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Barenaked Ladies lead-singer Steven Page was arrested Friday on a cocaine felony near Syracuse, New York. If convicted, he faces up to 15-years in prison.
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The painted bass drum skin that appeared on the cover of The Beatles‘ seminal Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album has sold at auction for one million dollars.
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An interesting Review: Elvis Presley – His Hand In Mine has been posted at Blogcritics. Here’s an excerpt, click the link for the full text.
Essential Elvis: Chapter 8.
Elvis Presley released his first full gospel album on November 10, 1960. He had previously released the four song EP, Peace In The Valley, whose tracks also appeared on the Elvis Christmas Album. His Hand In Mine, however, was a full studio effort featuring classic gospel and spiritual songs of the day. When looking at the Elvis catalogue of…
Elvis Presley – His Hand In Mine
An interesting review of Elvis Presley – Elvis Is Back has been posted at Blogcritics. Here’s an excerpt, click the link for the full text.
Essential Elvis: Chapter 6.
Elvis Presley was discharged from the army on March 5, 1960 and all was right with the musical world again. Elvis immediately returned to the studio for a series of sessions and quickly released his comeback album in April of 1960. Elvis Is Back may have been the most important album of his career. There had been several releases while he was in…
Review: Elvis Presley – Elvis Is Back
An interesting review of Build – Build has been posted at Blogcritics. Here’s an excerpt, click the link for the full text.
This release could change the way you think about contemporary composition.
Back sometime in the 1970s an ensemble known as The Penguin Cafe Orchestra achieved a level of popularity previously unknown for a group playing contemporary compositions. While individual composers like John Cage, Philip Glass, and Steve Reich were known and appreciated by those interested in the field, The Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s compositions…
I hold in my hand my official “Things I Never Want to See” list, and right there adjacent to “Another Episode of Grey’s Anatomy” is “A Jimi Hendrix Sex Tape.” Yet, somehow, a Jimi Hendrix Sex Tape is being released anyway.
Vivid Entertainment is reportedly planning to release a sex tape featuring guitar God, Jimi Hendrix. The film, shot in 8mm, is 11 minutes long and shows Hendrix having sex with two women. Jimi Hendrix, considered one of the greatest and influential guitarists in rock history, died at the age of 27 after he asphyxiated in his own vomit on September 18, 1970.
American Idol cast-off Carly Smithson may have sealed her own fate in choosing to perform Superstar from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, a song choice suggested by Webber himself.
Yellowcard’s lead singer Ryan Key has revealed that the band will be going on “indefinite hiatus” to “figure out [their] personal lives” when their current tour ends. According to Key, 2007’s Paper Walls, which stalled at #13 on the US Billboard Chart, may be the band’s last album.
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DRM is evil. DRM is evil. DRM is evil.
If you do not yet understand that DRM is evil, please re-read the first paragraph before moving on.
Sony BMG and Universal Music Group have entered into a deal to offer their entire music catalogs for free download to select Nokia mobile phones.
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