Por Federico Moreno Uno de los instrumentos que ha cobrado mayor importancia en los últimos 30 años es el sampler . Sin ánimos de aburrir con una reseña de tecnología musical (con permiso de los geeks y adictos al hardware para la producción musical), y a riesgo de que me lleven preso por esquemático, podría definirlo como el que dotó a la música contemporánea de un banco de sonidos ilimitado y sorprendente, como es la totalidad de la música grabada durante más o menos los últimos 100 años. [...]
And might I mean that quite literally. Not 'probably functional', it's still all very much up in the air, but it's plausible I might be back in something resembling the land of the living. I think the work which had to be done pretty much immediately has had the effect of jump-starting a spluttering brain. The Josh T. Pearson Toad Session is finished and ready to publish next weekend (assuming he's happy with it), and Ian and I have been plotting this year's Song, by Toad Records er, strategy, if you can call it that (just listen to [...]
Prince sparkled and funked Vancouver up during what may have been one of the best concerts to hit this city in 2011. The show started an hour late but all was forgotten when a voice boomed through... Read the rest on Speakerboxxx.com
End of the month so you know what it is. Crew Love, snitches! As we get ready to flip the calendar, we mark another month in the books by pointing [...]
As we prepare to feast today I thought I'd post some songs about love and giving a big thanks to the Review Stalker readers, Twitter Followers, music fans and bands. All 3 of you know who you are so a sincere thank you! Finding good songs that are a true thank you was hard. Anyway, It was little over a year ago we went big time with the official RS blog domain. Everybody wants to own their own brand. Right? The unofficial one lived for many years on blogger. Not a huge leap really just more control on [...]
I've said it before: no other series on this blog is as much fun to put together than the Covered With Soul compilations. And I've yet a few mixes in store. There are have been a couple of pretty radical reworkings of songs; Maxine Weldon 's interpretation of George Gershwin's I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise (best known, perhaps, as Georges Guetary's showstopper in the An American In Paris musical) is one of them. On the other hand, if the version of Spirit In The Sky by The Stovall Sisters has [...]
The Revolution will be televised eventually... "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." -Seneca I was wondering that there really are no new and worthy protest songs these days. It was cool that Jeff Magnum used the Wall Street Protest as a platform to make for a good street acoustic performance but really there is no new content to speak of. Ken Kesey, Joe Strummer, U2 and REM said their [...]
Filed under: News , I Fought the Law Charley Gallay, Getty Images On April 1, Sly Stone (real name, Sylvester Stewart) of Sly & the Family Stone fame was arrested for possession of crack cocaine when a vehicle he was traveling in was pulled over, in Los Angeles, for a traffic violation. Cocaine rocks were allegedly found in Stone's clothing as well as in those of the driver. On Wednesday, Stone pleaded not guilty. [...]
Question of the day: Which Coachella act would you rather see, a legend a bit past his prime or a poser who's never going to have one... Sly Stone Who he is: A legend of Funk, the likes of which there are few left today. Motherfucker played Woodstock, yo! What he sounds like: Look, I know some of you are quite a bit younger than me, but I'd be pretty shocked if you haven't [...]
Filed under: News , I Fought the Law Sly Stone -- the reclusive and notoriously quirky ringleader of legendary funk act Sly & the Family Stone -- has filed a $50 million lawsuit against his former business manager and associates, according to media reports. Among the charges are fraud, breach of contract, unjust enrichment and converting and misappropriating the artist's royalties and assets for more than two decades. "On the eve of the Grammys that celebrate the best of our artists, we see a dark [...]
I left home with friends; told my mother "I was going to a concert." By Sunday, she had me reported as a missing person. I was one of the "mud sliders." Oh what a feelin'. I just wanted to see Janis J. She was sooo great. We survived on the "grub" we took with us. We found people who didn't mind sharing food for some tent space to sleep and get out of the rain for a little while. I love seeing the look on peoples faces when I say, "I was at Woodstock." Good people, good music, good memories. [...]
Filed under: The Hit List The summer of 2000 belonged to ' Thong Song ' and ' Who Let the Dogs Out .' The dog days of 1997 would have been unrecognizable without ' MMMBop .' But the truly timeless songs of summer are the ones written about the season itself. These all-time summer hits are hotter than black vinyl car seats in Arizona and more fun than running through the sprinkler. 10. ' In the Summertime ,' Mungo [...]
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