Listening to a little Björk last night while whipping up some fruit dip (as you do), I started thinking about how I used to really not like Björk. Really, really not. I always thought she was cool, but her music was a little too freaky for me. I wasn’t quite ready for a voice as [...]
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The goofy-looking guys you see before you are Woodhands, from Toronto, Canada. Remember them from high school? Maybe freshman year at college? They were the guys you cool people probably thought were geeks (note that I didn’t say us cool people). Now they have the kids up and moving it to the beats they weave [...]
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The Lemonheads’ It’s A Shame About Ray is one of my very favorite albums of the 90s and one day I’ll write all about it for a Classics entry. But today we celebrate cheesiness, something The Lemonheads – apparently – understand very well. The Favorite Spanish Dishes EP was released in the UK in June [...]
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I have to make this relatively quick today, so it’s a good thing that this travesty pretty much speaks for itself. From the BBC: A remix of Singin’ in the Rain that was used by Britain’s Got Talent winner George Sampson has shot to number one in the UK singles chart. The song, best known [...]
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