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October 2008 Archives
4:14 PM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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"A Night With the Jersey Devil," which is a "Mannish Boy"-style one-chord stomp that is not about a hockey player, is available free on Springsteen's Web site. "If you grew up in central or south Jersey, you grew up with......
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4:00 PM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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Led Zeppelin without Robert Plant? Says here it could happen: Who needs Robert Plant? Apparently not the other surviving members of Led Zeppelin, who are ready to pull the trigger on a tour with a new singer if Plant refuses......
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12:19 PM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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Happy Halloween! "I Put a Spell On You," Screamin' Jay Hawkins......
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7:00 AM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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That's what the translator on Google tells me it is. I hope they're not fooling me into saying something like - well, never mind. Any,way, we've got a doubleheader today in honor of the new undisputed world chess champion, the......
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4:11 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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The University of Rhode Island's Songs of Social Justice series was one of the highlights of the 2006 musical calendar. Performers who had devoted not only their careers but their lives to social change sharing songs and stories of struggle......
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7:00 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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I count six ways that this video is completely awesome. How about you? "Will It Go Round in Circles," Billy Preston (live, 1973) h/t firedoglake......
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2:36 PM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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Seems obvious: Jennifer Hudson, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"......
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4:44 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Well, once Dolly Parton enters your head, there's no getting her out. So Song of the Day is an easy choice. But which version? Pros: The studio version, better sound quality, lots of excellent photos with various Parton looks. Pros:......
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4:32 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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I put the new Oasis CD Dig Out Your Soul into my player, and the screen read "Error." I took it out and put it back in, and the screen read "No." I'm gonna argue with that?......
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4:22 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Dolly Parton is doing her first Providence Performing Arts Center gig on Nov. 1, and the folks at WPRO and 99.7 Coast FM are holding a Dolly Parton Classic Sing-Off at the venue on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m.......
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2:00 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Ami James was an interesting guy, at least to a guy like me who hasn't got any tattoos and doesn't particularly want any. While I was limited in what I could fit into the story today, he had a lot......
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2:31 PM Wed, Oct 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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I don't know much more than this, but according to the Living Room's MySpace blog they've closed. For 33 years, the Room was the place for local music. It wasn't literally unjuried, like AS220, but it was pretty close. Of......
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11:52 AM Tue, Oct 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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"Hollaback Girl of Constant Sorrow," Gwen Stefani and the Soggy Bottom Boys h/t Crooks & Liars......
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3:01 PM Fri, Oct 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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The original lead singer of the Four Tops was 72, and he hadn't performed since a series of strokes in 2000. Truth be told, I always preferred The Temptations, but age was the only thing that broke up The Four......
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3:06 PM Thu, Oct 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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Janet Jackson returned to the stage Wednesday night in Washington, D.C., after canceling a string of performances earlier this month. The Associated Press reports that Jackson canceled two weeks of shows on her Rock Witchu Tour -- her first in......
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12:20 PM Thu, Oct 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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It is a quarter past noon. There are about 10 people clustered in front of the Coffee King on Fountain Street watching Hanson's tour bus park. I mean, that last record was pretty good, I'll grant you, but - Hanson?......
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10:55 AM Thu, Oct 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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You knew it was coming: (October 16, 2008 - New York, NY) Grammy, Tony, and Emmy Award-winning Arista recording artist Barry Manilow just announced the release of his new album, THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE EIGHTIES, a brand new 12-song......
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11:27 AM Wed, Oct 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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AP sez: Neal Hefti, a Big Band trumpeter, arranger and composer of themes for the movie "The Odd Couple" and the "Batman" television series, has died. He was 85. Hefti died Saturday at his home, said his son Paul Hefti.......
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1:30 PM Tue, Oct 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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I like Tim McGraw. I didn't know that much about him when I saw him this summer, but I deeply appreciated that his songs went beyond the reg'lar-guy, aw-shucks, love-my-gal tropes of pop-country music. I like him more now: Curb......
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10:54 AM Tue, Oct 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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Ray Davies, the founder, singer and songwriter of the legendary band The Kinks and now a solo artist, will lead his band into Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, 79 Washington St., Providence, on Wednesday, Dec. 10, at 8 p.m. Tickets go on......
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10:46 AM Tue, Oct 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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Ray Davies, the founder, singer and songwriter of the legendary band The Kinks and now a solo artist, will lead his band into Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, 79 Washington St., Providence, on Wednesday, Dec. 10, at 8 p.m. Tickets go on......
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5:13 PM Wed, Oct 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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God, I love these guys. I''ve seen 'em at Newport, and they get much wilder than this. And do they even shave yet? "Tell It to Me," Old Crow Medicine Show (plus a guy who looks a whole lot like......
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4:36 PM Tue, Oct 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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What a great band. What a bunch of jerks. Saw 'em once in 1986. It was one of "those" shows. "I'll Be You," The Replacements (P.S.: One of the best moments in rock-video history is at 3:11 of this clip.)......
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11:10 AM Mon, Oct 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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In honor of George Jones, who wrote it and sang it and died Sept. 27: "Rama Lama Ding Dong," The Edsels (Apologies for the cheesy graphics; it's all I could find.)......
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5:58 PM Fri, Oct 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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'Cause it's Friday: "Wichita Lineman," Glen Campbell.......
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4:59 PM Thu, Oct 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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Rhode Island-based rapper Sage Francis's latest single is available for free on the Internet and is intended to raise awareness of the situation of arrests at the Republican National Convention and money for the defense of one of his friends......
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4:48 PM Wed, Oct 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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Gotta be Phish: "You Enjoy Myself," live in Providence in 1998.......
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11:35 AM Wed, Oct 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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Phish, possibly the prototypical jam band and one of the world's top concert draws, has announced that they are reuniting for shows at the Hampton Coliseum in Virginia March 6-8, the first since they called it quits in 2004. Tickets......
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