Villainous Company (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Look what I found while cleaning out the basement. Amazing how a song can make you feel 15 again. Don't remember Kenny Rogers looking that scruffy though :p Here's another one. Could only find a cover, but it's not half bad: Christmas music! I used to play this album while decorating the tree. What a hoot.
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Mule and Phish weren’t the only bands performing on Halloween as there was plenty of action all over the country from our favorite bands. We’ll have extended takes on most of these shows over the next few days, but for now let’s take a look at what went down on October 31st… Umphrey’s McGee Day of the Dead IV, Las Tortugas Set I: JaJunk* > 2 × 2 > Q*bert...
Eye of Polyphemus (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Garth Brooks held a press conference yesterday in Nashville to announce an end to his nine year retirement. He has no particular plans what to do with himself, however, other than a sixteen week stint performing in Las Vegas. To which I have to wonder if I should be disappointed. I like Brooks. A lot of people say he ruined country music by bringing in influences from rock. I can see older fans’...
The State Of The Nation UK (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Barry Manilow was on TV the other day being interviewed about a concert in Hyde Park. You know Barry... the New York singer-songwriter who is relying on performing his old hits for immortality. Well, it was shocking to see him - he now looks like a puppet or some kind of circus freak following a great deal of surgery. Was he expecting the facelift and implants to improve his looks?! Was he hoping that...
Soulbounce.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
The awesome that was The Grey Album aside, most mashup albums aren't very good. Kenny Rogers x The Chemical Brothers? Frank Sinatra x Gucci Mane? I'm exaggerating (I think), but my point is that what intrigues conceptually doesn't necessarily...
Idolator (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
In his 1990s heyday, Garth Brooks refused to release even his biggest songs, from “Friends in Low Places” to “Shameless,” as singles. Sure, it pumped up his album sales. And mostly, he was following the Nashville convention at the time, wherein country hits were generally released only as noncommercial 45’s for jukeboxes. But Brooks was no ordinary country act; he was...
Classic Rock and More (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
CHILDREN OF BODOM's video for the band's cover version of the Creedence Clearwater Revival classic "Lookin' Out My Back Door" can be viewed below... The song is from their new album, "Skeletons In The Closet", to be released on September 23rd via Spinefarm. The album is a selection of cover versions, some of them existing recordings, others specially laid down for this release....
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
When Jackson Browne debuted in 1972 with his self-titled album, he joined a cadre of singer-songwriters braiding strains of folk, rock and country into the soundtrack of the '70s. The decade spawned or advanced the careers of many other musicians — soul men Al Green and Teddy Pendergrass, country stars Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, queen of the disco-ball scene Donna Summer, and head-bangers...
The World According to Oatney (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
Here is a rare and classic video of Kenny Rogers and the New Edition singing Ruby (Don't Take Your Love to Town) . Now here is the audio of Mr. Spock himself-Leonard Nemoy-covering Ruby. Spock does a pretty good job, perhaps he should have cut a country album.
The Driftwood Singers Present (Free subscription) | 07/21/2009
The crush of middle age is upon me, folks. Full bore! And I've got blogger's block something fierce too. Bad combo. But I'm giving it a go here, attempting to snatch victory from the jaws of spiritual defeat. Look at me: buying some real estate and adding another social security number to the rolls during an economic depression. Dicey! Remember when your whole M.O. was to avoid living a life of "quiet...
Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Children of Bodom have posted the track listing for their forthcoming covers album, Skeletons In The Closet , due out this fall on Spinefarm Records . The compilation will feature songs by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Pat Benatar, Ramones , Sepultura, Scorpions, Kenny Rogers, W.A.S.P., Iron Maiden, Billy Idol , Stone, Anthrax, Poison, Stan Jones, Suicidal Tendencies and Britney Spears.
Metal Hammer (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Sepultura and Slayer are included on ‘Skeletons In The Closet’, as are Britney Spears, Andrew WK and Kenny Rogers. (more…)
Magic of the Musicals (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
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Little Nuances (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
Do you ever feel like you aren’t getting the full value from your music collection? I do. I get hung up on one or two albums and I listen to them over and over and that causes me to forget some of the great music I have stored on my iPod. One day last week, I read something on an online bulletin board that sounded like a great idea: create a playlist in iTunes of all of the songs you haven’t...
The PopCrunch Show (Free subscription) | 02/13/2009
Barry Manilow, who is promoting his new album The Greatest Songs of the Eighties, performed Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers’ classic hit “Islands In The Stream” live on Good Morning America Friday. Barry will be roasted as the newest celebrity inductee of The Friars Club in NYC over the weekend.
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