If any artist could be likened to Adebisi from Oz in the sense they absolutely owned the yard anytime they stepped out to flex their muscle during the period after their arrival on the scene, well, it is definitely Whitney Houston between 1985 and 1988. In those three years she released seven consecutive #1 singles. [...]
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Back in high school, The Cardigans’ Life was one of my favorite albums. I didn’t know anyone else that listened to it at the time so I don’t know where I first heard about them, but from the moment I took that album home, I fell in love. The swingin’ 60s melodies and Nina Persson’s [...]
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One of my favorite poems is about two lovers who, after spending the night together, curse the sun in the morning, because it has the audacity to think they are affected by its time. Clearly their love is all that matters in the perfect universe contained in their room. It creates such a lovely intimate [...]
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For this week’s Backtrack Day, I thought I’d do a little backtracking into 100b itself and check up on some bands that we’ve written about (mainly in New Band Day posts) in the past. Some of them have gone on to make fantastic albums (1990s, Guillemots, Jamie T, Hot Club De Paris, Jeremy Warmsley) and [...]
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Look here, this is a confesssion. I don’t have tons of time to trawl the Intertubes for new artists. Sometimes I wish I did or was willing to let go of some of my other activities. I’m not, so I rely on carefully chosen sources to provide my exposure to new music when I’m unable [...]
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