POPSURFING.COM (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Here's the playlist for my latest Popsurfing radio show. It airs weekly on WEFT Champaign 90.1 fm on Thursday night/Friday morning from 1 am to 3 am. You can stream it live online at weft.org. PLAYLIST FOR COLORS (airdate: 11-12-2009) 01. The Wellingtons -- "Wonderful World Of Color" 02. Opener -- fall leaves; lipstick color monologue 03. 7 Worlds Collide -- "Too Blue" 04. Joni...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Photo: Winter/Getty With Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ New York anthem “Empire State of Mind” blasting over stereos worldwide, we asked our readers to tell us what track puts them in a New York groove. Jigga, Nas, the Beastie Boys and some other Gotham natives came close, but in the end it was Long Island’s own [...]
Idolator (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The video for Robbie Williams' throwbacky "You Know Me" conceptually flips around the title of the crooning 9/11 conspiracy theorist's new album, Reality Killed The Video Star . Only here it's the video that's killing anything resembling reality, with Williams using an extended dream sequence as an excuse to dress up in a bunny suit and flit around like he's late for a very important date...
Nectar & Light (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
i am sorry about being absent this week - i am a bit under the weather. when i find myself getting a second wind in the afternoon - i have been working on this. there has been chicken noodle soup...
Pearlblossom Highway (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Good Science Originally uploaded by Michael_Kelleher Edwards, Ken Good Science Given to me by the author, Ken Edwards, British poet, publisher of Reality Street books in the U.K., upon his visit to Buffalo in probably 2002 or so. I was still in school. It was over the summer, Ken was passing through town, Charles Bernstein wrote to ask if someone could set him up with a reading and possibly a place...
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
A reminder that tomorrow night Cinefamily @ The Silent Movie Theatre will present a tribute to animator Fred Wolf. We’ll screen rare clips from his movies, TV shows, vintage TV commercials (like the one above), and his award winning shorts during a live on-stage interview with Wolf himself. Wolf will discuss his career starting at [...]
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Especially in an era like this one-the United Nations Human Rights Council assigned an official this week to study New York's affordable housing-it seems unfair that certain big private apartments get their own big outdoor spaces. But the sparkling lure of the New York terrace endures. There's something cosmic and Shakespearean about it, or at least extremely debonair: The Brooklyn-born songwriter...
inca kola news (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Everybody's talking at me. I don't hear a word they're saying, Only the echoes of my mind. (Harry Nilsson, Everybody's talking at me) The noise from the pumpy BS companies and their promoters ( full to the brim with shares and ready to sell them to saps ) is getting louder. Over the weekend I've had headsup on a couple of stocks getting the full pump treatment from people that deserve jail more than...
Monday Artday (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
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Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Speaking of Ninja Turtles… My next screening at the Cinefamily/Silent Movie Theatre in Hollywood is a tribute to animator Fred Wolf. Wolf collaborated with Harry Nilsson to create The Point!, with Frank Zappa to produce 200 Motels, and with Peter Yarrow to make Puff The Magic Dragon. He’s the man behind the original Teenage Mutant [...]
Haystak Music (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
In early 1973, Starr decided the time was right to begin - in his mind - his first proper solo album, despite its two predecessors. Having already used Richard Perry to arrange one of the tracks on Sentimental Journey, Starr asked Perry to produce the sessions, which began that March. As soon as Starr sent word to all his musician friends to help him in his new venture, they all responded positively....
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
A review of Jay-Z's Oct. 17 show at KeyArena in Seattle, where one of the biggest stars in the world showed his fans he loved them — and vice versa.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Robert Hilburn was pop music critic for the Los Angeles Times for 35 years. He chronicles the period in a new memoir, “Corn Flakes With John Lennon (and Other Tales From a Rock ’n’ Roll Life),” from which this abridged excerpt was drawn.
Ten-inch Wheels (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Harry Nilsson: 'Jump Into The Fire'
Diary of a Children's Book Writer (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
OK. So, I am a child of the 60s and being a child of the 60s means that I grew up with flower children and hippies. I heard new songs from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones air on the radio. I wore bell bottoms and blue suede shoes. I had a shag haircut (and later a Dorothy Hamill haircut). I wore moccasins as shoes and I had an Indian fringe suede jacket and.... I know what The Point is. The Point...
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