January 2012
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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
16 posts
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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“Christmas Island” by The Andrews...
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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“Habanera” from Carmen by Georges...
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“We’d been adding, just to amuse each other on stage, adding the Johnny Cash...”
– Bill Kirchen, on how “Hot Rod Lincoln”, his hit song with Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, became a catalog of twang. (via americanroutes)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
Bob Dylan (79)
Joan Baez (54)
The Kingston Trio (46)
The Weavers (43)
Peter, Paul & Mary (37)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
The Kingston Trio (94)
Georg Friedrich Händel (53)
Joan Baez (40)
Franz Joseph Haydn (33)
The Weavers (32)
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November 2011
7 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →
Gabriel Fauré (109)
Claude Debussy (50)
Antonín Dvořák (48)
Charles Lloyd (30)
Edvard Grieg (22)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-13) →
Johannes Brahms (116)
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz (28)
Georges Bizet (25)
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers (18)
Sonny & Cher (8)
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“Being 13, you learn quickly and you remember. And at 13, from seeing the racism...”
– La La Brooks, on the racism she encountered while on tour with Dick Clark’s Cavalcade of Stars in the 1960s. (via americanroutes)
One-hour 1968 Music Documentary, 10PM ET/9PM CT →
A few months back, before I left Minnesota, I created a month-by-month documentary of music and events from 1968 to eventually air on 89.3 The Current, a major public radio station in the Twin Cities. I created it in conjunction with the 1968 Exhibit, which opened last month at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul. Since I had to leave, a great producer and DJ at The Current finished putting...
A Post Punk Tumblr: Mixtape RAR007: '90s Post-Pop →
rocketsandrayguns:
Download → Rockets & Rayguns Mixtape RAR007
I’ve been wanting to create this mix for a while as a reaction to all the ’90s retro hoopla bouncing around at the moment. Reading Neil Kulkarni’s A New Nineties series at The Quietus finally motivated me to do it. (And…
October 2011
13 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →
Johann Sebastian Bach (76)
Albéniz, Isaac (13)
Tom Waits (4)
Jimmy Cavallo & Houserockers (3)
Coven (2)
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americanroutes:
In honor of Mahalia Jackson’s...
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“Tropical” by Meirelles E Os Copa 7...
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“Yet it was less their financial transgressions than their social...”
– Historian Willam E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal 1932-1940 (1963), pg. 21.
Sound familiar?
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-2) →
Ludwig van Beethoven (59)
University of Wisconsin Marching Band (19)
Eddie Cantor (7)
Randy Newman (5)
Bob Miller (4)
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Why Is There Music? →
science:
Music is present in all cultures. It’s a very basic thing that nearly all humans enjoy, but unlike, say, food or sex, we can’t connect it to any survival advantage. So why is there music, and what is it we enjoy about it? Those are some questions the Auditory Processing Laboratory at Montreal Neurological Institute is trying to investigate. In a series of papers, scientists from the...