Who is Arcade Fire?
My latest “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
In this installment we revisit two great moments — the debut of Rebecca Black‘s “Friday” and the “Who is Arcade Fire?” meme — as well as find an excuse to mention Gino Vannelli.
To find out why and to read a bunch of other stuff that made music history, click here.
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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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Elvis Presley
My latest “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
In this edition we examined some of the things that elevate an artist, make them as much myth as man. For Elvis Presley it was his jumpsuits, for Ozzy Osbourne it was biting heads off animals, and for David Bowie it was an ever-shifting sexuality.
To find out what I’m talking about as well as other things that made music history, click here.
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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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Smash Mouth & Sean Paul
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
This one was particularly fun because I managed to subvert marquee birthdays by the likes of Elvis Presley, David Bowie and Rod Stewart in being about Sean Paul, Kris Kross and Smash Mouth. Real journalism.
To find out more things that made music history, click here.
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I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 