Video: OTIS REDDING: (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay

Garbage is back. And the band's sound is the same—but different. Not Your Kind Of People (StunVolume) is the quartet's first album since 2005, and the distance has got Garbage's creative juices flowing in exciting ways. First single “Blood For Poppies” has the same driving drums, ripping guitars and biting lyrics as earlier LPs but [...]

Movies spend hours and novels contain millions of pages trying to describe the intricacies of relationships: good ones, bad ones, good ones gone bad. Otis Redding , whose 70th birthday falls on September 9th, 2011, usually takes about three minutes to complete this task. He conveys heartache, despair, and ambivalence through a voice that cracks with desire and rasps with weariness. Perhaps the greatest soul singer ever, he mashes together sandpapery crooning pleas and scorching screams of joy or pain. You’re never bored listening to Otis: his words, visceral manifestations of love and loss, force their way out [...]

A status update from our friend Justin of the OhKeePah Blog read that he "likes songs with whistling," which got us thinking about all the songs in rock history that feature whistling. There are plenty of duds but plenty of classic tunes as well that contain at least a little whistling in them. For this week's B List we've put together a list of the ten most memorable songs that include whistling. The tunes that you can't help but hum along with when you hear them on the radio or [...]