I’ve been playing a lot of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City recently and as you probably know, especially if you’re a gamer type, Vice City contains a fairly extensive sountrack filled with a variety of classic songs from the 80′s. It’s really reminded me of how much I like some of the music from that [...]
Read more →As a followup to my recent post about Wilson Pickett and his song “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love”, I thought I should remind you of a post I did about a year and a half ago about a Japanese ukulele group called Ukulele Afternoon – they do a cover of “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love”, [...]
Read more →Today’s post is about an artist that I first heard as part of a collaborative effort called “The Battle.” Rising up from the U.K. grime scene, four MC’s known as Frost P, Zuz Rock, Shystie, and Lady Sovereign spit million mile a minute rhymes and gave hungry listeners a beefy piece of new hip hop [...]
Read more →As you may or may not know, Wilson Pickett passed away on January 19. Quite a shame, especially as I had been intending to do a post about the blues/r&b/soul scene since 2006 began – I wish it were under more favorable circumstances. Why did I want to write about the blues for 2006? Well, [...]
Read more →Once upon a time I was kind of bored, so I started cruising around AMG looking up whatever band happened to start playing on iTunes. After a few songs, my speakers emitted a surge of screeching vocals, grinding moog synthesizers, and raging guitars, which signaled the coming of The Locust, so I looked up their [...]
Read more →This past summer I did a little bit (which I don’t think I ever really finished, actually…) about Music Midtown in Atlanta and how awesome it is and that if you ever get a chance to go it’s pretty fun, and a pretty good deal considering how many bands you get to see for your [...]
Read more →Jonathan Scott (Singer/Songwriter) I’ll fess up now… this post is less of a review and more of a story about how I started out hating this album and how I ended up loving it. Enjoy. Parasol Records sent Glenn and I Shaded Lodge and Mausoleum by the Doleful Lions quite some time ago and it’s [...]
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