 Years
October 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
(SOUNDLUST NewsWire) New York, NY – A&M/Octone recording group Flyleaf will release their third studio album New Horizons October 30. The band also just released the second single from the album New Horizons titled “Call You Out.” The song is the follow up to the title track from the new album. ” ‘Call You Out’ [...]
Pussy Riot Brings Meaning To Music Protest
August 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Trayvon Martin case triggered something in me about the quality and uselessness of protest music in the 2010s. AS if the incident itself wasn’t horrible enough, musicians seemed to want to add another level of tragic to the incident Over the last week, as Devo embarrasses itself creating a song about Mitt Romney’s dog [...]
Downhere Calls It Quits, For Now
July 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A statement from the band this morning, makes it clear that touring and being Downhere has taken its toll. They want to try different things and will end their tour and their journey, Jan. 1. There’s is a very personal pilgrimage. Hello friends, It is with many memories and deep feelings that we relay to [...]
Portland’s Sara Jackson-Holman’s New CD Cardiology Out July 24
May 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
(SL Newswire) — Portland, Oregon-based pianist/singer-songwriter Sara Jackson-Holman will release her sophomore full-length, Cardiology (Expunged Records), on July 24. Where the songs on Jackson-Holman’s debut, When You Dream were intended to be universal and interpreted by the listener, her latest release Cardiology expresses a very personal journey, specific to the study of her own heart [...]
Folk-pop mBilly To Release Malheur In June
April 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
(SL Newswire) — M. William Helfrich, better known as the Portland, Oregon-based mbilly, a folk-pop songwriter with a knack for crafting time-proven melodies with aged wisdom, will celebrate the release of his sophomore full-length, Malheur (self-released) on June 5. A collection of 11 songs recorded over ten days in the summer at Type Foundry with [...]
The Music @ Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, SF
April 17, 2012 By 1 Comment
Outside Lands Festival. August 10, 11, 12 This party at Golden Gate Park has been going since 2008. San Francisco. Pay attention to the DJ Dome. Tickets are about to go on sale (4/19) Alabama Shakes | Allen Stone | Amadou & Mariam (French) | Andrew Bird | Animal Kingdom | Beck | Big Boi [...]
AXL, Get Your Shit in the Hall of Fame
April 12, 2012 By 2 Comments
SOUNDLUST OP-ED I’m starting to understand why Axl Rose may have included that Charles Manson song on the Spaghetti Incident? release. They’re both fucking crazy. Manson directed his destruction outward, Rose’s destruction is all directed inward. Have some fucking fun man. Fuck. Go attend Saturday’s Rock N Roll Hall of Fame induction. Yeah, you have [...]
Blind Pilot Announces National Summer Tour
April 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
FESTIVAL APPEARANCES AT BONNAROO, NEWPORT FOLK, AND OTHERS, PLUS DATES SUPPORTING THE SHINS AND DAVE MATTHEWS BAND (SL Newswire) — Portland, Oregon-based band Blind Pilot, following two sold-out national tours in support of their sophomore album, We Are The Tide, will continue to tour relentlessly this summer, making festival stops at Sasquatch!, Bonnaroo, Newport Folk [...]
Chandler’s BBQ and Music Party
March 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Who’s licking their Goldfingers? Face To Face and Goldfinger headline The Great American Barbecue & Beer Festival this Saturday in Chandler, AZ., noon to 8pm. A total of 12 acts will sweat their chops on two stages. Together with 200 kegs and 20,000 pounds of meat in a BBQ off, it’s going to be a [...]