Enough!
I've had it with all the sniping back and forth. Look, I know feelings run high, but can't we finally put an end to this debate? Community standards around here have gone down the tubes. I mean...
View ArticleChange the world with music - American Prayer
Dave Stewart - American Prayer Hat tip to zizi for her diary, New Obama Video: A great song!!! Click on Dave Stewart - American Prayer for much more info about this song that he cowrote with Bono and...
View ArticleGordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind
Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind I saw Gordon Lightfoot sing this last night on PBS. This is one of those songs where you just have to sing along. I'm expecting spontaneous outbursts...
View ArticleBlack NJ: Bail Out Homeowners, Not Bankers
Saturday was a day for summing up Presidential Debate number one. It was also the day that members of New Jersey's People's Organization for Progress (POP) delivered a summation of their own. They had...
View ArticleMusic Innovations: 2-4 Grooves and the Year 2000
Their work is pure genius. They represent the greatest development in music since the invention of the song. What they do is truly revolutionary.
View Articlemy perfectly true Michael Jackson story
Here in Tallahassee we've got a pizzeria that stands with the best: Decent Pizza. The guys there throw a mean pie, a pie that reeks of misshapen attitude. I grew up in N. Jersey, have...
View Articlenever can say goodbye: letting go of our past
Last night I could have gone to see Todd Rundgren at a local festival. Tonight, Huey Lewis and the News are there. In the past few years in my own town, just down the street, I have seen such acts as...
View ArticleBlack Newark Fights "Hollywood Mayor" For Water
Wednesday evening, October 21, hundreds of concerned citizens gathered to picket outside the Newark, NJ City Hall and moved the protest into the Council Chambers when the weekly City Council meeting...
View Article"Hollywood Mayor" Looks to Move Up--And Out of Newark
(courtesy Rahim on the Docks) Newark mayor Cory Booker couldn't wait a week. NJ Governor Jon Corzine was just voted out in an widely-reported odd-year race that was more about suburban control of the...
View ArticleLook At These Beautiful Posters For The Public Option!
We've been running a contest over at POP for posters about the public option, and it will be judged by Arianna Huffington, Margaret Cho, Aaron Rose, Jesse Dylan, Robbie Conal, Marshall Ganz, and Arlene...
View ArticleSunday Morning Jukebox: Pop and not-Pop Music
Back in the 1980’s, I had a girlfriend who said she hated rock music, but liked pop music. What she meant was this: she hated sit-down-and-listen music but she liked stand-up-and-dance music. And she...
View ArticleMondegreens (Misheard Lyrics)
Being a music lover, I have a long history of this. Mondegreens, as books like "'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy" tell us, occur when someone mishears a song lyric. When the singers of "Papa Was a...
View ArticleKeith : Thurber : Pop : Elevators
Keith reads from Thurber on Fridays in honor of his father. I love this piece of broadcasting. Tonight, he read a piece mentioning elevators. Keith and his Pop, me and my Pop : simpatico. My Pop, my...
View ArticleMusic from non-English speaking singers/groups -- video heavy
On this chaotic Sunday night I thought it might be good to relax to some music. It’s been a tough week for me, health-wise, so I thought it might be good to end the last week and start this new week...
View ArticleWeekly Pulse: Bloomberg Shaking up Soda Pop with Politics
by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger
View ArticleRocking with the letter *B* -- Video Heavy with Poll
The other day I started with the letter A and wrote down as many groups as I could think of that started with "A" and people added some more, so I thought why not continue the trend and go for it with...
View ArticlePro-Walker Tour Fizzles.
Gosh 600 was the biggest turnout of the whole tour The rally, held in Exhibition Hall at the Alliant Energy Center, drew about 600 people, said Matt Seaholm, state director for the sponsoring group,...
View ArticleThe Evening Becomes eKlipetic
Right Now! On the radio! Klipe Wirefly providing the tuneage tonight! Mon. 81-10pm Left Kos time! Klipe spins Jazz, rock, pop and a sprinkle of everything else in what is not arguably the best Set on...
View ArticleThe Worst Era Of Music?
Which period of music, in which a certain genre was dominant, was the worst EVER!!! Well... maybe not ever. How about over the past 60 years? That's a nice round number. However, if there's a worst,...
View ArticleThe Evening Becomes eKlipetic!
Right Now! 8-10pm. Left Kos Time! Klipe Wirefly provides the tuneage tonight! Klipe spins Jazz, rock, pop and a sprinkle of everything else in what is not arguably the best Set on the 'net! Join...
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