News Scotsman (Free subscription) | yesterday
IT'S hard to imagine that Chubby Checker was thinking about Thursday nights at the Voodoo Rooms when he released his single Limbo Rock in 1962.
Jewlicious (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
That was the Barry Sisters singing Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head. In Yiddish. I got this and other pop culture/Jew culture fusions from the blog for the new book “And You Shall Know Us By The Train of Our Vinyl” - put out by Josh Kunn and, yes, almost inevitably, Roger Bennet: Eight years ago, [...]
PopWreckoning (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Hey Philadelphia: Editor in Chief Jessica will go if you’ll go! If you’re down, leave a comment and twist Saturday afternoon away with Jess! Fingers crossed he wears one of those fancy Canadian suits he seems to be rockin’ these days. Chubby Checker: website | myspace | beef jerky (really) Most Commented Posts July 27, 2008 — [...]
LaLa Tron's Music Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Last.fm Partners With Billboard November 05, 2008 - Global | Digital and Mobile By Jen Wilson, London Billboard has joined forces with global music platform Last.fm, making it possible to listen to tracks from Billboard's All-Time Hot 100 chart online. The ad-supported initiative is in celebration of the Hot 100's 50th Anniversary. Using its "Last.fm in a Box" application, Billboard.com users
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of Brotherly Love is feeling a lot more love these days since the Philadelphia Phillies won the National League Championship pennant and will be playing in the 104th edition of the World Series. It's been 15 years since the last time they got a shot at that title, a great feat when you consider that it was just last year when they became the first professional...
Pink Is The New Blog (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Helio Castroneves’s lawyer claims that he is no tax cheat. Queen Latifah to portray Gwen Ifill on this weekend’s ep of Saturday Night Live. Mel C. appears uncomfortable with letting any of her Spice Girls cohorts babysit for her in the future. Britney Spears’s new album Circus is going to be “big”, so says Lil’ Jon. The Vice Presidential [...]
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
•Singer Chubby Checker is 67. •Magician Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy is 64. •Singer-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac is 59.
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform at the Super Bowl halftime show in Tampa, Fla., on Feb. 1.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
In an unprecedented move, rock-and-roll icon Bruce Springsteen has signed to perform on the biggest broadcast TV event in America, the Super Bowl.
O B L I Q U I T Y (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
With Volume 120, No. 38, the venerable music industry bible Billboard celebrates its 50th year of quantifying and qualifying the music industry. Their special “50th Anniversary Special Issue” is a must-have addition to any musicophile or chart student’s library. It’s a wealth of trivia, information and nostalgia. Over the next few weeks, I’ll share [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Bruce Springsteen will headline halftime at the Super Bowl ... Heath Ledger's daughter will inherit his estate ... and more.
MTV Newsroom (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
The cavalcade of classic rock will continue at this year’s Super Bowl. Following in the footsteps of the Rolling Stones, U2, Paul McCartney, Prince and last year’s featured attraction, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will rush the field at halftime during the Super Bowl in Tampa, Florida, on [...]
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform at the 2009 Super Bowl halftime show in Tampa, Fla., the NFL and NBC announced Sunday night.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Rock star Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are to perform at the half-time show at next year's Super Bowl final.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform at this year's Super Bowl halftime show in Tampa, Fla.
