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Hitting The Note With The Allman Brothers Band
Last weekend I ran Grover Lewis' famous profile of the Allman brothers over at the Daily Beast....
Andy Warhol Doesn't Play Second Base For The Chicago Cubs
Jazz Wax on the direct-to-disc craze of the 1970s....
"Fuck KD" Is The Latest Chapter Of The Lil B-Kevin Durant Beef
Bay Area rapper Lil B had seemingly retracted his curse of Kevin Durant back in 2012, but the Durant hate has returned with his new track "Fuck KD."...
Eli Manning Awkwardly Grooves On Stage With Better Than Ezra
Eli Manning hopped on stage at a recent Better Than Ezra show, and he quickly found himself facing the same problem that every person in human history who's ever been on stage with a band has faced: he had no damn idea what to do with his hands....
A Map Of Each State's Most-Ignored Musical Artist
Whereas music blogger Paul Lamere's "most distinctive" map that one showed which bands and singers were disproportionately popular in certain states when compared to national numbers, this is the exact opposite. ...
Here Is An <em>Actual</em> Map Of Each State's Favorite Musical Artist
A lot of folks were confused by the map of the most distinctive bands and singers by state. (Not you, though, because you know how to read.) So here's another one, which actually shows the most-streamed artist in each state over the last year....
Who's Your State's Distinctive Musical Artist?
Over on his blog Music Machinery, Paul Lamere has taken an interesting look at the geography of American musical tastes, based on zip code data from a quarter million U.S. music listeners who use a variety of streaming services (online music listeners might not be a perfectly representative sample, ...
Finishing The Hat
My father didn't own any rock records. He had original cast recordings of Broadway shows. That was his thing, that's what we heard around the house. My twin sister Sam really took to musicals. I liked some but never caught the bug. Eventually, they drove me nuts. ...
You Can Be My Buddy Anytime: De La Soul's 25 Hour Valentine
For the next 25 hours you can download De La Soul's entire catalog over at their site....
Those Olympic Hockey Organists You've Been Enjoying Are From The NHL
If you've watched any of the men's hockey games during these Olympics, you've probably found yourself enjoying the work of the arena organist. So far, games have featured snippets of the Star Wars and Game of Thrones theme songs, Van Halen's "Right Now," and Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus." It just...
Louis Armstrong's Artwork
Louis had skills. These are his collages....
Sports TV Theme Songs, Ranked
As inspired by this post:...
Pete Seeger Talks Baseball
I found this post over at Hardball Talk—the late Pete Seeger talking baseball. ...
Wilt Spins
From Up North Trips comes this cool photograph of Wilt Chamberlain. Wonder what record he's playing?...
LeBron James: Pretty Good At Rapping "Back That Ass Up"
Last night was Shane Battier's annual karaoke event, known as "Battioke," which in the past has brought us gems like Mike Miller and Chris Andersen singing "Ice Ice Baby." The highlight of this year's event was definitely LeBron James going all-out on "Back That Ass Up," with an assist from Michael...
Exploitation Was Duke Ellington's True Genius
Last month, Adam Gopnik wrote an absorbing review of Terry Teachout's new Duke Ellington biography in the New Yorker. It's only available to subscribers but I wanted to share this part:...
An Oral History of Kurtis Blows' "Basketball"
Dumb fun from SB Nation. ...