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#10 album of 2012 – Queen of the Wave by Pepe Deluxe

Artist: Pepe Deluxe

Album: Queen of the Wave

Queen of the Wave, the fourth album (but first for me) by the Finnish band Pepe Deluxe, is an unlikely combination of two things. It’s a slick modern album of disco-informed dance-pop. It’s also a ludicrously ambitious and overstuffed progressive-rock story album. It’s assembled from dozens of instruments: some as old as harp, harmonium, harpsichord, and clavinet; some random and exotic; some as retro-modern as an attempt to collect every […]

By |April 15th, 2013|Reviews|0 Comments
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American Idol Season 12: Cutting Down To 5

Finally. We’re done paying the Lazaro tax.

Before we get to how the elimination went down, there were two fun Idol alumni performances.

Who rocked the stage?
Scotty McCreery as “The Boy Next Door” performed first. I think Phillip Phillips’ success was helped by McCreery’s win from the previous year.

McCreery’s boyish charm makes him easily likable. He performed See You Tonight and had the teenage girls screaming.

Kelly Clarkson performed People Like Us. I’m adding the video […]

By |April 12th, 2013|News|2 Comments
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Irish balladeer extraordinaire, Christy Moore, and the power of mix tapes!

I first found Christy Moore in 1996, when a friend sent me a mix tape…

Remember mix tapes? I grew up with them. Okay, actually I grew up taping songs off the radio, but sometime in college, I was introduced to the mix tape phenomenon when I worked at a summer camp. A British friend of mine made me my very first mix tape with some excellent songs on it by artists I […]

By |April 11th, 2013|News, People|0 Comments
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