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You’re Perfect, I Love You, Now DON’T Change
I’m wondering if I’m the only music geek who feels this way……
My all-time favorite band is R.E.M. I’ve followed them since their first E.P. way back in 1980, I have all of their CD’s, I have a huge collection of their 7″ singles from their days on the I.R.S. label (most are duplicates: the commercial single, and the promo only “white label” version). Just listening to their older songs puts me at ease & […]
David Byrne Rocks Brooklyn
Last night’s Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival opened with the groovy and unrelenting music of New Wave icon David Byrne. Byrne played a nearly-2 hour set of his material borne out of collaborations with Brian Eno, drawing from three Talking Heads albums and the albums My Life in the Bush of Ghosts and last year’s Everything that Happens will Happen Today. Byrne was on-form and his band drove the set with powerful, in-the-pocket grooves […]
Chart Chat 6/10/09: The GrooGrux King is On the Throne
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It’s a good week to be Dave Matthews. His band’s album “Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King” makes a grand entrance at the top of the Billboard charts this week. DMB scores the 3rd biggest first week of the year (behind Eminem and U2), with over 424,000 folks picking the album up last week. It’s DMB’s fifth consecutive album to debut at #1 on the charts. Interesting to note that the three biggest sales weeks […]