Death has a very special place in American culture. America grew as a frontier nation in the constant shadow of death. Americans love dead heroes, from George Washington to Elvis Presley. Music and movie stars like Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Jim Morrison, Hank Williams and Patsy Cline have made much more money since their deaths than during their lives. Even to make it onto an American postage stamp you have to be dead for at least ten years. Every October 31st, on Halloween, normal American children dress up as ghosts, mummies, ghouls and vampires and make a party out of death. [...]
The Smell of Fresh Vinyl In The Morning Here on the west coast of Americana, we have a chain of stores called Fred Meyer. They're something akin to Target but with an even broader range of stuff (groceries, jewelry, power tools). Apparently a Freddie's buyer made a mistake recently, buying the latest REM album on vinyl rather than CD. Some adventurous store managers decided to rack it just the same and, lo and behold, people bought them! So, now Freddie's will be selling vinyl in some of their stores. According to an [...]
There have been a lot of musical siblings through the years and some of them immediately come to mind, but it's difficult to imagine a group of brothers and sisters quite like the Dinnings. Over a period of several decades, they covered just about every aspect of music; including songwriting, bandleading, recording, and performing on stage and screen. And those doing the performing included a popular all-girl singing group and a young crooner who thrilled teens with a chart-topping hit that was banned in Great Britain. (And if that wasn't enough, the family's next generation included a member of a [...]
Are you feeling restless, depressed, anxious, or just generally bummed out these days? (Really, who could blame you, given that the world feels perpetually on the verge of collapse, and the ever-more-pervasive sense that the only thing keeping this country's social fabric together is a shared rubbernecking toward the plights of starlets ?) Is your mood coloring the music you listen to? The Deciblog unearthed a press release from the Peter Gabriel-helmed "cultural suggestion engine" The Filter saying that it had noticed a dramatic uptick in depressing music being spun by its users, with CEO David Maher-Roberts [...]
Here on the west coast of Americana, we have a chain of stores called Fred Meyer. They're something akin to Target but with an even broader range of stuff (groceries, jewelry, power tools). Apparently a Freddie's buyer made a mistake recently, buying the latest REM album on vinyl rather than CD. Some adventurous store managers decided to rack it just the same and, lo and behold, people bought them! So, now Freddie's will be selling vinyl in some of their stores. According to an FM spokesperson "the response from customers has just been that [...]
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