Billboard (Free subscription) | 13/10/2008
Reggae music pioneer Alton Ellis, who enjoyed a career revival in recent years after a string of hits in the 1960s, died Friday in London. He was 70.
So Much Silence (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The 36th installment of I Used to Love H.E.R., a series in which artists/bloggers/writers discuss their most essential or favorite hip-hop albums and songs, comes from keyboardist Josh Charney of Los Angeles-based band Le Switch, whose debut album “And Now … Le Switch” was released last month on Autumn Tone, the label run by our [...]
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Best known, probably, for his tune "Duke of Earl," Gene Chandler here sings a pretty uplifting song. Gene Chandler sings "Nothing Can Stop Me:" Also, here's some more great footage of an another young Jamaican group. Toots and the Maytals....
The latest from newcritics (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
It all started innocently enough over at my joint when I put up this charming clip. One of the two or three regular readers of my blog, who chooses, perhaps out of laziness, to go by the moniker Anonymous, left this comment: Great 60’s Male Vocalists in No Particular Order: John Lennon Elvis Presley Paul Jones Paul McCartney Roy Orbison [...]
GraniteGrok (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
REVENGE OF THE RINOSThis coming week, the House is set to take up a so-called bipartisan constitutional amendment on education funding. But the amendment is bipartisan only in the sense that it is supported by both Democrat and Republican House...
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
After the excitement of the Ponderosa Stomp we took a day off from music to recover, missing Gene Chandler at Jazzfest unfortunately. I'm told he was good and performed some of his 60s Curtis Mayfield style soul as well as Duke of Earl. On Friday we drove up with Memphis with one of the DJs from Melbourne who we met on the trip - Pierre, who is better known on radio station http://www.pbsfm.org.au/...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 02/03/2008
New Hampshire's House minority leader has died. Republican Michael Whalley of Alton died Saturday at Concord Hospital. He was 54.
Something Old, Nothing New (Free subscription) | 22/02/2008
This is a great episode from the third season, the first episode to focus on Mama Carlson (Carol Bruce) and flesh out her backstory, her personality, and her interactions with the series regulars. (The story requires her son, the one person whose relationship with her is a known quantity, to be absent for most of the episode, so the writers can figure out how the other characters interact with her.)...
Steven Rubio's Online Life (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
1. The Contours, "Do You Love Me." An atypical Motown act, The Contours were anything but slick. With hindsight, they seem more a rock and roll band than a Berry Gordy special. It was Gordy, though, who wrote this big...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 30/01/2008
A highway won't be named after slain Franconia police Cpl. Bruce McKay this year in his hometown that is still emotionally divided over what happened the day McKay and his killer died.
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 25/01/2008
The line up for the New Orleans Jazzfest has been published and there are some mouth watering names on the list. Probably the top one for me, and I guess for quite a few others, is the 'Duke of Earl' Gene Chandler who I have never seen perform live. In a way it was Gene who re-started my record collecting in a serious way. In 1986 I travelled to Vancouver for the Expo (with the Royal Ballet but that's...
VH1 (Free subscription) | 04/12/2007
New Hampshire Presidential Watch (Free subscription) | 26/11/2007
U.S. Senator John McCain's presidential campaign today announced that the campaign has filed its entire slate of 42 delegates in the state of New Hampshire. JOHN MCCAIN 2008 DELEGATE/ALTERNATE SLATE TO THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION Dick Attardo, Nashua Jack Barnes, Raymond Maureen Barrows, Exeter Curtis Barry, Concord Bill Beauregard, Keene Peter Bragdon, Milford Richard Brothers, Tilton Jim Burke,...
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 17/11/2007
Tales from the Woods regulars, or Woodies as we are known, met for one of our occasional meet-ups last night - a few pints in a pub (in Soho) followed by a Chinese nearby. After the usual toasts to music greats who have died since the last time we met, someone suggested that we should all pick our favourite track of all time. This eventually became our three favourite tracks as we went round the table...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 12/09/2007
Sound Tribe Sector 9: 7 p.m. Sept. 20. Clutch Cargo's, $17.50. Critical Bill: CD-release party, 8 p.m. Sept. 20. Emerald Theatre, $10. The Bad Plus: 8 p.m. Sept. 20. The Ark, $20. Turbonegro: with Mondo Generator, 8 p.m. Sept. 20. Small's, $20. Sold Out.
