The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
Alas, thinking and forward planning was the only on-hoof action at Cheltenham, writes Marcus Armytage.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Musical transformations don't get more radical than Devonte Hynes's. Far away from the screeching lyrics about offal, blood and sharks with his previous outfit, East London's Test Icicles, the charismatic performer has apparently been reborn as an Americana-bathed singer-songwriter.
Support Your Local Gunfighter (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
The election season is in full swing, and if you're like me, you can't wait for it to end. Luckily, if you're a Republican living in a handful of states, the primary season is already over before it began. John McCain clinched the GOP nomination, and now your vote doesn't mean diddly. Thankfully, your scheduled primary day doesn't need to be wasted . . . Things To Do In Pennsylvania When You're
null (Free subscription) | 02/01/2008
As an aside (and can you really have an aside to start out a post') the title of this blog entry is the name of the other song by the group A Flock of Seagulls. You're probably more familiar with "I Ran (So Far Away)", which still gets some play. This fact has absolutely no bearing on this post, but maybe someday that'll be a trivia question you have to answer. I'll take "Other Songs By One Hit Wonders"...
Appscout.com (Free subscription) | 12/20/2007
A federal judge in Detroit denied The Romantics' request to halt production of the video game because of copyright issues.
CULT OF THE DEAD COW (Free subscription) | 12/12/2007
CDC267.MP3 - "I Ran (So Far Away)" by Flack. Flack did a metal-ish cover of the mightiest of mighty '80s tunes - " I Ran (So Far Away) by A Flock of Seagulls ! This one's uh-maze-ing! credits: Flack: vocals, guitar, bass, drum programming A Flock of Seagulls: music and lyrics Here's the video of the original version for our younger readers who may not remember the band and its hair: ----- posted by...
CULT OF THE DEAD COW (Free subscription) | 12/12/2007
CDC267.MP3 - "I Ran (So Far Away)" by Flack. Flack covered the mightiest of mighty '80s tunes - " I Ran (So Far Away) by A Flock of Seagulls ! This one's uh-maze-ing! credits: Flack: vocals, guitar, bass, drum programming A Flock of Seagulls: music and lyrics "Im floating in a beam of light with you!" ----- posted by Myles Long ----- This is a syndicated feed. Please comment at the URL above instead...
Baristanet (Free subscription) | 12/10/2007
From the New York Times... On a recent Friday night this fall, while a number of my neighbors were watching Jodie Foster blow away bad guys at the Maplewood Cinema, I was a few blocks away in this middle-class New...
Environmental Republican (Free subscription) | 12/01/2007
Being a teenager ruled, no responsibility and loud music. Pretty cool. Here's a FNM edition with the bands that rocked my teen years starting with Triumph whose lyrics when I was young were gospel, They were a poor man's Rush but Rik Emmitt rocked despite his questionable choice in clothes: Next we have Queen and Freddie Mercury with David Bowie, two unusual dudes to say the least. I recall
Scaryduck: Not Scary. Not a Duck. (Free subscription) | 11/18/2007
My new favourite band(s) God help me, I've discovered I have a liking for female-fronted electro-futurist music acts. Who knew? I am not certain if it's the music, the style, the attitude, or simply because of the very, very short skirts. Marsheaux Two girls from Greece who sound like they have grown up on a diet of 80s electro-pop and cheesy European disco. Their two albums - Ebay Queen and Peek-a-Boo...
jane's apron (Free subscription) | 11/15/2007
I found out a couple of years ago that technically I'm a baby boomer (did you know it goes all the way to 1964?). Me? No. The Graduate? Actually more like Animal House, Porky's, and Sixteen Candles. The British Invasion'...
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/12/2007
Thanks to everyone who enjoyed our latest weekend batch of Skewed Clues. While no one got all twelve answers correct, a handful did manage to get eleven of them, and the first to do that was Kay! So congratulations, Kay, we’ll be in touch via email. If you haven't tried the game, click the link above [...]
RegnYouth Archives (Free subscription) | 11/10/2007
For starters, it should be noted that this Barcelona isn't the same Barcelona that recorded such nerdy indie pop tunes as “Paging Systems Operator” and “I Have the Password To Your Shell Account”. No, that Barcelona has long been broken up, unfortunately, though they do live on in follow-up group Sprites, to some extent. This [...]
PlexNex (Free subscription) | 10/10/2007
A.O. Scott in The New York Times, reviews "Control" ... ... the film about the band, Joy Division, directed by the Dutch photog / cinematog, Anton Corbijn, written by Matt Greenhalgh based on the book, Touching from a Distance by...
BuddyTV (Free subscription) | 10/06/2007
Saturday Night Live, which has launched the careers of countless comedic geniuses like Dan Aykroyd, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, David Spade, Molly Shannon, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey and a host of others,... (This is an excerpt only! Visit www.BuddyTV.com for the rest of the story.)
