I am an avid reader. In decades past, that meant purchasing books, newspapers and magazines to check out concert, album and movie reviews and opinions on topics that mattered to me. So you would think that I’d be reading blog after blog since they are so readily available online. I am not. I have Bob Lefsetz’s musings on the music
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Tonight my keystrokes are complimented by The Underground Garage on Sirius/XM. Specifically, the Handsome Dick Manitoba program. I love this show. Manitoba is a throwback to the days when you regarded that voice on the radio as a friend and someone who shared your enthusiasm for the music that came out of your speakers. As Rush sang in The Spirit
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What’s the definition of a great song? There’s more than one answer to that question but I’ve had a few glasses of red wine so tonight my answer is… A song that can survive a dreadful, painful rendition by one of the reigning queens of popular music. On Sunday February 9th, 2014, the Grammy Awards…the same show that once picked
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This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the Beatles appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. As a group, they were paid $10,000 for three shows and they probably felt like millionaires back in 1964. It beat the shit out of life in Liverpool. Bruno Mars didn’t get a dime for his Super Bowl performance but the NFL made nearly $100-million
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Rihanna has a boat load of hit singles and I would bet if you asked the average man or woman on the street to name more than one, they couldn’t. Go back 30 years and chances are a similar group of random people could have come up with three or four tunes by Michael Jackson, Madonna or Cyndi Lauper. They
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