Discovering Rock Piano: How to Play Today's Rock and Pop Music on Piano or Keyboard Pt. 2: Develop Styles, Solo Lines and Creative Playing (The Schott Pop Styles Series)
Hecklerspray (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Certain cities have various scenes that have been established over time. For bands that get involved, it’s all fine and dandy for them. Look no further than Oasis and The Smiths from Manchester who set the bar for others to follow. But then again, not everyone wants to crank out indie music which continually sounds stale after every release. Still, a solid fan base will lap it up. Other towns...
normblog (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Gnotalex is a Canadian blogger, now living in Alberta and blogging from an attic somewhere, maybe yours. He is in his 50s. He blogs at The Blog Québécois. Why do you blog? > For the money, fame and chicks, of...
Gates of Vienna (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Paul Belien writes today about the new president of the European megastate, who happens to be Belgian: Herman Van Rompuy. Get used to the name. He is the first President of the European Union, which with the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon by all the 27 EU member states in early November was transformed into a genuine United States of Europe. The President of Europe has not been elected ; he was...
Evening Standard (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
What our critics made of Rihanna, Lady Gaga and 50 Cent's new album.
The F1Fanatics Blog (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Frank Williams and Patrick Head have both sold minority shares of their independent F1 team to an Austrian investment group headed up by businessman and amateur race driver Toto Wolff. Williams denies that he will be leaving the reigns of the team that bears his name, instead focussing on the fact Wolff could bring plenty of [...]
Song, by Toad (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Well thirty-four seems little different to thirty-three, apart from the fact that it seems to involve a severe headache and an aversion to bright lights. What I need is a lunch and the King’s Wark and a couple of pints and I’ll be right as rain. Hopefully. You’ll be blindly indifferent to know that after [...]
Flavorpill San Francisco Events (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Friday Nov 20 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium In celebration of the Exploratorium’s 40th Anniversary, we’ve been combing through our archives and revisiting our rich history. One gem we discovered is the highly regarded Speaking of Music series, which was co-presented by the Exploratorium, Charles Amirkhanian and KPFA radio, and produced by Mr. Amirkhanian from 1983 to 1991. In the series,...
Karen's cards (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Hi everyone. It is time again for a new challenge on the Dare U 2 Digi Stamp blog and this week we want you to use glitter on your card (and a digital stamp!). I have used a this really cute snowman cupcake image and the papers are by My Minds Eye. Snowflakes have been cut with a Martha Stewart punch and also a sizzix die. In order to meet the challenge this week I have glitter everywhere - the papers...
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Good Hair Directed by: Jeff Stilson Starring: Chris Rock, Nia Long, Ice-T, Al Sharpton, Maya Angelou, Eve, Tracie Thoms I have more rap albums than I have black friends on Facebook, and I don't have that many rap albums. There is and has always been a lot of black culture that I can only understand so much, but I never really thought about hair's role. It seems so simple - you grow it, you dye it,...
badgerblog (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
19 November (Thursday) - Raleigh - He Can Jog , Mahlon Hoard , slicnaton , Subscape Annex - badgerhaus - Time 8pm sharp, free with donations requested for traveling performers Nic Slaton slicnaton opened with a monster pedalboard case, using a disconnected from all inputs mixer with the gain turned up and modulating the feedback through effects. Much more pleasant than that description could imply,...
Fabsugar (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner were together for last night's special NYC screening of New Moon along with their many costars. It looks like they split up for the afterparty, though, with Robert and Kristen spotted afterwards look far more casual on their way out of a lounge in the city's Meatpacking District. The official afterparty was held in a different neighborhood at The...
What's Alan Watching? (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Spoilers for last night's "The Office" coming up just as soon as I feel lacrimose... Michael Scott believes he is a performer at heart, and "Shareholders Meeting" put him - and the show - on the biggest stage to date. It's one thing for Michael to make a fool of himself in front of the branch staff, or even at a company picnic, but the scale of the shareholders meeting was much...
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
A Led Bib set list. Ink on toilet paper, 2009. * Possibly - for whoever owns it- a collector's item already. Because, as Music Week reported yesterday Mercury Prize nominees Led Bib are joining Faber Music Media’s roster for synch. The band, whose album Sensible Shoes was nominated for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize this year, have agreed a deal with the company for film, TV and synch licensing....
Viva El Birdos (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
File photo—Kansas City Royals pitcher Brad Thompson, center, sells newspapers outside a nickel theater in St. Louis, July 14, 2009. The Indians won 3-1 in fifteen reels. View full size photo » It's the most famous young face in the history of baseball—it's the symbol of purity corrupted, of the sport's loss of innocence in the face of organized crime and a gambling scandal that nearly...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
As Freddie Mercury's home town prepares to honour its famous son, the star's mother Jes Bulsara shares her memories of the Queen frontman.
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mamun2336 | 08/11/2009
Taylor Swift sang, “You might think I might say/something bad about Kanye/and how he ran up on the stage and ruined my VMA monolgue/but there’s nothing more to say/because eberything’s okay/I’ve got security lining the stage.” She also took a jab at “Joe” (that is, Joe Jonas) and sang that we might expect her to say something about “dating the werewolf from Twilight” — but instead, she silently mouthed...
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