The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Last week's recommendations for songs about prisons revealed a worrying lack of women. Let's hope more female artists will appear as this week's theme is colours
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
A rape charge against Rikki Rockett has been dropped after authorities determined that the Poison drummer was not in Mississippi at the time of the alleged crime in 2007. Police are now seeking a man with a history of pretending to be a rock musician to pick up women. . . . Booker T. and the MGs, the Memphis Horns and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section will become the newest members of the Musicians...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Booker T. and the MGs, the Memphis Horns and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section will become the newest members of the Musicians Hall of Fame.
Half a Pica Distance (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
It's been a while since I've done anything meme, so when I was tagged by tesco , I thought, "Cool." This is a bit of a crazy one, but interesting also: 1. Choose 19 of the songs you like best, regardless of artist or genre. 2. Put them all together in a CD. 3. Make 5 other copies. 4. Post your playlist on your blog. 5. Choose 5 people and send them a copy of your CD each. Send the first copy you made...
PowerPop (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental amanuensis Hop-Sing and I are off to Paramus, New Jersey (a mere stones throw from my digs in the Paris of the Tri-State Metropolitan Area). Something about brown bears on a rampage. I'm not sure what the deal is; perhaps they're eating old Jews. Doesn't seem right. Hey. It's late and I was stuck for a joke. So sue me. In any case, as...
Glorious Noise (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Oh for fuck's sake. Looks like the next trickle in Neil Young's ongoing Chinese Water Torture unleashing of his archives is something that absolutely no one, not even the most harcore Rustie, wants to hear: the unreleased outtakes of songs...
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008
Stax Records went bankrupt in 1976, and its assets and back catalog were purchased by Fantasy. In 2004, Fantasy was purchased by Concord Records, which has been reissuing Stax product under the revived Stax imprint. Recent re-releases include Stax Does the Beatles, which features artists such as Otis Redding, Booker T and the MGs, and [...]
Material Interest (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008
Onstage, Ghostland Observatory's frontman Aaron Behrens whirls around in serious braids and Nudie-inspired suitsthink Willie Nelson meets Gram Parsonswhile cape-clad bandmate Thomas Turner maintains the beats. A good show (their next tour kicks off Friday in their native Austin), but...
Guest Music Bloggers (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
It's A Celebration Of Soul This Sunday On HDNet With The Exclusive Premiere Of “Stax Records 50th Anniversary Concert” From The Orpheum Theatre In Memphis, TN WHAT: The venerable Stax Records celebrates its 50th anniversary, and HDNet is there to capture it for this special concert premiere, Sunday February 17th at 8:30 p.m. ET. Hosted by [...]
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 02/14/2008
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Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 02/01/2008
Did you ever wonder what happened to the stars of classic music videos from the days when MTV actually played music? You know the bee girl from the No Rain video, the janitor from Smells Like Teen Spirit and Rosanna from well...Rosanna. The guys over at YesButNoButYes went about finding out where are they now . Let's end the week right where we started with a hot batch of links: The Roots have recruited...
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 01/25/2008
It was one of the weirder incidents in radio history: In 1976, a few days before its famous format flip from Top 40 to elevator music, WCFL in Chicago fired its morning team, Dick Sainte and Doug Dahlgren, for discussing the change on the air. It didn't matter that the station was already accepting ads [...]
liveDaily News Blog (Free subscription) | 12/27/2007
(LiveDaily.com) Cat Power--a.k.a. Chan Marshall--returns to the road for a short tour in February to support her forthcoming second album of cover songs, "Jukebox."
Spluch (Free subscription) | 12/07/2007
Stuart McNae has had to change his mobile phone ringtone five times – because his parrot keeps copying them. Cheeky pet Billy waits until he leaves the room, mimics the sound of a call – then laughs when he dashes back to answer. Every time Stuart, 54, changes his ringtone the blue-fronted Amazon just relearns it. He has gone through the Nokia theme, Lou Bega’s Mambo Number 5, the BBC Match of the...
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/16/2007
Jim Farber: They just released the most exciting hip-hop album of the year, but Galactic doesn't even consider the disk part of the genre.
