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Did Your Thanksgiving Get Rickrolled?
This was too good not to post. This past week’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade got hijacked by Rick Astley, as we witnessed an actual live-action Rickrolling. The man popped up from whatever rock he’s been hiding under for the past fifteen years and lip-synched performed Never Gonna Give You Up for an adoring and appreciative crowd. I wanna know how it’s been twenty years since the song was a hit and Astley doesn’t look like […]
FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #14: The Yoshiko Gardens
UB40 “I’ve Got Mine” b/w “Dubmobile” (DEP International Records DEP6, January 1983)
Though I’m way too obsessed with Americana to be considered an Anglophile, I went through a phase between 1980 and 1984 where I read NME and Melody Maker and The Face, and sopped up UK imports like a sponge in a swimming pool. Not for naught, mind you; it was a fertile period for British music. Punk and post-punk had blown England’s doors completely off their […]
Sound Dialogue – Kanye’s Broken Heart
Money Mike and I both written reviews on the new Kanye album, 808s & Heartbreak (here and here) and we had two different takes. Don’t worry, we’re almost done discussing the album, but I had to see what it was exactly that he saw that I didn’t.
GG: We’ve both listened to Kanye West’s new album 808s & Heartbreak very intently. We’ve both reviewed it. You think it’s an album of the year candidate, while […]