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Song of the Day

11:48 AM Tue, Sep 30, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
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Sleepy .........

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 Tags  Beatles   I'm Only Sleeping   Song of the Day  

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Um, really?

4:14 PM Mon, Sep 29, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)
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OK, I guess ... The Katy Perry doll commemorates the hottest music artist in the world today, Katy Perry. Integrity Toys produced the dolls used in Katy's "Ur So Gay" music video and now have collaborated with Katy to create......

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 Tags  doll   I Kissed a Girl   Katy Perry  

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Mellencamp mourns Paul Newman

1:08 PM Mon, Sep 29, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
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It's why his son is named Hud, the singer says: "In 1967, me and four other guys went to see 'Cool Hand Luke' every night for seven nights straight," recalled Mellencamp ... "There was so much great music to be......

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Attention bands and the publicists they employ

3:09 PM Fri, Sep 26, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
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Got another one today: "In today's instantly downloadable and consumable culture" and I stopped reading after that. (Well, no I didn't, but I'm not angry enough to name the band and record label guilty of this offense. Yet.) A ridiculous......

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 Tags  music business  

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Song of the Day

2:20 PM Fri, Sep 26, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
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"Waitin' on a Woman" by Brad Paisley, who is at the Dunk tomorrow night. I doubt Andy Griffith will be there, which is way too bad. (Sorry; YouTube wouldn't let me embed)......

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Holy CRAP is what I think of the new Metallica album

1:53 PM Fri, Sep 26, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
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Death Magnetic is back-to-basics Metallica - a cheap-and-dirty sound, long, complex songs and the scary-tight unison riffing that they used to be all about. There's one "Nothing Else Matters" rewrite in the bunch ("The Unforgiven III"), but the rest of......

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Farm Aid stars sound off on bailout

4:31 PM Thu, Sep 25, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
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Not all of the performers at Saturday's Farm Aid concert at the Comcast Center were explicit about the politics involved vis-a-vis the relative pittance it would take to put America's family farms on a decent footing. And the $700 billion......

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 Tags  Dave Matthews   Farm Aid   John Mellencamp   Neil Young   Willie Nelson  

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Free concerts on the Plaza at Patriot Place

2:00 PM Thu, Sep 25, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
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That's out on the grounds of Gillette Stadium, in Foxboro. The concerts are on Saturdays and Sundays throughout the fall, which could get pretty darned chilly, but hey, the price is right. I don't know any of the bands scheduled,......

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Song of the Day

1:33 PM Thu, Sep 25, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
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Yup, still going through my head even after I wrote a whole column about them: "Everything Is Alright," Motion City Soundtrack Bonus! "Calling All Cops," Motion City Soundtrack (because I should put something from the latest album, and everyone's heard......

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Arr, it's yer scurvy Song o' the Day!

3:13 PM Fri, Sep 19, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
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It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day! "Pirate Radio," John Hiatt......

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Someone should write a song about this.

5:28 PM Tue, Sep 16, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
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Bluesman 'Gatemouth' Brown chased from Louisiana by Katrina, died in Texas, uprooted by Ike Clarence Gatemouth Brown would do a great job. Oh, wait a minute ... Damn.......

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 Tags  Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown   Hurricane Ike  

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Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright

4:24 PM Mon, Sep 15, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
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He was 65. "Time," which he sang, live in 1973. Heck, we'll make this Song of the Day:......

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