andPOP.com News (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Cat Power is releasing yet another batch of covers, this time re-imagining tunes from the likes of Otis Redding and Creedence Clearwater Revival. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Cat Power has announced that she will release an EP of cover songs this December.
Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Rex Garvin & the Mighty Cravers “Listen - Rex Garvin - Sugar Baby - MP3″ Greetings all. I figured that I’d close out the week with a track that I’ve been holding in storage for some time. One of the great repeating motifs of 60s soul and funk is the journeyman artist. I’ve discussed this time and time [...]
VIBE Magazine Online (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Robin Thicke: Something Else More smooth grooves and buttery vocals from our favorite quiet stormer.
Passion of the Weiss (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
It’s been an Otis Redding kind of night. This cover of the Sam Cooke classic is just breathtaking. Buy Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul Download: MP3: Otis Redding-”A Change is Gonna’ Come”
IanRStewart (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Old pedantic here - they weren't singles - just favourite tracks - and the order was all wrong - it was only when I read it again that I realised that the top 15 were inverted - i.e. they should have read: 1 Try a Little Tenderness -Otis Redding 2 Tin Soldier - Small Faces 3 Up the Junction - Squeeze 4 Psycho Killer - Talking Heads 5 Route 66 - Rolling Stones 6 Teenage Kicks - Undertones 7 Dazed And...
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
For their third feature film, the Beatles decided to sit back and let others do all the work. Thus, the band “starred” in an animated fantasy-comedy that revolutionised the concept of cartoon features. Inspired by the Beatles’ hit song and designed in a psychedelic, pop-art style a la Peter Max . . . (Click below for the post and a larger video screen.)
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Every time you hear Aretha Franklin belt out "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" on AM or FM radio, the estate of Otis Redding, who penned the lyrics, receives a royalty payment. But Franklin gets nothing.
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
I’m sure that we are all shocked and surprised by the news that John McCain has decided that, after all, the financial crisis gripping the USA should take second place to his Presidential campaign, and that he should instead devote his time to the televised debate with Obama. Ok, the more cynical people on the planet [...]
Steven Rubio's Online Life (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
I imagine this changes pretty frequently in the early days, when you haven't yet gotten around to playing all of your favorites, or maybe that one song you hate snuck in and so the software thinks you love it. Anyway,...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Commercially issued in their entirety for the first time, these live sets from March 1967 show Redding and Booker T. & the MGs at their incendiary best.
Steven Rubio's Online Life (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
This is a bit premature, I suppose ... I've played fewer than 700 tracks on the Zune player so far ... but based on those plays, and what's in my music library, they've come up with the following "Mixview": Here's...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
During their "A Bigger Bang" tour of 2005-07, the Rolling Stones often paid tribute to the late Ray Charles with a performance of "(Night Time Is) The Right Time". Though Charles is most commonly associated with the song, his 1958 version closely followed a 1957 recording of "The Right Time" by the gospel singer turned rhythm 'n' blues shouter Nappy Brown. "He had all my notes in there," Brown said....
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
It’s good, no doubt, but nothing to get excited about. Play it in your car for your friends while you drive around, and you will feel a little bit cooler. By cooler, I mean you might not notice any of your exposed skin sticking to the flaming hot upholstery in your hot glass-and-steel oven on wheels. You’d have to have a heart of ice to not want to hear this. I suppose some sociopathic jerks out there...
Listening Post (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
It would be wrong to close out September 23 without a bow to a jazz legend, perhaps the jazz legend of all time. John Coltrane was born in North Carolina but it wasn't long until his compositions and permutations changed...
