Garrett has kindly allowed me to commandeer the Friday Throwback this week, and in gratitude, I’d like to offer up this juicy bit of eye-and-ear candy from a former Go-Go:
Here’s where I love Belinda Carlisle best: the very first notes she sings, in her 1989 single “Leave a Light On” where she goes from full voice to a tremulous whisper and makes the very act of singing feel like something indulgent and sensual, as […]
Aside from the superfans, the few folks who’ll hear of the official disbandment of Toto will likely scratch their heads and confess that they had no idea the band who gave us such massive MOR hits as “Hold the Line”, “99”, “Rosanna” and “Africa” in the 70s and 80s were still together. After all, it’s been more than 20 years since the band has had an honest-to-goodness pop hit, and even in their heyday, […]
So how ’bout this, folks?
Lil’ Wayne’s “Tha Carter III” LP, which was released this past Tuesday, sold nearly half a million copies in it’s first day of sales. It’s on pace to sell 850-950,000 copies in it’s first week, which would make it the biggest first week sales of 2008, the biggest first week sales for an album in almost a year (since Kanye West’s “Graduation” last September), and would place it 4th on the […]