As everyone well knows, the Oscars were dished out last Sunday. Which got me thinking about the Oscar Best Song winners that reached #1 in the U.S. charts. Thanks to the wild and wonderful Intertubes, here are the Academy Award-winning Best Original Songs that have reached #1 since 1955, the year Billboard created the Hot [...]
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Well, guys, it’s been a slow news week. If anything big and not totally stupid (basically anything related to Mr. and Mrs. McCartney, as if anyone gives a tiny rat’s ass) happened, I missed it. Here’s some interesting news-ish things I did find around the interwebs. First things first, congratulations to Glen Hansard and Marketa [...]
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Last month we celebrated the legendary Ramones, and today we put the spotlight on The Strokes. Both bands hail from New York, but we promise it’s just a coincidence and not 100best’s running theme. The Strokes are partly responsible for the 100b crüe getting together as united music geeks. They’re one of a very short [...]
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Willie Nelson may look like your friendly, neighborhood, hippie troubadour, but he is and always will be a badass outlaw to me. He claims to have been smoking weed since he was ten, and that he even did it in the White House while visiting Jimmy Carter. Now, who else has the balls to do [...]
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The Mules Present ‘Pick Your Own’ might just be the most delicious mix of new bands I’ve ever heard. It came out last October, but I hadn’t had the pleasure of hearing it before. It features the “cream of London’s young musicians” according to the CD jacket, and it’s no lie. If all the lovely [...]
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