Monthly Archive: April 2011

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Love Is The Drug

Love Is the Drug has been named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The 1975 tune is Roxy Music’s highest charting song. Does this...

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Scratch N’ Sniff Mix

What would you get if you tossed some of the biggest songs in rock and hip-hop into a blender and served them up on a platter of the sickest turntable skills? You get a...

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Runaway

Exactly 50 years ago today, Del Shannon hit number 1 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 singles chart for the first week of a four-week run at the top with “Runaway.”  It was Shannon’s only number 1 hit,...

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Weird Al versus Lady Gaga

Weird Al is getting ready to release his next album. Mr. Yankovic prefers to ask the permission of the artists he parodies before he releases it. In this case, Lady Gaga recently declined the...

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Luther Vandross’s 60th birthday

Today would have been Luther Vandross’s 60th birthday.  Before he passed away in 2005, Vandross had become renowned for his smooth voice, featured on such hits as “Here and Now,” “Don’t Want to Be...

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Rush Cleveland 4-15 Concert Review

Rush lit up the stage last Friday night to a packed Cleveland Q Arena. I have seen Rush perform in-person each decade and this was one of the most energetic performances to date. Did...

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Don’t Bring Me Down

Don’t Bring Me Down by The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) is the TGIF song of the day. http://www.elo.biz/

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Soap Opera Themes

ABC announced today that two of their long-running soap operas, All My Children and One Life to Live, will be cancelled within the coming year.  As Marc mentioned on Tunesmate a couple days ago, television...