Stiff Little Fingers was a great band — probably the second-best Irish punk band from the classic punk era, behind only the Undertones. SLF was a bit like Northern Ireland’s answer to the Clash, only less eclectic and more uncompromising. Below is one of their better-known songs, “Suspect Device. Their other popular song in the …
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We have a new contender in the Most Bizarre Rock-Star Death sweepstakes: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/06/elo-cellist-by-killed-hay-bale A former member of the rock group Electric Light Orchestra has been killed by a giant hay bale that crashed into his van while he was driving. Cellist Mike Edwards died instantly when the 300kg bale landed on the front of the …
Capt. Spaulding, tending to overgrowth in the garden of love, declares: “This is simply a decent-to-good song that could use some pruning — it’s too long by at least a minute — and which expresses a sociological statement of some sort with all the classic earnestness of youth. That is to say, it’s by turns …
Thanks to Jamie Ferry Mazo for the link. A long time ago, Captain Spaulding wrote a great column about the enduring popularity of this song: http://youtu.be/2NFCJGnBQyg
For perhaps the first time in Grammy Award history, the winner of the Best New Artist Grammy is actually an artist. East Portland’s hot, young and talented jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding surprised everyone by beating out Youtube sensation and all around nice guy, Justin Bieber. Immediately after her victory, outraged Bieber fans hacked Esperanza’s Wikipedia …
Ed. Note – This is just in from Ron Swanson. As it is extremely rare to hear from Ron during football season via any communicational modality, we can assume the subject here is of extreme importance and the quality of the recording, insurmountably good, since Ron chose to put down the remote and educate us …