Music Blogs

Buzz up!
RSS Email IM Bookmark

Music Blogs > GetBack > September 2008

Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome Back the Fabulous Stains

Posted Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:23am PDT
Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains was practically a cult classic from the moment it was released in 1981. After vanishing quickly from the few theaters it played, it enjoyed a second life on cable. Out of print for years, Stains was recently More »
Permalink  |  Post a Comment (6) »

Hip-Hop's Great White Wonders

Posted Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:28am PDT
Whereas rap was once the province of brothers living in the Bronx, the color line is now erased. Hip-hop did what America still cannot do: become color-blind. If you can rhyme, you belong. Period. It's probably the best thing about the music. More »
Permalink  |  Post a Comment (65) »

Sometimes Musical Marriages Are a Beautiful Thing

Posted Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:29pm PDT
We recently told you that marrying or dating your band mate can end in personal disaster, even as it leads you to musical gold. That got us thinking about the news that recently bubbled up that Justin Timberlake is writing, producing, and singing bac More »
Permalink  |  Post a Comment (16) »

Rock Quote of the Day

Posted Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:05am PDT
Lenny Kravitz gets close to Mother Earth. More »
Permalink  |  Post a Comment (1) »

You Know What’s Really Cool About That Cover Song? … Nothing

Posted Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:00am PDT
There is no finer way in music to pay homage to an inspiration than the time-honored cover song. Covers versions can be great (think Johnny Cash’s take on Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt”), but more often than not, atrocious (think Hillary Duff maulin More »
Permalink  |  Post a Comment (2403) »

Britney, How Can We Miss You If You Won’t Go Away?

Posted Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:54am PDT
There’s a lot of talk about how Britney Spears’ upcoming album, Circus, is going to mark the former pop wreck’s rebound from a near-fatal career death spiral. Comeback? See, if you’re constantly in the news and are proactively calling the pap More »
Permalink  |  Post a Comment (193) »

Don’t Make Me Over! Rock ’n’ Roll Musicals — How to Remake Them Right (Or Don’t Do It at All)

Posted Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:12pm PDT
Big-screen remakes of rock musicals have a checkered history, at best. ... More »
Permalink  |  Post a Comment (297) »

Richard Wright: We Say Good-bye Before We’ve Said Hello

Posted Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:32am PDT
Once it seemed that death could never come to Pink Floyd. Floyd suffered only one casualty — Syd Barrett — and he lived another 38 years. In 2005 all five were still around. Now they’re down to three. More »
Permalink  |  Post a Comment (9) »

Rock Quote of the Day

Posted Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:30am PDT
Words of wisdom from Metallica's James Hetfield More »
Permalink  |  Post a Comment (4) »

Once in a Lifetime (Who Let the Days Go By?) | Toxic Nostalgia

Posted Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:11am PDT
I always thought “Once In A Lifetime” by the Talking Heads was a silly song, with its underwater-wonderland burble and David Byrne’s herky-jerk proclamations and spasmodic gestures punctuating every bark. Then I hit my thirties. More »
Permalink  |  Post a Comment (1) »
Page:  1 | 2 
Next »

Yahoo! Music Blogs

Select a Blog Posts
And The Winner Is...
by Chris Willman		26
As Heard On...
by Rebecca Harper, Hulu		46
Chart Watch
by Paul Grein		141
Framed
by John Kordosh		119
GetBack
by Shawn Amos		332
Hip-Hop Media Training
by Billy Johnson, Jr.		221
List Of The Day
by Rob O'Connor		332
Maximum Performance
by Lyndsey Parker		167
Musictoob
by Justin Mathews		183
New This Week
by Dave DiMartino		123
Reality Rocks
by Lyndsey Parker		580
Rock's Backpages
by Philip Norman (1970)		191
Stop The Presses!
by Us Magazine		85
That's Really Week
by Lyndsey Parker		125
The Blender Burner
by Blender Magazine		27
The MOJO Blog
by Bill DeMain		88
The NME Blog
by Luke Lewis		49
The Spin Blog
by David Marchese		78
The Y! Music Playlist Blog
by Robert of the Radish		515
Video Ga Ga
by Lyndsey Parker		71
Viva NashVegas
by Wendy Geller		59
View All Blogs »

Music Blog Archives

Music News

Pinetop Perkins' 80-year career still going

AP
Fri Nov 27, 2009 4:03am PST

AP - Noisy crowds in smoky bars don't bother 96-year-old bluesman Pinetop Perkins. It's all part of his job. Most nights, after he snuffs out his menthol cigarette, Perkins slides onto the piano bench in some club and … More »

More Music News
View All News »