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Surfing with the Orca Team at Record Room, Portland
By Erika Meyer Orca Team… this bass drum is about the size of most people’s floor tom. What they’re is saying is, you don’t have to be the biggest whale in the ocean to be the most ferocious.” –...
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Three IWW songs (and one poem) for musicians (and other bums)
By Erika Meyer It takes a long time to shut up and listen – Utah Phillips It was 1990, maybe. I saw a poster on campus for a show that looked good, so I went. It was probably a free show – maybe a hat...
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SEO isn’t enough. Your content needs creativity
This is one of the oddest posts I’ve seen relating to Collapse Board. Can’t remember if I’ve shared it with you before so here it is. Reprinted in full from the rather erratically updated The Web...
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No Doubt’s new video is not so hot
By Erika Meyer My daughter, Brook, is a long time No Doubt fan. She is also Native American. (I am not.) She is a member of the Yurok Tribe, the largest remaining tribe in the state of California....
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Four Fun War Songs From The 20th Century
By Erika Meyer War is inherently absurd. If you believe, like magic soap man Dr. Bronner, that we are ALL ONE (and I do), then the act of war – the “organized, armed, and, often, a prolonged conflict...
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Five Female-Fronted Rock Bands To Watch in 2013
By Erika Meyer After reading Conan Neutron’s list of best 2012 rock releases, I asked myself which female-fronted rock acts I would be watching in 2013. And then I picked out five. Coincidentally, two...
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How not to interview The Donnas
By Erika Meyer 1. How NOT to interview The Donnas It’s 2003. I’m working at a college about 45 minutes drive from my home. During my commute I often listen to KNRK, Portland’s “alternative rock...
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15 bands for those who are sick of serious music
By Erika Meyer A recent Collapse Board article noted the preponderance of ‘serious’ music gaining popular critical acclaim. I found that interesting, since from my vantage point it appears that...
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How to Perform | 12 Tips
By Erika Meyer Feel the music. Bring your attitude. Bring your best licks. Bring your vulnerability. Bring your sense of humor. Be yourself, but bigger. Seek connection. Avoid perfection. It doesn’t...
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AKB48 | The opposite of girl power
By Erika Meyer “There’s a hardcore audience of AKB48 which is mainly older guys. We went along to one of the shows for the purposes of recording this story, and the audience was 95% male. So there’s...
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“I know it’s stupid but I love you.” Said The Whale.
By Erika Meyer Brook, 17, and I were cruising around SE Portland listening to KNRK, a radio station which, since The Donnas incident, has vastly improved. They now play some local music, and they also...
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Fuck the critics. Sabbath continues to rock.
By Erika Meyer “Had me an idea that I could just post up the ad in this slot, ‘stead of a song – I mean, cos who really gives one about a bunch of dicks old men making more money releasing their first...
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Sweet Emma Barrett: A Class Act in Bells and a Cap
By Erika Meyer YouTube is so good lately for unearthing neat archival recordings. I was looking for old dirty blues tunes sung by women (a fertile field, in case you wanted to know) when I found Sweet...
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Introducing the band that taught Seattle how to rock…
By Erika Meyer I’ve tried to write this story, or something like it, a few times, but always got mired. Then, on July 11, something about the way two contrasting images cut across my brain – the...
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Love vs. Indifference | recording with anti-genocide activist Robert Park
By Erika Meyer “Affliction (Malheur) hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of...
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Robert Park’s new video: In Love/Ascent
By Erika Meyer Robert Park just released a new video which this week. Like his first video, Indifference, the video for ‘In Love/Ascent’ premiered on Big Takeover and Blurt Online. The video for ‘In...
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Song of the day – 477: The Maxines
I feel like taking a leaf out of Scott Creney’s righteous manual of How to Fuck With Your Audience here. I mean, why struggle with words trying to describe such a beautiful basic raw-assed garage...
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SEO isn’t enough. Your content needs creativity
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Time for one final list from 2013 (barring any straggling best-of lists), the all-important most read articles of the year. 1. Secret Memo Regarding Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ Reissue Leaked People not only...
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How I Learned To Play Guitar
By Erika Meyer I grew up in a rural area outside a logging town in northwestern California, and I wanted to play guitar ever since I could remember. I did have a sense of how great it might feel to...
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