All Blog Posts Tagged 'music' (5)

In "honor" of the war in Afghanistan last week surpassing the war in Vietnam as officially the longest war in American history, here's Alabama 3 (the band that did the Sopranos theme song), doing "Vietnamistan" (click here if embed doesn't… Continue

My bloggy little tribute to Laura Nyro:

Finding Nyro


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When The Boy told me, with a great sense of importance, “On December 17, we’re having a performance,” I immediately started clearing my mental calendar. “Everyone will have a job to do,” he went on happily. “And my teacher said you can come!” I have to admit, I’m way more excited about this than, perhaps, I should be. He’s only in kindergarten and… Continue

For some sleep deprived reason I have just started a children's record label called Crispy Juice while on maternity leave from my job as a historian. Not content with broken nights sleep with four children who take it in turns to show the first symptoms of swine flu (none of them progressing any futher- yet), I am now glued to my computer well into the early hours trying to get a grip on how to write a press release, where to buy the cheapest… Continue

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I gotta admit that I never really got into the Ramones. I mean, sure, "I Wanna Be Sedated" is a freezer blast of a song (that fill in the blank above is part of the American cultural DNA now), but when I was in high school, I took the geeky route and went for the brainy bands like They Might Be Giants.



Which probably explains why as a parent I'm still going more for the brainy bands like They Might Be Giants for my kids than punk… Continue