February 2012
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One Town's War on Gay Teens | Politics News |... →
This is a music blog and I am firm on not posting non-music content. But I grew up just a few miles away from Michelle Bachman’s district—my school was in same athletic conference—and my hometown has more than its fair share of radical religious nuts. This is a must read. It’s simply disgusting how far religious-based hate can take people.
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Jazz and Other Things:: No Bop Roots In Jazz:... →
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by Michael Levin and John S. Wilson — 9/9/1949
“Bop is no love-child of jazz,” says Charlie Parker. The creator of bop, in a series of interviews that took more than two weeks, told us he felt that “bop is something entirely separate and apart” from the older tradition; that it drew little…
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i just wanna use my position to really let people know that next to Berry Gordy,...
– Brand New Bag: Questlove on Don Cornelius « Okayplayer (via bwall05)
'Soul Train' Host Don Cornelius Dead of Suicide -... →
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Terrible news!
January 2012
27 posts
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I guess it is like an archaeologist, where you’re always wanting to find...
– Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital, on the compulsion to collect old and obscure music. (via americanroutes)
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Disco Inferno →
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An oral history of the British experimental rock act’s remarkable Five EPs.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2012-1-1) →
Chuck Willis (6)
Buddy Holly & The Crickets (4)
The Everly Brothers (3)
Eddie Cochran (3)
Louis Prima (3)
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December 2011
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Lester Lanin And His Orchestra (13)
Banda de Zapadores de Mexico (6)
Boney M. (5)
Frank Sinatra (5)
Darlene Love (4)
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Minneapolis–Saint Paul →
stuffaboutminneapolis:
The legendary First Avenue also is notorious for being the first venue to let the now worldwide famous Nickelback perform when they were turned down elsewhere.
Terrific.
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