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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...

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Change 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...

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Gordon 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...

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Black 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...

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Music 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.

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my 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...

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never 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...

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Black 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...

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"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...

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Look 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...

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Sunday 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...

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Mondegreens (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...

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Keith : 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...

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Music 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...

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Weekly Pulse: Bloomberg Shaking up Soda Pop with Politics

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger

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Rocking 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...

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Pro-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,...

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The 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...

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The 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,...

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The 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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