Artist: ritchie valens

A Place to Bury Strangers does Dead Moon, and the Question of Covers

May 1, 9:00am Your Music Is Awful.com

A Place To Bury Strangers' exclusive Record Store Day release "Strange Moon," is a tribute to Portland punk veterans Dead Moon on 123 colored vinyl (for those vinyl fetishists out there).  In conjunction with the record, the band released this statement: "I first saw Dead Moon perform around 1992. Dead Moon was my friends favorite band and soon to become one [...] The post A Place to Bury Strangers does Dead Moon, and the Question of Covers appeared first on Your Music Is Awful.com .

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This Week in Music History: February 3 - 9 -- Beatles vs. Apple & U.S. Government

Feb 7, 5:06pm Spinner.com

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , The Hit List , Music Appreciation CBS There's a reason why the Beatles are arguably the biggest musical act in the history of ever. Sure, part of that's the dozens of internationally recognized hit songs they recorded, but there's another side, too -- their cultural impact. This week in musical history is a perfect example of that [...]

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Musical Transformations: Boogie With Stu

Aug 26, 2012, 1:37pm Star Maker Machine

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John McCauley :: We Belong Together [Ritchie Valens]

Mar 19, 2012, 2:28pm Rollo & Grady

John McCauley - We Belong Together Song originally written Johnny Mitchell, Robert Carr, and Sam Weiss. John covered Ritchie Valens rendition of the song. Tweet

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Friday on My Mind: The Day the Music Died – Celebrating Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, & Ritchie Valens

Feb 3, 2012, 3:26pm KEXP Blog

Every week we bring you Friday on My Mind , a collaborative effort with King 5 News which explores musical subjects with focus on three artists or bands. February 3rd is the anniversary of what people refer to as “The Day the Music Died” when Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie lost their lives in a plane crash. Today for the Friday on My Mind feature, we choose not to focus so much on the horrible tragdey of that day in 1959, but to celebrate and reflect upon the longstanding impact these young artists made within [...]

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Rock Moment: The Day The Music Died

Feb 3, 2012, 2:30am 30 Days Out

Repost: Published in 2009, still of interest today. To this day, people still mourn the musical talent who died in a plane crash in the early morning hours of Feb. 3, 1959.  A small airplane, carrying rock stars Buddy Holly, J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and Ritchie Valens, crashed only minutes after taking off from Mason City, Iowa, in a snowstorm. The three had just played the "Winter Dance Party" (see yesterday's post ) and were heading to the next stop in [...]

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Drive-By Proposals – Fall Into Shadow

Nov 30, 2011, 10:28pm Obscure Sound

Ish Marquez is the hidden light at the end of the otherwise tedious anti-folk tunnel. He has the melodic gifts of Arthur Lee, but without any of the failed lyrical obtuseness. Someday there will be a compilation to sand over the numerous repetitions in his discography, and America will finally take notice of him. He

• Ish Marquez - Gin Is Not My Friend
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Bobby Vee Charted At Number One This Week In 1961

Sep 18, 2011, 11:30am Music @ Blogcritics.org

Bobby Vee took very good care of his baby 50 years ago at this time.

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Mr. Miranda La Bamba: The Ritchie Valens EP

May 18, 2011, 8:00am rock the dub

This track would’ve been up sooner, but with the great Blogger downtime last week, I never got around to freaking this for the main site (although it did grace the tumblr). To celebrate Ritchie Valens ’ recent birthday, Mr. Miranda dropped this EP, solely produced by Mute , with a dope collection of tracks. I love how, with the Internet today, we can hear stuff like this, instead of the normal cavalcade of tributes and whatnot. Ain’t no one foxing with Ritchie like that, and to hear Mute open these original samples up and [...]

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Little Richard of the Valley: Un tributo a Ricardo Valenzuela Reyes

May 16, 2011, 8:12pm Club Fonograma

NWLA (New Weird Latin America) is the continuation of the legendary and inspirational Mexican netlabel The Poni Republic . Although the music collective has evolved into a music news portal, they’re still holding EP/album releases as their main dish. Today they released their most conceptually-driven (and wonderfully ambitious) album yet: a tribute to Chicano rock father Ritchie Valens. Trying to put Valens’ legacy into words is as challenging as trying to understand the icon died at just 17 years old. NWLA recruited nine acts to pay tribute to the artist in the album Little Richard of the [...]

• Ritchie Valens - Orale ("Oh My Head" por Piyama Party)

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Mr. Miranda & Mute - La Bamba The Ritchie Valens EP

May 14, 2011, 12:51pm Donuts & Milk

Ahh shit... I'm always a day late and a dollar short. It's all good tho better late than never. The homies Mr. Miranda and Mute let the The Richie Valens EP go yesterday... Classic! "Today is the bday of a special individual that changed music not only for hispanics, but for all musicians in general, the late great Ritchie Valens. In honor of his legendary status in the music industry, Mr. Miranda and Mute decided to [...]

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FREENESS: Mr. Miranda & Mute – La Bamba The Ritchie Valens Ep

May 13, 2011, 5:09pm The Word Is Bond

Mr. Miranda - Bit Of A Rattlesnake Phoenix AZ MC " Mr. Miranda" dropped today a pay homage to Ritchie Valens Ep entitled "La Bamba" Which is infused with chops and snippets from the Movie "La Bamba" that make up the dope flips and integrity of the tracks...Support the Artist and Support Hiphop...ghea!... " LA BAMBA HERE Mr. Miranda: Twitter • Reverbnation 602Diggler

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5inco películas para pasarla bien

May 10, 2011, 1:18pm noiselab

Aquí les van las 5inco recomendaciones de películas para instalarse en la "güeva" y disfrutar a la vez de un buen soundtrack, cameos rockeros, mafia, amor, cuestionamientos filosóficos, chicos y chicas guapas, leyendas de la música y más: Point Break (1991) Comenzamos con "Point Break" (en México: "Punto de Quiebra") de 1991, película dirigida por Kathryn Bigelow quien años más tarde sorprendería con "The Hurt Locker" película con la cual ganaría 6 Oscares incluyendo la categoría a mejor director y mejor película. "Point Break" [...]

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Buddy Holly Tribute Album

May 5, 2011, 8:31pm SpacePack

Wheeeeew, big news courtesy of SPIN . A whole slew of distinguished artists will be getting together to create a tribute album for Buddy Holly . Artists contributing covers to this project include The Black Keys, Modest Mouse, Julian Casablancas (of The Strokes) and....... ah hell just read the image above and you'll get a good idea of what this album is about. Honouring the late great Buddy Holly, who died at 22 in a Minnesota plane crash with the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens on [...]

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Buddy Holly’S 75th Birthday

Apr 28, 2011, 10:44am Cause=Time

One of the most famous Texans, Buddy Holly, would've been 75 this year had he not hopped on that horrible little commuter plane in Iowa with the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens ( NO, NOT MY RITCHIE ). A special compilation album has been put together by music supervisor, Randall Poster (past works include projects with: Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese and Todd Haynes), with a list of contributions by some heavy hitters. You can get the latest on the release here and pick it up on June 28th via Fantasy/Concord. BTW, I never saw " [...]

• Buddy Holly - Not Fade Away

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15 Rock Stars Who Died at 27 Years Old

Apr 5, 2011, 10:46am Spinner.com

Filed under: R.I.P. , The Hit List Between 1969 and 1971, the world lost Janis Joplin , Brian Jones , Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix . All four rockers died at the age of 27, [...]

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Tune-Up Competition Followup

Dec 24, 2010, 10:03am Cougar Microbes

A few months ago we ran a competition giving Cougar Microbes readers a free copy of TuneUp to fix their music collection. We asked the question: If you could rearrange/fix/change any musical moment that has happened in history what would it be? This was the outstanding in our books by a guy called Blue: 1. Light Aircrafts [...]

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Song of the Day: Girl in a Coma, “Come On, Let’s Go” (Ritchie Valens cover)

Sep 8, 2010, 9:00am Cover Me

An early rock hit gets a harder edge as part of a neat covers game.

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The Evolution Of Chris Montez

Jun 25, 2010, 12:18am Geezer Music Club

I remember when the news broke about the 1959 plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly ,  Ritchie Valens , and the Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson), along with the pilot. But I didn't realize at that time how Valens' death affected the Chicano rock movement. Valens was the undisputed star of the Hispanic pop music world. When he died it was a sad day for music fans everywhere, but it hit the Southern California area especially hard. That might have helped provide an opportunity for new stars, and [...]

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Rock Moment: The Day The Music Died

Feb 2, 2010, 2:30am 30 Days Out

Repost: Published last year, still of interest today. To this day, people still mourn the musical talent who died in a plane crash in the early morning hours of Feb. 3, 1959.  A small airplane, carrying rock stars Buddy Holly, J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and Ritchie Valens, crashed only minutes after taking off from Mason City, Iowa, in a snowstorm. The three had just played the "Winter Dance Party" (see yesterday's post ) and were heading to the next stop in [...]

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