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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Weekend In LA
It’s America’s 235 birthday so let’s celebrate with some blue-eyed soul! There’s only one place to be this weekend so I’m only recommending one thing . The place to be this weekend on July 2, 3 and 4th is at the Hollywood Bowl to see Hall and Oates. They’ll be performing with the Hollywood Bowl [...]
Music Magazines
Yesterday I received an email from Paste Magazine that after about a year after ceasing production as a print magazine they have transformed themselves into what they are calling an mPlayer. I like Paste Magazine and its tagline of “Signs of Life in Music, Film & Culture”. They cover music, films and books I may be [...]
New Music Tuesday
I guess this is the week I blog about the powerful female singer. Two noteworthy albums come out today from a couple of the most honest vocalists out there…and no, I’m not talking about Beyonce or Selena. I’m talking about Dolly and Gillian Welch (Kind of hard to believe that Gillian is the only artist in this [...]
Adele
As I was watching my daughter’s dance recital and yet another of this artist’s songs were played (4 in total), I realized that we are in a unique time for pop music. This is like Aretha Franklin in 1967, Carole King in 1971 or Alanis Morissette in 1995 where a single woman has captured the [...]
Weekend in LA
It’s the first weekend of the Summer and what a better time than now to spend it under the stars. On Saturday, you can head on over to the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre and see the world premiere of The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman written, directed and musical performance by the legendary LA band Sparks. “For this [...]
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Tagged as: Buffalo Daughter, Cibo Matto, Sparks, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Yoko Ono
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Freebird
Every band wants to create that epic rock song yet few are able to accomplish this feat. It’s the song that identifies you, the one every one wants to hear last before you scream “Good Night!” I think fans ironically scream “Free Bird“at shows because the band they are watching does not have that IT [...]
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Tagged as: AC/DC, Bon Jovi, Lynyrd Skynyrd, My Morning Jacket, Paul McCartney
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Turntable
I don’t know about you but I’ve always thought of the discovery of music as a solo venture. I heard music on the radio or read about it or took a chance on something just because the cover looked cool when I was at the record store. It was only at school or concerts that [...]
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Tagged as: Cutting Crew, My Morning Jacket, Turntable.fm
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New Music Tuesday
Happy Summer! There are a few new releases to get excited about this week. The first is the self -titled album from Bon Iver. Bon Iver aka Justin Vernon released a brilliant album in 2008, For Emma, Forever Ago. Last year, this soft-spoken singer from Wisconsin performed on Kanye West’s album and even sang at [...]
The Big Man
“The King of The World”…The Master Of Disaster”. That was my first introduction to Clarence (Big Man) Clemons. Watching the interplay between Bruce Springsteen and Clarence during the Rosalita video was quite a revelation. Never had a music performance seemed so thrilling. Those seven minutes and 36 seconds completely altered the way a young [...]
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Tagged as: Bruce Sprinsteen, Clarence Clemons, Jackson Browne, Joe Cocker
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Father’s Day Mixtape
So the recession is hitting you hard this year and you don’t have anything for dear ol’ Dad? Well fear not, here is an hours worth of father-themed music, some obvious, some not so much, some looking from the father’s perspective, some from the child’s. All are classic songs are just a right-click away. Maybe [...]
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Tagged as: Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen, De La Soul, Elton John, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, James Brown, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Randy Newman, Stevie Wonder, The Byrds, The Crystals, Tom Waits, U2, Wilco
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