Juneau artist Giselle Stone joined Annie B. to preview her upcoming First Friday event, a graffiti art installation and decoration inside The Taqueria inspired by the murals of Baja. She traveled there this past winter.
Listen to Stone explain how she came to paint the restaurant, the ’80s “Miami Vice” party theme and her passion for spray painting:
Collete Costa dropped by the KXLL studio to talk about happenings at Gold Town Nickelodeon and this weekend’s Not-So-Silent film: The Adventures of Prince Achmed, scored and performed live by Seattle musicians Miles & Karina. We’re hoping the duo will squeeze in a live performance Friday morning.
For more information on the film and to purchase tickets, visit the Gold Town Nickelodeon website.
Watch a clip with of the movie with their original score below.
Our Memphis heroes Deering and Down premiered their new video for “You’re the One” on Ditty TV yesterday. Directed by Matteo Servente, “You’re the One” is the first single to be released from their yet-to-be named album out later this year.
During a question and answer session before the video premiere, Lahna Deering said the video was going to feature Matador outfits and imagery until they saw Madonna’s performance at the Grammys which made the team redesign the video. We love the results.
Almost as soon as they came together, Juneau band Shiver Twins left for Seattle to pursue their music career. Now the boys are back and tonight musicians James Rosalez, Eric Mountcastle, Lance Fohrenkam and Zac Watt will take to the stage for their first show since their 2014 departure.
“Since we played Haines Fair last year that’s kinda when we were like, ‘Okay, I think we have something cool going on.’ We just booked our tickets in October and it’s been about 8 months since we left Juneau,” says James Rosalez, drummer for the band.
All four members of the band grew up in Juneau. They were working odd jobs when the group came together last year.
“I was a dock rep with Coastal Helicopters. Eric was working with Juneau Youth Services. Zach was working at Heritage, and he’s actually there now working for this week. And Lance was at Home Depot. It was just kind of day jobs and then band stuff, and that’s kind of how it is now in Seattle, but there’s just a little more happening for the kind of music,” Rosalez says.
Though they’re getting big gigs in Seattle, there are still some things they need to tour, like a van.
“We get rides from our friends to all our shows,” Rosalez says.
With a few West Coast shows booked, and recordings already on iTunes, could fame be around the corner?
“I don’t know what making it really means,” Rosalez says. “I think ‘making it’ to me two years ago would have maybe meant getting out of Juneau and playing music in Seattle, and now we’re doing that. But there’s always more that we can do.”
For now they’re just trying to figure out what success looks like for a band from Juneau with big dreams. See James Rosalez and the Shiver Twins Friday night at the Rendezvous. Their homecoming show begins at 10:00 p.m.
Full disclosure: The very talented Annie B. will be opening for the Shiver Twins at tonight’s show.
KXLL morning DJ Annie Bartholomew interviews Juneau musician Daniel Kirkwood about his upcoming show with his new band Goldwing. See them peform Wednesday, May 27 at 7:00 p.m. @360 located at KTOO.
Tonight’s Geek Girls in Concert is “for fans of science, space travel, superheroes, Myspace, Mr. T, 007, penguins, Abraham Lincoln, Shark Week, Wikipedia and the Animaniacs,” the musicians say.
The Geek Girls are comedy songwriter Molly Lewis and Juneau musician Marian Call. The concert is at 7:30 at the Gold Town Nickelodeon.
They played at the Kindred Post Loft last night for a Ukulele Happy Hour. The duo packed the downtown retailer’s cozy new performing space, sharing originals songs and teaching familiar tunes like Radiohead’s “Creep,” They Might Be Giants’ “Instanbul (not Constantinople)” and the Muppets’ “Mahna Mahna.” Take a listen.
Radiohead, “Creep”
They Might Be Giants, “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)”
The Muppets, “Mahna Mahna”
