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Dave Bakke: I dig songs about Chandlerville
Chandlerville is one of my favorite places to fish for column ideas. It remains the only town that ever named me grand marshal of a parade. It is near some of the best duck hunting in Illinois. Those people “get” what I’m looking for in a column (See “toilet seat, stolen”). For these reasons, I have an interest in...
sj-r.com (1 hour ago)
Lianne La Havas: 'I get pure happiness from making songs'
ou wouldn't go mistaking Lianne La Havas, for someone non-creative. The singer arrives at the London café for our chat, shrugging off a voluminous coat, to reveal a crazy floral shirt teamed with shorts; half-Jamaican, half-Greek (La Havas is a modification of her father's surname), hair cascading in a corkscrew...
guardian.co.uk (5 hours ago)
Various: Stand Up People – review
It's a familiar story: two crazy Brits locate the lost musical legacy of a distant country – except here it's not Ghana or Thailand but former Yugoslavia that provided the quest for forgotten vinyl. The results capture the diversity of Roma music in Tito's socialist state between 1964 and 1980. Big fat wedding songs...
guardian.co.uk (5 hours ago)
Kanye West's Project Blocked By Police
Kanye West reportedly ran into trouble with the Houston Police Department on Friday night. The 35-year-old rapper had planned a projection of his "New Slaves" video on the city's Rothko Chapel, a non-denominational sanctuary. The chapel was one of three places that "New Slaves" was to be shown in the city. The...
huffingtonpost.com (7 hours ago)
Stone Temple Pilots sue ex-frontman Scott Weiland
The Stone Temple Pilots accuse former frontman Scott Weiland of misusing the band's name to further his solo career and want a judge to strip the rocker of his ability to use the group's name or songs.
mercurynews.com (7 hours ago)
Listen to Diplo's Endless Summer Playlist
We asked D.J., producer, and Major Lazer leader Diplo to program the ultimate summer-barbecue soundtrack, and he sent us the names of these 98 tracks. “I chose these songs because they’re great new music,” he told us. And he guarantees they’ll sound good, even as your cookout winds down: “This ...
vulture.com (11 hours ago)
What The Bulls Must Believe
Via Sean Corrigan of Diapason Commodities' Tangible Ideas, Even if the monetary fuel for this whirl of self-reinforcement is not lacking, the market still needs a narrative around which it can cluster psychologically. It needs a canon of shared myth about which the bard can weave a reassuringly familiar refrain so...
zerohedge.com (12 hours ago)
Five Songs: Daft Punk, Justin Timberlake, Frank Turner, Sigur Ros and Marnie Stern
Five local music types discuss five noteworthy recent releases on their radar.
cleveland.com (15 hours ago)
Five More Songs: The Strokes, Josh Ritter, Cold Cave, Youth Lagoon and the Bronx
Five local music types discuss five noteworthy recent releases on their radar.
cleveland.com (15 hours ago)
'Yugonostalgia' as Croatia prepares to join EU
Croatia may be on the doorstep of the European Union, but in this tiny village another union of nations was getting all the glory. In Kumrovec, the birthplace of Yugoslavia's late communist leader Josip Broz Tito, thousands gathered Saturday to mark his birthday and pay their respects to him and the ex-federation...
foxnews.com (16 hours ago)
Air Force flyover grounded for holiday event
The Eagle Point National Cemetery will host its annual Memorial Day ceremony to honor veterans. Politicians will speak. Patriotic songs will be sung. And "Taps" will be played.
mailtribune.com (19 hours ago)
Patti Smith: punk poet queen
Ping! The sweetest email arrives in my inbox from Patti Smith's assistant, Andi. "Patti will do interview at Simon's convenience since he is the traveller." Ping! Another message arrives. "Just call us when you get in. She has put the whole day aside." This is getting better by the email. I'm already picturing my...
guardian.co.uk (20 hours ago)
Memorial Day events - Sat, 25 May 2013 PST
Greenwood Memorial Terrace - Saturday through Monday. Small American flags handed out daily and assistance provided in finding specific graves. Brass Patriotic Band Concert on the top of Greenwood by the Cross of Inspiration on Sunday at 6 p.m. Greenwood Memorial Terrace Cemetery, 211 N. Government Way. (509)...
spokesman.com (21 hours ago)
Field Day, Haim, Metz: this week's new live music
An event with both style and substance, Field Day does an excellent job of combining the credible, the up-and-coming, and the plain old hyped, to create its own idiosyncratic blend. The practicalities of the event are often a little more haphazard: as much as it is by great music, the character of Field Day has been...
guardian.co.uk (23 hours ago)
Moby's Perfect Summer Playlist
The 90s dance music pioneer returns this summer with a new album, details TBD. In the meantime, he shared with us 10 songs that mean summer to him. This story appears in the special Summer Issue of our weekly iPad magazine, Huffington, in the iTunes App store, available Friday, May 24.
huffingtonpost.com (1 day ago)
Alan Elsner: Best Music for One's Own Funeral
Every so often one reads about someone staging their own funeral, sometimes so they could hear themselves being eulogized, sometimes for more illicit reasons. The phenomenon seems to be fairly universal. One recent case, which made headlines worldwide, happened in March in China when a student, Zeng Jia, hired a...
huffingtonpost.com (1 day ago)
Getting Laughs for a Song
Musical comedian Jessica Delfino hopes make her genre profitable with her second annual New York Funny Songs Festival, taking place May 30 to June 2.
wsj.com (1 day ago)
Stone Temple Pilots sue ex-frontman Scott Weiland
The Stone Temple Pilots accuse former frontman Scott Weiland of misusing the band's name to further his solo career and want a judge to strip the rocker of his ability to use the group's name or songs.
sacbee.com (1 day ago)
Stone Temple Pilots sue ex-frontman Scott Weiland
The Stone Temple Pilots accuse former frontman Scott Weiland of misusing the band's name to further his solo career and want a judge to strip the rocker of his ability to use the group's name or songs. Read comments
fresnobee.com (1 day ago)
Stone Temple Pilots sue ex-frontman Scott Weiland
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Stone Temple Pilots accuse former frontman Scott Weiland of misusing the band's name to further his solo career and want a judge to strip the rocker of his ability to use the group's name or songs.
yahoo.com (1 day ago)
Stone Temple Pilots sue ex-frontman Scott Weiland
Stone Temple Pilots have accused the band's former frontman Scott Weiland of hijacking its name and songs to promote his solo career.
modbee.com (1 day ago)
Stone Temple Pilots sue ex-frontman Scott Weiland
The Stone Temple Pilots accuse former frontman Scott Weiland of misusing the band's name to further his solo career and want a judge to strip the rocker of his ability to use the group's name or songs.
miamiherald.com (1 day ago)
Stone Temple Pilots sue ex-frontman Scott Weiland
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Stone Temple Pilots have accused the band's former frontman Scott Weiland of hijacking its name and songs to promote his solo career....
ap.org (1 day ago)
Seattle soundtrack: by Kinski
Here's a secret. It doesn't always rain in Seattle. Between July and October there's nothing but sun. Lots of people in Seattle hate the sun. We burn easily, break out in hives, draw the blinds … That's why there is music like this, for those who run for the shady spot and can't wait for winter. (Lucy) There used to...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
WHY?'s San Francisco road-trip playlist
I lived in San Francisco's East Bay for over a decade and developed a hearty fondness for it … The flora. The weather. The thugs. The hippies. The hipsters. The gutter punks. But alas, I have moved away. When I return – which I do often – as soon as I step out of that Bart (Bay Area Rapid Transit) station with my...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Your Baby's Summer Bucket List: 20 Fun Activities You'll Both Love
On your baby's to-do list this summer? Have fun! We've got 20 creative ways to make the most of the warm weather together.Go SwimmingOnce your baby has mastered head control -- usually around six months -- head to the nearest body of water for a dip. Even if she's an expert bather, give her plenty of time to...
ivillage.com (1 day ago)
Music Review: Jane Monheit at Birdland
Jane Monheit is singing at Birdland, and her best performances on Tuesday evening were of familiar songs that she turned into heartfelt reflections on motherhood.
nytimes.com (1 day ago)
Music Review: Cantata Profana at Roulette
Peter Maxwell Davies’s “Eight Songs for a Mad King” was a featured work at a show by Cantata Profana at Roulette on Wednesday evening.
nytimes.com (1 day ago)
Georges Moustaki obituary
Georges Moustaki, the Egyptian-born French singer-songwriter who provided the lyrics for Edith Piaf's international 1958 hit Milord, has died at his home on the French Riviera, aged 79. Famed for his repertoire of simple romantic ballads, Moustaki wrote in the region of 300 songs, many of them performed by a galaxy...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Deadmau5 Previews New Songs
Deadmau5 hit Ultra Music Festival and Lollapalooza Brazil this spring and during breaks from a Las Vegas residency he's been active on SoundCloud previewing five tracks in the past month alone Most recently the Grammy-nominated producer has released some clips of his new collaboration with dubstep heavyweight Kill...
rollingstone.com (1 day ago)
