I love Halloween. It’s the best holiday ever and you will never get me to think otherwise. In celebration of this most holy day, I bring you my very own Top 10 Spooky Songs list. There’s a whole ton of lists like this out there – just Google “spooky songs” or “scary songs” and you’ll [...]
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If you just woke up out of one of them soap-opera comas and missed a whole week, look no further! This is the post for you to get back on top of what’s going on in the music world. Well, as long as it was compelling enough for me to bother mentioning it. In case [...]
Filed under: Music, News-ish Roundup | Tagged: Animal Collective, Beyonce, Patrick Wolf, Rick Rubin, The Beatles, The Black Keys, The Hives, The Jackson 5 | Leave a Comment »
Based on its commercial success, the public cuddled up to it. Which, as we know, probably means critics would hate it. And they did. Say what you want, Electric Mud, the great Muddy Waters’ foray into blues-slash-pyschodelic rock is a classic album – even if Waters, by his own admission, didn’t play much guitar on [...]
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I never could really get into The Secret Machines, not being a big prog fan, but I loved “Nowhere Again” so much that I seriously wished I would like the rest of their music more. “Nowhere Again” was my favorite going out song (I have it the single on 7″) – I’d pop it on, [...]
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Listening to “Open Sesame”, Leila K’s massive nineties dance hit soon put me in a haze of giddy nostalgia. It brought me back to school parties and holding hands with the second cutest boy in class. (The first cutest boy had a hand-holding relationship with some other stoopid girl.) But the Moroccan via Sweden ragga-rap-europop [...]
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