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posted: December 23, 2011
The Good Michael Bublé Christmas duets on SNL There’s no better way to introduce this SNL Christmas skit starring Michael Bublé other than quoting Jay Pharoah’s Kanye West: You ride a donkey, I ride a…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: From 'Sunfield' to 'Citizen' with Damien Youth
posted: December 21, 2011
In the murky, mysterious world of musical cult heroes, terms like “well-kept secret,” “hidden treasure” and the like are as common as logorrheics in a debate club; they’ve become so ubiquitous that they lose all…
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Sound And Vision: Strange Bedfellows — The Best of Music's Unlikely Collaborations
posted: December 16, 2011
“I get high with a little help from my friends,” Ringo Starr sang on the Beatles‘ 1967 classic. These days, so do many of music’s top stars. Two’s company, and so is three and sometimes…
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Bieber And The Musicians Singing The Paternity Blues
posted: November 28, 2011
Justin Bieber’s meteoric career has been characterized by many hallmarks of popularity and success: his rabid, cultish following and equally rabid legions of haters, his memeification by the Internet, his well documented young adulthood being…
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The EditoriaList: Top Ten Musical Crimes Perpetrated By Great Artists
posted: November 24, 2011
Top 5 musical crimes perpetrated by Stevie Wonder in the ’80s and ’90s. Go. Sub-question: Is it in fact unfair to criticize a formerly great artist for his latter day sins… is it better to…
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Sound And Vision: Director's Cuts — From Lady Gaga to Kate Bush, the Mixed Results of Tampering with Your Own Songs
posted: August 26, 2011
I’ll never forget the day Basia lied to me. Twice. I was interviewing the Polish singer (best known for her 1988 hit “Time and Tide”) shortly before the release of her 1994 album, The Sweetest…
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