Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Transistor Transistor has posted "Morning Sickness" from their recent LP Ruined Lives . Check out the track at their Myspace page . The band tells us that a European tour is being discussed. We recently talked with Nat about his appendix issues that canceled their recent tour.
USA Today (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
When Arthur Conley shouts "Do you like good music?" on Sweet Soul Music, the resounding response is "Yeah! Yeah!" Forty years ...
prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
The Stax/Volt Revue, the legendary package tour through Europe of the label's artists, has been well documented since its occurrence in 1967 through five live albums, notably Otis Reddings' own Live in Europe LP. But these albums captured the tour at its outset, before many of the artists had proverbially warmed up. Furthermore, they only captured the sonic dimension. Scattered video clips, bootleg...
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs Mixing pop melodies with dark themes, crunchy production, and 5-minute instrumental intros, Death Cab for Cutie presents a mature follow-up to 2005’s Plans. Those looking for the next “I Will Follow You Into the Dark” may be disapointed, but Narrow Stairs offers its own share of potential singles, from [...]
Something Old, Nothing New (Free subscription) | 18/04/2008
I won't be able to post much in the next few days, so here's a double-length episode with way too much music to ever be released on DVD: the season 4 opener, "An Explosive Affair." The main story is about the station receiving a bomb threat; the B story (about Mr. Carlson and his ex-receptionist) is a little undercooked, but Howard Hesseman's "phone cops" freak-out in part 2 is one of the most famous...
Mainstream Isn't So Bad...Is It? (Free subscription) | 15/04/2008
You probably don't recognize the name 45 King . That's cool - consider this your lesson then, because if you consider yourself a hip-hop fan.. ESPECIALLY an old school fan, you need to get educated. His name comes from the fact that he cooks up beats using 45's - some obscure, others well known. King got his start as the "record boy" for Bronx-based rap pioneers the Funky 4 . This gave him an inside...
Mainstream Isn't So Bad...Is It? (Free subscription) | 13/04/2008
You want to talk about a Dream Team? Forget about basketball - instead think of the Soul Clan . Formed in 1968, it included Solomon Burke, Ben E. King, Arthur Conley, Joe Tex , and Don Covay , five heavyweights of soul at its artistic height. Originally Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett were going to be on board as well - can you imagine that line-up, damn?!!? Unfortunately, by the time the project kicked...
Doctor Mooney's 115th Dream (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
Dear Patients: We apologize for the lack of updates over the past week. Turns out that the Internet over here at the asylum has been unreachable. To make up for this abrupt outage we have been stockin’ up on heavy doses of sheer madness via prescription pharmaceuticals and shooters of hillbilly moonshine. Our rock ‘n roll stethoscopes promise to have this problem sorted out soon. Er, not the hillbilly...
JournalHome.com Free Blog Host (Free subscription) | 31/01/2008
The newly released Magic Sing Tagalog 8 song chip is here! This Magic Sing song chip has 460 of the latest and most favorite Tagalog and English songs! Includes a collection of famous songs like "Nasaan Ka Na" by Kyla, "Da Butt" by E.u., "Sama-sama" by 14-k, "Funky Street" by Arthur Conley, "Anywhere But Here" by Top Suzara, "My Girl" by Temptations, "Ba't Nahayaan Pa" by Renz Verano, "Hanggang Ngiti...
Sweeping The Nation (Free subscription) | 13/01/2008
WHAT CD? : In Shops Tomorrow was all well and good, but in the end it became a pick'n'mix of wheat and chaff with little to distinguish the two, so from here it'll be shortened down so you know the following are of a particularly high quality: - Agragarian individualists, twitcher lunatic fringe and appreciatories of the qualities of good fell walking gear, usually by wearing it on stage, British Sea...
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Your birthday today: Yours is an energetic nature. You like to be doing things and seeing them well done. You have a faculty for making money, are shrewd and have a good business ability. Those to whom you give your confidence will prove constant. Sadly, none are listed in the book, so you will have to give your confidence (in sharing this birthday) to these other famous folk: Everett Dirksen , George...
VH1 (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
the "B" side (Free subscription) | 20/11/2007
Burning Fire You know, it's funny how things come together sometimes. A couple of months ago, 'doctor spock' (who I imagine is a different guy than the noted pediatric authority), left this in the comments : "...as a lover of Jamaican music, I've always been heavily into the b-sides, giving the 'versions' to the songs. My favorite American b-sides are Atlantic 6588b Burning Fire by Arthur Conley and...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 16/11/2007
Not many labels manage to come back after a 30-year hiatus and re-establish a chart presence comparable with before. Yet this is exactly what has been achieved by Stax, the legendary soul label which gave the world Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas, Eddie Floyd, Sam and Dave, Arthur Conley, William Bell and Booker T & The MGs, before filing for bankruptcy in December 1975. That should have been the end for...
