TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | yesterday
LONDON - After weeks of speculation Simon Cowell, president of 19th Hole Productions, and manager of Susan Boyle has stated that he has signed the all-girl South Korean group, The Wonder Rice Girls to be Susan Boyle's opening act. The Susan Boyle...
Althouse (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Such are the nominees this year for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Patrick Goldstein moans: It's pretty pathetic when you consider that you can vote for the Chantels and Darlene Love, but not for Linda Ronstadt, Steve Miller, Chicago, Rush, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Journey, Dire Straits or Stevie Ray Vaughan, just to name a few of the ineligible worthies... Those of us who are actual voters are...
Deep Dish (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
American Primitive is an excellent gay drama with an outstanding cast. It also doesn't hurt that it's set in 1973 with a groovy soundtrack of music. Give me the Hollies' "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" emanating from a car radio and I'm happy. However, cool oldies do not necessarily make a good film, so I was quite pleased that the screenplay by director Gwen Wynne and Mary Beth Fielder...
The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
I was a rock critic in a past life, so every year around this time, I still get a ballot allowing me to vote for my favorite nominees in the annual election at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....
Italy Down Under (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
This is basically a covered outdoor social space, with a clay pizza oven , a Rumford fireplace, lots of seating and many beautiful sculptural cob embellishments. The Roundhouse was built later, and is a larger social space for events and ...
Transition Culture (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Spent the half term weekend in West Cork in Ireland, revisiting people and places that made up my life between 1996 and 2005. It was like visiting a parallel world, a ‘Sliding Doors’-like glimpse at what could have been, offering reflections on where I am now and where I have come from. I will write [...]
i Own The World (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Many of our regulars here are very familiar with the screen name PUK, or PeterUK. He had been conspicuously absent for the last week, so much so that I was compelled to contact a mutual friend, Clarice Feldman. She’d been having the same concerns and was busy racking her brain trying to think of a [...]
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Photo: Kambouris/WireImage If the first night of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 25th anniversary concerts were about looking back and celebrating legacies, night number two was about looking forward. From the performances — which focused heavily on punk, post-punk and metal — to the conversations that took place backstage, Friday night at Madison Square [...]
Atomic Popcorn (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Richard Curtis’ upcoming Pirate Radio is getting a lot of attention for having a great cast (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Gemma Arterton, Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy and others) as well as having real-life subject material that is so great, one might think it is fictional. The film revolves around a group of rock deejays who took [...]
WNEW: Where Rock Lives (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
To honor WNEW's legendary Firecracker 500, every day we are highlighting the music that populated the 1991 and 1996 lists, with classic videos, live performances and little-known facts about the songs and how they came to be... Sometimes, for all...
icWales (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
SINGING soldier Ryan Idzi is hoping for chart success after his band’s album hit the shops yesterday.
The Daily Dust (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Can the trio of servicemen hit the number one spot? Three British soldiers who served in Afghanistan and Iraq are set to release a single for charity. The single is titled ‘Coming Home’ and is a celebration of those who make it back and a remembrance of the fallen. Royalties from the single will go to the Army [...]
News: News blog | guardian.co.uk (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Three servicemen who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan release their debut album, Coming Home They may lack Cheryl's smile, Robbie's wit or Alexandra's dance moves, but they do have a unique selling point: each member of the band has risked their life for their country. The Soldiers , three servicemen who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, today released their debut album, Coming Home. The trio...
Funky-Soul-Vinyls-Blog (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Between 1982 and 1989 Al Green released 6 more Albums, if you count the Christmas offering's in 1983 & 1986 that's 8! I will be doing a seperate feature on the Christmas Album in about a month's time, with a Download! The Album titles were as follows: 1982 Precious Lord (4) 1983 I'll Rise Again (4) 1985 Trust In God (10) 1986 Going Away (11) 1987 Soul Survivor (1) 1989 I Get Joy (13) All these...
mithering times (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Yesterday was this blog's first birthday and although I fully intended to post something, I never felt quite in the right mood. I exceeded my initial target of posting, on average, at least once a week. As for the direction of the blog, that's something which has evolved during the year, and I'm still not entirely sure what sort of blog this is. In some ways, it's a personal blog with most of the personal...
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