Stereogum Presents… Enjoyed: A Tribute to Björk ’s Post. The 12-track cover song compilation features Stereogum favorites and this year’s most buzzed about indie musicians paying homage to Bj ö rk with their own interpretations of her music. The tribute is available as a free download (in MP3 format, and as […]
One who has watched television serial ‘Office Office’ cannot easily miss a comedy coming from writer-turned-director Ashwini Dhir. His debut ‘One Two Three’ opened today at the box office. Being a tag of comedy the movie got quick response, but due to India - South Africa cricket match it has failed to get as much […]
JOE JACKSON. ‘I’m the boss, not the record company. Nobody ever came to the studio and put a gun to my head.’The veteran Grammy-winning singer/songwriter who launched his career as a tuneful new wave provocateur and has since blurred every boundary imaginable in a 30 year musical journey, and minces no words as he explains […]
“We’ve got to know about John Wayne and Pedro Infante . . . Oprah and Cristina,” he says. “It’s exhausting.”How idiotic. Mexican-Americans are the last people on Earth who owe anything to Mexico, which disowned their ancestors. Everything they have achieved they owe to the blessing of living in the United States.Michelle Obama never said […]
Talk about a labor of love.Songs with sugary-sweet hooks and lyrics drenched in 100% sucrose.Ok, we admit it, Bubble Gum music–it’s a guilty pleasure from the seventh grade.Sweetest music this side of sugar-soaked syrup.We’ve assembled 16 r favorite bubblegum songs in video form from the Golden Age of Bubblegum (our term) 1967-70. All sixteen saw […]
My mom rarely listened to music and rarely had an artist toward whom she felt an affinity. Throughout my childhood, our home would usually be filled with the sounds of silence or the odd adult contemporary radio station that would shuffle through the standard hits of Barry Manilow or Celine Dion at regular intervals.There was […]
Sometimes, there are advantages to being young and dumb and not knowing what your limitations are or what your skill level is supposed to be.Artistic barriers exist in all arts. But sometimes, enthusiasm and raw talent can be enough to hurdle those barriers and accomplish something else altogether.In a recent interview, Will Birch, leader of […]