NORTON STREET on KAY GOD
Barbershop Quartet

There was a time when four voices were all you needed.

Long before amplifiers, synthesizers, or digital effects, singers gathered on street corners, in barber shops, train stations, and neighborhood parks to create rich harmonies using nothing but breath, timing, and friendship. The result became known as the barbershop quartet—a uniquely American tradition where melody, harmony, humor, and heartfelt storytelling blended into something far greater than the sum of its parts.

Now, somehow, those harmonies have drifted onto Norton Street. Continue reading →

NORTON STREET on KAY GOD
BRITISH INVASION

The British Invasion changed popular music forever. Suddenly, the sound of guitars, vocal harmonies, and unforgettable melodies swept across the Atlantic and transformed an entire generation.

Now imagine that the invasion took one unexpected detour. Continue reading →

NORTON STREET ON KAY GOD
1930 Cabaret

Step through the velvet curtains and into another time.

Tonight, Kay GOD presents 1930 Cabaret, a collection of original Norton Street songs reimagined as though they were performed in one of the legendary nightclubs of the early twentieth century. The lights are low, cigarette smoke curls toward the ceiling, the piano has just found its key, and somewhere in the back of the room a trumpet quietly waits for its entrance. Continue reading →

Puy Roti Lady (Benjawan Kaewsaen)  whose video I have posted below, has become one of the best-known street food personalities in Bangkok. She makes roti near the Silom/Sala Daeng area and has built a huge following through her livestreams and videos. She usually works from late afternoon into the evening, and after closing she often chats, sings, or spends time with her online audience. Continue reading →

What Survives Endgame?

Everyone knows the old Las Vegas saying:

“What happens here, stays here.”

It’s a clever advertising slogan, but it also describes something much deeper.

Think about a computer game. Continue reading →

The Gemini Gallery has a full stock of wholesale paintings and prints. Ask at our morning meeting on zoom.

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Dave Bombeck Quintet featuring Claire Monroe

Dave Bombeck Quintet featuring Claire Monroe

A Kay GOD DJ Playlist

There are records you play to impress your friends.

There are records you play while cleaning the house. Continue reading →

Jim Marzipan

Norton Street at Kay GOD

Some musicians chase perfection.

Jim Marzipan chases whatever happens to be drifting through the studio door around three in the morning. Continue reading →

Norton Street on Kay GOD

Psychedelic Sounds Orchestra

There are psychedelic albums, and then there are albums that seem to have wandered in from another universe. This is one of the latter. Continue reading →

BEATLESS

Every once in a while a band comes along that seems somehow strangely familiar.

Not because you’ve heard them before—but because you somehow remember hearing them in another lifetime, or because I used a gag as a band name. Continue reading →