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  • Sleep Well, Brother Milan

    Billboard and other media sources are reporting that original Commodores member Milan Williams is dead at the age of 58. The cause of death has been reported as cancer.

    Born March 28, 1948 in Mississippi, keyboardist Williams penned Machine Gun for the group, their first Top 10 hit. Williams also had a co-writing credit with the rest of the band on 1977’s anthemic Brick House.

    Spinning In The CD Player Today
    The Commodores’ major label debut titled Machine Gun from a song by founding member Milan Williams. Give it a listen yourself.

  • Can We Burn Paris Now?

    The CDs, I mean?

    Having heard Stars Are Blind on heavy rotation on many hit stations, there is no doubt that Hilton’s song will assault our ears all summer. When I last heard her, the blathering wanna-be was sandwiched between The All American Rejects and Nick Lachey. I like AAR, the Lachey song isn’t awful, and frankly, Stars are Blind isn’t terrible. Paris is terrible. The song, written by Fernando Garibay, who has also written for Enrique Inglesias, Ricky Martin and Marc Anthony among others, penned a pretty good dance song. Paris, even with the wonders of modern recording equipment, is just awful. I can’t imagine how there could ever be a concert tour.

    Spinning in the CD player today:
    Ben Folds’ tracks from Over the Hedge. With tickets this week to see Folds for the second time with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, I felt compelled to learn anything new the piano guy might slip into the set. Atttending a Folds concert is like attending a rock concert version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. If you don’t know your cues, you’re out in the cold.

  • Taylor’s Proud Single Knocks Off Shakira’s Hips

    Rapper Ice Cube

    Billboard’s Hot 100 is out this morning and showing that latest American Idol winner Taylor Hicks’ first single Do I Make You Proud? debuted at #1. The song knocked Shakira’s Hips Don’t Lie out of the top spot.

    In other Idol news, runner-up Katharine McPhee has told People that she suffered from bulimia for five years and threw up as many as seven times a day. McPhee’s interview with the celebrity magazine revealed that the singer started suffering from the affliction at 17 and sought treatment in October 2005, just before the show’s season started.

    Spinning In The CD Player Today:
    Ice Cube’s Laugh Now, Cry Later – the original angry rapper is back, and while Chris Brown has a sweet voice and Jay-Z wants to be a mogul, Ice and N.W.A. helped build the bridge from rap to the mainstream. Check out this photo of the 37 year old rapper in front of the Washington Monument. Does he look happy to you?