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Hip Hop Is Read (Free subscription) | yesterday
As we approach 2010, I set out on this mission with the expectation of wrapping up a decade’s worth of the best samples of the 2000’s, but the task was too great for me to finish by December 31st. I hope you won’t mind that this series will run well into next year. What you’ll find below are a total of 38 samples for songs from 2000. Why 38? That’s what I could fit into...
Beard (Free subscription) | yesterday
With the skies above Glasgow weeping, Beard Radio brings you sunshine and joy . And it seems to have worked, cos the morning after we woke up to a beautiful autumn day. Holger Czukay - Cool In The Pool; Movies (EMI) Ducktails - Let's Rock The Beach; Landscape (No Not Fun) Todd Rundgren - International Feel/Never Never Land; A Wizard A True Star (Bearsville) Mercury Rev - Empire State (Son House In...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | yesterday
As previously mentioned, Lady Gaga added two NYC shows at Radio City Music Hall making her grand total a crazy four nights in a row at the prestigious venue. Kid Cudi opens all of them. Tickets for the two...
darkblack (Free subscription) | yesterday
Albert Collins , Cold, Cold Feelin' , 1978.
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gene Logsdon brings up "Mississippi John Hurt’s remark that all music was about human sexual relationships" — Sexual Attitudes In Agrarian Life . "John Hurt was an early country blues singer and a real farmer whose music is now enjoying a resurgence among country music purists," explains parenthetically Mr. Logsdon. Here's a song by Mississippi John Hurt that seems to...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
I am pleased about Darcus Howe's recovery ( My battle with prostate cancer , G2, 17 November), and his highlighting the higher mortality rates for black men. I am a 56-year-old white man with advanced prostate cancer that was identified two months ago. I will, hopefully, find out in December whether I will be among the 30% of men at my stage of the disease who survive five years after diagnosis. The...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Report finds that rising transaction fees have increased costs for merchants
Houstonist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Aw, you didn't think that the good doctor forgot about you yesterday, did you? Don't worry. The office was simply a bit overwhelmed with patients this week, what with Block Party and all. Here's everything you need to know from the past week, plus a bonus day. Hooray! Tunes Dave Wrangler dropped us a line to let us know you can download his NASA vs YACHT remix, The Mayor . He also promised that he...
PrairieMod (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The team at House Industries is in the holiday spirit with a nativity wood block set of Alexander Girard designs. The blocks are an homage based on an illustration Girard did that now hangs in his son's house. More info here. Image copyright House Ind.
Hemmings Auto Blogs (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Life got you down? Itching to travel? Tired of seeing your neighbor scratching his butt when you leave the house every morning? What you need, son, is a house on wheels. Yes, sell that boring ol’ house on a foundation and put your money into mobility, maybe something like a 1938 Curtiss Aerocar, towed by [...]
The Cook Shack--Gab & Grub (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Well Sir, its almost that great season again, so I thought I'd like to express my opinion and be the first to say ..."MERRY CHRISTMAS with a Capitol C" _______________________________________ I've posted some of Tommy Johnson's Boogey Woogey before, but sinse today is kind of dark and dreary where we live, lets live'n it up a beat or two fer Y'all... ______________________________________...
Geeking with Greg (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
E. Michael Maximilien has a post, " Extreme Agility at Facebook ", on blog@CACM . The post reports on a talk at OOPSLA by Robert Johnson (Director of Engineering at Facebook) titled "Moving Fast at Scale". Here is an interesting excerpt on very frequent development of software and how it reduces downtime: Facebook developers are encouraged to push code often and quickly. Pushes...
Free Forex Trading Information Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
1. Practice shrugging and saying. “I don’t know.” Simple yes, funny maybe, but also very powerful. This attitude saves you mega-bucks by alleviating the need to be right syndrome. Listen to Jimmy Rogers on CNBC. When an interviewer quizzes him about what will happen next in the financial markets, the mega-wealthy Rogers usually grins [...]
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Even though Joe Louis Walker has been receiving critical acclaim for his tough and original blues for years, I think he's been an under-appreciated force in the music for way too long. His latest CD, another of those mid-year Stony Plain releases that I'm just getting caught up on, is titled "Between a Rock and the Blues," and that's a pretty good description of where his music is located....
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The University of Massachusetts passed the first test yesterday in its controversial bid to open the state’s first public law school, as a board of trustees committee approved UMass-Dartmouth’s proposal to acquire the nearby private Southern New England School of Law.
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ifp | 17/06/2009
We have made a selection of the best music and cultural festivals in France this summer. SOUTH: * Vence, Côte d'Azur, Les Nuits du Sud, 10th July to 8th August - The 12th edition of this "Music of the World" festival with exhibitions, activities and free concerts on the 16th and 23rd of July and 5th of August. Artists include Gilberto Gil, Grand Corps Malade, Pascale Picard, Amadou et Mariam, Khaled,
kellya | 03/10/2008
He attributed his skill to his early experience as a dancer which, he said, gave him ‘an understanding of rhythmic time’ As the drummer on early hits by the likes of Fats Domino and Little Richard, Earl Palmer helped to invent the backbeat that came to define the sound of rock ’n’ roll. Yet the propulsive rhythm he provided on such seminal 1950s recordings as Tutti Frutti and Long Tall Sally was merely
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