The latest Celebration Sessions Red Carpet Concert video features songwriter Stephen Qacung Blanchett of the Tribal Funk band Pamyua. He performs his song “Listen to the Stories” in a studio shared by Rico Worland Christy NaMee Eriksen who curated the eight-part series.
The Celebration Sessions Red Carpet Concerts are a collaboration between KTOO, Kindred Post and Trickster Company. Watch other Red Carpet Concerts with Lily Hope, Silver Jackson, and Whiskey Class.
For the second installment of the Red Carpet Celebration Sessions, we present Tlingit storyteller Lily Hope of Juneau. She performs “Ei Haaw Salmon Boy Story” in a studio shared by Rico Worl and Christy NaMee Eriksen who curated the eight-part series.
The Red Carpet Celebration Sessions are a collaboration between KTOO, Kindred Post and Trickster Company. Watch other Red Carpet Concerts with Silver Jackson, Whiskey Class, and Dara Rilatos.
In our debut Celebration Sessions Red Carpet Concert, we present Silver Jackson led by Sitka artist Nicholas Galanin. He is accompanied by guitarist Zak D. Watt, Stephen Qacung Blanchett on vocals and Seattle-based artist OCnotes on synth. Here is their song “Perfect Mistake” off of the album Starry Skies Opened Eyes.
The Celebration Sessions Red Carpet Concerts are a collaboration between KTOO, Kindred Post and Trickster Company. Watch other Red Carpet Concerts with Whiskey Class, The Carper Family and Dara Rilatos.
Northwest hip-hop blues hybrid The Bad Tenants, is doing a mini tour of Southeast Alaska. Their first stop is Juneau, and tonight they’ll play at the Rendezvous in support of Porkfest, a fundraiser to benefit the Uganda Rural Community Support Foundation. The Bad Tenants joined KXLL Host Annie B. to discuss their upcoming shows and the band’s history of playing in Alaska.
Friday night the band will play at Skagway’s Red Onion Saloon. They’ll headline the Southeast Alaska State Fair Saturday, before playing a midnight set at the Pioneer Bar in Haines.
The Seattle-based punk band SHIVERTWINS stopped in Juneau today en route to Haines for its annual trip to the Southeast Alaska State Fair. Last Friday, the band released it’s new single, “Rearrange”” accompanied by a self-directed music video.
Guitar player and vocalist Eric Mountcastle and bass player James Rosales joined KXLL Host Annie B. to talk about life in the big city and how their band has evolved since leaving Juneau two years ago.
The four piece garage rock band will take the Southeast Alaska State Fair Main Stage on Friday, at 2 p.m.
Today the Seattle by way of Juneau band SHIVERTWINS premiere their new single and video for “Rearrange.”
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm_poJ30IaU
The music video for SHIVERTWINS’ new single “Rearrange” starts unassumingly, with guitarist and lead singer Eric Mountcastle looking into the camera before placing an LP labeled “Rearrange” onto a record player. Though the opening chords, bright guitars and hand claps seem to promise upbeat power pop chorus, Mountcastle’s droning, Ian Curtis-inspired vocals reveal they aren’t the same boys singing tongue-in-cheek Black Lips covers.
Mountcastle’s lyrics describe the journey the band has taken since 2014, moving away from Juneau to making things work as musicians in a real city, “I ain’t got my parents’ money but I got my own change. And I think it’s time for me to rearrange.” But the single is more than a clever hook, it’s symbolic of their second year as a band. Last fall the SHIVERTWINS experienced lineup change, welcoming drummer and longtime collaborator Cole Paramore to the band. In January, they released an 8-track EP called 19 AGAIN.
The single was recorded between Paramore’s Bellevue practice space and the band members’ North Seattle apartment where guitarist Lance Fohrenkam recorded, mixed and mastered the songs, while bassist James Rosales and Paramore were touring in New York.
Filming took place in the same apartment, with band members seated in a circle in their practice space, appearing to pass the camera to each other. Recorded in a single take, the video is marked by memorable vignettes of each band member in front of the camera, some awkwardly self-aware, but very telling of their personalities.
At about three minutes in, a switch flips and things get manic. The video’s catastrophic end was suggested by their roommate and Juneau buddy Kurt Wade, who has a cameo at the 2:43 minute mark.
The release arrives just before their yearly pilgrimage to the Southeast Alaska State Fair where they’ll take the main stage Friday, July 29th at 2 p.m.
