With the festival of St. Valentine upon us, I've taken a short break from romancing to post up some musical luuuurve. Part one of the love in comes from J-Live, who has been busily slaving away behind the turntables to create his second mix tape in the last few weeks (following on from last month's 2009 wrap up, Do The Knowledge Volume 1 ). In order to help set the mood for sexy times between you and your lady/man friend, J has hand crafted Chocolate Covered Samples, [...]
Grab your best girl or guy and feast your ears on a couple of ironic and thoughtful St Valentine's nuggets. No chocolate, no flowers, no stuffed animals and no cards. Just some songs about love, sex, divorce, loneliness, isolation, heartbreak, pain and romance. You know, the usual. For a change I don't have much to say except start your downloading. Some of them are funny, some of them are sad, some of them are heartfelt and some of them are not. Some of them you know well, some of them you don't. Some of them you thought you might've heard [...]
For those of you who haven't seen it yet, be sure to set your DVR for the next airing of VH-1's Soul Train: The Hippest Trip In America . Yes, buried amongst VH-1's vapid, putrid pile of reality shows is actually a quality 90 minute documentary about the late great Soul Train - a show that lasted 36 years (the longest running syndicated show in TV history). It was interesting to learn the full story behind the show, and the groundbreaking genius of Don Cornelius - who owned and produced the show from its inception in 1970 [...]
Filed under: The Hit List "Rock 'n' roll don't come from your brain," James Franco 's character says in an episode of ' Freaks and Geeks .' "It comes from your crotch." For more than 40 years, singers have gone to great lengths to tap into the erotic experience, going as far as simulating orgasms on record -- sometimes eerily accurately. Valentine's Day is overrun by chocolate boxes and cheesy cards, yes, but it also holds the prospect of getting some -- so to help that along we've rounded up [...]
La semana comienza a despedirse y mejor dejamos atrás la melancolía reflexiva de un febrero caluroso, para empezar a preparar el fin de semana. El suscrito propone un playlist algo más despierto con ritmos azabaches de ayer y hoy. Basta de ruidos, escuchemos música. Articulos relacionados: Playlist: Miércoles de Reconciliación y Reflexión Musical #1 Playlist: Lunes Pop #1 Playlist: Martes Fomes #1
Filed under: News , Electronic , Exclusive , Canada There's usually a clear distinction between musicians who take their art seriously and those who do it for a laugh. The Lonely Island may be competing against the likes of Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake for a Grammy at the end of January, but at the end of the day there's no confusing Al Green with 'Weird' Al Yankovic . Then along comes a band like Montreal-bred synth-pop [...]
Conan's getting boned. We all know it. I've been a fan of Conan since I knew what laughter was, and I'm betting somewhere in this whole process something just isn't right. So I made a mix. Some of these songs are for Conan, some are for Leno from Conan, some I think speak pretty well for themselves. *MP3: Johnny Cash - "Ring Of Fire" *MP3: Joan Jett - "Bad Repuation" *MP3: Weezer - "Say It Ain't So" *MP3: Jay-Z - "Empire State Of Mind" *MP3: Beach Boys - "Wouldn't [...]
Filed under: News , Album Welsh singing sensation Duffy has begun work on her second album, with recording sessions in New York planned for the next three weeks. The multi-award winning Duffy -- with three BRIT Awards and a Grammy -- achieved with her 2008 debut album 'Rockferry,' has according to Billboard, teamed up with a few other artists for the new songs, including 70s songwriter Albert Hammond Snr -- father of the Strokes ' Albert Hammond Jnr . Duffy is also reportedly writing [...]
Song: "Strong as Death (Sweet as Love)" (from 7" B-side of "Oh Me Oh My") by Al Green
Al Green - I Didn't Know Received the sad news earlier this week that one of THE great soul producers of all time, Willie Mitchell, had passed away aged 81. Mitchell started out as a jazz trumpeter then moved into production at the Memphis-based Hi Records in the 1960s. As Al Green's producer for 9 albums on Hi from 1970 until 1976, and developed a distinctive production based around a razor-sharp drum sound, innovative string and horn arrangements and organ and guitar work that could be [...]
I can't tell you what that first night down at Willie Mitchell's nightclub on Beale Street was like for me back in 1988, the night Charley Burch first took me in to meet the man himself. I couldn't tell you because, well, I was young and unscrupulous back then and, not to mention, so much fun was being had, I felt like I was spending a New Year's with my own family. At the time, I was a very young man and I couldn't tell you Willie Mitchell from Willie [...]
El Memphis Commercial Appeal informó hoy que el legendario productor soul de Memphis, artista y cabeza de Hi Records , Willie Mitchell , murió la mañana de este martes en un hospital local tras problemas cardíacos que se arrastraban del mes pasado. Tenía 81 años. Mitchell fue el hombre detrás de la mayoría de los discos de Al Green , con quien trabajó ininterrumpidamente durante la década de los'70, produciendo clásicos como Let's Stay Together y Tired of Being Alone . En 2003, la dupla volivó a reunirse para [...]
Willie Mitchell, the incomparable soul producer behind every great Al Green record (and a fine musician in his own right), died yesterday. He was 81 . His work with Green was his most fruitful partnership; he helmed the singer's Hi Records debut Green Is Blues and his staggering early '70s run: Gets Next To You, Let's Stay Together, I'm Still In Love With You and Call Me , as incendiary and consistent a creative explosion as any act in the rock era's ever had. Al Green - "Call Me" [...]
Willie Mitchell died yesterday . If you don't know who Willie Mitchell was, put on an Al Green record from 1971-1976. It was Willie Mitchell, as much as Al Green, who was responsible for the sound of those epochal, miraculous records, and for the sound of Memphis soul in the 1970's, post-Stax. As a trumpeter, bandleader, producer and eventually, a co-owner of Hi Records, Mitchell had few, if any peers. Like another great Memphis producer, Sam Phillips, Mitchell was a true original whose biggest demand of the artists he worked with were that they be [...]
Willie Mitchell , a Memphis musician and producer who made several hits with Al Green , died Tuesday morning. According to the Associated Press , the 81-year-old suffered cardiac arrest on Dec. 19 and died at Memphis' Methodist University Hospital. Born in Ashland, Miss., Mitchell grew up playing the trumpet and later moved to Memphis. After working his way up in the business, including a stint as a session musician for Ike Turner , Mitchell signed to Hi Records, where he put out 'Soul Serenade,' a track that hit No. 10 on the charts in [...]
Lord Balrog done chopped up a load of Al Green records and put together this EP featuring accas from your favourite rappers. Tracklist: 1. Mos Def - Ms Fat Booty (Balrog remix) 2. Ghostface - Apollo Kidz (Balrog remix) 3. Pharcyde - Passing Me By (Balrog remix) 4. Biggie - Dead Wrong (Balrog remix) 5. Big L -M.V.P (Balrog remix) Download
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Filed under: News , Exclusive When Michael Jackson passed away earlier this year one of the most moving tributes came from Lenny Kravitz , who penned a touching memorial for Spinner. It got us wondering about some of Kravitz's other musical heroes. The range is as diverse as fans of the singer would expect. "As you read in the Michael Jackson thing, I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you now if it wasn't for Michael Jackson, the Jackson 5 , Berry [...]
The transition from novel to cinema is quite a tricky one. While some argue that "the book is forever better than the movie," certain exceptions have been made. The most famous cases that can be argued in defense of their cinematic counterparts include Steven Spielberg's 1975 thriller Jaws (written by Peter Benchley) and Francis Ford Coppola's crime 1973-74 masterpieces The Godfather trilogy (based on the novel by Mario Puzo). With that being said however, the brilliant Irish author Roddy Doyle's Barrytown trilogy is another dazzling series of stories that at first seem incredibly [...]
On the official website for Louisville, KY's HullabaLOU Music Festival , there are two separate definitions given. One for hullabaloo , which is a noun that means "Great noise or excitement; uproar." Then there's one for HullabaLOU , which (according to the site) is a noun that means, "A three day summer music festival July 23-25, 2010 at Churchill Downs Racetrack in Louisville, KY." They're missing another definition, unfortunately. It's another noun, and for HullabaLOU , and it's something along the lines of "a three day summer weekend in hell, likely filled with upset [...]
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