It’s crazy to think that in the past seven or eight years, we’ve lost so many influential male soul singers: Barry White, Rick James, Luther Vandross, Gerald LeVert and Michael Jackson have all left us in the fairly recent past, and just last night, it was learned that the legendary Teddy Pendergrass passed away at the age of 59.
Teddy was influential in several ways. As a vocalist, he brought some serious fire and brimstone to […]
Susan Boyle has finally met her match.
After a six-week run at the top, Boyle loses the #1 spot on the Billboard Albums Chart to another new female artist. Dance/pop singer Ke$ha opens at the top with her debut album “Animal”. The album scans 152,000 copies in its’ first week out-easily beating Boyle’s total of 93,000.
As is customary for this time of the year, the chart is very quiet. The next highest debut comes all […]
I’ll admit-I sort of have a mancrush on Mike Doughty. The former Soul Coughing frontman-turned singer/songwriter/electronic musician/DJ/author/blogger has a certain relatability that actually seems to be quite prevalent among his generation’s spate of singer/songwriters. Anyway, Mike’s current album “Sad Man Happy Man”, which was released late last year, is quite a treat, as is the first video from the album-“(You Should Be) Doubly (Gratified)” (Mike is apparently a big fan of the parentheses, as am […]