Does music make the man? Or does it maybe just influence him a little? Yesterday, the folks over at A.V. Club recommended a few albums meant to positively (whatever that means) influence kids' future music tastes, and we got to thinking about our favorite records as children and young teenagers and the impact they might have had on our current personalities - for good or ill. After the jump, we've collected a few of our (wildly subjective, tongue-in-cheek) conclusions. So read on to find out what your favorite record as a youngster says about you now, and let [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List , Music Appreciation Everett Collection There are lots and lots of good musicians. Go to any local pub on a Friday night and there's a decent chance you'll be able to see a halfway entertaining singer. The difference between that guy at the pub and the legends known around world are many. There's the hit songs, mainly, but there's also the bizarre, ridiculous and [...]
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All week on World Cafe with David Dye, the Sense of Place series is exploring the city of Memphis and its musical heritage. Today, David Dye is exploring the late great American Sound Studio, where Elvis Presley recorded his final number-one hit, "Suspicious Minds," in 1969. Above, check out a photo of the studio in ... Continue reading ’
Filed under: News AP Photo, NBC-TV KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Rhythm guitar player John Wilkinson, who performed with Elvis Presley more than a thousand times, has died at his home in southwest Missouri. He was 67. Wilkinson passed away Friday at his home in Springfield after a fight with cancer, according to a family spokesman and the Gorman-Scharpf Funeral Home. Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley offered their "deepest sympathy" [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List , Music Appreciation Getty | Getty Here at Spinner we've got an informal agreement with the cosmos -- you stay out of our business and we'll stay out of yours. That means no horoscopes, no inter-planetary navigation, and no astrology. Thing is, hardcore Capricorns are making it difficult to maintain this treaty. For some reason there are a LOT of super-important [...]
Around these parts, we like to write about Elvis Presley on the occasion of his birthday. Whereas in the past we've recommended some music and ranked his movies, this year we're going to take a darker turn. To mark the ... Continue reading ’
Here is a series of photos, via LIFE , showing Elvis, along with his 15-year-old girlfriend, Priscilla Beaulieu, in Germany on the day he left for the States (March 2, 1960). He was officially discharged from the Army on March 5. These pictures, by LIFE photographers James Whitmore. [...]
Here is a series of photos, via LIFE , showing Elvis, along with his 15-year-old girlfriend, Priscilla Beaulieu, in Germany on the day he left for the States (March 2, 1960). He was officially discharged from the Army on March 5. These pictures, by LIFE photographers James Whitmore. [...]
I couldn't let Elvis Presley's birthday pass without marking the occasion. He was born on January 8th, 1935, so that means he would have been 78 if he'd survived. Think about that - Elvis would have been a geezer. (The thought of that has apparently caused a few folks to get busy with their photo editing programs, creating pictures like this one.) Elvis Presley has certainly had more than his share of appearances here on the GMC, but I've picked four different pieces from previous years that I enjoyed putting together, and I thought they might [...]
Filed under: The Hit List GAB Archive, Redferns After a 1976 gig in Memphis, Bruce Springsteen hopped a Graceland gate at 3AM, hoping to meet his idol, Elvis Presley . Just as he was about to knock on the front door, though, a guard stopped him, and Springsteen was escorted off the property. Since that time, numerous other celebrities -- including Elvis Costello , Paul Simon , Katy Perry [...]
Today, the late and great Elvis Presley celebrates his 78th birthday. In honor of the self-proclaimed King of Rock, Consequence of Sound 's Henry Hauser takes a close look at the legend's historically unprecedented cultural influences, specifically in relation to racial integration in American life. You'll never listen to "All Shook Up" the same way again. For Elvis Presley , shakin’ things up was about much more than a scandalously pulsating pelvis. At the very core of Elvis’ societal shakeup is a collective rejection of racial segregation. In this way, his defiance is wholly [...]
Rusholme Ruffians is The Smiths at their sticky-fingered peak. From the alliteratively-alluring Ealing comedyesque title down, it's a masterclass in Morrissey's stolen kitchen sink observations backed by a Johnny Marr riff flat-out filched from Scotty Moore via Elvis Presley's (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame 1961 single. By the time they came to record Rusholme Ruffian s for second album Meat Is Murder, The Smiths were at the top of their game. As was usually the way, [...]
Filed under: News Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images WEST JORDAN, Utah (AP) - A parent who was "All Shook Up" about Elvis Presley songs in a high-school drama prompted educators to cancel the production, deeming it too sexually suggestive. Presley warbles over a sweetheart whose "lips are like a volcano that's hot" in his 1957 song. "I'm proud to say she's my buttercup. I'm in love. I'm all shook up." Presley's song [...]
This past weekend longtime HT faves the Felice Brothers completed a three-night New Year's run that included two intimate sold-out shows at Maxwell's in Hoboken and a New Year's Eve gig at New York City's Mercury Lounge. The upstate New York-based band  - whose choice in covers typically leans towards the likes of Townes Van Zandt, Woody Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen or traditional folk tunes - played a handful of unexpected new ones over the course of the run. To close Saturday night's show, Ian embraced his [...]
Jailhouse Rock is a 1957 American musical drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, and Mickey Shaughnessy. Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and based on a story by Nedrick Young, the film is about a young man sentenced to prison for manslaughter who is mentored in music by his prison cellmate who realizes his musical abilities. After his release from jail, while looking for a job as a club singer, the young man meets a musical promoter who helps him launch his career. As he develops his musical abilities and becomes a star, his self-centered personality [...]
Jailhouse Rock is a 1957 American musical drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, and Mickey Shaughnessy. Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and based on a story by Nedrick Young, the film is about a young man sentenced to prison for manslaughter who is mentored in music by his prison cellmate who realizes his musical abilities. After his release from jail, while looking for a job as a club singer, the young man meets a musical promoter who helps him launch his career. As he develops his musical abilities and becomes a star, his self-centered personality [...]
Yuppppp, it's that time of the year again. We send you a lotta love, good vibes and some of the best mashups and edits of the moment. We will take a Xmas break for few days and we will be back with the superselfblaming and also supercatchy THINGSWEFORGOT2POST series on the 27th. luv the APC Family Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas ( Irregular Disco Workers Edit) [ mp3 SoundCloud] +++ +++ +++ [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Pop Culture , Awards , Television , Music Appreciation , New Releases Brendan Smialowski, Getty The surviving members of Led Zeppelin appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman last night, managing to give very few details away about what's in the band's near future. Introduced by Letterman who plugged their live CD/DVD package Celebration Day [...]
Cold Splinters wrote a few times about Mikael Kennedy and Sean Sullivan's Ramblers Bone , the Wolverine-sponsored road trip the two guys took this last spring. Mikael was even generous enough to give us a few exclusive photos to post. In any case, the final culmination of the whole thing will take place TONIGHT, November 29th, down in SoHo, so come on out and enjoy yourself. And despite the fact that Mikael's best photos are of [...]
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