Since overcoming the latest testing episodes in its near 40 year history, the event formerly known as Pilton Festival and Glastonbury Fayre opened its gates on Wednesday to nearly 200,000 revellers, the highest attendance since the super fence was erected in 2002 to combat mass breaches of the site's perimeter. The successful new band showcase the Queens Head was moved from its spot by the Other Stage,...
While Starr answered his own question, “War! What is it good for?” with the response “Absolutely nothing!”, Wes Rolley gives a more detailed answer to the question, “What good is growth?” in his column in the Morgan Hill Times. One of his Green Talk columns, the essay includes this gem. It should not be the automatic [...]
Absolutely nothing. Say it again, Edwin Starr. In today's local Tribune, Mr. Carl Zimmerman suggests that the present education system needs to be "reinvented". Not so fast. No self respecting teacher is going to take that. Doesn't everyone know it's a war out there (I say sarcastically)? While "reinventing" the current education system might include strategies to increase the buy-in...
When it comes to a major opportunity to stop the wars, as Edwin Starr would sing, Absolutely nothing! All the members of the Connecticut Congressional delegation--Rosa DeLauro, Chris Murphy, Joe Courtney, Jim Himes, John Larson--voted for the war supplemental. Several of these pols have presented themselves in their campaigns as being committed to a less warlike foreign policy. But when the chips were...
Absolutely nothing? (My thanks to Edwin Starr) Not quite, but it’s easy to overestimate their importance. So here is something to think about Think about the judging process for most awards programmes. The words consensus and committee pop up far too often to suggest that the truly innovative, daring or different will stand much of a chance. If you’re basing judgement on consensus, you...
More photos » by Marcio Jose Sanchez - AP Matt Holliday was worth 6.25 WAR to the Rockies in 2008. Browse more photos » In this new series of Purple Row Academy, I will step on the toes of both RMN and TOGB somewhat--in examining the concept of Wins Above Replacement (WAR)--also called Win Value--in detail, with a historical context slanted toward the best Rockies players as ranked by career...
Now here's two mixes with naff titles but good music!. "Disco Love" is undomondo regular Cenk Akyol's first ever disco mix, and the second one "Let's start the Dance" is the monthly installment from UK's Diesler.
Jay Stay Paid is a set of stray beats plucked by Pete Rock and Maureen “Ma Dukes” Yancey, Dilla’s mom. Presented like a radio show slash mixtape, with snippets from radio interviews, nonintrusive interjections from Rock and Ma Dukes, and brief testimonials as part of the fabric — not to mention an appearance from Illa [...]
Kris Allen's "What's Going On": The story behind the cover. Allen was able to tap into his emotional side with the Marvin Gaye classic on "American Idol."
Where were you in 1977? I was 21, in my final year at university and out dancing every weekend to disco. Like all trends, disco suffered a backlash; the clothes were ridiculous and the music was repetitive but that was the point. History may have decided the only cool thing to come out of the 1970s [...]
If you are between 30 and 40 years old, and sniffed around the post-new-wave alternative-music scene in your high school and college years, you may have heard, or heard of, Laibach, the Slovenian high-art agit-prop band perhaps best known in this country for its series of covers (Opus’ Life is Life got the most attention, but Queen’s One [...]
Cosmic resident mix-time. After a predominantly disco-centric set at last week’s Ghettospheric, Baggy decided to put together a new mix whilst prepping tracks to play during the Cosmic Disco guest booking in Bristol. Featuring all facets from straight up Disco, (A little) Nu Disco, Boogie, Italo and Post Disco, this mix starts off mid-tempo building to a fast pace, [...]
WHEN Motown’s star performers visited the Liverpool Odeon as part of their first UK tour in 1965, only a half-full house greeted Diana Ross and the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and Martha Reeves.
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