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Great Moments In Dance Fighting

Michael Jackson dance fighting

Michael Jackson dance fighting

You’ve seen this unique phenomenon form hundreds of times in the playgrounds and the parking lots, in videos and in movies, and it always starts in a similar manner.

Two steely-eyed adversaries slide closer and closer to each other, the tension mounts, and when there’s only inches separating them… BAM! It happens.

The wild gestures, the improbably contorting, the acts of gyrating menace. This is… a dance fight.

Sarah wrote a brief history of dance fighting for Fightland.

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This Week In Music History (January 27 – February 2)

Beatles on the roof

Beatles on the roof

My latest “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.

In this edition we celebrate the Beatles last live performance ever… on a rooftop, remember that time Michael Jackson‘s hair caught on fire, and lament The White Stripes packing it in.

To read about these things as well as a bunch of other stuff that made music history, click here.

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This Week In Music History: January 13 – 19

Julie Cypher, Melissa Etheridge & David Crosby

Julie Cypher, Melissa Etheridge & David Crosby

My latest “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.

This week’s theme was “children” — how Melissa Etheridge used David Crosby‘s sperm to get them, Pete Townshend‘s peculiar relationship to them, and a lamentation that Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson never produced them.

To find out more things that made music history, click here.

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This Week In Music History: November 18 – 23

An artist rendering of the Michael Jackson baby dangle

An artist rendering of the Michael Jackson baby dangle

My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.

This one was particularly weird because not only did I get to talk about the infamous Michael Jackson baby dangling incident, but there was also not one but two rock ‘n’ roll child bride divorce stories. None of which involved R. Kelly.

To find out more things that made music history, click here.

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11 Lessons Learned From Spike Lee’s ‘Bad 25’ Michael Jackson Documentary

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

Spike Lee‘s much-anticipated Michael Jackson documentary Bad 25 debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last week.

It’s a pretty thorough though slightly fan-ish look at Jacko’s Bad album.

Sarah saw it and wrote about the 11 lessons she learned from the film for Huffington Post Music Canada.

You can read about them by going here.

 

 

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