Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Celebration Madison Square Garden Thursday, October 29 The first half of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's two-night benefit concert and 25th-an...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
The producers of the two-night extravaganza at Madison Square Garden to celebrate the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s 25th Anniversary promised tons on surprises and they came through in a big way. From the moment special guest Jerry Lee Lewis kicked things off with Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On through the all-star finale of Darlene Love, John Fogerty, Tom Morello, Billy Joel, Jackson Browne,...
Note Songs (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Hello, Dear Ones! Oh, it's party time! Our Dear Marty at A Stroll Thru Life is hosting a Fall Cloche Party! Please go visit her and see all of the fallness happening under these lovely glass domes. Now you know this isn't a cloche, but we use these lidded jars in the same way. This one is filled with tiny nuts, berries and fruits - all fallness ! Now I must confess. I do try to live honestly and I'm...
soulchoonz Y2K album reviews (Free subscription) | 29/07/2009
YES! YES! YES! Now forget the hype over artists such as Maxwell etc, come and check out some REAL Soul Music. Herb Fame is back with a new Peaches and after almost 30 years has returned in strength along with his new 'Peaches', an incredibly gifted vocalist Meritxell Negre, to deliver what I unshakably believe to be their finest album to date. It is so brilliant, is it not, that in 2009 we still have...
Chuck Bloom (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
In Homer’s “Odyssey,” the hero, Ulysses hears the songs of the sirens as he tries to bring his crew back home. I heard something almost like that and it convinced me that it was time for both of us to go home – no passing “go” (Amarillo and Palo Duro Canyon in this case) and no spending an extra $400. Every part of my body was signing the same tune – “Hurt...
Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
"Now we've turned into oldies but we were newies then." Here's a few clips I found really touching, not only because of my love of classic doo wop music but because of the tender respect these performers feel for the music, the history and each other. As you'll see, they all involve Kenny Vance, a very successful music producer who also is a fine singer. In fact, Vance was was an original...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 06/07/2009
Born: 1948, in Philadelphia. Died: 27 June, 2009, in Philadelphia, aged 61.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
Fayette Pinkney, an original member of the Three Degrees who lent her strong, soulful voice to the 1970s hits When Will I See You Again? and TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia), the theme song of the television show Soul Train, died Saturday in Lansdale, Pa. She was 61.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 17/04/2009
With its combination of fourth-wall-shattering onscreen graphics, self-conscious art direction and camera moves, ADHD editing pneumatic nudity and outrageous ultra-violence, “Crank: High Voltage” is, in its own way, pure cinema.
Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 15/04/2009
Teenage boys in the 1950s were not that much different from now in at least one respect — risqué double-entendres usually made us snicker and dig an elbow into our friends’ sides. That might have helped explain why a relatively unknown keyboardist named Dave Cortez rocketed to the top of the charts in 1959 with [...]
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 14/04/2009
Though their golden anniversary is fast approaching, Little Anthony and the Imperials are having a banner year in 2009 - getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, celebrating a new album, "You'll Never Know," and declaring their independence from the "doo-wop reunions" tours.
Celebrity VIP Lounge (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
I am soo kidding, but I had to say it. When you are in the entertainment industry and you make a reputable contribution, you have the possibility of being honored when you get gray hair or geriatric-like or you just plain rock the hizouse. And so this year, it happened again…only with a different geriatric [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
Metallica shoved the mosh pit into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Heavy metal's heaviest hitters, whose menacing, monstrous sound has banged heads around the globe for decades, were inducted with rap pioneers Run-DMC, guitarist Jeff Beck, soul singer Bobby...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/04/2009
Music News: Run-DMC, Jeff Beck also inducted -- Metallica, whose monstrous sound continues to assault the senses and push heavy metal to its limits, headlined a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony Saturday night that felt much more like a concert than an awards show.
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 05/04/2009
Metallica, Run-DMC get into Hall of Fame
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