Music: I Hear America Dancing, and the Sound Is Just Like Tap Shoes
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âThe Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacularâ might bring a sneer to the world-weary, but also an unspoken sense of wonder that so many people could be making so many other people happy.
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The problem with being in the spotlight dance is a basic one. You had better know how to dance.
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It may be "Our Country," but it's John Mellencamp's song.
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A hip-hop style helps bring a generation gap into full view.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 14--Champions of military airfields often call jet noise "the sound of freedom." The sound Tar Heels are hearing from their U.S. senators right now is the sound of hemming and hawing.
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Blog: It's finally released in the good ol' U. S. of A.
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They grew up listening to '70s soul, learning to break dance, wearing Nikes, watching the "Star Wars" trilogy again and again. For the French rap group IAM, the fascination with American culture started when they were kids.
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Somewhere there's an America that's full of neighborhoods where black and white kids play softball together, where biracial families e-mails photos online and where Asians and blacks dance in the same nightclub. And that America is on your television.
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To thundering drums, jubilant whoops and bell-jingling dancers, the Smithsonian on Tuesday opened the National Museum of the American Indian, dedicated to the history, culture
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MTV is looking to make  some noise in the original musical arena with "The American  Mall."
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ItÂs not often that the background score of a film makes a lasting impact on music listeners of this country.
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Tycho:   One of the questions during a a panel at PAX had to do with the italicised line at the end of each day's post.  They're almost always song lyrics, and back before we were paying for bandwidth (and before RIAA rape gangs were prowling the web) these lines used to link directly to the MP3.  I maintained the practice afterward because it's sort of like a song of the day, and I like the idea that someone might be struck by a strange turn of phrase and seek out a piece of music.  It also serves as a gauge of my mental state at the moment.  Today's song, for example, is Stan Rodgers' incredible live version of the sea shanty "Rolling Down To Old Maui," which Pandora kicked out after about a week of tuning the station.  I've listened to it about thirty times today.    The person who asked the question at the con complimented my musical tastes, and I accepted the compliment, but I'm almost always late to the scene.  I just bought Interpol's "Turn On The Bright Lights," for chrissakes.  I'm mostly lucky to know people who do have unique library.  I told him I would mention a few of my favorite bands on the site, but then I forgot.  Essentially, it's music that cool people were listening to a decade ago (where applicable).  I am a musical carrion bird.    He wanted me to list off a few bands, and I said I would last week, but then I forgot.  These are the first ten albums I could think of.    "Starless" by Shiner
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Still listening to this classic Dead song.  And writing about it on Twitter... It's an MP3 that I ripped from the Mars Hotel album. Which I bought on CD many years ago. I've listened to this track about 1000 times. When I play it it puts a smile on my face. Because Cucamonga is a place with no pride, imho.  It's a joke, kind of like Truckin makes fun of New Orleans, a town that done the Dead wrong, once, a long time ago. Now if it were on vinyl I would have wore it out a long time ago. I'm sure there was a copy of the song on the disk Apple stole from me. There you have it RIAA. You can go after Apple. I'll support you because they stole from both of us. They have no right to listen to PofC. I imagine Steve Jobs and Phil Shindler sitting around smokin a doobie listening to Phil Lesh sing, thinking "Dave has good taste in music." BTW, Cucamonga is a suburb in southern CA. Near Ontario. Probably very non-descript. Might have been interesting 70 years ago. And that's your bedtime story for Saturday, boys and girls. Have a nice day, don't hit your brother (or sister) and be nice to the sitter!
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Plastic, grooved tips let drumsticks last longer yet ring true.
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This self-described Brooklyn bar band has toured the country and taken notes.
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At the opening of New YorkÂs ÂSteve Reich @ 70Â festivities, the lively energy and a propulsive beat of Mr. ReichÂs music helped propel dancers and inspire choreographers.
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It's not hip-hop. It's blip-pop. That's what the Gameboyzz Orchestra Project calls the sounds it squeezes out of a half dozen Game Boy consoles. [Missing Links]