Archive for June, 2009
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As far as ongoing coverage of the Michael Jackson death, I am choosing to focus on the positive aspects of his life- the music. There are many other sites on the Internet where you can find the latest autopsy results, the fued over his children and estate and the tabloid [...]
Music News & Notes
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The Flaming Lips’ New Album Features Yeah Yeah Yeahs And MGMT
MGMT and Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O both appear on the new album by The Flaming Lips.
The double-LP entitled, ‘Embryonic’, is due to be released in the UK this September.
Frontman Wayne Coyne told Sterogum that releasing “a double record [...]
Sky Saxon of the Seed Passes Away
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Sky Saxon, the founder of the garage band the Seeds, passed away Thrusday morning in Austin, Texas. He had been hospitalized since Monday with an internal infection. Saxon’s age is not officially known as he listed his birthday with various years.
Saxon started his career in the early-60’s under the name [...]
Top 5 eBay Vinyl Record Sales
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Week Ending 06/13/2009
1. LP - The Beatles “Let It Be” box set UK - $5,258.88
2. LP - Leonid Kogan “Plays Lalo & Tchaikovsky” Columbia SAX 2329 - $3,150.00
3. LP - Lee Morgan “Volume 3″ Blue Note 1557 - $3,000.00
4. 78 - The Quarrymen “That’ll Be The Day” / “In Spite [...]
This Date In Music History-June 29
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Birthdays:Carlo Santanna - Paper Lace (1947)
Derv and Lincoln Gordon - Equals (1948)
Ian Paice - Deep Purple (1948)
Colin Hay - Men at Work (1953)
Don Dokken – Dokken (1953)
Evelyn “Champagne” King (1960)
Tim McCord – Evanescence (1979)
They Are Missed:
Nelson Eddy (June 29, 1901 - March 6, 1967)
Shorty Long drowned in 1969 after his [...]
Koko Company Zoo Felt Lady Pig
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Koko Company Zoo Felt Lady Pig - $ 50.40
Create a room that will inspire your children’s creativity. Kids love fun and funky pillow collection. The playful handcrafted pieces are saturated with color and top off any child’s room with a unique flair and modern style. It is made from New Zealand wool [...]
Classic Jackson 5 Video
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Jackson Five - ABC
Rating 3.00 out of 5
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Sunshine Songs- part two
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written by Robert Benson
We have explored some ‘rain’ songs in a recent four-part article series in celebration of spring and now that summer is upon us, let’s explore some popular ‘sunshine’ songs and the history behind them in this second part of the two part article series.
A fine addition to [...]
New Music/Album Cover Art
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New Paramore Release Set
Paramore has revealed that their brand new album “Brand New Eyes” will be released on September 29th. The group worked with American Idiot producer Rob Cavallo on the new disc.
“We made a record that is exactly what we set out to make,” Hayley Williams realted of the [...]
Britain’s Annual Classic Rock Awards
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Britain’s Classic Rock Magazine has announced the nominees in the first six categories of the Fifth Annual Classic Rock Awards. Readers are able to vote on these artists and recordings that were released between August of 2008 and June of 2009.
The awards will be presented in November with additional statues [...]
Lisa Marie Presley on Michael Jackson
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I cannnot imagine the pain she is in and only wish that good things happen to her. She expresses here sadness about Michael’s death:
“Years ago Michael and I were having a deep conversation about life in general.
“I can’t recall the exact subject matter but he may have been questioning me [...]
Michael Jackson Vinyl
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As we have all watched the Michael Jackson death aftermath on TV or via the Internet, one thing is happening, there has been a rush to buy his music. I took a quick look at eBay and the prices are about double what you would normally pay for his CD’s [...]
This Date In Music History-June 27
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Birthdays:Leigh Nash - Sixpence None The Richer (1976)
Margo Timmins - Cowboy Junkies (1961)
Lisa Germano - singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1958) Has worked with John Mellencamp, Simple Minds, David Bowie, Neil Finn, Sheryl Crow, and others.
Gilson Lavis – Squeeze (1951)
Bruce Johnson - Beach Boys (1944)
They Are Missed:
Born in 1935, Doc Pomus, US [...]
We Have Lost A Legend- Michael Jackson Dead
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Written By Robert Benson
Some say there will never be another one like him. In the early 1980’s, he was the dominant figure in pop music and a global pop icon since childhood. Michael Joseph Jackson died on June 25, 2009, reportedly from a cardiac arrest. Jackson was just fifty years [...]
New Vinyl Record Articles
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‘Music Man Murray’ trades in records for acting career
Murray Gershenz, with a collection of 400,000 records and a shop on Exposition Boulevard in L.A., is looking to sell so he can focus on auditions and shoots.
Murray Gershenz knows he’s setting something of a record by giving a new spin to [...]
Audiophile Audition Review
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I want to thank John over at http://www.audaud.com/index.php for the exclusive rights to reprint this great review!
AUDIOPHILE AUDITION focuses on recordings of interest to audiophiles and collectors, with an accent on surround sound for music, and on all hi-res disc formats. Over 100SACD, DVD Video/Audio and standard CD reviews are [...]
Album Cover Art
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Shadows Fall Reveal Album Details, Cover Art
SHADOWS FALL has announced “Retribution” as the title of their fifth full-length album, which is set for a September 15 street date. The album, a follow-up to 2007’s critically acclaimed “Threads of Life,” will be released on the band’s own label, Everblack Industries, which [...]
Sunshine Songs
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article by Robert Benson
We have explored some ‘rain’ songs in a recent four-part article series in celebration of spring and now that summer is upon us, let’s explore some popular ‘sunshine’ songs and the history behind them in this two part article series.
Bill Withers released the epic cut “Ain’t No [...]
Classic Rock Videos
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The Pretenders - Middle of the Road
Rating 3.00 out of 5
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Madonna Tops Money List
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The Material Girl is at it again. Madonna has perennially been a big moneymaker in the world of music, earning between $40 and $50 million per year, but she certainly outdid herself in the period of June 2008 to June 2009 as she brings home enough money to top Forbes [...]
Rock-n-Roll-Action-Figures.com is Giving Away Free Music Action Figures, Free Designer Toys & Free Music Memorabilia
Submitted by Rock-n-Roll-Action-Figures Blog
OK, we’ll be honest. We’re not above bribing you to help us out with our new facebook and twitter pages. We just launched our company Facebook and Twitter pages and we would love to hear what you have to say about action figures, music memorabilia, rock n roll art and more. Our [...]
Harold Acton, Aquarium 1923
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Harold Acton. AQUARIUM. Duckworth, London 1923.
Current Selling Prices
$130-$300 /£80-£200
POETRY / BRIDESHEAD GENERATION
‘ Drunk with the whiff of steak in passage-ways…’. (Young Sailor ).Sounds familiar, doesn’t it ? Or how about ‘Mr Bedlam’s Sunday Breakfast’ for the title of a poem? It is hardly surprising that the intoxicating influence of T [...]
U.K. Movie Review: Public Enemies
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Michael Mann’s latest action-packed, gripping and grown-up says Orlando Parfitt of IGN UK. Public Enemies gets 9 out of 10 stars. Go Johnny! Read on:
Director Michael Mann transposes his unique brand of character-driven cops and robbers action onto the John Dillinger myth. The result is something close to a 1930s [...]
Movie Review: The Hurt Locker
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The Hurt Locker delivers a nail-biting war thriller, says Jim Vejovoda of IGN.com. Read on:
The Hurt Locker follows a U.S. Army bomb disposal squad in Iraq during the summer of 2004. Staff Sergeant William James (Jeremy Renner), Sergeant J.T. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty) of Bravo [...]
Video Chat: The Hurt Locker
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The Hurt Locker, winner of the 2008 Venice Film Festival SIGNIS Grand Prize, is a riveting, suspenseful portrait of the courage under fire of the military’s unrecognized heroes: the technicians of a bomb squad who volunteer to challenge the odds and save lives in one of the world’s most dangerous [...]
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