Herbie Hancock – “Imagine” featuring Pink, Seal, India.Arie Wins Grammy Award for Best Collaboration
Herbie Hancock’s cover of the idealistic John Lennon tune, “Imagine,” featured starls such as Pink, Seal and India.Arie won the Grammy for Best Collaboration.
For perhaps the first time in Grammy Award history, the winner of the Best New Artist Grammy is actually an artist. East Portland’s hot, young and talented jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding surprised everyone by beating out Youtube sensation and all around nice guy, Justin Bieber. Immediately after her victory, outraged Bieber fans hacked Esperanza’s Wikipedia …
It also slightly resembled a pod for the “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” pod people…
George Jones – Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown?
Cake performed this tune recently on Conan:
This won’t be for everyone, but it’s definitely art. Gotta love the Rickenbacher fuzz bass:
Howlin’ Wolf—“Spoonful” (Chess 1960, 2:45) The day before I flew home to Montana from Providence (23 May 1982) I found a very useful, cartoon-jacketed, budget-line blues sampler—America’s Musical Roots—that contained many of the most famous singles ever to appear on Chess Records, this one foremost among them. Nothing about the chundering roar of Cream’s infamous …
There’s something timeless about this. Produced by Pink Floyd’s guitarist, David Gilmour, you’ll hear unmistakeable Floydian guitar at the end of the track.
“Her name is Alexa Wolf, a sexy assassin with a troubled past.” “Watch out bad guys, she’ll bang ya, but then she’ll hang ya…”
Country is EPB’s kind of thing and this song has stuck with me for 20 years. I still hold with the thought that Steve Goodman’s “You Never Even Called me by my Name” is the best country song ever, but this combination of New Orleans (search Jimmy C. Newman) and Nashville is a good one. …
A song which asks the musical question, “How do you like your eggs? Fried or fertilized?” One of his more salacious previous efforts: Lemme Smang It .
New Shakira out recently. Title translates to “The Sun Comes Out.” Tune starts out slow, swells into a solid, surprisingly trad-rock (given the singer’s success with newer dance music formats), pop tune. I’ll admit that when they modulate on the last bridge (2:48, right before she rips her turtleneck apart. Honest.) it’s the oldest cliche …
This is a popular vid from this morning. Some enterprising geek has found a way to make his old school floppy drives play out Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. If this version is not to your liking, here’s a better known version from the Disney Film, Fantasia. Here’s an excellent organ version by …
This heartfelt song has found sudden popularity after being heard on Jersey Shore.
Lady Gaga’s new single, Born This Way, was released today and is already drawing comparisons to Madonna’s 1989 hit, Express Yourself. Here’s Madonna performing Express Yourself at the 1989 MTV Music Awards:
Coltrane Church from Turnstyle Video on Vimeo.
Check out this video on YouTube: ‘s viral. In the event you haven’t seen this. TC **************************************************** JD as puppets, very nice. Thank ye, TC! I will soon recap my 12/7 Showbox experience of see/hearing Peter Hook and band replicate UNKNOWN PLEASURES in its entirety, which was an unexpected highlight …
Also in the Michael Jackson Suite at EastPortlandBlog.com: Tribute to Michael Jackson From Patrick Stump of Fallout Boy Brazilian Cab Driver Impersonates Michael Jackson Spectacularly On the Occasion of Michael Jackson’s Death, by Andrew Hamlin Smells Like Rockin’ Robin (Nirvana vs The Jackson 5) – A Mashup Michael Jackson – Thriller (A Cappella) Three Year …
I love this semi-obscure new wave gem, perfectly conjuring a white Angeleno’s dream fantasia after falling asleep to one of the high-wattage, unregulated Mexican radio stations of the 80s. And if you’ve ever fallen asleep to the radio (or, like me, let it play in the mornings, when you’re unable to get up and shut …
This is REALLY good. Much fuller than the lo-fi original. I know, I know, I’m missing the point. I always do… Also – Reggae, What Happened? The Critic’s Roundtable Talks London, Kingston – The single most trenchant and honest piece of writing about reggae, ever!
Leon Russell and the Shelter People is the greatest album which I’ve never talked about, never been drafted into an argument about. It seldom comes up in the best of all time lists, but should. Yet Robert Christgau disagrees with me: “Russell knows how to put music together, but he still has trouble putting it …