As we’ve sadly learned at classic rock stations over the past several years, rock stars don’t usually choose “convenient” times to die. Prince, David Bowie, Clarence Clemons, Taylor Hawkins, and other big names all passed away during the evening hours or over a weekend, making it chall...
[ Robert Smith of The Cure: ‘I still feel like that 10-year-old kid staring at the moon’Opens in new window ] But Songs of a Lost World, which Smith says is the first entry in a possible trilogy, is one of the darkest albums...
That said, it has still been a pretty exciting month. June is one of my favorite months of the year. This is the month that my band, All The Pretty Horses, play “Rebel Rebel: Rock For Pussy”, the annual David Bowie tribute show to benefit no-kill animal shelters. It is also the...
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In the last few years, the ease of home recording has increased exponentially to the point where every 17 year old with an acoustic guitar and a laptop is now a “band” (I will make fun of these kids forever, but I am happy that they exist. I wonder if their children will unearth...
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The second article was published the following year when the Ken Burns documentary about baseball came out. Burns admired Clinton’s swing of the bat when he asked, “‘That was a great swing,’ Burns told her. ‘Did you get some batting practice before the screening, just to warm up?’...
6 David Bowie. 5 Beyoncé 4 Elvis Presley. 3 Madonna. 2 Freddie Mercury. 1 Michael Jackson. Who was known as the world's greatest entertainer? Al Jolson(born Asa Yoelson; May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was an American singer, comedian, actor, and vaudevillian. Self-billed as "The...
We did begin the school year, but it took six weeks to gather most students into a regular pattern of daily attendance. All that happened in the fall of 1992, in a new school within a First Nation in its first years of self-government. The Kamloops Indian Residential School – Summer, ...
David Crosby, “If I Could Only Remember My Name” (1971)–There’s no reason this psychotic walrus should have a produced a record this great, but he did. Charles Lee Guy III, “The Prisoner’s Dream” (1962)–Wanna hear a legit convict lay his soul out on the hot pavement without...