Tag Archive for tag: music
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Tag Archive for tag: music
Has there ever been as insanely-infectious a song as the new Kylie Minogue song “Love at First Sight”?! I can’t get it out of my head. I can’t get it out of my iTunes… Whoops… did I say that out loud? There goes what little indie cred I had left.
Alan Lomax, Who Raised Voice of Folk Music in U.S., Dies at 87. Lomax brought us all kinds of great music, from Leadbelly (aka Huddie Ledbetter, an Arkansas native, who was in prison when Lomax discovered him). Everything white people know about country blues you owe to Lomax. RIP.
Jaguaro.org Features: One Hundred Albums You Should Remove from Your Collection Immediately is hilarious. I don’t agree with all of it, but it’s mostly right on, especially about the Nirvana. Nirvana sucked. There, I said it.
Thanks to a groovy app called Kung-Tunes that allows you to dynamically display what’s playing in your copy of iTunes. You can even customize the output with links, css, etc. The Listening info to your far right now displays the currently-playing track on my iTunes, which is going most of the day and evening. The [...]
The Waterboys were one of my favorite bands once upon a time. I recently rediscovered their ’89 album, Fisherman’s Blues. Wow. It’s such an amazing album. If you like moody rock with a Celtic folk swagger to it, you’ll LOVE this album. “We Will Not Be Lovers” still chills me.
