I just took some time and listened to Kate Lynne Logan on Reverbnation and thought I would share her music with all of you. She is a talented folk artist with the very mystical type of vocal quality that compliments the style of music she plays.

If nothing else I recommend you check out her newest single “The River & The Rain”. It’s a very good song with wonderfully folksy hooks complimented by her beautiful voice. Kate  is definitely worth checking out either live on the 30th at the Triple Door or on Reverbnation where you can also get to her merchandise if you choose. You can check out her Reverbnation page at the link below.

http://www.reverbnation.com/katelogan

Thanks for reading. Cheers.

Tonight at the Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Seattle you can hear Whitney Monge for free! I would highly suggest stepping out tonight and checking her out. I threw her tunes up while cruising Reverbnation and discovered her. She has a great voice and a solid batch of hook filled tunes that will get you tapping your feet and singing along. Definitely worth a listen. Check her out! I am going to put up a Reverbnation tunepak of her music after her show so if you can’t make it to the Hard Rock tonight check out my facebook and this blog for a sampling.

When I review albums and songs I don’t come at the review from a technical standpoint. I rate songs and albums based on how they make me feel. I liked American Dream as an album and I respect the statement they are trying to make with the album’s theme but to me the bottom line is that I can’t find the song on this album that makes me want to go out and buy everything Urban Collapse, and quite frankly that is exactly what this album should do.

American Dream is a very good hard rock album but in my opinion there is nothing here that will push the band over the top. I know they have opened for Soundgarden and I am sure their live stage show is awesome but if none of the songs on the album really move me then it’s just a good hard rock album and isn’t really special. That’s harsh I know as Urban Collapse is a very good band, it’s just that this effort doesn’t shine to me as much as it should for the first full length debut from a talented group.

To sum it up if you like good hard rock and are a fan of local music I would pick this up because there is a ton of promise here and I do see promise and talent. They, in my opinion, just lack that one big explosive adrenalin kicking song that will cause the same kind of success that other Seattle bands have had. All of that said if you were to buy one track I would take Lingering in Last Night. This song is the one that came closest to moving me.

Review of Pearl Jam 20
Rating: 4 of 5

Cameron Crowe directed this documentary on the legendary grunge band Pearl Jam. I love it when a documentary like this one changes my previous opinion of a band. Like many other folks not originally from the Seattle area I thought that Pearl Jam was a manufactured concept based on the success of Nirvana and were meant only to be a cash cow for their record company. Now being from a music business background I am the last one to shoot that down but after seeing this documentary on the band I have a different attitude about it.

The documentary seemed very honest to me about many of the key issues that have faced the band over the years. The death of Andrew Wood formerly of Mother Love Bone was covered along with the Ticket Master war and  many other issues. The bottom line is after watching the movie I have a stronger sense that Pearl Jam was always more about the music and their fans than anyone surrounding them or bashing them might have expected. They are portrayed in the movie as musicians and not as rock stars. Perhaps saying they are portrayed as might be a bit unfair, but I believe that the band members were being very honest about how they feel regarding the business of music vs. the art of music and their relationship with their fans.

I think this may have been an attempt from the band to state their side of the story, how they felt about their own lives and careers over the years with the band and even before the band came to be. If that was the case I thought the documentary did a great job of doing that. I certainly feel that Eddie, Mike, Stone and Jeff are now, in my mind at least, more musicians than rock stars.

In short I can recommend this documentary to anyone interested in Pearl Jam’s impact on the Seattle music scene. I especially recommend it to those that have some of the same notions I had about the band. It’s a very honest portrayal and you to may come away from the experience with a different attitude about this talented group of musicians.

One of the things that blogs are supposed to do is provide the reading and listening public with information on various things. In my case I am trying to run, pay for and program an online radio station so you would assume that my blogs would be about music and things related to it. I am sorry to say that I have fallen down on the job here. All I can try to do to alleviate any blog reader fears is to say that I will now try to post at least once a week. That is all that I can promise. Tonight I am going to watch the Pearl Jam 20 documentary and do a review of it. It popped up on Netflix this weekend and I want to check it out and report on back to y’all about what I think.

Once again sorry for the lack of posts and hopefully over the next few days more posts will be coming.

Hey all, I am going to be moving the new tracks show that I started from it’s current time to a morning slot on the station. Most of the listeners I get seem to be in the morning and early afternoon so I thought it would be best to have new programming there more often. To all that listen thank you very much! Look for the change to happen this week. Later.

Hello all, I haven’t posted here in awhile simply because I have not had the time to do it. It’s been a busy month or two for me personally but I am back and I hope to start reviewing albums and shows once again. The station is steady with listeners. I’m getting between 15 and 20 hours of TLH per day which is what I want right now. I’m not ready for 500 hours a day which is what some stations on the Live365 network get daily.

I’m hoping to add new music this week. I’ve already bought the tracks and just need to put them up. The station might go down sometime before the 30th of the month, if it does and you are a regular listener just know that it will be back up on the 30th. I had to spend a lot of money on personal stuff recently and had to prioritize quite harshly. I will try to post again soon. Thanks for listening!

The Brave Horse Tavern was host to a great night of acoustic music featuring Zach Davidson and Leif Andersen, both members of long time Seattle band Vendetta Red. I have seen Vendetta Red play before as a full band and could not pass up the chance to see this acoustic performance.

After a great hamburger from the awesome cooking staff at the Brave Horse the show began. It was a fantastic evening of great music. Leif’s guitar guided Zach’s awesome vocals all over the scale perfectly and the charisma both of them have on stage captured the audience’s attention and held them captive to the music.

They did a Bruce Springstein cover that I wouldn’t think they would have done for this set but it sounded great and got me to go back to my Springstein tracks when I got back home from the show. All of the covers they did were superb but the real treat was hearing them do their original material.

The Vendetta Red originals take on a different feel when done acoustically and sound great on their own merits when played in that way. I would love to hear them record some of these tracks and put them out for download on a track by track basis as an experiment. Perhaps if successful we might be able to hear an album of acoustic music from this duo? I know I would love to hear it.

To wrap this up I just want to say this. If you have an opportunity to see these two play acoustically you should jump at the chance. You won’t be disappointed and you will remember the music. Thanks for reading!

I added a legends tab on my site today. All you have to do is hover over the tab that says Legends and a menu will appear below listing different bands that I think fit that category. Click on the band’s link to see some of the latest news and YouTube videos covering the bands. All of the news links take you to other sites where the articles are housed so you’ll have to come back to my site if you want to read them all. I can’t embed them because I don’t feel right about it and don’t really know how to do it with an article that won’t embed.

I am beginning to understand the difference between a band that has a following locally or even regionally and a band that is a full blown national act. I imagine the bands that tour locally and regionally can sometimes get frustrated because the truth is that step can seem to be right there for the taking yet be so far away. It’s frustrating to play in front of 500 people and go home to Jeno’s pizza rolls and beer. Believe it or not folks I know.

That’s all for now. Later!

I am a featured station on Live365! That means my exposure just went way up. I’m basically on the stations front page. You just have to click the Featured tab to see me.

This could be the first step towards a big listener boost. All the bands on here are going to have the opportunity to do that too so if you want free exposure to your music across a network of over 4 million listeners pump me up on your pages. I don’t know what this could lead to but it’s an opportunity and in this day and age opportunity is precious. Thanks!