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It’s official: Crystal “Mama Sox” Bowersox and Lee “I used to work at a paint store” DeWyze will vie for the prize on next week’s “American Idol” finale.
We’ve been predicting the Lee/Crystal match-up for many weeks now. In fact, we were more surprised to learn that Justin Bieber plays the drums than we were to find out that Casey James was going home.
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Tags: american idol. crystal bowersox, casey james, lee dewyze
Posted in IDOL Watch, Music, Television
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” — Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus”
“I’m a winner, I’m a sinner
Do you want my autograph?”
— Supertramp, “Breakfast in America”
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Tags: supertramp
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This week, the Big Music Machine is raising the musical dead. The Black Keys bring the blues back from the grave one more time, while the Rolling Stones reanimate a rock classic, Tracey Thorn returns from Everything But the Girl purgatory, and Nas & Damian Marley summon African ghosts.
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Tags: band of horses, damian marley, nas, rolling stones, the black keys, tracey thorn
Posted in Music, PLAY > SKIP
It’s hard to imagine a force capable of silencing THAT voice. Ronnie James Dio, one of the most epic belters in all of metal, died Sunday morning at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, where he was being treated for stomach cancer. He was 67.
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Tags: black sabbath, heavy metal, rainbow, ronnie james dio
Posted in Music, Old School Joys
Bo Bice has accomplished a lot since he came in second on “American Idol” five years ago: he got married, made three albums and had three little boys. He’s also had a clean bill of health for three years after battling serious intestinal issues, making the title of his new album, “3,” even more appropriate.
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Tags: American Idol, bo bice, carrie underwood, crystal bowersox
Posted in IDOL Watch, Music
“I think this is a song about hope,” Robert Plant announced one night in 1973, in a moment captured for Led Zeppelin’s concert film, “The Song Remains the Same.” With that, guitarist Jimmy Page stepped gingerly into a tingling acoustic rainfall now long familiar to anyone with ears.
Today, “Stairway to Heaven” ranks as one of the finest rock songs of all time. Immaculate, it is, near perfect — the reason a lot of people first bought “Led Zeppelin IV” (though many are loathe to admit it now). On the other hand, thanks to its ubiquitous radio presence these last 30-plus years, “Stairway” also ranks as one of the most overplayed songs of all time. Even Plant, the man who set down its words and introduced it so proudly, began to bristle at its shadow. “I don’t consider there was anything particularly special about it,” he said in 1990. “The only thing that gives it any staying power at all is its ambiguity.”
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Tags: classic rock, led zeppelin, mary j blige, soul, stairway to heaven
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This week, the Big Music Machine helps ease our Tax Day pain by giving us a shot of welcome nostalgia. Madonna gets the “Glee” treatment, the Grateful Dead are raised and Ratt spins round and round in a big ’80s circle.
Too much tie-dye, pop and metal for you? Don’t worry, there are also some good country sounds from Willie Nelson and Shelby Lynne to bring you back to Earth. Read on and pick the ones you want play — if you have any money left over from the tax man.
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Tags: glee, grateful dead, madonna, ratt, shelby lynne, willie nelson
Posted in Music, PLAY > SKIP
