Popdose (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Bend It Like Bender! – Devin Townsend Project from Addicted (2009) Blue Cheadle – Cheer-Accident from Fear Draws Misfortune (2009) Cruisin’ With The Deuce – Quarterflash from Quarterflash (1980) Elegy – Bob Belden from Black Dahlia (2001) Hard Shoulder – Mark Knopfler from Get Lucky (2009) Love’s Got A Lot To Answer For – Nick Lowe from At My Age [...]...
deadheaduk (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I thought it would be fun to see if I can get from A to Z using the artists that I have on my MP3 player (a 20Gb Archos) – so here goes… Ayler (Albert) Beck Captain Beefheart Dylan (Bob) Eels Faust Grateful Dead Harper (Roy) Incredible String Band Jethro Tull Kesey (Ken) Led Zeppelin Misty [...]
The Sample Gates (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
In yet another show of just how out of touch they are with the modern youth, MTV has shown how the Grammys will NOT nominate Lady Gaga for Best New Artist. I mean, she all ready won the VMA award for the same, because as MTV says - Few new artists in recent years have made [...]
Popdose (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
November 18, 1984, is a Sunday. By Congressional resolution, it’s the first day of National Family Week. The New York Times publishes several articles about Baby Fae, the anonymous child who died last Thursday after living 20 days with the transplanted heart of a baboon. The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub tops the [...]
Truth In Shredding (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Michael's band for the "Doctor, Doctor - Live In Donington" DVD: Uli John Roth (SCORPIONS) - Guitar Clive Bunker (JETHRO TULL) - Drums Don Airey (RAINBOW, DEEP PURPLE, OZZY OSBOURNE) - Keyboards Barry Sparks (DOKKEN, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) - Bass Guests include Jack Bruce (CREAM) and Pete Way (UFO). The DVD contains the full show and backstage footage plus five live audio-only songs with Schenker...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Yesterday I stumbled upon a rather good BBC Four documentary about British progressive rock on Vimeo. Watch or grab it before it's gone. Aside from the groups most everyone knows (or maybe dreads by reputation) - Yes, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Genesis, ELP - other lesser-known bands get much more than a nod as well, including two of my favorites, Soft Machine and egg (bonus music geek points for...
Todaytech.info (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Mark Cuban’s Plan to Choke Google’s Super Powers [Google] Musing on his blog, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks has thrown out a crazy idea for Microsoft. Instead of spending billions promoting Bing, what if they paid the top 1000 sites a million bucks to de-list from Google? Is there anything more fun [...]
The Register (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Bargain-basement Bing boost A famous loose-cannon/American billionaire has a plan for unseating Google from its search-engine throne - and at a mere $1bn, his idea is significantly less expensive than the billions Microsoft is sinking into that Bing thing.… What is your recession sales strategy?
En Tequila Es Verdad (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Look at this face. Do you really think I could stay home and blog about idiot politicians with this face grinning in downtown Seattle? I haven't missed a single year with the Peacemakers since 2003. It's not a show, it's an experience. And I can't get that experience across in a blog post. So here's what you've gotta do. Go check out their tour dates . They'll be in a city near you soon. And I don't...
Bay Head Blog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Last weekend, on the way home from the Miley Cyrus concert at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, with our little girls falling asleep in the back seat of my Acadia, my friend Susan and I were discussing our mis-spent youth and our first concerts. Mine was Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes at Somerset County College; hers was Jethro Tull. We were both feeling a bit older, more like parents than...
Wrinkled Weasel's World (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Story of the week must surely be the tale about 55 year-old Ged Galvin, victim of a SMIDSY motorcycle crash, whose mangled body was repaired by the clever application of a remote controlled anal sphincter. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6560971/Man-uses-remote-to-control-his-bionic-bottom.html How long do you think it will be before the Gays demand the operation on the NHS?...
Blog Maverick (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Hows that for a title. Just thought it would be a fun day to rehash some old posts that made me look a little prescient Today the feds arrested 2 programmers that worked for Madoff. I wrote this in January: Jan 18th 2009 10:11AM Im taking a flyer here, but if they were to put me on the [...]
The Music Digest (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Imagine taking a pinch of Jethro Tull, a handful of Yes with a seasoned Rick Wakeman and more than a fistful of early Deep Purple. Mix carefully with Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Pink Floyd and Bowie and season with Renaissance. Dream on you say. No such fusion ever existed. So I thought too till I accidentally picked up an album called Doomsday Afternoon. How come I had suddenly stumbled on such great...
Grazia Fashion (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Dree Hemingway is the model-of-the-moment. The daughter of actress Mariel Hemingway, and the great-granddaughter of literary legend Ernest Hemingway, she is currently the face of Mango’s Autumn Winter 2010 ad campaign, alongside Scarlett Johansson. We caught up with the lady herself in Barcelona for the label’s Spring 2010 catwalk show, and grilled her for the lowdown on her...
Spinning Platters (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Monday night was supposed to be a night off for me. I was simply going to sit and relax at the Warfield, enjoying a quite evening of acoustic Jethro Tull songs. I’d chat with my friend, drink some bourbon, and rock out to killer cuts from the Jethro Tull catalog. But something amazing happened that [...]
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