We love sheds (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
mandy and smudge are the joyous owners of the Pub Shed Forge and Flagon and here are their answers. Sheddies name Mandy and smudge Shed name Forge and Flagon Selfbuild or off the shelf shed? The Forge and Flagon started off it’s day…
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Grammy-winning Tejano singer Emilio Navaira and his wife, Maria, have been discharged from a San Antonio, Texas, hospital after a traffic accident earlier this week.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ellen Bukstel’s powerful mix of hard-hitting songs and social activism has inspired and excited thousands of fans with
Pop Tarts Suck Toasted (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
I think it's time we took a serious look at Pennywise, a band that probably straddles the line between pop-punk and actual punk as any band in history and who gets praised and derided almost equally for straddling that line. Back in 1989 when they released their two EP's back-to-back I was not listening to them, I was barely breaking into the punk rock scene thanks to my Dad's copies of The
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
It's funny: I knew I had a good memory for songs used on TV shows: I could describe for you, in great detail, the Queer as Folk scenes that used Ben E. King's "Save the Last Dance For Me," ABBA's...
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...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Grammy nominee and one of the world's premier Latin jazz bands Sammy Figueroa and his Latin Jazz Explosion appearing at Berkeley's La Pea Cultural Center Long known as one of the world's great players, percussionist Sammy Figueroa has performed and recorded with artists such as Miles Davis, the Brecker Brothers, Mariah Carey, Chaka Khan, and John McLaughlan...
DAVID ARCHULETA FAN BLAST (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Excerpt taken from The Herald Leader in Lexington, KY: One such moment came when David Archuleta blended the 1961 Ben E. King pop-soul standard Stand by Me with a few verses of Beautiful Girls by Jamaican reggae rapper Sean Kingston. On the surface, that might not have seemed like much of a leap, as Beautiful Girls [...]
On Deadline (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
If you're under 40 (or certainly if you're under 30), you probably haven't heard of Jerry Wexler. But you've heard the music he helped create. Wexler, 91, died early today of congenital heart disease in Florida. For decades, starting in...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
When Brooke White introduced her version of "Yellow," she told the American Idols Live tour, "I really wish I wrote it." Hers wasn't the only pretty voice with nothing to say, riding the power-ballad carousel.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13/07/2008
Arts & entertainment: The comedian let his emotions show on Big Brother. Can Paul Mardles find the path to his musical heart?
fat fu (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
posted by meowser Chances are pretty good that unless you are a serious student of songwriting or a 1950s/1960s rock/R&B super-completist, you’ve never heard of Doc Pomus. But chances are equally good that you’ve heard at least some of the songs he wrote or cowrote, which entered the national (and international) bloodstream like whooooaaah, and after all [...]
Bearded Magazine (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Give us a little soul... David Brown takes a look at Eli 'Paperboy' Reed's soul reinvention
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
If anything, it was the late 20th Century rise of the shopping mall that killed off malt shops, at least as a place where teenagers hung out, met and practiced social skills, enacted adolescent drama, fell in love for perhaps the first time and, most often of all, played music on the jukebox. These days, [...]
Phronesis (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
The sun is shining, the world is smiling and the sounds of Ben E. King and the Drifters competes with my neighbours' sounds belting out the window. I find myself getting excited about an idea for next year... ...My clever arty, geeky friend Lucy Peppper has bought a fab house (well, it will be!) with - wait for it - a great space for doing workshops. Lovely open and covered spaces with fruit trees,...
