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American Idol Season 8 – Playing For 2nd Place
Kris and Danny are playing for second place right?
Paula isn’t sitting with the rest of the judges. Is she performing again? Ok, there she is. She must be dressed up as an empty chair.
Jordin Sparks and Katy Perry are performing tonight.
Cause you’re hot then you’re cold
You’re yes then you’re no
Right now Perry is hot. But I have a feeling that she is going to be cold very soon in this fickle music landscape. […]
Birthday Props for Stevie
No disrespect to Bob Dylan (or Smokey Robinson, who Dylan thinks is America’s greatest living poet), but no one writes songs better than Stevie Wonder, and that crown was sewn up back in 1976, when he was the biggest thing since sliced bread. In the thirty-plus years since “Songs in the Key of Life”, his run of classics has slowed, but it hasn’t stopped: “Lately”, “All I Do”, “That Girl”, “Overjoyed” and “These Three Words” […]
FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #35: Ass Burgers
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE “Bullet In The Head” b/w “Darkness” (Epic Records #35-74927 promotional single, 1993)
Now-legendary L.A. alterna-agit-punk-rap-funk-metal-core alchemists Rage Against The Machine rose like a phoenix from the ashes of the eternally-youthful (and forever broke) late-’80’s Revelation Records leftist hardcore scene in ’92, signed to Epic Records, released a stellar multi-platinum debut LP, took their face-melting show on the road with Perry Farrell’s first Lollapalooza tour and never looked back. Critics balked. How could de […]