The Globe and Mail - Music News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Go HuntingRolling Stone says Atlanta group Deerhunter combines ''My Bloody Valentine's atmospherics, Sonic Youth's knack for experimentation and the girl-group vibe that channels Phil Spector's Wall of Sound.'' With Times New Viking. Today, 8 p.m. $16. Richard's on Richards, 1036 Richards St. Tickets at Ticketweb, Zulu, Scratch, Red Cat, Highlife and Noize.
VH1 (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Popdose (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
Rosie Thomas - A Very Rosie Christmas (Nettwerk, 2008) purchase this album (Amazon) Okay, yes, I know — everyone hates Christmas music, and anyway, we’re about to bombard you poor bastards with 25 days of the stuff during Mellowmas III: Season of the Bitch. Honestly, it wasn’t my intention to even talk about holiday music until Mellowmas [...]
Paperholic (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
Paroles: Richard Anthony, André Salvet; musique: Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, 1963 Go to the blog entry to see the video! ShareThis
I Read the News Today: All Beatle News (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
With all of this talk about The Beatles releasing the long-lost, long-rumored track “Carnival of Light”, the question about their legacy comes up. There are two camps. Preserve it in a bottle, and live with the tracks that we have. Those tracks conjure up memories and emotions well enough that they are imprinted on our [...]
Webomatica (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
Sam Phillips - or "the artist formerly known as Leslie Phillips" - recorded as a Christian music artist until recording The Turning with the producer T-Bone Burnett. In 1988 she left Christian music behind, signed with Virgin, and adopted the moniker "Sam Phillips."
"Tell Me Something I Don't Know" (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
"Music producer Phil Spector Totally Looks Like a Dandelion Submitted by anon" See more look a likes at totallylookslike.com
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
The trial of Ryan Widmer was all set to begin Monday, until prosecutors learned they were facing a big-name defense witness - a doctor who has been involved in some of the nation's most celebrated cases, including the O.J. Simpson trial.
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
We really like the sloppy Springsteen-punk of Titus Andronicus . Their debut, The Airing of Grievances , is chock-full of Springsteen-ian anthems fueled by snotty punk speed-freakery. Their self-titled anthem kicks off with drums that sound like Phil Spector manning a cell-phone recorder before exploding into a seriously distorted harmonica and finishing with the band injecting an optimistic fervor...
VH1 (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Uptown Manhattan is as different from downtown as the Jazz Age is from hip-hop. Two writers explain the appeal of the yin and the yang of this vibrant city. Here Graham Boynton, an Upper East Side resident for 10 years, makes the case for uptown.
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Raw, dirty blues from one of pop music's great underrated R&B acts. Before there was Tina Turner, there was Ike & Tina. Thanks in large part to the 1993 film, What's Love Got To Do With It? — based on I, Tina, her 1986 autobiography — Tina's tumultuous relationship with Ike Turner, including details of the abuse she suffered at his hands, has become common knowledge to music fans. It's a...
tabloid baby (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Eric Cohen's play The New 30 had its final try-out run at The Laugh Factory on the Sunset Strip last night, and this third run-through of the comedy about the Baby Boomers' search for the Fountain of Youth was its most succesful yet. Veteran comic Alan Bursky wore the material like a second skin, and had the select crowd in stitches throughout. This is a role this roly-poly Everyman has waited
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
PHIL SPECTOR's murder trial defence was handed a boost on Thursday (06Nov08) when a police officer failed to corroborate testimony from the music mogul's ex-girlfriend about ...
Gossip Central (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
It was a party Dominick Dunne would have loved: the dinner at the Plaza Hotel's newly renovated Oak Room after the screening of the documentary about his life and career: “After the Party.” But the bespectacled writer who perfected the...
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kellya | 03/10/2008
He attributed his skill to his early experience as a dancer which, he said, gave him ‘an understanding of rhythmic time’ As the drummer on early hits by the likes of Fats Domino and Little Richard, Earl Palmer helped to invent the backbeat that came to define the sound of rock ’n’ roll. Yet the propulsive rhythm he provided on such seminal 1950s recordings as Tutti Frutti and Long Tall Sally was merely
