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03.09.06

Bobby McFerrin’s Son!!! From The Blogosphere | (0)
So I'm sittin' here late at night, chillin', checkin' out my man Gilles Peterson on BBC Radio 1, and what does he do but drop some new cuts by jazz vocal maestro Bobby McFerrin ... 's son, Taylor McFerrin (OK, Gilles also drops a Bobby cut in there, too). Oh, my, this is some ill stuff. Feel the influence of the eclectic future-fusion scene that I'm always harping on. ... Keep an eye out for this one. The Taylor tracks start at about 17:30, so just hit the ">> 15 mins" link on the BBC Radio Player, and it'll get ...
03.07.06

Quit Your Bitching: ?Crash? Beat ?Brokeback Mountain? Because It?s a BETTER Film, Period. From The Blogosphere | (0)
For the last couple of days, while recovering slowly from illness, I’ve read innumerable stories about people up in arms over Crash beating out Brokeback Mountain for the coveted Best Picture Oscar. I’ve tried to just sit around and ignore all the hoo-hah as Hollywood baiting, people with an agenda who feel they’ve been wronged. At the end of all the fussing, I’ve read no less than a dozen stories equating Brokeback’s loss to “Hollywood’s homophobia” or something equal. It was already written long before this Academy Awards presentation that if Crash were to beat Brokeback, it ...
03.06.06

Hot New Phrases: “From Academy Award-Winning Composer Crunchy Black” From The Blogosphere | (0)
It hardly matters that it’s not true, but its a funny phrase nonetheless. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever be able to utter that phrase, but I think it’s got some heat. Phrases like: Oscar-Winners Triple 6 Mafia Academy-Award Winner Frayzer Boy Did you ever think these phrases would be uttered? I am still sitting here beside myself, mostly because i’m still sick as a dog and I’m only barely fighting it. Let’s talk about my trip to The Church Health Center. If you’re poor and you’re sick, you have only one option: ...
03.05.06

HOLY CRAP!!! Three Six Mafia Win The ACADEMY AWARD!!! From The Blogosphere | (0)
I am so sick I can barely stand up, I haven’t been able to hold down solid food since yesterday, my tonsils are swelled up like golf balls, and I’ve just learned that Memphis’ own Three Six Mafia win the Academy Award for “It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp”. I am speechless, mostly because my throat hurts too bad to talk. Congratulations, peeps.
03.03.06

The Mekons – Rock And Roll From The Blogosphere | (0)
03.03.06

Donald Fagen – The Night Belongs To Mona From The Blogosphere | (0)
The white boy jazz-infused funk of the 1970's would never have blossomed into a crossover art form without the contributions of Donald Fagen, one of the hippest cats ever to come from Passaic, New Jersey, founding member of Steely Dan and, along with friend and cohort Walter Becker, a frequent innovator of a sound so unique as to defy the logic of radio. Steely Dan was always lumped into AOR (album-oriented rock) in the 1970's which, by strange accident, opened up a whole other audience to the music they were creating. The music, though perhaps rock-influenced, was unflitered ...
03.02.06

Can’t Win for Losing From The Blogosphere | (0)
The music industry, that is. The Justice Department, hot on the heels of New York attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer, has opened an inquiry into possible price-fixing in online music sales. Maybe if we get some competition going in this new field, we'll only have to pay a dime per track? At any rate, rest assured that Scenestars.net is engaged in no anti-competitive shenanigans; after all, our downloads are free! This is late-breaking news. Keep an eye on all your favorite music blogs Friday for snarky commentary.