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Sam Spiegel announces zany Maximum Hedrum project
Given the rate at which left-field super-groups have proliferated over the last few years -- Atoms for Peace! Them Crooked Vultures! Monsters of Folk! -- it was probably inevitable that we'd eventually end up with one as wacky as Maximum Hedrum, the new...
Tags: Kanye West, Them Crooked Vultures (music group), Tom Waits, Spike Jonze, George Clinton
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Mariah Carey celebrated at BMI Urban Awards
Mariah Carey, Drake, Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj all took home top honors at BMI’s Urban Awards in Beverly Hills on Friday. Carey accepted the night’s most prestigious honor, the BMI Icon Award, for her “unique and indelible influence...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Music, Mariah Carey, Little Richard, Eric Benet
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PASSINGS: George Murdock, Charles 'Skip' Pitts
George Murdock
Character actor often played the 'heavy'
George Murdock, 81, a veteran character actor who had a recurring role as Lt. Scanlon on the television sitcom "Barney Miller" and played God in the 1989 film "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier,"...Tags: The Untouchables (movie), Star Trek: The Next Generation (tv program), Music, Arts and Culture, Music Industry
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Donald 'Duck' Dunn dies at 70; soul music bassist
Donald "Duck" Dunn, the bassist who helped create the gritty Memphis soul sound at Stax Records in the 1960s as part of the legendary group Booker T. and the MGs and contributed to such classics as "In the Midnight Hour," "Hold On, I'm Coming" and...
Tags: Dan Aykroyd, Music, Neil Young, Music Industry, Soul (genre)
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Pop music review: Cyndi Lauper just wants to have fun
Pop & HissPop music review: Cyndi Lauper at Club Nokia... -
Jay Rock reveals single 'Hood Gone Love It,' aided by Kendrick Lamar
Pop & HissYou don't have to like Jay Rock's latest single because the hood is going to love it. That's the premise of the Watts-raised rapper's opening salvo from his much-delayed debut, "Follow Me Home," slated for release on July 26. For...... -
DJ Quik, the Gaslamp Killer, and more hit the Do-Over
Pop & HissA live review of the legendary DJ Quik spinning at the Do-Over... -
Snoop Dogg, Drake and B.o.B take top honors at BMI Urban Awards
Pop & HissSnoop Dogg, Drake and B.o.B take top honors at BMI urban awards... -
Billboard Hot 100 notches 1,000th No. 1 single: From Ricky Nelson to Lady Gaga
Pop & HissLady Gaga has snagged a piece of pop music history in landing the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 this week with her new single “Born This Way.” Even more significant than posting the highest first-week digital sales...... -
Five great White Stripes covers: Dylan, Beefheart, Son House and more
Pop & HissThe White Stripes announced their break up Wednesday, triggering the (St. James Infirmary) Blues among Internet comment sections, your cool uncle and lovers of primary color schemes and electric guitar everywhere. For purposes of posterity, self-... -
Guru dies at 43; influential rapper
Associated PressGuru, the influential rapper known for his conscious and intellectual themes, his monotone delivery, and his combination of jazz sounds with hip-hop beats, has died after battling cancer, collaborators said. He was 43. The world has lost "one of the best...Tags: Crimes, Disc Jockeys, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Social Issues
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'Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture' by Alice Echols
Hot Stuff
Disco and the Remaking
of American Culture
Alice Echols
W.W. Norton: 338 pp., $26.95
Recently, I attended a wedding reception during which a 10-year-old boy, to entertain the adults on the dance floor, started making the point-to-the-sky...Tags: Janis Joplin, Marvin Gaye, Minority Groups, Arts and Culture, Defense
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