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Mustard Seed Shavings (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
A kind friend bought MSS a CD for Christmas. It had, he said, been in the billboard charts for a lot of the year yet had made little impact in this country. If we didn't like it he would have it back as he wanted to hear it.We take a break to applaud the courage of someone who would buy a friend a CD he hadn't heard himself. That said, this particular friend quite often buys books we've already read...
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John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot (Free subscription) | 01/04/2009
Our last festive dinner - an early feed for Ukrainian Christmas, honouring that part of my wife's heritage - will begin in a few hours. Otherwise, we're savouring the winding down of the Christmas holidays. (We're very much a 12-Days family, incidentally.) Here are some of the non-holiday tunes I've been playing lately. Lindsey Buckingham: Underground. I'll put Gift of Screws up as my pick for an album...
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Quiet Talks and Summer Walks (Free subscription) | 01/03/2009
It is the big divide in music; those that insist all has to entirely guitar - or more reductively - four piece band-based. I would have few quibbles with mainstream music if the guitars being deployed were up to the standard of Lindsey Buckingham or Vini Reilly; or taken in Canadian or Scandinavian directions. But too often playing a guitar profficiently is seen as a lucrative end in itself. The end...
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The ClownVision Chronicles (Free subscription) | 01/02/2009
I just thought I would share with my readers my ten favorite songs of 2008. These are songs which were released on CD/download, etc. in 2008. I'm not really hip, or young, so don't expect many songs from the young acts. But I think I have a good selection of songs here. And these are not in order of best to worst or worst to last as they're all just as good. 1. "This Lonely Love," Juliana
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Swing Me Way Down South (Free subscription) | 12/24/2008
Sarah's Dad (sitting at his desktop computer, playing with newly discovered YouTube): Ohh, cool! Sarah: What the heck is that? Sounds like some kind of Lindsey Buckingham wannabe. Sarah's Dad: WHAT!?!?!?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? THAT'S JETHRO TULL! Sarah: Oh, who's he? (I figured some of you music enthusiasts might find humor in this... I didn't know!! Though I have received a lecture now.)
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Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 12/17/2008
Back in March, Sheryl Crow and Fleetwood Mac seemed to be having a communication breakdown: Crow said she’d be touring with the band, but Lindsey Buckingham denied it. Thankfully, Stevie Nicks had a chat with the Smoking Section last week to clear it all up: “What happened is that it was absolutely discussed and [Sheryl] absolutely [...]
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Tone Marrow Reviews (Free subscription) | 12/16/2008
At the end of this week I’ll be posting my top fifteen favorite records of 2008. In order to pave the way, here is a post including the records that almost made the cut, my favorite songs of the year, and three special releases that would have demolished my list. (All lists in alphabetical order) Honorable Mentions [...]
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Entertainment Tonight (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
ET riffs with Fleetwood Mac stars Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham , who give us the 411 on the Mac's highly anticipated "Unleashed" reunion tour. One unique aspect about the tour is that the group is not releasing a new album but instead performing songs that they enjoy singing. "We are not supporting a new album," Lindsey says. "We thought it would be very appropriate to go in and really just...
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The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
From the 8th through the 19th, the AllMusic Blog will be publishing our editors’ favorite albums of 2008. We’ll be covering well over a dozen genres and styles, from rap to reggae, R&B to electronic, country to Latin, blues to metal, folk to blues, and several points in-between, culminating in a Whole Note feature that [...]
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DJ Martian's Page (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
via Acclaimed Music Forum Here's Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet's end of year list: Best international album: 1. Glasvegas - Glasvegas 2. TV On the Radio - Dear Science 3. Lindsey Buckingham - Gift of Screws 4. Dungen - 4 5. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 6. No Age - Nouns 7. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III 8. Q-Tip - The Renaissance 9. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 10. The Bronx - The Bronx III 11. Isobel...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
On his sixth solo album, Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham continues his string of releases featuring slick, crisp, sophisticated wry lyrics. Unlike his last studio effort, the acoustic-based Under the Skin (Reprise 2006), Gift Of Screws features incendiary electric guitar layered over minor chords with many of the signature grooves that Buckingham (and Fleetwood Mac) built his reputation on...
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Pop + Politics (Free subscription) | 12/04/2008
Weezy and Chris Martin’s Crew Lead The Nominations… For the 51st Annual Grammy Awards, that is. The nominees were announced through a live concert this year, with performances by John Mayer, Christina Aguilera, and the Foo Fighters. Lil Wayne picked up eight nods while Coldplay has seven. Other leaders in the pack are Kanye West, [...]
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 12/04/2008
Fleetwood Mac will embark on its first tour in five years next spring, beginning March 1 in Pittsburgh.
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Stereogum (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
Between Lindsey Buckingham solo shots , Vampire Weekend and Death Cab covers, and constantly finding excuses to spin Tusk and Rumours and etc., Fleetwood Mac is one of those "classic" bands that never seem to grow old. Unless you see them in person, because [SPOILER ALERT] they don't look like that pic anymore. Next year you'll be able to pair their timeless material with their timebound bodies: the...
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Matt Dentler's Blog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
You read that right. Horror writer Stephen King, as part of his regular gig musing for Entertainment Weekly, has delivered his list of 10 favorite albums of the year. If you've read many of his novels, you know that he takes his music seriously. And, that he has really odd taste. Check out his list, which is likely gonna be...
