Archive for February, 2009
« Previous EntriesTwo More Virgin Megastores To Close
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A Call To Action- Support Your Record Stores!
The six-unit Virgin Megastore chain announced that it will close two more stores, the Union Square location in New York City (end of May) and the Market St. store in San Francisco (end of April). As previously reported, the company had announced that [...]
Classic Rock Videos
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Beatles - Girl
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Album Cover Art
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Let’s continue our feature about album cover art and take a look at a great cover released in 1975 by the Marshall Tucker Band.
Old West dreams meet Southern memories in the tracks of Searchin’ for a Rainbow, The Marshall Tucker Band’s fourth album. Released in 1975, this song collection found [...]
Vinyl Review by Michael Fremer
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I am very proud to continue our new feature (look for this every Friday), music reviews that are written by the senior contributing editor of Stereophile magazine- Michael Fremer. It has been a pleasure to speak with Michael and learn more about audio sound and equipment. In fact, his new [...]
Music News & Notes
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Beatles/Stones Pics
A collection of over fifty previously unseen photos of the Beatles and Rolling Stones from the years 1964 -1966 will be the opening exhibition at the new Not Fade Away Gallery in New York. The photos were chosen from over 3,500 taken by photographer Bob Bonis during the groups’ [...]
Vinyl kills the digital star: Records make a return in a downloading world - News
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Vinyl kills the digital star: Records make a return in a downloading world - News
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I found an antique medicine bottle from 1845, and I need an appraisal?
Submitted by Antique Bottles and Bottle Collecting Blog
Sin posted:
It is brown, and on the side it says:
MILS
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50
The cap is a silver color that has a circle with a line through it on the top. The bottom says 1845. The cap is slightly coroded. It still has medicine in it, it doesn’t look used. I had [...]
Fiddler’s Elbow Pig Doorstop
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Fiddler’s Elbow Pig Doorstop
Features:
* Silk-screened on 100% cotton
* Stuffed with polyfil and weighted with plastic pellets
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New Movie Releases: Friday February 27, 2009
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These are the movies that are debuting in theaters this Friday.
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Crossing Over (Thriller)
Synopsis:
Everyday, immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles with hopes of a better life, but with little notion of what that life will cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. [...]
Classic Rock Videos
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This Boy - The Beatles
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Album Cover Art
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Continuing our feature about album cover art, we have finished up with Molly Hatchet and move on to a classic release and cover by Dr. John.
DR. JOHN IN THE RIGHT PLACE
Start with the Meters, whose hard funk is so efficient there’s not a wasted note or out-of-sync beat. Add producer [...]
Music News & Notes
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Mike Farris releases live album in April
Soulful gospel voice Mike Farris will release a live album, dubbed Mike Farris SHOUT! LIVE, on April 14 via INO/Columbia records.
The set, which collects highlights from his regular Sunday Night Shout stops at Nashville’s cozy Station Inn with his band the Roseland Rhythm Revue [...]
Music review: …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead - “The Century of Self”
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Mike Farris releases live album in April
Soulful gospel voice Mike Farris will release a live album, dubbed Mike Farris SHOUT! LIVE, on April 14 via INO/Columbia records.
The set, which collects highlights from his regular Sunday Night Shout stops at Nashville’s cozy Station Inn with his band the Roseland Rhythm Revue [...]
Blues Hall of Fame Announces 2009 Inductees
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The Blues Hall of Fame has named its 2009 inductees which are led by the great Irma Thomas and Taj Mahal. The induction ceremony will be held at The Blues Foundation’s Charter Member Dinner on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at the Memphis Marriott Downtown in Memphis, Tennessee, the night before [...]
This Date In Music History-February 26
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Birthdays:
Paul Cotton – Poco (1943)
Fats Domino turns 81.
Mitch Ryder (”Devil With A Blue Dress“) is 64.
Sandie Shaw (1947)
Erykah Badu (1971)
Michael Bolton (1953)
They Are Missed:
Bob “The Bear” Hite, vocalist and harmonica player with Canned Heat, was born in 1945. He died on April 5, 1981.
Bluesman Booker T. Washington “Bukka” White, who [...]
Sheridan Le Fanu - the ‘Invisible Prince.’
Submitted by Bookride Blog
Idly reading Colin Wilson’s “The Strength to Dream’ this morning I came across his piece on Sheridan Le Fanu. Talking of dreams, I have long dreamed of finding one of his 3 deckers, the nearest I have got to this recently was finding in an island bookshop, practically mint, a first of [...]
Samuel L. Jackson Joins the Cast of Iron Man
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Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson has signed a deal with Marvel to play Nick Fury in Iron Man 2, the sequel to last summer’s successful blockbuster Iron Man. Read on:
Samuel L. Jackson has buried the hatchet with Marvel Entertainment, making a deal to play the role of Nick Fury in [...]
Mr. Music
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I am continuing our new feature: Ask “Mr. Music.” Now in its 23rd year of syndication (1986-2008), Jerry Osborne’s weekly Q&A feature will be a regular post every Wednesday from now on. Be sure to stop by Jerry’s site (www.jerryosborne.com) for more Mr. Music archives, record price guides, anything Elvis, [...]
Classic Rock Videos
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Beatles - Rain
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Album Cover Art
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Molly Hatchet - Beatin’ The Odds 1980
Molly Hatchet’s third album featured new singer Jimmy Farrar, who is a competent southern rock singer, but his voice changed the Hatchet sound quite a bit. Farrar’s voice just didn’t have the depth and the conviction that Danny Joe Brown’s voice had. “Beatin’ the [...]
Music News & Notes
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Barenaked Singer To Go Solo
Singer-guitarist Steven Page has left the quirky Canadian band the Barenaked Ladies.
This news comes several months after drug charges against Page were dropped in the U.S. His arrest came after the band, known for its clean-cut image and whimsical lyrics, released an album of children’s songs [...]
Brick-and-Mortar Record Stores Are Trying to Get Their Groove Back
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by Timothy Finn
McClatchy Newspapers
Tuesday used to be sacramental in the world of music. It was new-release day, the day faithful music fans stopped by their favorite record store to buy something they’d been waiting for weeks to hear or to discover something they hadn’t heard.
Back then, record stores were the [...]
Vinyl Poetry
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I found this wonderful insight and explanation on a blog. I have seen many discussions and opinions as to why vinyl sounds the best, but these words are like poetry to me. Enjoy:
What’s the deal with records?
I am no technophile- recently, my father visited us, and somewhere in between reminiscing, [...]
Design Your Own Album Cover
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An interesting way to spend some time, design your own album cover!
A terrific little design exercise for your enjoyment
Yeah, yeah; Just what we need. Another Facebook meme. We said the same thing when we saw it Sunday afternoon.
But this one is really, really cool. We promise.
You have to design an [...]
Oscar Roundtable 2009
Submitted by All Movie Replicas Blog
Check out Newsweek’s Oscar 2009 roundtable featuring: Mickey Rourke, Brad Pitt, Anne Hathaway, Sally Hawkins, Robert Downey Jr. and Frank Langella.
You can view all of the Oscar round table videos by clicking on the link below:
Newsweek’s Oscar Roundtable 2009
Buy The Wrestler movie posters
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