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I’m sure you read his stories as a child, but maybe you’ve never heard his music. I wish i knew him! Jack of all trades. What a great grandfather he must have made…
Sheldon Alan Silverstein, better known as Shel Silverstein (September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999), was an American poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children’s books. He sometimes styled himself as Uncle Shelby, especially for his early children’s books.
Silverstein confirmed that he never studied the poetry of others and therefore developed his own quirky style: laid-back and conversational, occasionally employing profanity and slang.
Silverstein’s passion for music was clear early on as he studied briefly at Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. His musical output included a large catalog of songs; a great number of which were hits for other artists – most notably the rock & roll group Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show (later shortened to just Dr. Hook).
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Friday, March 5th, 2010 at 10:48 am
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Johnny Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who was one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Although he is primarily remembered as a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll—especially early in his career—as well as blues, folk, and gospel. Late in his career, Cash covered songs by several rock artists, among them the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails.
Cash was known for his deep, distinctive bass-baritone voice; for the “boom-chicka-boom” freight train sound of his Tennessee Three backing band; for his demeanor; and for his dark clothing, which earned him the nickname “The Man in Black.” He traditionally started his concerts by saying, “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.”
Much of Cash’s music, especially that of his later career, echoed themes of sorrow, moral tribulation and redemption. His signature songs include “I Walk the Line”, “Folsom Prison Blues”, “Ring of Fire”, “Get Rhythm” and “Man in Black”. He also recorded humorous numbers, such as “One Piece at a Time” and “A Boy Named Sue”, a duet with future wife June Carter called “Jackson”, as well as railroad songs including “Hey Porter” and “Rock Island Line”.
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 9:57 am
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George Alley is a true icon of glamour. In most of the ways possible i believe….. If you don’t know that, then you just don’t know of him. I mostly hear his voice on ‘i’m going to kill you’, a podcast that he does with cohort edward bottger. As a listener i have heard him sing often, but these are different…. Here is the musical bio from his website.
The day George Alley was given a tape recorder was the day he recorded his first song,“Put it In” an ode to putting pies in microwaves, and kids into Esprit sweaters. This led to avant-garde mall recordings of Hava Nagila,, auditions for the New Mickey Mouse Club, Battle of the Bands and beat concerts on college radio. After years of playing in bands with names like Alien Flavors, Dein Kopf, Slug Slug Slug, Standard Noses and Boat to Kazakhstan and studying voice and picking up various instruments
A very strange musician was formed.
Alley has composed music for a variety of purposes. He has composed scores for US & International Sundance S His music videos have been presented embers of Man Man.uch as Cenk Ergun, Drew Castellano hort film Cookie-Cutter Joe, for celebrated dance companies like Dance Theatre X, and Korean choreographer Woo-Jin Ling and composer for Stone Soup Theatre Arts “The McGuffin” He has collaborated and performed with celebrated recording artists such as Cenk Ergun, Hears of Darknesses, Drew Castellano, Skimmingtonride and members of Man Man.
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
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The Budos Band are an “Instrumental Staten-Island Afro-Soul” outfit recording on the Daptone Records label. The band has eleven members (up to thirteen members at times) who play instrumental music that is self-described as “Afro-Soul,” a term and sound which – in a recent interview – baritone saxophone player Jared Tankel elucidates as, being drawn from Ethiopian music the band had been listening to that had a soul undercurrent to it, which the band then “sprinkled a little bit of sweet 60’s stuff on top” of.
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009 at 9:18 am
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Dead Man’s Bones is a musical side project of Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields. The self-titled debut album from the band, featuring members of the Silverlake Conservatory of Music’s children’s choir, was released on October 6, 2009 through ANTI- records….just in time for halloween.
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 at 11:02 am
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The three members of A Mountain Of One come from the world of underground techno, being studio hounds and beat-masters, and they’re familiar with the demands of clubs and dancers. But the music they make as A Mountain Of One would only have value in discotheques with beds: it has already been tagged by those canny folk at Vice magazine as “future balearic classics”.
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Saturday, November 14th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
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| Zero 7 is a downtempo-ish musical duo made up of Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker from the United Kingdom. Over the years they have worked with numerous collaborating vocalist including: Mozez, Sia Furler, Tina Dico, Sophie Barker, and José González. They have recently released their 4th studio album with vocal appearances by soul singer, Eska Mtungwazi, folk artist Martha Tilston, and Rowdy Superstar.
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
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| Múm (pronounced “moom”) are an Icelandic experimental group whose music is characterized by soft vocals, electronic glitch beats and effects, and a variety of traditional and unconventional instruments. The album title says it all; “Sing along to songs you don’t know”. Makes me want to sing along….
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009 at 12:50 am
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| The Asteroid Galaxy Tour are a danish alternative pop duo that formed in 2008. Their debut single, “The Sun Ain’t Shining No More”, was released on September 15, 2008 on their own ‘Small Giants’ label. Unfortunately they are most recognized for the song ‘Around the Bend’ which was used in a ipod touch commercial…but the song is still awesome! I just always picture someone playing a racing game while its playing…
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The Asteroids Galaxy Tour are musicians on a mission. The band and their unique style of psychedelic pop are heading for fame at a speed even they didn’t expect.
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Friday, October 30th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
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