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Who’s Gonna Take The Weight? Looking For a 21st Century Musical Icon

Every generation has a musical icon, usually several. Someone who acts as a paradigm shifter, changing the game for all that come after. In the Fifties, it was Elvis. The Beatles and The Stones took the Sixties. Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Sex Pistols and a host of artists turned the tide in the Seventies. Michael, Prince and Madonna ruled the early Eighties, and R.E.M. and U2 ended the decade. Then there was Hurricane Cobain, […]

By Money Mike|January 11th, 2009|News|16 Comments

We Haven’t Stopped the Best-ofs Yet!: Drew’s Top Singles of ’08, Vol. 1

Damn you, “Hey Ya!”.

I’ve been perusing lists much like the one i’m about to write, partially to give me ideas (such lists have a handy way of reminding you of early-year stuff you forgot about), partially to see if i could jack someone’s philosophical musings on whatever explosive mega-single has managed to capture the hearts of the critical and the commercial masses alike—see, there’s always one, and has been since “Hey Ya!”. In chronological order, […]

By Andrew Ratliff|January 8th, 2009|News|12 Comments

Mike’s Best Albums of 2008-Part One

Before I actually sat down and decided to write this up, I thought “wow. What a crappy year 2008 was for music”. Such a crappy year, in fact, that I thought I was gonna have trouble coming up with a list of even 10 albums that I thought were worthy of mention.

Well I’ll be…by the time the dust had cleared, I had a shortlist large enough (is that a double negative?) that I wound up […]

By Money Mike|January 1st, 2009|News|17 Comments

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