Entertainment - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Among the hundreds of people who attended Hayes' funeral Monday in Memphis, Tenn., were his longtime songwriting partner David Porter;...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Stax songwriting and recording legend returns with a batch of classics and unheard gems.
Billboard (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Music industry legend Jerry Wexler, who kick-started his career as a Billboard journalist in the late 1940s and went on to cultivate the careers of Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Led Zeppelin while a partner at Atlantic Records, has died at the age of 91 at his home in Siesta Key, Fla.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Music News: Isaac Hayes' legacy embraced in new music -- Sunday's death of Isaac Hayes comes at a time when the soul music he created in the 1960s is enjoying a bit of a revival, not just through historical releases but in the creation of new music.
Cave 17 (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Here is a list of my favorite records released in 2008, in no kind of rough order. This list will change massively by the end of the year and I will probably have forgotten about five or twenty, so don’t shoot me. Let this serve as a general template of awesomeness; please complain mightily in [...]
Kevin Nottingham: This Is Hip Hop (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Two legends in one weekend… this is heartbreaking. Soul legend Isaac Hayes passed away today at the age of 65 from an apparent heart attack. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served as both an in-house songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the [...]
HipHopDX.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Legendary composer, writer, actor and humanitarian has been reported dead at 65; Hip Hop mourns.
Get The Picture (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
We were somewhere around Aiken on the edge of the Piedmont when the Wild Turkey began to take hold… wait a minute. Scratch that. Let’s try this version of paranoia instead. One of the longest-serving and most influential members of USC’s board of trustees believes Gamecocks athletes have been targeted by the university’s police force. Eddie Floyd, a [...]
You Been Blinded (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
University of South Carolina campus police have been targeting the school’s athletes according to a member of the USC board of trustees. Eddie Floyd has been a trustee for the University of South Carolina since 1982, and says he has reliable sources that told him of the campus police misconduct. From TheState.com: “I feel they have overstepped [...]
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Alice Cooper - Along Came a Spider Like School’s Out and From the Inside, Alice Cooper’s Along Came a Spider is a concept album. This time the central character is a spider-obsessed serial killer who has been beaten down by society and now lives by the arachnid code of “”You trap, you kill, you eat.” Slash [...]
Twangville (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Taylor Hollingsworth live @ Bottletree in Birmingham, AL. “Assasinate the President” TAYLOR HOLLINGSWORTH, Bad Little Kitty (Mass) Official Site | MySpace | MP3* Every song reminds me of someone different yet the album retains an amazing level of consistency. Listen for comparisons to Spoon, The Ramones, Guided by Voices, The [...]
Skuds' Sister's Brother (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
By happy chance I turned the TV on just after 9pm today and a programme on Stax records had just started on BBC Four. It was nearly two hours long and absolutely fascinating. Even better, it was immediately followed by a concert film from the Stax Volt tour of Norway in 1968. Considering how long ago [...]
Toxic Web Blog (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
...on the B.B.C. tonight. With their Stax Records Night, a documentary with some contributors that could put you off and a classic gig from the 1967 Stax/Volt revue tour in Norway.
Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Have you ever wondered whether an interesting nickname helps kick up a musician’s career? Or to ask the question in a different way, does a guy with extraordinary talent but an ordinary-sounding name sometimes find himself flying a little below the radar? Case in point (always wanted to say that) is saxophonist Gerald Albright, who [...]
