Ah June, the long warm (wet) days, the weddings, the new releases. This month of luuuve and new beginnings brought us two debuts that blew me away, and a couple of albums by more established artists that more than lived up to their preceding records. Wolf Parade and Hot Club De Paris both had the [...]
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Regular readers already know I loves the hip hop. Thinking of a topic for my Zany Charts at-bat, I began to wonder about the build up to hip hop chart success. I mean, the pre-history between, say, Debbie Harry fashion-rapping on “Rapture” in 1980 and before the 1986 cross-over success of “Walk This Way” (Run-D.M.C.) [...]
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Let’s start off this week’s round-up with a good belly laugh, shall we? And what better way to get your giggle on than to poke fun at crazy bible-thumpers? The Guardian technology blog has a great story about how the American Family Association (who aims to educate us heathens to “change the culture to reflect [...]
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Robert Smith and The Cure have been bringing joy to their fans since 1976, evolving musically and as a band over 13 albums but always retaining a sound that makes them special. Whether you like them for their darker side or their lighter side, The Cure quietly loom large as giants of the 1980s and [...]
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