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12 Great Anti-Royalty Songs

So, monarchy fever seems to have crested with Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee festivities this past weekend and its related Diamond Jubilee BBC Concert.

Being someone who’s connection to Britain is virtually zero (Irish-French heritage, fully Canadian on both sides going back hundreds of years), my knowledge of the royal family has been mostly informed by what cool British rock bands say — and most cool British rock bands don’t like the Queen.

As such, I compiled a list of 12 Great Anti-Royalty Songs as a sort of inverse Diamond Jubilee Concert.

You can check out that list — featuring the likes of Morrissey, Blur and Billy Bragg — over at Spinner by clicking here.

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When Pop Stars Go Goth (Katy Perry, Madonna, Christina Aguilera)

Katy Perry

Katy Perry

Pretty much every successful musician has a “dark” period, which often results in some of their best music.

For a certain segment of pop starlets, however, their dark periods are more often characterized not by dark music, but by dark clothes.

This phenomenon of pop-ettes “going goth” isn’t a new one and Sarah collected some examples of this game of gloomy dress-up for AOL Music Blog.

Click here to read all about Madonna, Katy Perry and Christina Aguilera‘s “goth” phases.

 

 

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World Goth Day Special! How Goth Are Skrillex, Grimes, Trust, Paramore And A Bunch More?

Florence of the Machine and Katie Stelmanis of Austra

Florence of the Machine and Katie Stelmanis of Austra

It’s World Goth Day.

Because we enjoy darkness we enlisted Encyclopedia Gothica author Liisa Ladouceur to answer the question “How goth is X?” about a bunch of bands.

Among them: Paramore, Skrillex, Austra, Florence And The Machine and Crystal Castles.

To read the article head over to Spinner by clicking here.

 

 

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May The Fourth Be With You

Star Wars fans

Star Wars fans

For those of you not aware of the neo maxi zoom dweebie sub-culture that is super-duper Star Wars fans, yesterday was May 4, so those sci-fi dorkus malorkuses who understand wordplay have turned May the 4th into “May the Force…” as in, “… be with you.” As in, the Star Wars line.

So, in honour of yesterday being international Star Wars day I found a few youtube Star Wars music clips that were entertaining.

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This Week In Music History – April 15-21

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

Spinner’s still letting me do my “This Week In Music History” feature.

Wait until they figure out I intend to turn this thing into the definitive T’Pau chronicle.

Anyway, besides T’Pau this week’s column featured Michael Jackson, Freddy Mercury, The Cure’s Robert Smith, The Kingsmen vs. the FBI, Joey Ramone, Buddy Holly and Sonny Bono.

To find out why they made music history, click here.

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