The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
If new technologies are just enablers for taking music without any means for compensation, the chance for future songwriters to make a decent living is in serious jeopardy.
Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
Here are three songs I love: You Got to Walk that Lonesome Valley, sung here by Mississippi John Hurt; Turn! Turn! Turn!, the Pete Seeger song based on the Ecclesiastes which was one of the biggest hits for the Byrds;...
Watching With George (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/tower-block-of-commons/episode-guide/series-1/episode-1 In this new four-part series the MPs leave Westminster and their comfortable homes to live for eight days and nights in tower blocks on different council estates in some of Britain's most deprived neighbourhoods. They will be living alongside and meeting a wide range of residents on the estates and coming face-to-face...
Tales from a Draughty Old Fen (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
Click here to view this post for 56k modems, or slow broadband connections Once again we're approaching St Valentine's day, in the runup to which postal workers are kept working overtime taking cards ranging from the sublime to the cheesy - and often unsigned - from A to B. Valentine is reckoned to have been a bishop of the early church in Rome at a time when legionaries had been forbidden to marry,...
Tales from a Draughty Old Fen (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
To view the YouTube videos embedded for broadband modems, click here. Once again we're approaching St Valentine's day, in the runup to which postal workers are kept working overtime taking cards ranging from the sublime to the cheesy - and often unsigned - from A to B. Valentine is reckoned to have been a bishop of the early church in Rome at a time when legionaries had been forbidden to marry, as...
Bromley Green FC (Free subscription) | 02/01/2010
Many replies to comments seem to get missed or lost in the ether as we have so many active pages. We plan to have a more compact Forum in the near future to remedy this. In the meantime, those who remember the Carpenters may wish to click onto Chairman Stans Thoughts to see how Tom [...]
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
This ultra-successful New Haven duo recorded on the Magic Lamp label and on RCA in 1966 as The Richard Carpenter Trio ( alongside Wes Jacobs). After a spell under the name Spectrum, Richard and his sister Karen signed to A & M and became the best love pop/MOR duo of the 1970s on both sides of the Atlantic, selling millions of LPs and singles on the way. Karen died from a heart attack brought about...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
From The Telegraph: Was JD Salinger best known, in later years, for being the most celebrated literary recluse in the world? After 1965, he withdrew from engagement with the literary world, emerging only at the hands of the occasional journalistic...
Jane's journal (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
Scrapdolly’s prompt 4 was about music, something I’ve already done digitally lately, but I was glad to be able to do this for my album. As I’ve said before, whenever I hear this song I’m transported back to holding my first baby and singing along – poor David!! When we were first married we managed to buy a small one bedroomed converted flat. The walls were very thin and...
Pirate Cat Radio 87.9fm (Free subscription) | 01/26/2010
D.I.s / Rare Cuts CD / Hep Cat Records / 2009 Not to be confused with punk heroes D.I., this is an original psychobilly band from L.A. in the early ’80s that grew out of pogo punkers the GEARS. A bunch of these tracks are expertly produced by the amazing BILLY ZOOM of X fame. Others [...]
Democracy for New Mexico (Free subscription) | 01/24/2010
Click for album or larger version This afternoon, Maggie Hart Stebbins launched her campaign for Bernalillo County Commissioner at the Carpenters Union Hall in Albuquerque. A large turnout was there to cheer her on, including many supporters from District 3,...
SUB-ZEN (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
via youtube.com The Carpenters, The Doors, and Survivor. Nice. Permalink | Leave a comment »
Yarn Harlot (Free subscription) | 01/21/2010
1. After the furnace guys installed the new ducts, the carpenters came and boxed them in, and today the painter has come to sand, prime and paint the whole downstairs, since the whole downstairs got messed up by the furnace....
Duncan's TV Ad Land (Free subscription) | 01/21/2010
UK film director John Nolan has launched a short film featuring a mouse with attitude. Nolan provides us with the tragicomedic story of a mouse who just can’t stay away from Nolan’s Strong Cheese, using the music of The Carpenters (Top of the World), The Doors (The End) and Survivor (Eye of the Tiger). Click on [...]
Blissfully Domestic (Free subscription) | 01/20/2010
What's your all time favorite love song? Everyone has a different answer, including the experts. Chime in and let us know what your favorite is and why!
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