“I can’t exactly say why there’s not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music. Maybe it’s Clear Channel’s ownership of so many radio stations. Or maybe it’s iTunes and Apple being a company that makes most of their stuff in China. …
Month: April 2011
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Apparently, Lady Gaga likes the song after all and it will appear on Weird Al’s new album. Yankovic posted the following on his blog today: Well, this was a strange day. After putting my Lady Gaga parody on YouTube this morning – and announcing that it wouldn’t be on my next album because Gaga didn’t …
Meet TZE, check out their music here.
The Oregonian is in the middle of an excellent, in-depth examination of the history of Rajneeshpuram in Antelope, Oregon. The paper describes the need for revisiting the story, saying “Twenty-five years later, long-secret government files and now-talkative participants make it clear that things were far worse at Rancho Rajneesh than many realized.” Home page for …
Seattle alt-country band The Head and the Heart will appear Thursday, 2/21/2011, on Conan O’Brien’s TBS show.
This may be the moment Frank jumped the shark. Most true Sinatra scholars point to his marriage to Mia Farrow and brief flirtation with facial hair (a sketchy goatee) in 1965 as the end of Sinatra’s career. A much smaller group – one that includes myself – looks at his 1967 collaboration with Jobim as …
“This has one of the sexiest vibes in a Led Zep song… Raw and grinding… This is definitely the “shine” era for this group, (in my opinion)…” – Jay Lang
Moroccan singer Sofia Marikh and her Streisand cover, “Tahwak,” are trending upward like movements for democratic change all across North Africa today: