Are Bob Marley’s artistic and cultural values now clouded in a haze of rampant commercialization?
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Song Du Jour #8, Spice Girls
Four previously unreleased Spice Girls songs recorded in the late 90s have “leaked” online this week. Three of them were soon deleted but one ballad, “A Day In Your Life”, is still there.
Last week, the great beatnik bard Bob Dylan gave his first interview in three years to AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons’ magazine — a peculiar choice until you consider that the AARP publication actually has the largest magazine circulation in the U.S. The interview proves, if it’s even necessary, that at age 73 […]
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The 6 Sexiest Sax Songs
Photo: Roy Anderson/Family handout A sad note in the music world today with news of the death of Raphael Ravenscroft, the British saxophonist who worked with some of the best artists of his generation. He died at age 60 after an apparent heart attack on Sunday in Exeter, UK. Ravenscroft is best known for penning […]
Photo: Mathi et Mathi. No one quite masters the art of whining and complaining like the French, which means the world’s ultimate râleurs and blasés find the deepest kind of pleasure in cursing. Some French musicians have now taken it to the next level, singing songs essentially based around the use of the word “merde”, […]
In many countries, musicians were Latin America’s leading social critics and political activists of the late 20th century. Not anymore.