Like Maria Said Paz (Free subscription) | yesterday
" Kat's Korner: Joni Mitchell's unearthed treasure " ( Kat , The Common Ills ): Joni's charming and riveting throughout. On "For Free," following the first chorus, she starts the second verse before declaring, "Sometimes this song gets kind of hard to sing. Let me just putter around here a moment." She does just that, finding her way back to the chords and resumes singing....
Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills) (Free subscription) | yesterday
Isaiah 's The World Today Just Nuts " Rolling In It " is hilarious and true. On the spending, on Barry's lack of concern, on Michelle. This weekend, I also posted my latest review, " Kat's Korner: Joni Mitchell's unearthed treasure ." One question about it is why I questioned C.I. regarding James Taylor's self-sung song? If C.I. was listening to the Greenpeace CD, then why did I...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Greenpeace has released a two-disc set of the live, re-mastered recording Amchitka, the 1970 concert that launched Greenpeace. The CD is available exclusively through Greenpeace, and all proceeds will benefit the organization. Many years ago, before there was a Greenpeace, the Unites States Atomic Energy commission was busy drilling a big hole on the Aleutian island [...]
Mikey Likes It! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Monday, Monday. :D So the next holiday for me is Christmas. Not that far away but it sure seems like it right now, doesn't it? Yesterday Kat 's " Kat's Korner: Joni Mitchell's unearthed treasure " and Isaiah 's The World Today Just Nuts " Rolling In It " went up. From humor to scary reality. Barack wants to be an even bigger War Hawk. So he's sending more troops to Afghanistan --...
Ruth's Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kat 's " Kat's Korner: Joni Mitchell's unearthed treasure " went up Sunday and may be my favorite of all her reviews this year. Isaiah 's The World Today Just Nuts " Rolling In It " also went up yesterday. As the United States suffers their worst economic crisis in approximately 70 years, I really do expect to see some evidence of cost-cutting measures in the White House's household...
Steven Rubio's Online Life (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
This list is not complete … I’m guessing at a lot of this … but here are the artists who are 1) in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 2) alive and healthy, and 3) weren’t on the HBO...
Los Alamos Bikes (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Well, Los Alamos isn't exactly Waikiki, the source of inspiration that led to Joni Mitchell's song "Big Yellow Taxi" about paving Paradise. I got to see that too, and finally fled Oahu when the bulldozers followed me all the way to the Ka Iwi channel overlooking Maui. Well, we had to move yet farther East, and here we are. I'm probably not the only person in Bombtown that has slowly realized...
Space Invader (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
For no particular reason, a bit of a down tempo selection this week. I’ll try to be a bit more cheery for a Christmas Party mix featuring some, all or probably none of your upbeat festive favourites in two weeks time! John Cage & Philip Glass - Metamorphosis One The Hellers - Life Story Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek - Too Late (Instrumental) OutKast - She Lives In My Lap Photek - The Hidden Camera...
Feast of Music (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
All those who didn't have to hightail it to Grandma's yesterday were treated to what amounted to a home show at Barbes, hosted by Bethany and performed by Becca Stevens, who sang with both bands on the bill: Buy My...
The Aardvark Speaks (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Even though almost everyone has probably heard him play at some point, Emil Richards is still one of the more obscure musicians in jazz history. In fact, Richards contributed to some of the best-known TV soundtracks. The xylophone in The Simpsons theme, the finger snaps in the Addams Family theme, the bongos on the original Mission Impossible theme -- all of them were played by Richards, who, incidentally,...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
I only saw this when flicking through the guide - tonight is Johnny Cash night on BBC4. I'll be Sky+ing them 21:00 Johnny Cash: The Story of Folsom Prison Documentary exploring Johnny Cash's concert at Folsom State Prison in California in 1968. 22:00 Later with Jools Holland and Johnny Cash Jools Holland plays host to the Man in Black, who performs a selection of his classics. (R) 22:30 Best of the...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
I hope you get a chance to visit the DWT book store and music shop from time to time. In it you'll find the books we've been reading and enjoying enough to recommend, from Idiot America , Bloggers On The Bus , Blinded By The Right and Dateline Havana to Family of Secrets , The Progressive Revolution and Nixonland . These are books you see Ken and I referring to and quoting from over and over again....
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Christine Tobin (Pizza Express Dean Street, London Jazz Festival, November 21st 2009, review by Georgia Mancio) Christine Tobin mesmerises from the moment she steps on stage. Resplendent in a sparkling green top, warm and witty, she thanked a packed Pizza Express for venturing out on a rainy Saturday night to catch her London Jazz Festival set. On Saturday, X Factor night, Christine showed how far...
Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Barry Murphy returns once more to trawl the TV and radio guides (so you don't have to), finding anything worth tuning into this week. All listings are for UK terrestrial TV, Freeview and national radio, with the shows running from...
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Amy Winehouse And Rhythms Del Mundo "Cupid". Artists Project Earth (APE) / launched 6th Dec 2009 Amy Winehouse joins a list of world-class recording artists to support ARTISTS PROJECT EARTH - otherwise known as APE - with an exclusive new version of Sam Cooke's seminal track "Cupid".
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