Archive for July 2008
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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Aging rocker David Lee Roth wants you to know that he’s just fine with nuts. He loves nuts. He can take a lot of nuts.
Reports paint pretentious music maker and dad Sting as irate after learning that troubled rocker Pete Doherty shacked up in daughter Coco’s tent at the Glastonbury Music Festival.
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Britian’s “The Sun” newspaper is reporting that hip-hop star Kanye West is headed to anger management classes in an attempt to get control over his outbursts and “frequent mood swings.”
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…