Reuters (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
DETROIT (Billboard) - Cover songs are hardly foreign to James Taylor's repertoire. In fact, the veteran troubadour's top 40 roster is populated with his distinctive versions of such songs as Marvin Gaye's "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)," the Drifters' "Up on the Roof," Jimmy Jones and Otis Blackwell's "Handy Man" and Carole King's "You've Got a Friend," among others.
Offstumped (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
"Expose them for what they really are - a bunch of obstructionist losers who have no positive agenda and nothing constructive to offer. They have no solutions to problems but like scavengers they thrive on the rot and decay of victimhood and guilt. They make zero contribution to the GDP and dont create anything but flatulence. Left to themselves they will squeeze the land dry of any spirit of Enterpreneurship...
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
WBLS (107.5 FM) has been named urban station of the year in the annual Marconi Awards from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB). WBLS was the only New York station to win an award.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Sir Cliff Richard is back in the top 10 on the 50th anniversary of his first number one.
Fiji Times (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
DRIFTERS One are the new Suva Volleyball Association Knockout champions after they defeated their number two team 2-0 in the final at the Tattersall's Gym on Saturday.
Malaysia Travel Guide (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
It’s been a week since the last Merdeka Millennium Race 2008 (MME) is over. Just don’t have the time to update it last weekend. Al maklumlah fasting month was around. To all muslim & muslimah, selamat berpuasa! Well, I’ve arrived Sepang F1 Circuit around 9.30pm. Personally, I’ve never parked in Sepang F1 Circuit, and [...]
Examiner (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Pop star Cliff Richard has written about his relationship with a former Roman Catholic priest in an autobiography excerpted in a British newspaper on Thursday.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
LONDON -- Pop star Cliff Richard has written about his relationship with a former Roman Catholic priest in an autobiography excerpted in a British newspaper on Thursday.
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
One thing Manchester City's executive chairman Garry Cook said last week deserved serious consideration - his assertion that "there have been plenty of unfit and improper people involved in the Premier League over the last 10 years".
Dilated Choonz (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Ben E. King – Street Tough Something from latter days of Ben E. King’s career, more than 20 years after he started out with the Drifters. This track is the title track of an album released in 1981. I generally find with early 80’s soul that I either really like it, or really don’t like it. There’s no middle ground. If you were to ask me why I like one song over another, I probably wouldn’t be able...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Bumbershoot itinerary: Hip-hop
The Independent (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
"When this old world starts getting me down/ And people are just too much for me to face/ I climb way up to the top of the stairs/ And all my cares just drift right into space."
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Novillero - A Little Tradition Hey, guess what? I’m going to get my haircut tonight! And while this is the kind of drastically relevant information one should display more on Twitter than on a band’s write-up, I mention this because my haircut is going to be quite similar to the mod-tops of Novillero. [...]
The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
A moment, please, to commemorate the passing of one of the real giants in American (and world) culture last Friday. A very nice tribute in last Saturday's New York Times...
Matt Dentler's Blog (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Jerry Wexler died, at the age of 91, late last week. I'll be honest, I didn't realize the man was still alive. It's still sad news. I haven't been sure what to say here, and then I found this tribute from Rolling Stone, which kinda sums it up better than anyone else could. Wexler was more than a pioneer of...
