The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Even in trying times, life is not a thankless task -- at least it should not be. So here to share with all of...
Notes from a Different Kitchen (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Here's the plug: " Back in August, I had the pleasure of meeting Killah Priest from the Wu-Tang family in El Paso, TX. My friend had introduced us and she had hopped on a short leg of his "Legend of the Lions" tour as his photographer. As they were coming back, they decided to stay in El Paso for one more night. I invited them to come out to the lounge I spun at for some drinks &...
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 21/08/2009
Summer is a magical time for flings -- no one puts you in the corner and you can have the time of your life. But these romances are usually short-lived, which is why NPR Music has come up with their top picks for saying goodbye to your summer sweetheart. The tracks include: Michael Jackson's "We're Almost There," William DeVaughn's "Be Thankful for What You Got," Ice Cube's "It...
ImpossibleFunky Productions (Free subscription) | 30/07/2009
Yet another goofy music compilation I made a few years back. Songs that still make me smile. The Warriors (Main Theme) Barry De Vorzon Pusher Man Curtis Mayfield Be Thankful For What You Got William DeVaughn Hollywood Swinging Kool And The Gang Fantastic Voyage Lakeside White Lines DJ-RX Sunday, Bloody Sunday DJ-RX Baddest Ruffest (Radio Edit) Backyard Dog Incredible M. Beat Galvanize The Chemical...
Apartment Therapy LA (Free subscription) | 15/05/2009
Out of all the different kinds of posts that are published here, these musical playlists are my favorite kind to compile (and guiltiest pleasure). For one, I get to look at a broad spectrum of styles
GQ: The Style Guy (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
Hip-hop is a form built on pre-recorded music, and so it was by nature a kind of fusion. Africa Bambaataa’s sampling of Kraftwerk opened up a world of endless possibility. De La Soul used samples from Cymande, Blackbyrd, Art Blakey...
SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE (Free subscription) | 23/04/2009
You know it ain’t nothing but a thang for me to travel up and down the East Coast to see Omar perform. When the “godfather of British soul,” comes stateside, I come a-running. I was hanging with some people before the show and one asked, “Do you really have to go to this show?” After [...]
E.G RADIO ONLINE (Free subscription) | 24/03/2009
This is probably one of my most favorite tracks in the world!! I will listen this till I am am 90 years old. Just be Thankful for what you got, and read the lyrics below! Just Be thankful and sing!! Diamond in the back, Sunroof Top, Diggin in the Scene with a Gangsta Lean! Lyrics Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac Gangsta whitewalls TV antennas in the back You may not have a car at all...
Media Assassin (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Masa (he wouldn’t give his last name), the 48-year-old, Portugese-Japanese owner of this 1972 boattail Buick Riviera, above, posted this YouTube walkaround of it in a mall parking lot. As you’ve, no doubt, already noted, the machine looks like it’s ready to wage war. The exterior bodywork has been completely blacked out. What little chrome remains [...]
Kevin Nottingham: This Is Hip Hop (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
This one is one of my favorite Ludacris albums… Chicken N Beer gave us “Splash Waterfalls”, “P-Poppin” (which had a nice video on BET Uncut), “Diamond In The Back” (my fav Luda song), and the great Snoop Dogg collabo “Hoes In My Room”. The album’s linear note list Donald Byrd’s “Wind Parade” as the sample for [...]
Music Musings and Miscellany (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Here’s the latest batch of Music Musings and Miscellany’s unapologetically subjective selection of the twentieth century’s best 1000 singles. Continuing with the Bs. WILLIAM DEVAUGHN – Be Thankful For What You’ve Got / part 2 (Roxbury 236 1974) William DeVaughn was a one-hit wonder whose main career was as a draughtsman designing, of all things, sewers. [...]
the "B" side (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Be Thankful For What You Got, Part 2 HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Some Velvet Blog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Happy Thanksgiving from Some Velvet Blog Be Thankful For What You've Got - William DeVaughn
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008
The music-blog world can be a surprisingly small one. We develop relationships with people solely through our keyboards and a shared interest in our ongoing conversation. We may never meet in the real world, but our virtual relationships feel a lot like real-world relationships nevertheless. So I was quite sorry to learn this morning that [...]
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