Little Richard - Keep A Knockin'
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
in post who's that knocking at my door? from snuhthing/anything .
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
in post who's that knocking at my door? from snuhthing/anything .
Music Musings and Miscellany (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The concept is simple. Take the 96 biggest hits of 1957 on the American R&B chart, arrange them chronologically and stick them on four CDs. Job done. And that is precisely what Acrobat have done here. Unlike the Boulevard Vintage series of year-themed Rhythm and Blues collections (which go back to 1947 but have yet to [...]
World-O-Crap (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
A court case has been filed on behalf of a 28-year old chimp, and Pat Boone thinks it’s a madhouse, a madhouse…! Matthew’s lawyer says he only wants his client to be treated like a human child, to be declared a person, and granted four of about 50 rights enjoyed by Europeans: the right to [...]
Dial "M" for Musicology (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Julian Sanchez has tagged us with the challenge of naming the five most embarrassing tracks on our iPods. Jonathan has weighed in against the very concept of guilty pleasures, and for me being a musicologist means never having to say...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
The congressman-lead singer had a question for the guest keyboardist at the all-congressional band gig Wednesday night.
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
in post Muppet Covers Week, Day 3: Cover Songs From the Street from Fong Songs .
Biodun Iginla's Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Music Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Angela Jimenez for The New York Times Members of the band Spoon, from left Rob Pope, Eric Harvey and Jim Eno, look at a billboard for the hot-dog eating contest at Coney Island. The self-described “faux punx/gentlemen dudes” of Spoon kindly request the pleasure of your company tonight at Prospect Park for a Celebrate [...]
John Nack on Adobe (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Jumping the shark : predictable and sad. Jumping several hundred pounds of very PO'd livestock: much more spectacular . (Interestingly, the man-gores-bull shot hides behind a "this may be offensive" curtain, whereas the bull-gores-man shots don't.) In Curse of the Black Gold , Ed Kashi captures the pain, degredation, and occasional beauty wrought by oil extraction in Nigeria. (The tiny bottom nav bar...
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
in post thanks to all the little people from snuhthing/anything .
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
It was way back in 1972 when this live concert was taped. 1972 was the jumping off point of the Prog Rock movement, and elements of the genre can be found in this album. Don “Sugar Cane” Harris is probably a name you have heard of before, but can’t quite place where. Well the answer [...]
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Naming a song after somebody has been a tradition carried on from the early days of rock when Little Richard recorded Long Tall Sally and Chuck Berry immortalized Johnny B. Goode on vinyl. This week’s Friday Mix Tape features six killer songs containing someone’s name in the title. I’m still waiting for a decent [...]
(en)Gender (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
I watch a lot of death shows, as I call them - the forensics, the procedurals, the investiigation shows. I’m a big fan of Cold Case, especially: the premise is that they have to take on a cold case - a case where the leads died, mostly - and solve it. So there’s a kind [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
NEW DIGITAL DEALS WITH JOHN MICHAEL MONTGOMERY, JIMMY BUFFETT, SMC RECORDINGS AND K-TEL INTERNATIONAL DRIVE GROWTH SAN FRANCISCO, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- INgrooves, the leading digital distributor and label, announced a number of significant additions to its client roster. On the heels of the recent strategic investment from Universal Music Group, which includes a content services agreement providing...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Today is the centennial anniversary of the birth of Louis Jordan. Jordan is the link from the birth of jazz and the big band swing era to rock 'n' roll, from Louis Armstrong (with whom he recorded some duets) to Chuck Berry and Little Richard. Having touched everyone from Ray Charles to Prince, Jordan deserves a hearing in his own right. Between 1942 and 1951 he recorded an astounding 57 rhythm and...