Hot off the proverbial digital griddle, here’s a fresh LOUIE LOUIE captured an hour or two ago at the Bottle Rock festival in Napa, California. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you this…
Category: Louie of Week
Al Dote & the Kingsmen – Hang On Sloopy (LOUIE relative of Week)
This week, the LOUIE spotlight is on a LOUIE-relative (a category that includes brother, sister, bastard or distant cousin) performed by band known as “the Kingsmen,” which as far as I can…
RIP: Jim Manolides, legendary musician with Frantics, Dave Lewis, and more….
Jim Manolides has left the land of the living. I asked my friend Barry Curtis of the Kingsmen (now retired) and the Daily Flash, to share a few words.. We are incomplete…
Star La’Moan and The Kitchenettes – LOUIE of the Week
This week, the LOUIE LOUIE spotlight is on Star La’Moan and The Kitchenettes, who perform a rockin’ version of THE SONG live at Poet Patriot in Santa Cruz, California sometime in January…
RIP: Prince Nelson, musician extraordinaire (with a semi-Lost LOUIE of Week?)
For past week, the world mourned the loss of the artist known as Prince. He was an intensely talented musician whose legacy will only continue to grow larger with his untimely passing….
The Pink Chunk / Conrad Uno – LOUIE of the Week
This week’s LOUIE came about via a Facebook post by Art Chantry… Back in the 1970’s, Seattle had it’s fair share of “proto-punk” bands. in the very early part of the decade,…
Alexander Surmont of Belgium – LOUIE of the Week
This week, I’m going to do a little bit of recycling. This week, the world is thinking about Belgium after the awful incident in Brussels. Last year, around this time, I shared…
Hail Hail Girl Trouble! (LOUIE of the Week)
I am in awe of Girl Trouble! (The band, not the actual concept…) I can’t remember the first time I ever witnessed the band in concert… whether it was at Marsugi’s, the…
Jello Biafra & Hampton Wicks “Have Love Will Travel” – LOUIE clone of the Week
This week, the mighty LOUIE spotlight is pointed on a performance from the Steve Mackay memorial concert last weekend. In this clip, Jello Biafra joins the The Hampton Wicks for an performance…
Louis and Louis – Armstrong and Jordan – LOUIES of the Week
Today, we share a special song featuring two very important LOUIEs of the 20th Century – Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! https://youtu.be/IDMMeDOj2wc The song is “Life is So Peculiar,” recorded by two…