The Great Danger are from Brighton and got together almost a whole year ago. They’re so new their fontanelles are probably still squidgy and not grown together yet. They have a fresh post-grungey sound that has absolutely nothing to do with them Nickelbacks and 3 Doors Downs. They actually sound like a British version of [...]
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Can you people believe that Tamboosh has never heard “The Humpty Dance”, Digital Underground’s 1989 #11 hit? This is for her… According to the Wikipedia, Digital Underground supposedly started as a black power-y group, but took “a more whimsical direction, that of an updated Parliament-Funkadelic for the hip-hop audience” after Public Enemy became popular. Humpty [...]
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I’ve enjoyed checking out the charts in different countries in a previous edition of Those Zany Charts … so I thought I’d do it again. This time I wanted to see what’s climbed to the top of a few of the South American charts the past few weeks. Now, if you’re a gringo you’d be [...]
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I thought doing Soundtrack Day this week would be easy. But as it turns out, spending many weeks unpacking, sorting, organizing, re-organizing, and sleeping while listening to barely any music (sad but true) doesn’t make for really good music-related anecdotes. Hmm. However, I have managed to pick up a bunch of albums that I’d been [...]
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Avril Lavigne’s “Girlfriend” is a cute and catchy song, but the lyrics are not so great. And by not so great I mean really really really reallyreallyreally bad. Then why? Why would you want to brag about the fact that you inspired these words, let alone sue the girl for stealing them from you?? Which [...]
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