Continuing with our best of 1978, here’s the best music of the year all in a convenient playlist for your pleasure. It’s on random so just press play to enjoy the punk, pop, disco and funk that made the Carter years so damn special.
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Music: Today’s Rockers-Turned-Disco Video of The Day — Dispatches From the Golden Age of Disco Rock
Monday, April 7, 2008
An Archival Spelunk by Noah Mallin
(If the vids show up as unavailable, hit refresh in your browser — it’s just the YouTube demons getting fresh)
The late 70s and early 80s were confusing and disturbing times for many in the music industry. For some of the great titans of rock and many of the little titanettes [...]
Music: Let’s All Chip in and Buy Iggy Pop a Shirt
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
There I was, just minding my own business this morning and then WHAM! two separate and discrete pictures of topless Iggy Pop in two totally seperate venues. Not that this comes as a surprise.
For years Iggy has been unwelcome in fast food joints across the country for his no shirts/ sometimes shoes policy. The picture [...]
Music: Limber Limbaugh Gets Down With His Hancock Homage on Colbert
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Herbie Hancock was the surprise winner at last week’s Grammys for album of the year with his Joni Mitchell tribute record. While some people were astounded by this, Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert aired a surprising Hancock tribute video on his show. Who knew Rush Limbaugh was a fan of the innovative jazzman? Also, “Rockit” is [...]
Music: The Myth of The Sophmore Slump
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
The new issue of beardie-loving music mag Magnet has a column by Corey DuBrowa on the sophmore slump — second albums that fail to live up to the promise of the first. This is a fairly common trope in rock criticism and has some basis in truth. One theory holds that most artists spend years [...]