The dog and I have been into pulled pork from the crock pot lately. There’s nothing like dry-rubbing a pork shoulder, letting it spend the night in the fridge, adding the BBQ sauce (we make our own) in the morning and slow cooking it until it falls off the bone. Shred that baby up, stick it on a roll with the sauce and you have a party!
We’ve been listening to a lot of live Grateful Dead from the Internet Music Archive.
There are a ton of soundboard recorded shows to stream as well as some very good quality, free downloads.
With the exception of the final Harry Potter, which B and I both liked, most of our recent viewing has been underwhelming so we’re revisiting Friday Night Lights via Netflix, beginning with the season one pilot. I happen to think it’s one of the most underrated shows in TV history, a great glimpse into small-town family life. The dog misguidedly thinks it’s just about football. It was filmed with hand held cameras. There’s scene structure, but no scripts and many non-actors. Sure some of the characters can be bit over the top, but what rose is without thorns?
The dog has been after me to read Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Cameron, a high school student who doesn’t quite fit in, gets mad cow disease and in the company of a dwarf and a lawn Gnome takes a journey to find a cure. Reminds me of early Tom Robbins.
We’ve been pouring over the MySpace pages of the bands who are coming to Seattle for Bumbershoot on Labor Day weekend trying to assemble our schedule. As usual we got our 3-day passes way back in March and thanks to Washington’s new service animal law, the dog can legally go (I had to sneak her in the past few years and it’s hard for her to walk on her hind legs for the day). She’s on pins & needles with anticipation. I can’t say as I blame her.
So our predicted Highlights for Bumbershoot 2011:
Ray LaMontagne
Trombone Shorty
Vetiver
School of Seven Bells
Fitz and the Tantrums
Greensky Bluegrass
And our sleepers, hopefully:
MarchFourth Marching Band
Jayme Stone: Room of Wonders
Charles Bradley
Legendary Oaks
AgesandAges
Kris Orlowski & The Passenger String Quartet
PS I Love You
Bumbershoot 2011 Lineup
Saturday 9/3
*Ray LaMontagne & the Pariah Dogs
I love this guy’s smoky tenor!
Minus the Bear
Reminiscent of the mid/late-80’s Post New Wave, retro-Pop
*Mavis Staples
Mavis will take you there, no doubt!
Little Dragon
If Bergman had been a songwriter instead of a filmmaker...
*Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Funky, R&B from NOLA. Oh Yeah!
STRFKR
Portland Electronica quartet, pleasant beats
Shabazz Palaces
Hippity-hoppity from one third of Seattle’s Digable Planets
Warpaint
LA girl group. Somber and slow, yet surprisingly appealing.
Vusi Mahlasela
South African Folk music.
*MarchFourth Marching Band
Sounds more like the Crescent City than the Rose City. John Phillip Sousa would be proud
Eyehategod
New Orleans metal.
Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich + Fussible
Disco-Pop with undertones of Mexican restaurant mood music.
Väsen
Swedish Folk music performed by very good Swedish Folk musicians
Champagne Champagne
Seattle Hip-Hop
Astronautalis
Seattle Hip-Hop
#PS I Love You
Ontario duo Rocking in the free world.
Yuni in Taxco
Seattle Pop-Rock, more Pop than Rock
#Campfire Ok
Seattle Pop-Rock, more Rock than Pop
Meklit Hadero
Jazzy, Funky Folk
Craft Spells
Smooth, Electro-Pop, strains of Style Council
Caleb Klauder Country Band
Mandolin centered Country and Bluegrass from the Rose City
Valient Thorr
Chapel Hill Metalish Rock
*Jayme Stone: Room of Wonders
Innovative Canadian banjo picker teams with a singer from Mali and plays Jazz
#Pickwick
Soulful caucasians from Seattle
Red Fang
Heavier Rock and Roll tunes from Portland
Scribes
Seattle Hip-Hop
Wagons
Country Rock from down under
Shelby Earl
This is the Country KMPS and The Wolf should be playing
Free the Robots
Techno with elements of Jazz, Rock, Classical
Witchburn
If the Wilson sisters had played Metal this may be what they’d sound like
Emancipator
Instrumentals with a Worldly feel
Nice Nice
Rose City duo with a very nice approach to Psych Rock
#Kris Orlowski & The Passenger String Quartet
Sounds a bit like Colin Hay, Folky
Tomten
Mostly catchy Pop Rocks from Seattle
#Pezzner
Syncopated, electronic bliss in the House
LawnChair Generals
More House
Natasha Kmeto
Technippity-Hoppity with an R&B feel
The Great Mundane
There’s a lot of Techno this year
DJ Nordic Soul
There’s a lot of Techno this year
Sunday 9/4
Wiz Khalifa
Oh Boy, another Rapper boasting of insignificant conquests
#Broken Social Scene
Interesting Pop/Rock with depth and range
*Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Seattle Hip-Hop with a conscience
The Kills
Punkish Rockers from London
Butthole Surfers
I had no idea they were still around and still loud
#Carbon Leaf
Virginian Indie-Folk-Rock
*Leon Russell
A musical legend
Toro y Moi
Mostly somber Techno-Pop with a little Soul.
Anti-Flag
If you can’t tell by the name, snarling, guitar driven Punk Pop
Das Racist
From their Myspace: Weed edge/hare krishna hard core/art rap/freak folk music trio based in Brooklyn, New York
*The Lonely Forest
Great stuff from Anacortes, WA, the Mecca of NW Rock.
**Vetiver
Jazzy, Folky, great music, great lyrics, I need more of this!
Jessica Lea Mayfield
Slow, somber Folky.
DåM-FunK + Master Blazter
Rap, Hip-Hop, Funk, Techno, nice beats.
NOmeansno
A spare approach to Metal with a Punk influence.
Atari Teenage Riot
Bands whose music blasts you as soon as their MySpace page loads are in the same category as white collar criminals and people who talk during movies. C’mon people...
Tennis
Upbeat, Pop Rock with an early 60s retro sound
Thee Oh Sees
Fairly simple songs dolled up with lots of effects, toward Punk-a-Billy Pop
Mad Rad
Electronic Hip-Hop
#The Jim Jones Revue
Sounds like good ole Rock’N’Roll to me
*School of Seven Bells
If the B-52s were starting today (and Fred didn’t sing any lead), this is what they’d sound like
#Joe Pug and the Hundred Mile Band
Very Dylan-like, but a much better voice.
Davila 666
More Pop with a Punk sound.
#AgesandAges
Folk Rock with some chorus work reminiscent of Grand Archives or Fleet Foxes
*Wayne Horvitz Cafe Paloma Band
If you’re a cool enough musician you don’t need to put your music on MySpace and this Jazzy, Bluesy stuff is really cool. It’s Grunge Jazz.
#Kore Ionz
Sweet Reggae Music!
Sol
Seattle Rapper with nice background music.
Whalebones
Rockers sound sometimes like Dylan and sometimes like Neil Young.
Allen Stone
Rather R&Bish
*Massy Ferguson
American Rock’N’Roll, nicely done
#Tycho
Ambient Techno, very pleasant
Thomas Marriott’s Human Spirit
Sounds like Jazz to me.
Kaylee Cole
Piano and voice, singer/songwriter
Com Truise
Techno
Lusine
Techno, nice enough
HTRK
Techno with vocals
Gail Pettis Quartet
Jazz vocal, What a voice!
*Kasey Anderson and The Honkies
Rock on Garth
Shigeto
Techno with some interesting percussion
The Sight Below
Techno
#DJ Justin Timbreline
Ambient Techno, nicely done
Monday 9/5
*Daryl Hall & John Oates
Sure we called 'em the Philly Fags in high school, but these two have a great R&B sound.
*The Presidents of the United States of America
Rock as it’s meant to be, up tempo and sweaty
*The Reverend Horton Heat
Twangy Western Swing leaning a bit more toward Rock
*Fitz and The Tantrums
They borrow the R&B sound of Hall & Oates and make it their own
#Over the Rhine
American roots
Phantogram
Kinda Techno Rock
Grant Lee Buffalo
Folky
Urge Overkill
Rocky with no Bullwinkle
*Charles Bradley
Old school Soul music from Brooklyn
Vendetta Red
West Coast Rock
Sharon Van Etten
Singer-song writer, nice enough
Brite Futures
Techno Pop
Dennis Coffey
Soulful, Funky and a bit on the trippy side.
Head Like a Kite
Shoegazer, I love that term.
YACHT
Pleasant Techno Pop
**Greensky Bluegrass
New Grass! Their version of Pink Floyd’s Time is brilliant!
#Quadron
Soulful R&B
#Ian Moore & The Lossy Coils
The one song that MySpace actually plays is a soulful Rocker.
#Grand Hallway
Seattle’s own Melodic Rock
You Am I
Pop Rocks
Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside
Jazzy, C&W influenced Pop
My Goodness
NW Rockers
LAKE
Reserved Pop-Rock
Beat Connection
Techno-Pop
Purity Ring
Techno-Pop
Truckasauras
Punkish sounding, been around since the Dead Sea was sick
#Ravenna Woods
NW Indie Folk Rock
Lemolo
A slower, somber sound with great voices
SPLATINUM
Techno-Pop
*Legendary Oaks
NW Folk Rock, very nice
Mash Hall
NW Hip-Hop
The Horde and The Harem
NW Folk Rock
Curtains For You
NW Folk Rock
#214
NW Techno-Poppy, Hippity-Hop, nice beats
WD4D
NW Techno-Poppy, Hippity-Hop
Ill Cosby
Techno-Pop, Huxtable style
DJ Introcut
Techno
*Must See
#Maybe
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