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Album review: Wanda Jackson's 'The Party Ainât Over'
Pop & HissThe Oklahoma firebrand once dubbed âthe female Elvisâ for raucous rockabilly records such as âLetâs Have a Partyâ shows that a 73-year-old grandmother is still fully capable of ripping things up â especially when you throw in with someone as..... -
Grammy Awards: Bruno Mars celebrates his seven nominations at the Smeezingtons party at Bardot
Pop & HissOne doesn't really appreciate the potential of Bruno Mars until you see him perform in a casual setting -- like Bardot in Hollywood on Friday night, with friends, family and the famous surrounding him in the intimate room. It's here...... -
Randy Wood dies at 94; music industry innovator founded Dot Records
Dot Records founder Randy Wood was looking for a song for a young Pat Boone to record in 1955 and found it in the Fats Domino hit "Ain't That a Shame?" Except Boone, then an English major, wanted to sing "Isn't That a Shame?" After a few run-throughs,...Tags: Entertainment, Middle Tennessee State University , Randy Wood, Radio Industry, Book
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Fab Four Face-Off: What's your favorite song from 'The Beatles [White Album]'?
Pop & HissWith the official release of the remastered Beatles catalog now eclipsed in the headlines by both Kanye West and Susan Boyle, Pop & Hiss persists in asking the musical question: What would go on your Beatles mix tape? Continuing my...... -
Snap Judgment: Adam Lambert, 'For Your Entertainment'
Pop & HissThe first single and title t rack from Adam Lambert's soon-to-be-dropped debut album couldn't be more of an announcement. "For Your Entertainment" strides into the room, snaps its fingers and declares 2010 the year of Our Gorgeously Airbrushed Overlord.... -
Mark Ritts dies at 63; played Lester the lab rat on 'Beakman's World'
Mark Ritts, who played Lester the lab rat on the wacky children's science series "Beakman's World" and operated and voiced the puppet co-host Kino on the PBS children's show "Storytime," has died. He was 63.
Ritts died of cancer Monday at his home in...Tags: John Ritter, John Goodman, Entertainment, Science and Technology, Kirk Douglas
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Live review: Roky Erickson with Okkervil River at the Fonda [UPDATED]
Pop & HissIn a 90-minute concert filled with images of vampires, demons and multi-headed hounds, the most striking imagery did away with B-movie specters. It was late in the evening when Roky Erickson -- once thought to be a causality of the...... -
2Pac's 'Dear Mama' selected for inclusion in Library of Congress' national recording registry
Pop & HissThough Mother's Day was last month, the Library of Congress waited until this week to include the late Tupac Shakur's "Dear Mama," in its National Recording Registry. Often cited as 2Pac's most emotionally resonant song, the tribute to his mother...... -
Live review: Hootenanny Festival 2010
Pop & HissFor some, the Fourth of July is a good opportunity to re-read the Declaration of Independence, or the writings of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams or George Washington to reacquaint themselves with the spirit behind the nationâs founding. The Hootenanny... -
PASSINGS: Phillip Walker, Robert M. Jaffe, Denise Jefferson, Mac Foster, Kaye Cowher
Phillip Walker
Blues guitarist and singer
Phillip Walker, 73, a blues guitarist and singer who backed such stars as Etta James and Lowell Fulson, died of heart failure Thursday in Palm Springs, said Marc Lipkin, publicity director for Alligator Records....Tags: Muhammad Ali, Entertainment, Madison Square Garden, Drama (genre), Mark Morris
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Troubadour Theater Co. will ditch pop hits formula for 'The Frogs'
Culture MonsterGiven that Aristophanes' 2,400-year-old comedy "The Frogs" ends with a Biggie vs. Tupac-style throwdown between Euripides and Aeschylus over who's the baddest tragedian of them all, it would have seemed ripe for translation into Troubadourese -- the... -
Ann Powers: The girls work the quirkiness, and the smarts
Idol TrackerSong selection. It's what the judges love to mention, the first true or false step any "Idol" striver makes, before she even opens her well-glossed lips. Sometimes, in truth, it doesn't matter that much: The singer's presence, tone, or sheer power...
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