EastEnder Motown magic for Children in Need
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EASTENDER Ricky Butcher as Marvin Gaye anyone? Or how about his ex-wives Bianca and Sam as the Supremes?
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Friday Jams Fest
ColoradoPols.com - Front Page (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
What does a Friday's Jam Fest have to do with Colorado politics? Absolutely nothing, baby, that's what. Except that music is an expression shared by folks of all races, religions, creeds...and political affiliations. So quit arguing and start posting some tunes. All Russian videos must be saved for Sunday, homeys. Here's a little Marvin Gaye from the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1980 to get things started....
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My Addiction to Marvin Gaye
Sagacious Rambling (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I was probably around 13 or 14 when Marvin Gaye's life was ended by the very man that contributed to his existence. At the time the only song I truly appreciated was his 1981 hit Sexual Healing. Of course as an eleven year old, I didn't fully understand what the song was talking about. But I loved watching him sing it and his voice was like sweet nectar to my ears. After graduating high school and...
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Wax Poetics magazine Issue 38 on the shelves
SoulCulture.co.uk (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The latest issue of Wax Poetics [my favourite music magazine] is out now – with features on Curtis Mayfield and Spike Lee. The issue includes: Re:Discovery – Melvin Van Peebles, Manfred Krug, Marvin Gaye, Judgment Night OST, John Carpenter Roc Raida – The Grand Master Shadows And Phonographs – This sinister role of the turntable in Hollywood classics Brotherman [...]
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On Hamiet Bluiett & Kahil El'Zabar
Lerterland (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
In the current Philadelphia Weekly : Hamiet Bluiett & Kahil El’Zabar Fri., Nov. 20, 8pm. $12. Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th St. 215.545.4302 www.arsnovaworkshop.org When he gets going, baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett could probably take down a house with his gutsy, barrel-chested sound. A cofounder of the World Saxophone Quartet and the St. Louis-based Black Artists Guild, he’s...
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Project: Komakino - Syndrome (The Horrors Remix)
RCRD LBL (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
You know what you're getting with these two - dark-eyed London gloom and glower, mostly, even if The Horrors ' latest album seemed to be throwing confetti at its own funeral. The strangest thing about this, though, isn't that it's pensive, or that it's moody - it's that it seems to have sampled its drums from Marvin Gaye 's "Sexual Healing". So even though Project: Komakino all look like...
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#140con: The rules of Twitter and things that tweet
Media: PDA | guardian.co.uk (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Speakers at the London conference discuss how to use Twitter, from a tweeting Tower Bridge to brands and, well, onions The 140 Characters conference is presenting more than 50 speakers in 35 sessions. The speeches are therefore inevitably rather short – mostly only a couple of minutes. Each speaker has taken their own approach. Tony Mattson, the group business director of UM London, presented...
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Free Music Monday: Covers, Remixes, and Mashups Edition
Mashable (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Welcome, music fans! Today marks another installment of Free Music Monday for your listening pleasure. We’re celebrating the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter with 10 tracks, albums, or playlists from around the web. Last week we ran a special hip-hop edition , and this week celebrates creative covers, remixes, and mashups. We also take submissions from you, dear readers, so if you’d like...
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Mashup Culture - Baile Funk :: On the One :: Vol. 5
Pandora (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Baile funk, aka funk carioca or bailes funk, is a good example of how dance music conventions can be and often are shaped by the people and for the people. The DJ doesn't necessarily define the sound but does nurture and develop it. And, mash it up with the sound of other cultures thousands of miles away that share similar experiences. In this case, that experience was using the spirit of music and...
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Wilson Pickett - Sugar Sugar & Cole Cooke and Redding mp3
Dust On The Stylus (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Atlantic 45-2722 1970 Known to everyone for mid-60s belters like In The Midnight Hour , the late 60s found Wilson Pickett applying his gritty yawp to some unusual covers. The drawn-out anguish in his version of the Supremes You Keep Me Hanging On is just glorious. More incongruous - and regular Dusters will know I'm a sucker for the weird shit - is his cover of Sugar Sugar , a bubblegum pop tune so...
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YOU+ME=LOVE Compilation
Groovin' You (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
I've uploaded a little mixtape I recently made for the special lady in my life. Songs about love and that, y'know? All the tracks have lyrics that make me think of her and/or us. She said it made her do a happy cry so it did the trick! Tracklist: Lenny Williams - Choosin' You (edit) Eastside Connection - You're So Right For Me (edit) Darcus - It's Got To Be Love (edit) India - To Be In Love (album...
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Score! Pop Up Swap to Benefit City Harvest on November 21
Sheena Beaston (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
This Saturday, November 21, a massive pop-up free swap in Bushwick is going down. Score! is a pop-up swap — a roving event series that invites New Yorkers to clear out their closets and score new treasures, through every aspect of music, apparel, art, media and random miscellany. The last Score! Pop Up Swap drew over 1,300 people, and this weekend's event is sizing up to be just as bananas. Flavorpill...
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MM - Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye **
Mariuca (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Hola! It's time for Music Monday again and tonight, I am featuring a terrific number from Marvin Gaye . I'm sure you know this one, so let's groove with the Motown King shall we? Happy Music Monday ! MARIUCA LOVES
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DJ Zebra double pack
AudioPorn Central (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
DJ Zebra – Get it on my mind [mp3] Pixies – Where is my mind Marvin Gaye – Let’s get it on DJ Zebra – I’m a fireman [mp3] Spencer Davis Group – I’m a man (Zebra edit) Prodigy – Firestarter + drums : Beastie Boys + guitar solo : The Rolling Stones + chorus : Jungle Brothers Zeb iz back and we are [...]
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A Way Early, Perhaps Even Obnoxiously So, Clue to the New Direction
PowerPop (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
From 1966, please enjoy the great Marvin Gaye with Kim Weston , Marvin's Motown duet partner number two (after the ill-fated departure of Mary Wells to another label but before the tragic death of Tammi Terrell ) and their infernally catchy proof of the theorem that one is the loneliest number,"It Takes Two." As always, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded the first reader who gleans...