Whether it’s the shear chutzpah of selecting Elvis as your stage name, stunts like busking at a convention of record company bigwigs to get noticed and signed in the U.S., or releasing your next album on vinyl and as a digital download only, the bespectacled Declan Patrick MacManus, better known as Elvis Costello, has shown [...]
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If you’re a fan, I’m sorry. But, Barry White is one of the poster boys for Poptastic Day. However, as we have said in the past poptastic doesn’t equate to crap. In fact, quite often, it’s just the opposite. Yes, it may, just as often, be corny or cheesy as hell. That just makes it [...]
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There would be no charts and therefore no Zany Charts if Billboard hadn’t made the glorious and innovative decision to document America’s best selling records in a handy weekly list simply named the Best Selling Retail Records 68 years ago. Now Billboard hosts about a gajillion charts selected by theme and genre, it boggles the [...]
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Yeah, so what. I start all of posts with excuses about why my post might (probably) sucks eggs. This week I have yet another excuse. A good one. For me at least. I bought a refurbished MacBook Pro from Apple and, hot damn, it’s sweet! So, I phaffed about for the past four or five [...]
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For perhaps the first time ever, here’s a remix I actually like. To tell you the truth, I usually don’t even download remixes, because I always end up wishing they’d left the original song alone. But here’s the Shoes Mix of the Mystery Jets’ current single, “Young Love”, which I’ve already expressed my love of. [...]
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